AITA qualifying round: Local boy Shobhit struggles before crossing first hurdle in style

LUCKNOW: It was a tough journey for local boy Shobhit Tandon in the first qualifying round of the AITA Tennis Tournament, at the SDS Academy here as he staged a remarkable comeback from 2-6 down to level at 7-7 and win against Pranjual Maurya 8-7 (6) here on Saturday. Tandon kept his cool and a lucky net cord sealed the tiebreak.

In other matches of the day, Saurabh Singh beat Henry Nitish 8-0, A Krishna Rohit beat Tushar Bali 8-4, Saneesh M Mishra beat Akshat Kumar 8-5, Rohit Goswami beat Saif 8-2, Daksh Kr Singh beat Durvijay 8-0, Tushar Madan beat Saurabh K Singh 8-3, Yash Chaurasia beat Yashraj P 8-3, Ritwik Kashyap beat Ankit Vishwakarma 8-1 9, Alex Solanki beat Aditya Vishwakarma 8-1, Kanishk Handa beat Nithin MC 8-1, Govind Maurya beat Samit Kesari 8-5, Abodh Kundra beat Sivanshu Parihar 8-3, Debashish Malkani beat Rakesh Shukla 8-0, Abhishek Kumar beat Aram Siddiqui 8-1, Tanmay Sharma beat U Raj Vishwakarma 8-0.

BADMINTON TEAM

Young Abhyansh Singh will Uttar Pradesh is the Junior National Badminton Championship, starting December 12 at Guwahati (Assam). The team was announced on Saturday, following their 15-day camp.

Other members of the team include, Rajan Yadav, Siddharth Mishra, Aniruddh Pandey, Abhinav Sharma, Bal Kesari Yadav, Amolika Singh, Mansi Singh, Taneesha Singh, Shivangi Singh, Shruti Mishra, Samriddhi Singh, Nimisha Pandey, Sonali Singh, Shailja Shukla, Ankit Kumar, Siddhant Salar, Akash Yadav, Harsh Singh, Gaurav Naman Singh, Ankur Dhiman, Tushar Gagneja.

PREMIER LEAGUE

Speed Cricket Club stormed into the final of the Lucknow Premier League Cricket Tournament, defeating BJS Club by 11 runs, at the Vikas Nagar stadium here on Saturday. Earlier in the quarterfinals, BJS Club defeated Takrohi Eleven by 21 runs.

UP’s cabinet minister Rita Bahuguna Joshi was the special guest for the matches on Saturday.

FINE SHOW

Lucknow’s Raina Shukla, who won a bronze medal at the 36th National Taekwondo Championship in Haridwar, was on Saturday given a warm-welcome by the Lucknow Taekwondo Association, at the LDA Stadium here.

BUDDIES WIN

Cricket Buddies defeated 999 Cricket Club by 14 runs to win the Neelam Veterans Premier Cricket League, at the KD Singh ‘Babu’ stadium here on Saturday. After scoring 140/9 while batting first after winning the toss, Cricket Buddies restricted the rivals out for 126/6 in 20 overs.