Over 250 shuttlers to play in district tournament
LUCKNOW: Around 250 shuttlers would be seen in action in the Dragon Mart Lucknow District Badminton Tournament, beginning Thursday, at the Mini Stadium in Vinay Khand here.
Organising secretary, Agha Shaqir informed the four-day event is open for all age category players, including girls between 10 to 60 years. “It’s an effort to give a platform to talented shuttlers of the district in a big manner,” Agha states.
MARIYAN EXCELS
Mariyam Khan won all her three round-robin league matches at ease and stormed into the women’s singles semi-finals of the 1st Metrozone Cup state tennis tournament, at the Professional Tennis Academy here on Tuesday.
Mariyam defeated Sameeksa 4-1, 4-0 in the first match, beat Narayani 4-1, 4-0 in the second match before scripting a similar win against Surabhi 4-1, 4-0 in her third match. Sameeksha, Aditi, Meenu too made it to the semi-finals.
In the men’s singles quarterfinals, Gautam beat Govind 6-0, 6-0, Prakhar beat Manu 6-2, 6-2, Mritunjay beat Aditya 6-1, 6-1 and Yash beat Shanish 6-2, 6-3.
OTHER RESULTS: Boys under-12 singles
(quarterfinals): Pranav bt Garv 6-2, Madhav bt Parth 6-4, Siddhant bt Prithvi 6-2, Vikesh bt Saksham 6-2. Boys under-14 singles (quarterfinals): Vikesh bt Arjun 6-5, Madhav bt Vivek 6-1, Parth bt Shashwat 6-2, Naman bt Anshuman 6-4.
SCHOOL CHESS
A chess tournament for schools, offering Rs 60,000 as cash awards, will be played from February 9 to 11 here. Boys and girls in three age categories would be participating. Interested must contact at the Capital Centre here in Harzatganj by February 8.
MTCC TRIUMPH
Mega Trends Cricket Club (MTCC) defeated Kooh Sports Cricket Academy (KSCA) by 66 runs to win the Ekmi Devi Memorial Twenty20 cricket tournament, at the Pt Raas Bihari Tewari stadium here on Tuesday.
BRIEF SCORES MTCC 161 for 9 in 20 overs
(Dhanjay Singh 35, Vivek Pal 23, Janmay Singh 4 for 36, Anand Srivastava 3 for 22, Jitendra Kumar 2 for 29) beat KSCA 95
in 18.3 overs (Abhishek Yadav 36, Abhinav Sharma 3 for 6, Subhendra Singh 2 for 16, Piyush Sijngh 2 for 29).
FINE BOWLING
Saurabh Yadav (3/3) and Aman Jaiswal (3/4) bowled to help Unity Cricket Academy score a thumping 102-run win against Gujaral Cricket Academy in a league match of the Ranjana Singh Under-16 cricket tournament, at the Multi Activity ground here on Tuesday.
BRIEF SCORES UCA 151 in 30.4 overs
(Himanshu Kanwar 38, Razi 24, Satyendra Singh Yadav 4 for 27)
beat GCA 100 in 19.3 overs
(Saurabh Yadav 3 for 3, Aman Jaiswal 3 for 4).
SPORTS MEET
Central Zone games and sports meet of 32 government polytechnics were off to a colourful start. Babita walked away with 800m gold in the girls section, whereas Kirti Rai had the shot put gold. In the boys section, Gauri Shankar of Govt. polytechnic Shahjahnpur stood first in 800m, whereas Rajat of Bareilly emerged victorious in shot put.