Monfils hands Tsitsipas lesson in Sofia, enters semi-finals
SOFIA: Gael Monfils doled out another lesson in outstanding tennis, winning 93 percent of points on his first serve, as he reached the semi-finals of the Sofia Open on Friday with a 6-3 7-6(5) win over Greece’s emerging talent Stefanos Tsitsipas.
MICKELSON LEADS PACK
SAN FRANCISCO: Phil Mickelson grabbed a share of the lead on Friday in the rain-hit second round of the PGA Tour Pebble Beach Pro-am. Mickelson added a fourunder par 68 and was on 10-under alongside Lucas Glover (66), Scott Langley (69) and England’s Paul Casey (64).
JUNIORS SHINE IN TT
MANAMA: Indian girls bagged four medals – one gold, two silver and one bronze – at the Bahrain Junior and Cadet Open table tennis . Three teams entered the semi-finals of the cadet girls’, with the duo Suhana Saini and Anargya Manjunath winning gold, beating Yashaswini Ghorpade and Kavya Sree Baskar in the final.
SANSKRITI SCHOOL WIN
NEWDELHI: Hosts Sanskriti School, Chanakyapuri, won the U-13 Delhi Girls’ Football School League, beating Shiv Nadar School 3-2 in the final.
PUNJAB , RSPB IN FINAL
GWALIOR: Defending champions Punjab Saturday defeated Punjab and Sind Bank 2-0 to set up a clash against Railway Sports Promotion Board (RSPB) in the final of t he ninth Senior Men’s National Hockey Championship (Division A) here.
While Punjab beat Punjab and Sind Bank in the first semifinal, RSPB got the better of Petroleum Sports Promotion Board (PSPB) 5-4 in shoot-out in the other last four game to enter the summitclash.
In the first semi-final, India international Akashdeep Singh (8th minute) and Dharamvir Singh (39th) scored for the winners.