Paes stays in playing squad for Croatia tie
NEW DELHI: The AITA selection committee on Tuesday decided to keep veteran Leander Paes in the five-member playing squad for the upcoming Davis Cup tie against Croatia, making Divij Sharan the reserve member.
The All India Tennis Association (AITA) had to send its final squad to the International Tennis Federation (ITF) by Tuesday.
AITA had initially announced a six-member squad for the Qualifiers tie, scheduled to be held in Zagreb on the hard courts on March 6-7. Croatia is the topseeded team in the 24-team Qualifiers. Sumit Nagal, Prajnesh Gunneswaran and Ramkumar Ramanathan are the singles players in the squad while Paes and Rohan Bopanna will do the doubles duty.
INDIAN GM SURI UPSETS TOP-SEED ARTEMIEV
MOSCOW: Indian Grandmaster Vaibhav Suri shocked top-seeded Russian Vladislav Artemiev in the sixth round of Aeroflot Open and was placed joint third.
Suri (Elo rating 2591) outlasted the higher-rated Artemiev (2728) in a 71-move game. The victory took the 23-year-old Indian to four points. GM R Praagnanandhaa (2602) recovered by securing a draw with Sergey Grigoriants. He had three points in six rounds.
BUCKS, RAPTORS TO RESUME RIVALRY
NEWYORK:THE Milwaukee Bucks and the Toronto Raptors will be seeing quite a bit of each other— and that is even before a possible meeting in the playoffs.
After the Bucks visit the Raptors on Tuesday night, the teams will still have two more regularseason meetings, at Milwaukee on April 1, then at Toronto on April 3. The Bucks won the only meeting so far this season, 115-105 at home on November 2.