Olympic Œame lit for 2024 Paris Games
Lakshmi Prabha advances
Fourth seed A. Lakshmi Prabha of Tamil Nadu defeated unseeded Sama Chevika Reddy of Telangana 6-7(6), 7-5, 6-3 in the pre-quarternal of the FNCC AITA women’s tennis tournament at Film Nagar Cultural Centre on Tuesday.
In another pre-quarternal clash, second-seeded Anjali Rathi of Haryana scored a 6-3, 6-3 win over Kundali Majgaine of UK.
The results: Pre-quarterfinals: Sonal Paygonda Patil (Mah) bt Aakruti Sonkusare (Mah) 6-2, 6-4; Pooja Ingale (Mah) bt N. Harshini (Kar) 4-6, 6-2, 6-4; B. Rishita (TS) bt Riya Sachdeva (Del) 6-0, 6-0; Akanksha Nitture (Mah) bt Aditi Rawat (Har) 6-0, 6-2; A. Lakshmi Prabha (TN) bt Sama Chevika Reddy (TS) 6-7(6), 7-5, 6-3.
Abhaya Vemuri (TS) bt D. Laxmi Sri (TS) 6-4, 2-6, 6-4; Kashish Bhatia (Del) bt Vidhi Jani (Guj) 6-2, 6-4; Anjali Rathi (Har) bt
Sricharan Sandipagu.
Kundali Majgaine (UK) 6-3, 6-3.
Easy for Reeds
Reeds Football Club defeated Brawlers FC 3-0 in Akash Calvin memorial (under-17) football tournament, organised by Shastri Soccer Club at Trimulgherry Village Ground.
The result:
Reeds 3 (Sidhu, Krunaal, Rudra) bt Brawlers 0.
Sricharan wins title
Sricharan Sandipagu of
Viveka Foster School (Ponnur) won the Brilliant Trophy juniors online chess tournament with 12 points from 12 rounds. Adhyayan Banerjee (10.5) and Krishna Rallabandi (10) nished second and third respectively.
Final placings, top-5:
1. Sricharan Sandipagu, 2. Adhyayan Banerjee, 3. Krishna Rallabandi, 4. Sarthak Joshi, 5. Anmol Singh.
The results, boys:
U-15: 1. Sai Darahas, 2. Shaik Laqeet Ishaan. U-13: 1. Dhruv Rachuri, 2. M. Anay Rajesh. U-11:
1. Advay Bharathram, 2. V. Sai Anirudh. U-9: 1. Veersen Jain, 2. M. Adhvik. U-7: 1. Vihaan Kumar Rachuri.
Girls, u-15: 1. Navya, 2. Rushitha Haju. U-13: 1. R. Sahasra, 2. Lompamudra Aadya.
U-11: 1. Varnika, 2. P. Manimanjari. U-9: 1. Kavya Nirvana, 2. Komalika Bandam. U-7: 1. Dyuthi Sri.
Summer camps
Academia Sports Village will organise a 15-day summer camp at
Aziznagar from April 20 in tennis, football, beach volleyball and strength conditioning under the mentorship of qualied coaches. The camp will run on two schedules every day from 6 to 9 a.m. and 4 to 6 p.m. The Academy will also conduct a one week free camp for the under-privileged and Government Schools students. The talented will be identied and given a month-long free coaching from June 1. Interested may call 95151 25592. YMCA of Greater Hyderabad and Narayanaguda branches will organise annual summer camps for boys and girls (u-15) from April 29 to May 29 in tennis, badminton, cricket, table tennis, volleyball, cricket, gymnastics and roller-skating. Contact the oces or call 2756 4670, 70326 60614, 77996 64455.
Ntouskos, the first torch-bearer, receives the flame from the ‘High Priestess’ Mary Mina.
The torch for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games was lit in ancient Olympia in a traditional ceremony on Tuesday, marking the nal stretch of the seven-year preparations for the Games’ start on July 26.
Greek actress Mary Mina, playing the role of high priestess, lit the torch using a backup ame instead of a parabolic mirror that is normally used, due to cloudy skies, for the start of a relay in Greece and France. The high priestess then lit the torch of the rst runner of the relay, Greece’s Olympic rowing champion Stefanos Ntouskos.
After a short run he then handed the ame on to France’s three-time Olympic medallist in swimming Laure Manaudou, as the representative of the host city.
The ame will be ocially handed over to Paris Games organisers in Athens on April 26.