Throwball tourney

Hyderabad: Hemanth and Vaishnavi will lead the Ranga Reddy district men’s and women’s throwball teams

respectively in the 7th Telangana State Sub-Junior

Inter-District Throwball Championship to be held at

Sanghamitra School in Nizamabad on March 6 and 7.

THE TEAMS Boys: Hemanth (captain), Sai

Ram, Chaitanya, Sai Harish, Revanth, Dhoneshwar, Akhul, Raghu, Lokesh, Narsing, Nidith,

Sushanth, Kaushik, Tagore, Manish Charith. Coach: Ganga

Sagar, Manager: Sai Teja. Girls: Vaishnavi (captain), Siri

Sri, Nandini, Dhamanika, Vishrutha, Pradeepa, Rajashri, Tanvi, Greeshma, Yashaswini, Shreshta, Srinuja, Varshini, Sai

Esha, Nethra Sri. Coach: Spoorthy, Manager: Srivali.

Doha: Indian challenge at the World Table Tennis Contender

series ended after veteran Sharath Kamal suffered a loss

to world no 7 Lin Yun-Ju of Chinese Taipei in the men’s singles pre-quarterfinals here on

Thursday. The 38-year-old Indian suffered a 6-11, 4-11, 8-11

defeat against Lin. The World No. 32 Sharath, who was playing his first international tournament after a year’s break due to the pandemic,

couldn’t gain momentum despite showing good resistance in the latter part of the match against the higherranked Yun-Ju. Earlier, Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula also lost their respective final qualifying round matches in the women’s singles category. While Batra lost to World No. 69 Ganna Gaponova 5-11, 611, 14-12, 5-11, Akula went down fighting 9-11, 11-5, 11-6, 6-11, 5-11

to Russia’s Mariia Tailkova.