Anand, Khushi notch up upset wins to enter singles semi-finals of AITA tourney

Local challenger Anand Gupta continued his winning spree in the AITA Championship Series Tennis Tournament, upsetting fourth seed Devansh Agrahari in a thrilling encounter here on Wednesday.

Playing on the home surface at the Vijayant Khand Stadium, Anand outplayed Devansh 6-7 (9), 6-4, 6-1 to make it to the boys under-14 singles semi-finals.

The second upset of the day came in the girls singles quarterfinal when unseeded Khushi Sharma brushed aside sixth seed Advancy Gold Simth 4-2, 3-5, 8- 6 also in a thrilling battle.

RESULTS Boys u-14 singles (quarterfinals): Rudra Kapoor (UP) bt Nishant Singh (UP) 6-1, 6-2, Vaibhav Singh Bisht (UP) bt Aditya Saraswat (UP) 6-7 (9), 6-3, 6-1, Anand Gupta (UP) bt Devyansh Agarhari (UP) 6-7 (9), 6-4, 6-2, Amaan Adil (Mah) bt Samit Kesari (UP) 6-1, 6-3.

Girls u-14 singles (quarterfinals): Shambhavi Tiwari (UP) bt Aarsha Ahmed (UP) 4-0, 4-0, Tanisha Ranjal (UP) bt Manali (UP) 5-3, 4-0, Khushi Sharma (Mah) bt Advancy Goldsmith (UP) 4-2, 3-5 (6), Khushi Shah (Mah) bt Urvi Singh (UP) 4-2, 4-0.

Boys doubles (pre-quarters): Rudra/Amaan bt Yash/Arnav 4-0, 4-1, Sahikant/Shirikant bt Abhjit/ Nishant 4-2, 5-4 (2), Anand/Aditya bt Tarun/Pratheek 4-1, 4-0, Samit/ Devansh bt Satya/Rishab 4-0, 4-1. SCHOOL SOCCER Colvin College notched up a fascinating 3-0 win against APS ‘A’ to collect full points in the 2nd Martin Cup InterSchool Football League here on Wednesday. In other match of the day, DAV College defeated Modern Academy 6-1. It was a one-sided affair as the Modern Acdemey boys never looked in contention. WEEKLY BRIDGE The duo of Praveen Agarwal and SK Garg with 62.98 percent points won the match point pairs event at the Weekly Bridge Tour nament, at the Lucknow Club here. In all 15 pairs played 11 rounds of two boards each. Pravin and SK won with a narrow margin of 0.45 match points. They had six tops, four above average scores and one zeros in their score. RA Siddiqui and SQ Wajahat finished runners-up with 62.64 % points, whereas the pair of B Prasad and NC Bhattacharya (60.9%) finished third. LUCK NOW WIN Hosts Lucknow defeated Lakhimpur by 47 runs t o win the Under-19 CK Nayudu Schools Inter-District Cricket Tournament here on Wednesday. After scoring 89 in 20 overs while batting first after winning the toss, Lucknow got Lakhimpur out for paltry 42 in 10.2 overs. Shaswat Bajpai took three wickets, whereas Diptesh Sachan and Hamid shared four wickets between them. HANDBALL TEAM Following have been selected in the district under-14 and under19 teams to participate in the Inter-District School Handball Tournaments.

Under-19: Krishna Kumar, Rahul Singh, Sandeep Soni, Bharat Bhartiya, Zeeshan, Rehman, Irfan, Jamal, Aman, Faisal, Ubaidullah and Aman Bhartiya.

Under-14: Azeem, Shariq, Saleem, Haleem, Umair, Rais, Tauhid, Nadeem, Faisal, Raza, Rahab and Nazeer.