Allahabad’s Kavya enjoys fine run in table tennis
LUCKNOW: Allahabad’s Kavya Gupta had a fine first day in the Ram Murtiji Memorial 2nd UP State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament at Bareilly on Sunday as she made it to the semi-finals of as many as three categories, scoring contrasting wins.
She first defeated Lucknow’s Moitree Chatterjee 11-8, 13-11, 12-10 in the women’s singles quarterfinals, and then struggled to win against citymate Pooja Singh 14-12, 11-8, 10-12, 11-8 in the youth girls quarterfinals. In the junior girls quarters, she outplayed Mahika Dixit of Ghaziabad 11-5, 11-8, 11-9. RESULTS
Women’s (quarterfinals): Kavya Gupta (Alld) bt Moitree Chatterjee (Lko) 11-8, 13-11, 12-10, Tulika Roy (Lko) bt Ayushi singh (Alld) 20-18, 11-3, 11-8, Tanu Gupta (Alld) bt Abhisarika Yadav (Knp) 11-8, 11-5, 11-6, Pooja Singh (Alld) bt Suhana Narginari (Mbd) 11-8, 11-6, 11-5.
Youth girls (quarterfinals): Suhana Narginari (Mbd) bt Akriti Srivastava (Lko) 11-7, 11-6, 10-12, 11-1, Tanu Gupta (Alld) bt Nandini Bhagat (Agr) 11-6, 11-6, 11-8, Kavya Gupta (Alld) bt Pooja Singh (Alld) 14-12, 11-8, 10-12, 11-8, Arshita Satsangi (Agr) bt Tarushi Bansal (Gbn) 11-8, 11-8, 8-11, 12-10.
Junior girls (quarterfinals): Suhana Narginari (Mbd) bt Shruti Gupta (Alld) 11-7, 11-1, 11-5, Radhapriya Goel (Gzb) bt Esha Sakya (Knp) 19-17, 11-8, 11-8, Pooja Singh (Alld) bt Ambika Gupta (Alld) 11-5, 11-6, 11-7, Kavya Gupta (Alld) bt Mahika Dixit (Gzb) 11-5, 11-8, 11-9. Sub-junior girls (quarterfinals): Hirdyanshi Jhan(Agr) bt Radhapriya Goel (Gzb) 911, 14-12, 11-9, 10-12, 12-10, Reedhi Bhaskar (Gzb) bt Suhani Sinha (Agr) 11-3, 9-11, 11-4, 11-8, Ambika Gupta (Alld) bt Esha Sakya (Knp) 9-11, 11-9, 6-11, 12-10, 11-4, Suhana Narginari (Mbd) bt Mahika Dixit (Gzb) 11-3, 11-4, 11-8. Youth boys (quarterfinals): Abhishek Yadav (Knp) bt Abhishek Pathak (Agr) 11-3, 11-6, 11-5, Sarthak Seth (Gzb) bt Satyam Giri Gupta (Knp) 11-6, 12-10, 11-6, Abhinav Belwal (Gzb) bt Arjun Kohli (Mrt) 11-7, 13-11, 11-5, Hardik Paliwal (Agr) bt Gautam Dhruvansh (Lko) 6-11, 11-5, 10-12, 11-8, 11-9. Sub-junior boys (quarterfinals): Divyansh Srivastava (Lko) bt Ujjwal Verma (Alld) 8-11, 11-7, 11-4, 11-3, Vibhor Garg (Gzb) bt Sujal Verma (Alld) 8-11, 11-4, 11-8, 12-10, Praroop (Agr) bt Akshat Tyagi (Gzb) 11-7, 11-7, 13-11, 11-8, Ashutosh Kumar Singh (Agr) bt Satyam Giri Gupta (Knp) 11-5, 8-11, 11-8, 12-10. TRAINING CAMP A camp of Lucknow team probables for the 17th UP State Youth (Under-16) Basketball Championship (July 27 to August 1) is being conducted by the District Basketball Association here. Boys must report at the Modern World College, whereas the girls are advised to attend the camp at the LMG. ABHISHEK SHINES Abhishek Mishra took four for 19 as Excers’ Cricket Club (ECC) stormed into the semi-finals of the 13th Babu Banarasi Das ‘C’ Division Cricket League, defeating Youth Cricket Club by four wickets, at the Dr Akhilesh Das Stadium here on Sunday. BRIEF SCORES
YCC 74 in 26 overs (Abhishek Mishra 4 for 19, Jitendra Singh 2 for 10, Ankit Yadav 2 for 14) lost to ECC
75 for 6 in 24 overs (Sarvan Jaiswal 36, Parth Patel 24, Awadesh Singh 4 for 16). FINE CENTURY Opener Priyanshu Srivastava slammed a sparkling 111 in 94 balls with the help of 12 fours and four sixes as Jyoti Cricket Club (JCC) score a convincing 69-run win against KS Academy to collect full points in the Yorker Cricket League, at the Pt Raas Bihari Tewari Stadium here on Sunday. BRIEF SCORES
JCC 222 for 5 in 30 overs (Priyanshu Srivastava 111, Prabhnoor Singh 70, Sufiyan Khan 3 for 50) beat KSA
153 in 27 overs (Anand 48, Saksham Chandra 27, Jaspreet Singh 4 for 10, Yash Chaudhary 2 for 32, Deepak Sawant 2 for 33). CAMP ENDS The 10-day coaches training programme by the Badminton World Federation under the auspices of the UP Badminton Association came to an end here on Friday. On the occasions, all the 15 coaches were given certificate of excellence for completing their level-one course. BWF coach Ian Gil hoped that after completing their level one training in the camp, now all these coaches would be more effective in technical training to the youngsters.