Aaliyah sets two new meet records
SEEDED ADVANCE Top seeded Ambika Gupta of Allahabad along with three other seeded paddlers stormed into the cadet girls semi-finals of the 31st Junior State UP Cup Table Tennis Championship, scoring contrasting wins in Meerut on Friday.
Ambika defeated Ghaziabad’s Manyata Kapoor 11-5, 11-4, 11-1, second seeded Reedhi Bhaskar of Ghaziabad beat Ayesha Saxena of Gautam Budh Nagar 11-2, 11-1, 11-3, third seeded Vaishnavi Yadav of Allahabad beat Mihika Sharma of Ghaziabad 11-8, 11-7, 6-11, 9-11 and fourth seeded Vertica Bharat of Agra outplayed Kanpur’s Isha Sakya 9-11, 11-2, 7-11, 11-9, 11-7.
OTHER RESULTS Junior boys singles (3rd round):
Divyansh Srivastava (Lko) bt Dhruv Jain (Mrt) 11-4, 11-6, 11-7, Laksh Joshi (Gzb) bt Parth Katyal (Agr) 11-3,11-5,13-11, Rishab Kumar (Alld) bt Adarsh Mishra (Miz) 11-4, 11-2, 11-7, 11-7, Hardik Paliwal (Agr) bt Vaibhav Khanna (Mrt) 11-6, 10-12, 11-4, 11-4, Akash Dwivedi (Lko) bt Aniket Malik (Gzb) 11-9, 7-11,115,11-9, Praroop(Agr) bt Madhav Bhatia(Gbn) 11-9, 11-4, 11-6, Vibhor Garg (Gzb) bt Harsh Saha(Agr)13-11, 11-9,11-3,Ujjwal Roy (Alld)bt Pratik (Gbn)11-9, 11-9, 11-6, Subrat Raj Verma (Agr) bt Aditya Dobriyal (Gbn) 11-9, 11-7, 11-8, Parth Mishra (Gzb) bt Sujal Verma (Alld) 12-10, 11-6, 6-11, 11-8, Ujjwal Verma (Alld) bt Kavya Gupta(Mbd)11-9, 11-7, 11-5, Abhinav Malan (Gzb) bt Udish Grover (Agr) 4-11, 9-11, 121-10, 11-7, 12¬10, Adarsh Srivastava (Lko) bt Akshit Singh (Gzb) 8-11, 12-10, 7-11, 12-10, 11¬5, Ashutosh Kumar Singh (Agr) bt Saksham Nishad (Alld) 11-9,16-14, 7-11, 121-10, Nakul Gupta (Bly) bt Aniket Singh (Bds) 11-4,11-2,11-4, Abhishek Pathak (Agr)bt Utkarsh Arora (Agr) 11-5, 11-5, 11-6. JOY EXCELS A solitary first half goal by Joy Chandra helped Shastra Seema Bal (SSB) shock Sports Hostel by 1-0 in the men’s category of the Lucknow Hockey League here on Friday.
Despite playing on their home turf of the KD Singh ‘Babu’ Stadium, Hostel boys didn’t match with the pace of experienced SSB men. Jot struck the all-important as early as in the seventh minute of play to leave Hostel boys struggling for the ball. Though they denied SSB further chances to extend their lead, they couldn’t even break the SSB’s defence even once to equalise the score.
The second match in the category sprung a big surprise when favourites Sports Authority of India didn’t turn for their match against UP Power Sector.
This wasn’t all for the SAI as their girls went down fighting to Balika Vidyalaya 1-2 in their category. Anuradha and Pooja Prajapti scored for the winners, whereas Pragati Kumari reduced the margin for SAI in the 59th minute. WEEKLY BRIDGE The duo of Shantanu Rastogi and TP Khare with 39 points emerged victorious in the IMP Pairs event of the Weekly Bridge Tournament, at the Lucknow Club here on Friday. In all, 11 pairs played 11 rounds of two boards each. Rastogi and Khare won with a comfortable margin of eight IMPs averaging 1.95 IMPs per deal. VK Tiwari-BD Sarkar (31) and SH Zaheer-Ashok Srivastava (9) finished second and third, respectively.