Mekhala wins a golden treble in tennis
THE DUO OF KANISHK PAL AND KANAV GOEL DEFEATED THE PAIR OF LN NITHIS BAALAJI AND AYUSHMAAN ARJERIA 6-3, 6-4 IN THE BOYS UNDER-14 DOUBLES FINAL.
LUCKNOW: Young Mekhala Manna from West Bengal hogged the limelight in the HCL Tennis Junior Tours and Masters Championship, winning a golden treble, at the Vijayantkhand Stadium here on Friday.
Manna first won the girls under-14 doubles title. Pairing with Vaishnavi Adkar, she defeated the duo of Radhika Mahajan and Pari Singh 5-4 (4), 4-2. Then she defeated Radhika Rajesh Mahajan 6-4, 6-0 to wrest the girls under-14 singles title.
This wasn’t all as she also won the under-14 crown, outplaying Vaishnavi Adkar 6-3, 7-5.
The duo of Kanishk Pal and Kanav Goel defeated the pair of LN Nithis Baalaji and Ayushmaan Arjeria 6-3, 6-4 in the boys under-14 doubles final. Kanishka completed his golden double, outplaying Anmay Yogesh Devaraj 6-0, 6-1 in the under-14 singles final. HALF-CENTURY BREAK
Karminder scored the first half-century break in the ongoing Pool Palace Billiards and Snooker Handicap Prize Money Tournament, defeating Soud Mushir to enter quarterfinals of the snooker where he will meet Shadab Khan.
Displaying his fine potting and positioning skills Karminder (+7) was in his elements against Saud (+24) after out potting him in the first frame itself and winning it easily by 95-56 points. Karminder unleashed his knockout punch in the second frame potting neatly and positioning himself accurately while accumulating the tournaments highest break so far of 55 points.
On table No 2, Shadab (+21) playing above the standard of his handicap points gave no chance to much higher ranked Vansh Panjwani (scr.00) and won the first frame easily at 68-15 points.
In the second frame Vansh produced some fine pots and looked like justifying his seeding but missed shots at crucial junctures to lose the closely fought frame by 58-69 points for an early exit from the tournament. Later playing on table No 1 in the battle of equals where in both Musa (+24) and Aman (+24) started with the same handicap it was Musa who produced a much better game and temperament to eliminate Aman in straight frames winning by 76-47, 65-58 points to enter the quarterfinals. Shobit Chandra had the last quarterfinal berth. He defeated Sachin Yadav (+14) 59-30, 62-32. CONDOLED
The UP Sports Journalists Association as well as Lucknow Sports Journalists Association on Friday condoled the sudden demise of Parvati Dwivedi, 65, mother of senior sports journalist Gulshan Dwivedi. A twominute silence was observed on the occasion.