Shashank Shekhar tennis c’ship main draw begins from today

LUCKNOW: There would be many young guns in the main draw of the Shashank Shekhar Singh Memorial AITA Championship Series that begins at the Vijayatkhand Stadium here on Sunday.

The main draw in boys and girls sections would see participation of 32 players each.

In the first round of the qualifying event on Saturday, Lakshay Tikoo beat Purav Singh 8-3 in the first match of the day.

In other matches, Om Yadav beat Anuj Gautam 8-5, Faraz Shakir beat Sajal Kesarwani 8-1, Tarun Randhawa beat Karman Singh 8-0, Jeevesh Pandey beat Utkarsh Vaishnav 8-0, Aditya Dwivedi beat Faiza Shakir 8-3, Amrit Raj beat Varad Mishra 8-0, Aryaman Mehta beat Aniket Srivastava 8-0, Arjun Sharma beat Aafaan Kidwai 8-6, Aaron Lovie Samuel beat Zaid Saifi 8-4, Maan Kesarwani beat Vedant Khanna 8-2, Anup Bangardi beat Pujya Singh 8-0, Manas Tiwari beat Bhoomish Purswani 8-3, Siddharth Yadav beat Iraz Ahmed 8-0, Shakti Singh beat Aman Goel 8-5 and Yash Verma beat Saif Ul Haq 8-3.

SNOOKER

Day three of the Shanshank Shekhar Singh Memorial Snooker Tournament (handicap) at the Oudh Gymkhana Club on Saturday witnessed contrasting results.

Varun Kant (+18) beat Akshay Mehrotra (+21) 69-24,59-93,93-49, Varun Egbert (+24) beat Aleem (+18) 70-77,75-53,99-52, Vishwajeet Mohan (+21) beat Ahmed Larib (+24) 37-78, 83-41, 98-55, Shubham Mehrotra (+8) beat Samarth Gautam 62-57, 64-32, Ayush Agarwal (+21) beat Bhaskar Mishra (+24) 84-59, 75-66,. Ashish Shukla (+21) beat Ankur Agarwal (+10) 83-49, 73-34, Saurabh Jaiswal (+21) beat Rahul Singh (SCR) 44-64, 71-64, 75-52, Ayush Agarwal (+21) beat Mohit Chandra (+32) 59-76, 83-49, 80-62, Varun Egbert (+24) beat Surya Dev (+18) 93-62, 84-64, Sabihuddin (+18) beat Akilesh Singh (+8) 71-52, 75-38, Varun Kant (+18) beat Ravinder Pahwa (+10) 72-69, 75-39, and Vishwajeet Mohan (+21) beat Ayush Agarwal (+21) 56-94, 77-56, 102-68.