Shubhi wins chess title, gets ticket to international events
LUCKNOW : Yet another young brain games exponent from Ghaziabad, Shubhi Gupta made Uttar Pradesh proud, winning the Girls Under-12 National Chess Championship title at Mandya (Karnataka).
Gupta, who happens to be the sixth one from the state in the last 15 years to win title at the national championships, was awarded Rs 80,000 and a trophy after scoring nine out of 11 points. In all there were 135 players from 29 states in the championship.
As per the UP Chess Sports Association, victory at the national championship, fetched* Gupta a place in the Indian team for the forthcoming World Cadet and Asian Cadet Chess Championship. Prior to her, players from UP like Shivam Srivasatav, Adarsh Srivastava, Aishani Pathak and Sanskriti Goyal too represented India at the World Cadet and Asian Cadet Chess Championship.
ALEENA EXCELS
West Bengal’s Aleena Farid completed a golden double in the AITA Championship Series here on Friday, winning girls singles titles in both under-16 and 14 categories, at the LPG Tennis Academy.
She first defeated second set Saasa Katiyar 6-3, 6-2 in the under-16 final, and then defeated Maharashtra’s Vaishnavi Chauhan 6-0, 6-0 in under-14 final. MP’s Adhiraj Thakur claimed the boys’ under-16 title, defeating Dhananjay Tibrewal of Rajasthan 6-3, 6-2, whereas in the boys under-14 singles final, Dhananjay Tibrewal beat Karnataka’s Abhishek Subramanian 6-2, 6-2.
VETERAN TT
The State Veteran Table Tennis Championships will be held on May 7, at the UPTTA Complex here. This will be followed by the trials at the district level in all age categories on May 8 and 9 at the same venue. Selected players will represent Lucknow in the junior state and ranking tournaments in near future.