U Mumba go down fighting
MUMBAI: U Mumba fought hard against Gujarat Fortune Giants but fell short by a mere two pointstolose36-38intheir second match of the home leg in the 6th Vivo Pro Kabaddi League at NSCI, Worli. The visitors extended their win streak to six matches.
Parvesh Bhainswal and Sunil Kumar continued to destroy U Mumba’s raids while Vinod Kumar came in a surprise package for U Mumba as he got four tackle points including a super tackle on Sachin in the seventh minute.
U Mumba’s Siddharth Desai became the fastest player to reach 100 raid points in a season.
Gujarat Fortunegiants won the match because of a miraculous effort by Mahendra Rajput which saw him get rid of five players and inflict an all out on U Mumba in the 37th minute to shift the momentum towards his team. singles final of the Bandra Gymkhana’s JS Pereira Memorial AITA Ranking Men’s Tennis Tournament on Saturday.
In the doubles finals, Ishaque Eqbal of West Bengal and Yash Yadav of Madhya Pradesh won 6-1, 6-4 against Delhi’s Shivam Dalmia and Fahad.
Fahad pocketed a cash award of ~26,000 from chief guest Mayur Vasant, a former Indian tennis player.
ATHENS XI WIN
Athens XI pulled off a 2-1 win over Sirf Keval SC in the Mumbai District Football Association’s Second Division league at the St Xavier’s ground, Parel on Saturday.
RESULTS
Sporting Options 2 (Asif Dayatar, Rohan Luhera) bt Khiladi Connect 1 (Tejendra Singh).
Athens X1 2 (Umar Qureshi, Nikhil Makwana) bt Sirf Keval 1 (Umair Khan).