Prarthana and Arianne in Gifu ITF quarter nals
Ranga Reddy and Adilabad in title clash
Ranga Reddy and Adilabad entered the nal of the 10th senior inter-district football championship for men at Godavarikhani (Karimnagar) on Thursday. The results: Semifinals: Ranga Reddy 1 (Vikas) bt Wanaparthy 0. Adilabad 3 bt Karimnagar 1 (in penalty shoot-out).
Praneeth enters semifinals
Second seed C.D. Praneeth Reddy scored a 6-4, 6-2 win over sixth-seeded Manikandan of Karnataka in the boys singles quarternals of the AITA National Series (under-14) tennis tournament at the New Dimension Tennis
One for the album:
The state-ranking chess tournament medallists.
Academy (Bhongir). In the girls’ quarternals, sixth-ranked Shravee Deore of Maharashtra shocked second seed V.
Sanvi of Telangana 6-0, 4-6, 6-3.
The results: Quarterfinals: Boys: Atharva Sriramoju (TS) bt Jeebu Siddharth (TS) 6-3, 6-0; P.
Vanij Aryan (TS) bt M. Puneeth (Kar) 2-6, 6-0, 7-5; C.D. Praneeth Reddy bt Manikandan (Kar) 6-4, 6-2.
Girls:
Parnitha (AP) 6-2, 6-3; Venkatesan Deepthi (TN) bt Jhawar Reet (Kar) 6-4, 6-2; Shibani Gupte (Mah) bt Adya Chaurasia (Kar) 6-1, 7-5; Shravee Deore (Mah) bt V. Sanvi (TS) 6-0, 4-6, 6-3.
Samarth triumphs
P. Shree Samarth won the boys under-15 title in the 45th state-ranking chess tournament.
Final placings: Boys: U-15: 1. P. Shree Samarth, 2. Vedic Tolwala. U-13: 1. Suhit Ravikanti, 2. Sidhi Pranav Beenu. U-11: 1. M. Dharmika Virat, 2. Krithikd Dev. U-9: 1. B. Sri Abhinav, 2. A. Jayaraj Ramkumar. U-7: 1. Prakrit Thakur, 2. R. Srirama Skanda Suhar.
Girls: U-15: 1. G. Shrestha Sri, 2. S. Sri Lasya. U-11: 1. Hyma Sanvitha, 2. R. Namasvi Lakshmi. U-9: 1. Dia Parthasarathy, 2.
Trishika Patnaik. U-7: 1. Syyadh Raudh, 2. J. Sri Vishishta.
Bharatkumar outwits Sharanya
P. Bharatkumar Reddy outwitted G. Sharanya in the fourth round of the third Marvel International Open FIDE-rating chess tournament at Johnson Grammar School (Habsiguda).
Important results: Fourth round: P. Bharatkumar Reddy (4) bt G. Sharanya (3); D. Suresh (3) lost to Md. Imran (4); J. Ramakrishna (3) lost to Thanga Manickam (4); Malvin Joshua (4) bt P. Ramakrishna (3); Nihal Swarna (4) bt Mohit Kumar (3); Arvind Iyer (4) bt N. Rohith (3); Santosh Hariharan (3) lost to Srujam Keerthan (4).
Prarthana Thombare and Arianne Hartono saved two match points to beat Ma Ye◣in and Mananchana Sawangkaew 6-7(1), 6-4, [13-11] in the doubles prequarternals of the $100,000 ITF women’s tennis in Gifu, Japan, on Thursday.
The results:
€205,000 Challenger, Cagliari, Italy: Doubles: Pre-quarterfinals: Sriram Balaji & Andre Begemann bt Luciano Darderi & Thiago Tirante 4-6, 6-3, [10-4]; Yuki Bhambri & Francisco Cabral bt Niccolo Dessi & Alberto Sanna 7-5, 6-0.
$82,000 Challenger, Guangzhou: Doubles: Quarterfinals: Calum Puttergill & Reese Stadler bt Ray Ho & Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4, 6-3. $15,000 ITF, Monastir: Men: Pre-quarterfinals: bt Kacper Szymkowiak 6-2, 4-2 (retired).
Women: Pre-quarterfinals: Vaishnavi Adkar bt Zeel Desai 6-4, 6-0.
Doubles: Quarterfinals: Dayeon Back & Zeel Desai bt Ahn Yujin & Lee Gyeong Seo 6-3, 6-1; Hiromi Abe & Natsuho Arakawa bt Vaishnavi & Camilla Bossi 0-6, 6-4, [10-8].
Aaddi Gupta & Sara Lanca w/o Lamis Aziz & Patricija Paukstyte. $100,000 ITF women, Bonita Springs, USA: First round: Fanny Stollar bt Sahaja Yamalapalli 6-3, 6-0.
$100,000 ITF women, Gifu, Japan: Doubles: Pre-quarterfinals: Rutuja Bhosale & Sarah Grey bt Natsumi Kawaguchi & Park Sohyun 5-7, 6-0, [10-6].
Arianne Hartono & Prarthana Thombare bt Ma Ye◣in & Mananchaya Sawangkaew 6-7(1), 6-4, [13-11].
$25,000 ITF women, Hammamet, Tunisia: Doubles: Quarterfinals: Jasmijn Gimbrere & Zhibek Kulambayeva bt Diva Bhatia & Sophia Ksandinov 6-0, 6-0.