Aditya Singh dominated the men’s air rifle as he beat Sri Karthik Sabari Raj 17-9 in the Third National Shooting Selection Trials at Dr. Karni Singh Range, Tughlakabad on Sunday.
Vijay Singh took third place, ahead of Monu Kumar, Gajanan Khandagale, Vidit Jain, Olympian Deepak Kumar and Arjun Babuta who were the others to advance to the semi-finals.
April 9: summary of the Indian sports news of the day
Sabari Raj went on to take the honors in the youth and junior events, beating Samarvir Singh 16-4 and Abhinav Shaw 17-11 respectively.
In the 50 meter rifle prone event, Sift Kaur Samra topped both the women’s and junior sections with a score of 623.7.
| The results:
Air Rifle 10m Men: 1. Aditya Singh 17 (262.2) 629.0; 2. Sri Karthik Sabari Raj 9(261.7)628.7; 3. Vijay Singh 260.9 (629.3). Juniors: 1. Sri Karthik Sabari Raj 1 (261.9) 628.7; 2. Samarvir Singh 4 (261.9) 628.6; 3. Aditya Singh 261.7 (629.0). Young: 1. Sri Karthik Sabari Raj 17 (260.5) 628.7; 2. Abhinav Shaw 11 (259.6) 627.1; 3. Yash Vardhan 257.4 (627.7). 50m rifle prone Juniors: 1. Sift Kaur Samra 623.7; 2. Ashi Chouksey 618.2; 3.Heena Gohei 615.2. |
– by Kamesh Srinivasan
TENNIS-
Sania Mirza and Lucie Hradeck beat top seeds Caroline Dolehide and Shuai Zhang 6-2, 4-6, [10-8] in the doubles semi-final of the $899,500 WTA tennis tournament in the United States.
In the final, Sania and Hradecka were to face the fourth seeds, Andreja Klepac and Magda Linette.
In the Challenger in Ecuador, Yuki Bhambri and Saketh Myneni beat JC Aragone and Roberto Quiroz 4-6, 6-3, [10-7] in the doubles final.
It was the seventh Challenger doubles title for Yuki, 29. He won his last Challenger doubles title with Mahesh Bhupathi in 2016.
It was the tenth Challenger doubles title for Saketh, and the second this season after that with Ramkumar Ramanathan in Bengaluru.
| The results:
$899,500 WTA, Charleston, USA $53,120 Challenger, Salinas, Ecuador |
– by Kamesh Srinivasan
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