HOCKEY
On day-6 of the Final Phase of National Women’s Hockey League, Odisha, Maharashtra and Bengal secured another win in their respective matches.
In the first match, Hockey Association of Odisha defeated Hockey Mizoram 1-1 (SO 2-0) in Pool A. Sanjana Kiro (5’) opened the account on the scoreboard as she scored the goal in the first quarter for Hockey Association of Odisha. On the other side, Laltlanchhungi (55’) scored the equaliser for Hockey Mizoram in the final minutes of the game.
Drupti Naik and Captain Sumi Mundari scored in the shoot-out out of the first three chances they got. Namsi Jarika (GK) stood out to be the star of the game as her heroics saved the day after saving all the four strikes by Hockey Mizoram in the shoot-out.
In the other match today, Hockey Maharashtra defeated Manipur Hockey 4-0. Sanika Chandrakant Mane (3’), Tanushree Dinesh Kadu (36’), Sanjana Raikwar (54’) and Nikku Gurjar (59’) scored for Hockey Maharashtra.
In the next match, Hockey Bengal defeated Hockey Maharashtra 1-0. Both the teams restricted each other throughout most of the game from scoring. But Shanti Horo (59’) had turned the fate of the game after scoring the deciding goal in the last minute for Hockey Bengal.
– Team Sportstar
TENNIS
Siddharth beats Zhukov in first round of ITF tournament
Davis Cupper Siddharth Vishwakarma played fluent to beat Maxim Zhukov 7-5, 6-2 in the first round of the $30,000 ITF men’s tennis tournament at the Altevol-Waske tennis academy on Tuesday.
Another Davis Cupper, Digvijay Pratap Singh, playing his second tournament after a long lay-off owing to injury, went down fighting to third seed Alexandr Binda of Italy in two well-contested sets.
In the doubles pre-quarterfinals, Chirag Duhan and Dev Javia combined well to beat the third seeds Sai Karteek Reddy and Vishnu Vardhan 10-8 in the super tie-break.
THE RESULTS
Singles (first round)
Madhwin Kamath bt Prajwal Dev 7-6(7), 2-1 (retired); Alexandr Binda (Ita) bt Digvijay Pratap Singh 7-6(5), 7-5; Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Yuvan Nandal 6-3, 6-1; Siddharth Vishwakarma bt Maxim Zhukov 7-5, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals)
Nick Chappell (USA) & Grigoriy Lomakin (Kaz) bt Lawrence Bataljin (Aus) & Raghav Jaisinghani 6-3, 6-2; Chirag Duhan & Dev Javia bt Sai Karteek Reddy & Vishnu Vardhan 4-6, 6-1, [10-8]; Adil Kalyanpur & Kody Pearson (Aus) bt Kashit Nagrale & Dharmil Shah 6-1, 6-2.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
