Sudha in World C’ships
Chennai: Olympian Sudha Singh of Uttar Pradesh booked her berth in the Moscow World Championship with a new national mark in 3000 meter steeplechase for women in the 53rd National Athletics championship here on Thursday. The day also witnessed Kerala men quartet comprising Anuroop John, Ranjith KG, Shameer and Rahul G Pillai winning the 4x100 meter relay in meet record time. Sudha crossed the Moscow World Championship 'B' standard of 9:48 secs. With little more effort, Sudha could have achieved the "A" standard, which is 9.43plus. Harayana's Kirantiwari (10.32.94s) and Priyanka patel (UP-10.45.32s) claimed silver and bronze medals respectively.
levan wins Mumbai Chess
Mumbai: Grandmaster Pantsulaia levan of Georgia tied with two others on points at the end of the final round and was declared the winner on the tie-break rule in the Rs 21.5-lakh prize money 6th Mumbai Mayor International Chess Tournament here on Thursday. levan finished level on 8.5 points with countryman GM M Mekheil and GM Amonatov Farrukh of Tajikistan before pipping the others for the title. However, all the three players had to share the winner's purse and pocketed Rs 2.58 lakh each.
Karunoday upsets Vijayanth
Chennai: Karunoday Singh beat Vijayakant Malik to enter semifinals of B R Adityan-GNC ITF Men's Futures Tennis Championships here on Thursday. Top seed Sriram Balaji scored a confident straight sets win over Mohd Fariz, while second seed Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan seemed to be in spot of bother against Kaza Vinayak Sharma with the score being 5-all. Kaza could not continue and had to retire due to cramps.
Ankita in ITF semis
Pune: Ankita Raina beat Nigina Abdurakhimova of Uzbekistan to reach semifinals of the $ 25,000 ITF Women's tennis tournament in Karshi, Uzbekistan on Thursday. Ankita hammered Abdurakhimova 6-4, 7-6 (7/3) in the quarters.
Punjab, Manipur in quarters
Pune: Punjab overwhelmed Delhi 9-2, while Manipur ousted Andhra Pradesh 4-2 in their league matches respectively to enter the quarter-finals of the third Hockey India Senior Men National Championship 2013, here on Thursday. Former India forward Deepak Thakur slammed five goals while Vikramjit Singh scored thrice off penalty corners to help Punjab thrash Delhi and top the pool A with four wins out of four matches. PNS/Agencies