19-member fin swimming team to participate in nationals
LUCKNOW: UP Underwater Sports and Fin Swimming (UPUSFS) would be sending its 18-member team to the National Finswimming Championship, scheduled to be held from November 19 to 21, at the Ponda Swimming Pool, at the Ponda Sports Complex in Goa.
UPUSFS’s secretarygeneral Narendra Singh Chauhan said that Uttar Pradesh would be participating in the national championship for the first time.
“It’s a matter of a great pride that Underwater Sports Federation of India has granted affiliation to the UPUSFS and has allowed us to participate in the national championship. It’s a new sport, very similar to swimming but with the use of some specialized gears under the water and I am sure that UPUSFS would be able to make this sport very popular in the state soon,” said Chauhan.
The UP team includes, Ankita Chauhan, Kajal Chauhan, Shubhangi Thackeray, Swarnima Jaiswal, Vatsala Dubey, Khushi Patel, Muskan Patel, Gayatri, Rajni Sahni, Nikki Sahni, Yashasvi Agarwal, Virat Chauhan, Nitesh Kushwaha, Dhirendra Yadav, Deepak Sahni, Raju Sahni, Anurag Singh, Kishan Kumar Bind and Akash Chauhan. Rupa Chaurasia Yadav, Vinay Bose, Rachna Singh and Satish Yadav would be officials.
HOCKEY TRIALS
Uttar Pradesh Hockey (UPH) would be conducting trials to select its team on November 20 and 21, at the Padma Shri Mohd Shahid Synthetic Stadium in Gomti Nagar at 8.00 a.m. onwards.
UPH secretary, RP Singh informed that selected team will participate in the 11th Hockey India Senior Men National Championship, scheduled to be held from December 11 to 22 at Pune in Maharashtra.
The selection of the junior team is scheduled for November 22 and 23 at the same venue. After the selection, the UP team will participate in the 11th Hockey India Junior Men National Championship, scheduled to be held from December 14 to 25 at Kovilpatti in Tamil Nadu. Players born after January 1, 2002 are eligible for participation in the trials,” said Dr Singh.
DISTRICT ATHLETICS
The two-day Lucknow District Athletics Championship will be held on November 19 and 2, at the KD Singh ‘Babu’ Stadium here. The championship will be organized in the age categories like under-14, 16, 18 and 20 in both boys and girls categories. The championship aims to select Lucknow team for the forthcoming state championship, states LDAA secretary, BR Barun.
AITA SERIES
Seeded players enjoyed some easy outing on the opening day of the AITA Under-14 Boys and Girls Championship Series, at the Khun Khun Ji Girls Degree College here on Monday.
Local challenger and top seed in the boys section, Faiz Kidwai outplayed Madhya Pradesh’s Devansh Kaushal 6-0, 6-0 in straight sets to make it to the quarterfinals, before the second seed Vanshraj Jalota too notched up a similar win against compatriot Aryan Dagur 6-0, 6-0. In the girls section too, top seed Lavanta Tiwari of Karnataka defeated UP’s Geetika Singh 6-2, 6-0 in a pre-quarterfinal match, but second seed and local girl Vaishnavi Lodhi had to struggle a bit in beating another local girl Shambhavi Daksh 6-0, 7-6 (4).
RESULTS Boys singles (pre-quarters):
Faiz Kidwai bt Devansh Kaushal (MP) 6-0, 6-0; Akshat Tyagi bt Vivan Srivastava 6-2, 6-0; Kshitij Sinha bt Ansh Agarwal 6-0, 6-0; Aarav Bhaskar bt Aadvik Agarwal 6-2, 6-3; Rishi Yadav bt Divyansh Pandey 7-6 (3), 6-3; Arjun Dixit bt Vansh Rastogi 6-1, 6-1; Ranveer Pannu (Ktk) bt Mehar Khosla 6-3, 6-1; Vanshraj Jalota bt Aryan Dagur 6-0, 6-0.
Girls singles (pre-quarters): Rysa Kamal bt Nitya Singh 6-0, 6-0; Arundhati Dagur bt Nayeem Hussain (Asm) 6-0, 6-0; Lavanta Tiwari bt Geetika Singh 6-2, 6-0; Akansha Ghosh (WB) bt Sanskriti Gautam 6-0, 6-0; Nirva Murali (Ktk) bt Siddhi 6-2, 6-3; Nandini Agarwal bt Navya Murali (Ktk) 5-7, 6-4, 6-2; Navya Kaushal (MP) bt Sharanya Srivastava 6-1, 6-1; Vaishnavi Lodhi bt Shambhavi Daksh 6-0, 7-6 (4).