In the first round of the ITF juniors grade ‘II' tennis tournament at the DLTA Complex, national sub-junior champion Karan Salwan defeated top-seeded Chi-Shan Jao of Chinese Taipei 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-2 on Monday, reports The Hindu.
Other Results (first round, Indians unless mentioned):
Boys: Karan Salwan bt Chi-Shan Tao (Tpe) 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-2; Amirvala Madanchi (Iri) bt Rithvik Anand 6-4, 3-6, 6-2; Nattan Benjasupawan (Tha) bt Tarun Nath Surath 6-4, 6-0; Vinod Gowda bt Adriaan Du Toit (RSA) 6-4, 6-3; Sahil Deshmukh bt Shao-Chi Yang 6-2, 7-5; Naoki Nakagawa bt Sumit Nagal 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-0; Dukyoung Kim (Kor) bt Aman Agarwal 7-6(1), 7-5; Simon Stevens (Bel) bt Shaikh Abdullah 6-2, 6-3; Vilasier Khate bt Wei-De Lin (Tpe) 3-6, 6-4, 7-5; Clement Geens bt Kumara P. Saradhi Adavelly 6-0, 6-3; Krittin Koaykul (Tha) bt Manish Kumar 6-3, 6-0.
Girls: Mai El Kamash (Egy) bt Fang-Chi Tsao (Tpe) 6-2, 6-0; Natasha Palha bt Da Hye Kim (Kor) 6-4, 3-6, 6-4; Ksenija Sharifova (Rus) bt Tarrannum Handa 6-1, 6-1; Oleksandra Korashvili (Ukr) bt Dhriti Venugopal 6-1, 6-2; Deria Nur Haliza (Ina) bt Sumeera Kamil 6-2, 6-2; Kamonwan Buayam (Tha) bt Britt Geukens (Bel) 6-2, 6-2; Michelle Werbrouck (Bel) bt Vasanti Shinde 6-3, 6-4; Simran Kaur Sethi bt Carol Augustine (Esp) 7-6(1), 7-5; Madrie Le Roux (RSA) bt Sai Samhitha 6-4, 4-6, 7-5; Nina Stojanovic (Srb) bt Spurti Shivalingaiah 6-3, 6-2; Sanae Ohta (Jpn) bt Teertha Iska 6-3, 6-2; Ching-Wen Hsu (Tpe) bt Xue Jiayuan (Chn) 6-2, 6-2.
Entrepreneur Raj Kundra and actor Danjay Dutt launched a mixed martial arts (MMA) tournament, Super Fight League (SFL), on Monday. MMA allows a fighter to use both grappling and striking techniques. The sport includes different form of martial arts such as boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, taekwondo, karate and judo. DNA reports, the first season will start from March 11 at the Andheri Sports Complex.
Australian captain Michael Clarke on a lighter note said that he is lucky that he is not an Indian selector. Clarke said that Indian players have got great records and have played lots of important innings and that makes selectors life more difficult as one cannot drop them, reports Mid Day.
BCCI has come out in support of the Indian coach Duncan Fletcher. The board said that the poor performance by the Indian team under his tenure is just a coincidence and Fletcher is not totally responsible for it, reports The Times of India.