Ankita Bhambri set up a title-clash with Thailand?s Wiliwan Choptang in the Tata Steel-ITF Women?s Circuit meet at the BTA Complex on Friday.
Second seed Ankita beat fifth-seeded sister Sanaa 6-3, 6-3 while Wiliwan edged Isha Lakhani 7-5, 6-4.
RESULTS
Singles semis: Wiliwan Choptang (Tha, 6) bt Isha Lakhani (Ind, 8) 7-5, 6-4; Ankita Bhambri (Ind, 2) bt Sanaa Bhambri (, Ind, 5) 6-3, 6-3. Doubles semis: Wiliwan Choptang (Tha) & Shruti Dhawan (Ind, 4) bt Rushmi Chakravarthi & Sai Jayalakshmy (Ind, 1) 6-3, 6-3; Ankita Bhambri & Sanaa Bhambri (Ind, 2) bt Vandana Murali & Madhura Ranganathan (Ind) 6-1, 6-1.
Sourav Panja will face Manoj Sewa in the final of the Saturday Club floodlit hardcourt meet. In Friday?s semis, Sourav beat Vinod Sewa 6-4, 6-1 while Manoj defeated Saurav Sukul 6-2, 4-6, 7-6.
Saurav Kothari and Brijesh Damani will lock horns in the final of the state senior snooker meet at the Bengal Rowing Club on Saturday. In the semi-finals, Saurav thrashed Mudit Poddar and Brijesh downed Prakash Mehrotra by identical 5-0 margins.
The Royal Danish team was leading after the first day of the fourth edition of the Consular Corps of Calcutta golf meet at Tollygunge Club on Friday. They led the inter-consulate category, followed by South Africa, Pakistan and Japan.
Participants included the Japanese ambassador, Enoki, along with dignitaries from Indonesia, Myanmar, Switzerland, Britain and Germany. R. Sikand of Tata Tea A won the closest to the pin award.
Kalyani University moved into the pre-quarter finals of the East Zone inter-varsity cricket championship at Kalyani on Friday.
Brief scores: Kalyani University 236/8 in 39 overs (Bikash Dutta 70, Siddharth Gupta 40). Patna University 148 in 40 overs (B. Prasad 30; Partha Bose 3/25). Kalyani won by 88 runs.
CRICKET: CAB league: First division matches at various grounds from 9.30 am.
SNOOKER: State senior championship: Final at BRC from 3 pm.
TENNIS: ITF Women?s Circuit meet: Finals at the BTA Complex from 11.30 am. n Floodlit meet: Finals at the Saturday Club courts from 6 pm.
