Sports Briefs: Lomakin-Ishaque clinch doubles title in Hyderabad Open

In the doubles final, second-seeded Grigoriy Lomakin of Kazakhstan and Ishaque Eqbal of India defeated fourth-seeded Jeffrey Von Der Schulenburg of Switzerland and Vanshelboim Eric of Ukraine 6-2, 6-3 to clinch the honours

Hyderabad: Top-seeded Max Houkes of the Netherlands scored a 6-3, 6-4 win against Timofei Derepasko, while third-seeded Karan Singh of India outslugged USA’s Keshav Chopra 4-6, 7-6, 6-4 to enter the singles final of the Hyderabad Open ITF men’s tennis tournament at Lake View Tennis Academy here on Saturday.

In the doubles final, second-seeded Grigoriy Lomakin of Kazakhstan and Ishaque Eqbal of India defeated fourth-seeded Jeffrey Von Der Schulenburg of Switzerland and Vanshelboim Eric of Ukraine 6-2, 6-3 to clinch the honours.

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Hyderabad struggles despite Raghava’s century

Hyderabad was struggling at 238 for six despite a fine century by P. Raghava (104, 225b, 11×4, 2×6) in reply to Vidarbha’s 420 in the first innings on the second day of the four-day Col.C.K. Nayudu Trophy cricket championship fourth round match here on Saturday.

For Vidarbha, S. Jagjot (105, 163b, 7×4, 5×6) batted well.

The scores: 2nd day: Vidarbha 420 in 95 overs (S. Jagjot 105, Mohd Abdul Adnan 4/50) vs Hyderabad 238/6 in 78 overs (P. Raghava 104, Wafi Kachhi 35).

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Rakesh Sekhar to lead Hyderabad under-14

G Rakesh Sekhar will lead Hyderabad in the South Zone inter-state under-14 cricket tournament at Vizianagaram from January 27.

The team: G. Rakesh Sekhar (capt), Medhansh Agarwal (vice-capt), Akhileshwar Reddy, V. Jagath Roshan, G.Y. Srikanth Raj, Mettu Dakshdeep, CH. Ritesh Reddy,

Raghava Narayan, Gopal Varun, P. Venkat Sagar, P. Vivaan Reddy, Utkarsh, G. Nikhil Sekhar, Mohammed Kamran and K. Ishank.

Stand-byes: G. Sai Vaibhav, CV Chetan Aditya, T. Umesh, Manish Patel and G. Prasanna Kumar.