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Riya, Lalita win their respective matches
Lucknow: Shuttlers Riya Mukherjee and Lalita Dahiya to won their respective matches and qualified for the main draw of the $120,000 Syed Modi International India Masters.
Others to qualify for the women’s singles main draw were Ekta Kalia and Yamini Sharma.
In men’s singles, Satinder Malik, Love Kumar, Vikranth Kumar Korukonda, Siddharth Jakhar, Himanshu Saroha, Talar Laa, Ankit Chhikara and Rajat Joon made it into the main draw of the Grand Prix Gold event.
Meanwhile Jayan James-Vikranth Kumar Korukonda, Utkarsh Arora-Tanveer Gill, Saurav Kapoor-Deepak Khatri and Kapil Chaudhary-Chandrabhusan Tripathi entered the men’s doubles main draw.
In mixed doubles, the pairs of V. Gangadhara Rao-Sudha Kalyani and K. Ajay Kumar-Smriti Nagarkoti qualified.
The main draw starts Wednesday.
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Sunil Gavaskar gives his opinion of GT allrounder Rahul Tewatia
The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.
Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.
Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”
Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.