Indian sports wrap, January 2: Lakshya Cup returns, Bihar excels in Rugby7s at National School Games

SHOOTING Lakshya Cup: International stars to be in action on January 4, 5 Some of the best air rifle shooters, including the newly crowned national champions, Shahu Mane and Ananya Naidu, will be in action in the 15th Lakshya Cup Shooting Championship to be hosted at the Karnala Sports Academy in Panvel on January 4 and 5. The results Singles : Mathys Erhard bt Yuvan Nandal 6-2, 6-4; Alastair Gray bt Vishnu Vardhan 6-4, 6-3; Florent Bax bt Chirag Duhan 6-3, 6-2; Egor Agafonov bt Sidharth Rawat 3-6, 6-4, 6-4; Yurii Dzhavakian bt Vladyslav Orlov 6-3, 5-7, 6-1; Oliver Cawford bt Aryan Shah 6-1, 2-0 ; Samir Banerjee bt Dev Javia 6-3, 7-6; Maxim Zhukov bt Dhakshineswar Suresh 6-4, 3-6, 6-4. Doubles : Parikshit Somani & Dhakshineswar Suresh bt Yuichiro Inui & Sidharth Rawat 5-7, 6-3, ; Chirag Duhan & Dev Javia bt Sai Karteek Reddy & Eric Vanshelboim 6-3, 6-4; Ishaque Eqbal & Aryan Shah bt Sergey Fomin & Maxim Zhukov 7-6, 6-2; Mathys Erhard & Alastair Gray bt Yurii Dzhavakian & Aryan Lakshmanan 6-2, 6-3. Results: Open: Thavish S drew with Aarit Kapil ; Oshik Mondal lost to Nidhish Shyamal ; Ayaan Phutane lost to Divith Reddy ; Garvit Jain lost to Advik Agrawal ; Sattwik Swain bt Saicharan Srinivasan ; Lishanth B lost to Arjun Singh ; Mani Sarbartho bt Anand Takkshanth ; Krithik Muthukumar drew with Parv Hakani ; Vishprajesh Anand lost to Sragvidha S ; Muhammad Ibrahim bt Hriday Garg ; Mohd Siddiqui bt Sidhant Rana ; Siddhant Kothari lost to Aadwik Krishna : Heyan Reddy drew with Advik Mundhada ; Timmaraju Sathvik drew with Pratyush Kumar ; Shivin K drew with Shreyan Thipparthi ; Varchas Jayaraman drew with Varad Patil ; Ishaan Laddha drew with Devansh Keshri. Girls: Aashvi Singh lost to Kiyanna Parihaar ; Annanya Chinta lost to Divi Bijesh ; Vanshika Rawat bt Marksim Sriiyukthaa ; Radhya Malhotra bt Rajeswari Aiyappan ; Anvi Hinge lost to Aryahi Bhattacharya ; Shruti Sarkar lost to Karthik Uthaara ; Nakshatra Gumudavelly lost to Tvesha Jain ; Kaushi Kulkarni bt Deepanjali Srivastava ; Hariprana B bt Sahasra Varma Penumastha ; Srijani Naskar lost to Aarini Singh ; Sai Puvvala bt Sloka Sujith ; Swara Phasge lost to Vihana, Kothari ; Harshika M bt Darshvi Rai ; Kashika Goyal drew with Vamshika Boga ; Ghritakshi Lalwani lost to Hanishka Mishra ; Yakshini P bt Sanskriti Yadav ; Anjali Shrivastava lost to Narayani Marathe.