Kerala boxers lose in quarters
Divya Ganesh, Indraja, Anaswara and Fousiya had made their mark at the national championship.
The four Kerala boxers who had fought their way to the quarterfinals of the Women's National Boxing Championships at Vijayanagara crashed out Friday.
Divya Ganesh (69 kg), Indraja K.A. (75kg), Anaswara P.M. (81+kg) and Fousiya A.T. (81kg) had entered the quarterfinals along with four boxers from Haryana while three pugilists from Railways, two each from Delhi, Punjab, Chandigarh and All India Police and one from Rajasthan, had made a worthwhile event for themselves.
Anaswara lost to Kavita Chahal of AIP while the other three were defeated by Haryana-based boxers. Divya lost to Nisha, Indraja against Nupur and Fousiya was upset by Pooja Rani.
Earlier, except for Fousiya, who got a walkover from AIP's Neha Jhadav, Divya had defeated Tamil Nadu's S. Preethi 5:0, Indira achieved an RSC-1 decision against Gujrat's Riya Upadhyay and Anaswara won on points (5:0) against Maharashtra's Shayaan Pathan to move up for Kerala.