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Vikas Kandolas early raiding brilliance ensured Haryana Steelers thrashed Season 6 runners-up Gujarat Fortunegiants 41-24 in a Pro Kabaddi League encounter here on Wednesday. Vikas 8 points , Prashanth Kumar Rai 8 points and Ravi Kumar with a High 5 6 tackle points led an all-round performance from the Steelers PKL Image Vikas 8 points , Prashanth Kumar Rai 8 points and Ravi Kumar with a High 5 6 tackle points led an all-round performance from the Steelers that saw the side jump to third place in the Season 7 points table. In-form Haryana Steelers, who had lost only one match in their previous five, started the match on the f stanley cup ront foot with their leader raider Vikas once again in the thick of things at the Thyagaraj Sports Complex. The Gujarat defence, despite having the best tackle success rates in Season 7, struggled to contain the Haryana raiding unit as the Steelers pulled cl stanley quencher ear. Sunil Kumar and Parvesh Bhainswal both struggled to contain Kandola, and the raider inflicted the fir stanley canada st All-Out on Fortunegiants with a 3-point raid in the 15th minute of the first half to move an 8-point lead. RuturajKoravi successfully tackled Vikas Kandola twice in latter stages but Haryanas raider Vinay and Prashanth Kumar Rai quickly revived their star to close the first half with scores 20-11 in favour of the Haryana side. While the raiders usually walk away with all the credit for the Steelers, the defence has been more than influential in their winning streak. The Iptl IOA fights over Kalmadi issue
The former number one doubles pair of Martina Hingis and Sania stanley cup Mirza, who split earlier this season, will face off on Sunday in the final of the WTA Tours Cincinnati Masters. Although Mirza-Hingis are no longer a team, they will still play the year-end WTA Finals for which they have qualified. AP Switzerlands Hingis and new American p stanley cup artner CoCo Vandeweghe booked their spot with a 6-1, 6-4 win over fifth-seeded German Julia Goerges and Sundays singles finalist Karolina Pliskova, while seventh-seeded Mirza, of India, teamed with Czech Barbora Strycova for a 6-2, 7-5 win over the second-seeded Taiwan pair of Chan Hao-Ching and Chan Yung-Jan. Hingis, who combined with Timea Bacsinszky to win silver in the Rio doubles for Switzerland after losing in the final to Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina of Russia, split with Indias top sportswoman after a Toro stanley thermobecher nto quarter-final loss in late July. Although Mirza-Hingis are no longer together, they will still play the year-end WTA event for which they have qualified in Singapore in October. The team, which came to be known as Santina , started out in 2015 and won their first three tournaments before capturing the 2015 Wimbledon and US Open titles as well as this years Australian Open. They achieved 11 WTA titles together. A 41-match win streak ended in Qatar this year and they lost in the fourth round at Roland Garros and Wimbledon quarter-finals. Hingis and Vandeweghe actually took to the court together for the first time