Mishaps continue to mar Fed Cup

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Competition manager Kamlesh Nanavati confirmed the incident,saying Banerjee suffered a cut on her leg.

But these weren’t the only problems on Day One. The high board event was cancelled on Tuesday as the diving platforms weren’t ready. Divers were told that only 1m spring board event will be held.

Since international specifications require the surface on the platforms to be rough,the technical delegates including FINA vice-president Sam Ramswamy deemed it not fit for competition.

“We always knew that the platform wouldn’t be ready for the competition. We held a meeting two days ago,where the engineers had insisted that it’ll be ready. But it wasn’t the case so we had to do away with the event at the last moment,” Nanavati added.

Besides,one of the three 3m boards will not be used since it wasn’t up to the mark. “We’ll hold on the 3m event only from two boards. Changing rooms are not up to the standards,washrooms are dirty. If things remain like this,no foreigner will come here” Nanavati said.

As per a young diver,the diving platform — 10m and 7m — are dangerously close to each other. “Normally they aren’t this close. It’ll be difficult for synchronised diving events to take place as chances are that someone can get hit by the 7m platform,” she said on condition of anonymity.

Karnataka off to a flier
Karnataka got off to a flier as they won five gold medals on the opening day. Pooja R Alva grabbed three gold medals —200m individual medley,200m butterfly stroke and 4×100 relay — to take the opening day honours.

Also winning on Tuesday were Olympians — Veerdhawal Khade (50m freestyle) and Sandeep Sejwal (200m breast stroke and 4x100m relay). Interestingly,Khade was returning to the SPM pool after a gap of seven years — last time he was here was in 2003 competing in the junior nationals.

Results: 400m free style men: 1 Gagan A.P. (Karnataka) 04:03:17,2 Mervyn Chen (RSPB) 04:14:59, 3 Deva Solanki (Delhi); 400m free style women: 1 Arti Ghorpade (MAH) 04:39:80,2 Sushaka Pratap (KAR) 04:47:66,3 Pooja R Alva (KAR) 04:53:09; 200m individual medley men 1 J. Agnishwar (TAM) 02:11:57,2 C.G. Gowtham (TAM) 02:21:35 , CH Vinaykrishnan (Pol); 200m individual medley women: 1 Pooja R Alva (KAR) 02:33:06,2 Arti Ghorpade (MAH) 02:38:02,3 Harpreet Kaur (Del) 02:40:74; 200m back stroke men: 1 Rohit Havaldar (KAR) 02:08:41,2 Praveen Tokas (RSPB) 02:12:34,3 CG Gowtham (TAM) 02:30:69; 200m back stroke women: 1 Arti Ghorpade (MAH) 02:32:74, 2 Heta Davey (MP) 02:37:41,3 Meghna Sreevatsa (KAR) 02:37:62; 200m breat stroke men: 1 Sandeep Sejwal (RSPB) 02:18:31,2 Puneet Rana (PUN) 02:26:85, 3 Jashandeep Singh (PUN) 02:28:46; 200m breast stroke women: 1 Priyanka Priydarshini (Del) 02:56:61,2 Baby Kumari (BIH) 03:23:21; 200m butterfly men: 1 Sreejith KC (RSPB) 02:14:51,2 KM Vishnu (SSCB) 02:14:64,3 R. Chakraborty (SSCB) 02:17:49; 200m butterfly women: 1 Pooja R Alva (KAR) 02:31:57 I,2 Harpreet Kaur (Del) 02:32:99,3 Shinjini Sahay (MAH) 02:39:20; 50m free style men: 1 Veerdhawal Khade (MAH) 00:23:26, 2 Anshul Kothari (GUJ) 00:24:23,3 Arjun JP (RSPB) 00:24:47; 50m frees tyle women: 1 Talasha Prabhu (Goa) 00:27:79, 2 Snehat T (KAR) 00:27:91,3 Subha Chittaranjan (KAR) 00:28:08; 4 X 100M relay men: 1 Praveen Tokas,Sandep Sejwal,Arjun JP,Sumanto Nath (RSPB), 2 Sunil Kumar,L Shyam Singh,S Joseph, S Mondal (SSCB),3 Viplov Choudhary,Mohit Kumar,Deva Solanki,Rishabh Pawar; 4 X100M relay women: 1 Fariha Zaman,Pooja R Alva,Sneha T,Subha (KAR),2 Ruhab Khan,Priyanka,Vani Sahni,Harpreet Kaur (DEL),3 Amreen Malik,G Pranathi,S Swathi,PV Meghna (AP); 1M spring board men: 1 S. Rabi Kumar Singh (RSPB) 209.45,2 T. Hariprasad (RSPB) 199.95,3 CH. Pushkar Meitei (JHR) 183.45; 1m spring board women: 1 Karishma Mohite (KAR) 122.95,Hrutika Shriram (RSPB) 112.40,3 Swati Vidap (MAH) 95.50