Sonia Chahal (57 kg), who won a silver medal at the World Championships last year and Cologne World Cup gold medalist Meenakumari Devi (54 kg), made it to the semi-finals of the fourth Elite Women's National Boxing Championships here on Friday. Sonia, who won gold in 2016 and bronze in 2017 in this tournament, defeated Vinakshi of Himachal Pradesh 3-2 in a tough match in the quarterfinals of the 57 kg category. Meenakumari Devi of the All India Police defeated Sabiha Khanam of Jharkhand 5-0 in the quarter-finals of the 54 kg category. Kavita Chahal, Arjuna Award winner and gold medal winner at the 2019 World Police Games, continued her strong performance here in the 81 kg weight category.

According to the information received from the sources, Kavita, who won the bronze medal twice in the Women's World Boxing Championship, made her move closer to the gold medal and defeated Rajasthan's Barbara Sampson 5-0. Former youth world champion Shashi Chopra performed brilliantly in the 60 kg weight category, defeating Manju of Chandigarh 5-0 in their quarterfinal match. Apart from him, former youth world champion, Ankushita Boro of Assam defeated Abisak Vanlalawamvi of Mizoram 5-0 in a one-sided match of 64 kg weight category. India Open champion Bhagyavati Kachari continued her aggressive performance in the 81 kg weight category. In view of his performance, the referee had to stop the match against Sara Qureshi of Telangana in the first round itself.

 Lalita of Rajasthan and Anjali of Delhi have entered their next round of 69 kg weight class. Nupur of Haryana took a very aggressive stance against Neha Chauhan of Uttarakhand in the 75 kg weight category, which caused the referee to stop the match in the first round itself. India Open runner-up Vanlal Dauti had no trouble reaching the final four by defeating Deep Kumari of Madhya Pradesh 5-0 in 51kg while Ritu of Chandigarh beat Delhi's Jyoti 5-0 in 57kg.

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