Day 4 - 15th Monsoon Regatta

The races were held in the afternoon giving the fatigued sailors a breather after multiple championships at Hussain Sagar and many months of training. 

Two races were sailed across all fleets and the weather was medium to heavy but very gusty and shifty giving the Hyderabad based Telangana Sailors a slight edge as a consequence of knowing the lake like the back of their hands 

Govardhan Pallara of Telangana  sailed safe and placed a comfortable 5 and 6 and looks like heading for a clear gold but still needs to sail both the remaining races to clinch the SH Babu Trophy for consistent performance. 

Deekshita of Telangana came in from a far 14th in the 9th race to shock the fleet with a win and an 8th and screamed up to second overall pushing Aakash Tangai of TSC Mysore to third and Shreya Krishna of Tamilnadu to 4th spot 

Shreya was leading the race at top spot but crashed to 7th giving Deekshita - who finally won  the race  - a huge advantage 

In the ILCA 4 Boys which is another very competitive fleet Ekalavya Batham of Madhya Pradesh popped back to the top of the fleet with some brilliant finishes and pushed Krishna Divaker of TSC Mysore to 3rd spot and compatriot Akshat Dohre also of Madhya Pradesh to second .

In the ILCA4 girls Alya Sabreen of Orissa won both races with some excellent tactics and pushed Somya Singh to overall second . 

The Monsoon Regatta also sailed a Green Fleet with local girl Rameeza  Bhanu of Rainbow Homes who started sailing just months ago is heading for bronze. 

There are 2 more races to complete the series if the weather holds and both the ILCA and Optimist under 16 are tightly fused at the top and the end results could be anybody’s guess given that if more than 10 races are said the sailors are allowed to discard two races against the one currently discarded.

In the 420 mixed doubles fleet its between Vaishnavi and Thanuja both of Telangana and the last two races will prove who the better sailor is 

Nikhil and Satyam in the 29er skiffs are leading and are likely to clinch the trophy 

Points Tally at the end of Day 4

Under 16 Optimist Class

Govardhan Pallara (TSA) Telangana     31
Deekshita (TSA) Telangana                   45 
Aakash Tangai TSC Mysor                    63
Under 18 29er Skiff Doubles 

Nikhil Mandavkar & Satyam Jha         NBSC Goa      10
Mallesh Gadham & Karthik Korrolla   NBSC Goa       19
Ajay Yadav & Adiraj Yadav                  NSS MP           23
Under 18 International 420 Mixed Doubles 

Vaishnavi Veeravamsham & Shravan Kathravath     TSA Telangana  10
Thanuja  Kameshwar & Ganesh Peerkatla                 TSA Telangana  12
Under 18 ILCA 4 Single Hander Girls

Alia Sabreen OYA Orissa                           13
Somya Singh NSS Madhya Pradesh        15
Manya Reddy  SSC Telangana                 28         
Under 18 ILCA 4 Single Hander Boys

Ekalavya Batham  NSS MP       37
Akshat Dohre NSS MP               40
Krishna Divakar TSC Mysore     40