GOLF
Diksha, Aditi start with modest even par rounds
India’s Diksha Dagar and Aditi Ashok opened with a modest spherical of even par 71 every on the primary day of The Amundi Evian Championship right here.
The Indian duo, who’re as a consequence of play 4 straight massive occasions over the following 4 weeks, had been tied for the fiftieth place, however nicely in line to make the minimize submit which the highest 65 and ties will play the ultimate two rounds.
South African Paula Reto fired a gap spherical of 64 (-7) to carry a two-shot benefit over 4 gamers Kiwi Lydia Ko, Thai Wichanee Meechai, Frenchwoman Celine Boutier and American Alison Lee, who all shot 5-under 66 every on the Evian Resort Golf Membership on the occasion, which is a Main for ladies.
Of the 2 Indians, each of whom are within the top-5 of the Race to Costa Del Sol, the Order of Advantage for the Girls European Tour, Diksha was the primary to begin from the tenth tee together with Lauren Hartlage and Sweden’s Pernilla Lindberg.
Diksha, winner of two LET occasions in South Africa and Czech Girls in 2019 and 2023, alternated between bogey and birdies as she bogeyed eleventh, birdied twelfth after which bogeyed sixteenth solely to get again the shot on 18th.
She once more dropped a shot on first however birdied second and third and for the primary time moved to beneath par. However on the fifth she once more gave again the positive aspects and ended even par.
Aditi, who has 4 wins on the LET since her opening one at dwelling within the Girls’s Indian Open in 2016, birdied third, 14th and fifteenth and dropped photographs on second, sixth and seventeenth for the same 71.
Reto, 33, started her day from the tenth tee and made a bogey on gap 11 however instantly bounced again with a birdie on 12. She rolled in a birdie on 15 earlier than she actually bought right into a rhythm with birdies on 18 and the primary earlier than three on the trot on holes 5 by way of seven.
The LPGA Tour winner completed with a flourish rolling in a birdie on her final gap for a again 9 of 30 (-5) and to steer with a complete of seven-under-par.
9 gamers are one additional shot again in a tie for sixth place on four-under-par, together with Germany’s Esther Henseleit and Norway’s Celine Borge.
-PTI
ATHLETICS
Large private finest for Kishore Jena in Colombo
Javelin thrower Kishore Kumar Jena
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Javelin thrower Kishore Kumar Jena
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Kishore Kumar Jena threw a private finest 84.38m as he gained the boys’s javelin throw title on the Sri Lankan Nationwide athletics championships in Colombo on Friday.
That locations him within the 10 th spot within the javelin throw’s world listing this 12 months and on the second rung in Asia, behind Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra (88.67).
Jena, who took the silver on the current Inter-State Nationals in Bhubaneswar with 82.87m, has improved his private finest by greater than six metres in about 9 months. His finest until final 12 months was 78.05m. The massive throw may enhance his possibilities of making the minimize for subsequent month’s World Championships in Budapest by way of the world rankings route.
In the meantime, former Asian silver medallist Shivpal Singh was second with 77.36m in Colombo. In different occasions, Seema gained the ladies’s 10,000m whereas S. Siva completed second within the males’s pole vault.
Jisna Mathew (54.89s), Soniya Baishya (54.10) and M.R. Poovamma (55.84) entered the ladies’s ultimate after the heats.
– Stan Rayan
TENNIS
AITA Wheelchair Event: Mariappa reaches semifinals
Mariappan Durai beat Indra Pandey 9-6 within the quarterfinals of the Rs.200,000 AITA wheelchair tennis match on the DLTA Complicated on Friday.
Within the semifinals, Mariappan will play Shekar Veeraswamy. The opposite semifinal will likely be between high seed Karthik Karunakaran and Balachandar Subramanian.
Within the ladies’s part, KP Shilpa arrange a title conflict towards Prathima Rao.
RESULTS
Males (quarterfinals): Karthik Karunakaran bt S Sureshkumar 9-0; Balachandar Subramanian bt M Gabriel 9-3; Mariappan Durai bt Indra Pandey 9-6; Shekar Veeraswamy bt Sathasivam Kannupayan 9-1.
Girls (semifinals): KP Shilpa bt A Ruthrajeswari 9-0; Prathima Rao bt Naina Kumari 9-2.
– Crew Sportstar
AITA Girls’s Event: Paavanii turns into champion
Paavanii Paathak beat Sejal Bhutada 6-4, 5-7, 6-1 within the ultimate of the Rs.100,000 AITA ladies’s tennis match at The Dream Home Academy in Vaishali Nagar on Friday.
Paavanii additionally made the doubles ultimate in partnership with Renee Singh. The duo led 6-5 within the first set towards Tanushree Pandey and Rituparna Choudhury when rain intervened.
RESULTS (FINAL)
Paavanii Paathak bt Sejal Bhutada 6-4, 5-7, 6-1;
Semifinals: Paavanii bt Sonal Patil 2-6, 6-1, 6-1; Sejal bt Kavya Khirwar 7-5, 6-4.
– Crew Sportstar
AITA Juniors Tremendous Sequence: Shanker, Sherry win singles titles
Shanker Heisnam beat second seed Arjun Rathi 6-3, 6-3 within the under-18 boys ultimate of the AITA Tremendous sequence junior tennis match on the CLTA Complicated on Friday.
RESULTS (FINALS)
Beneath-18 boys: Shanker Heisnam bt Arjun Rathi 6-3, 6-3.
Beneath-18 ladies: Sherry Sharma w.o. Isheeta Midha.
– Crew Sportstar