TENNIS
Karthik Karunakaran reaches reaches singles and doubles closing
High seed Karthik Karunakaran arrange a title conflict in opposition to second seed Shekar Veeraswamy within the Rs. 200,000 AITA wheelchair tennis event on the DLTA Complicated on Saturday.
Karthik additionally made the doubles closing with Mariappan Durai. The duo will play fourth seeds Indra Pandey and B Subramanian.
THE RESULTS (SEMIFINALS)
Males: Karthik Karunakaran bt Balachandar Subramanian 6-2, 6-2; Shekar Veeraswamy bt Mariappan Durai 7-6(0), 6-1.
Doubles: Mariappan Durai & Karthik Karunakaran bt M Gabriel & S Sureshkumar 6-0, 6-3; Indra Pandey & B Subramanian bt Anil Almeida & Shekar Veerasswamy 6-1, 7-5.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
MOTORSPORT
Amittrajit Ghosh stands tall on day one in all Rally of Coimbatore
Amiitrajit Ghosh (co-driver Ashwin Naik) was a bit fearful going into the ultimate loop as there was a minor energy glitch. However the aggressive younger man saved his cool to emerge the day’s chief within the Rally of Coimbatore, the third spherical of the FMSCI Blueband Sports activities Indian Nationwide Rally Championship for 4 wheelers, right here on Saturday.
Three-time APRC champion Gaurav Gill (Aniruddha Rangnekar), set the tone at first, successful the primary two phases with ease however, as luck would have it, dropped out two kilometres into the third stage.
Then again, championship chief Aroor Arjun Rao (Satish Rajagopal) had a relatively quiet first loop and was assured of doing one higher within the second, which Karna Kadur (Nikhil Pai) completed on high.
It was only some seconds that cut up the highest three going into the ultimate loop. It has by no means been this shut all these years and, it turned out to be probably the most thrilling stage with Ghosh popping out trumps.
“I feel all of us had points with the automotive. It’s a tough rally and the phases have been tight and demanding. Additionally, I had some points with the ability within the first two phases. Actually, we have been slower than even the INRC2 automobiles and misplaced a ton of time there,” mentioned Ghosh, who was happy to complete the day one as topper.
Nonetheless, the drivers are cautious of the Kethanur terrain on Sunday. With 70 automobiles working, they count on it to be scary.
“There are many bedrocks which have come out and it’s going to be powerful on the automobiles,” mentioned Ghosh, who needs to tread a cautious path.
– Rayan Rozario
THE RESULTS (PROVISIONAL)
INRC (General): 1: Amittrajit Ghosh & Ashwin Naik 54:24.100; 2. Aroor Arjun Rao (Satish Rajagopal) 54:43.300; 3. Philippos Matthai & P.V. Srinivas Murthy 54:51.900.
INRC2: 1. Philippos & Srinivas 54:51.900; 2.Dr. Bikku Babu & Milen George 55:34.600; 3. Fabid Ahmer & G. Sanath 55:35.000.
INRC3: 1. Jahaan Gill & Suraj Keshava 55:25.100; 2. Jason Saldanha & Thimmu Uddapanda 55:38.100; 3. Darious Shroff & Shahid Salman 56:06.600.
Gypsy class: 1. Samrat Yadav & Chandrasekar 57:22.600; 2. Darshan Nachappa & Abhinav Ganapathy 59:55.200; 3. Dr. Akarsh Sunder & Ravikumar Reddy 1:02:15.
INRC Ladies: 1. Pragati Gowda & Trisha Alonkar 57:26.200; 2. Anushriya Gulati & Sherwin Dalmeida 57:27.600; 3. Shivani Parmar & Arjun Dheerendra 57:58.700.
GOLF
Jeev makes reduce at Senior Open, as Atwal and Randhawa miss out
India’s Jeev Milkha Singh survived some robust winds that saved switching instructions to get better on the again 9 of the difficult Royal Porthcawl Golf Membership to make his first reduce on the Senior Open Championships.
Jeev, who missed the reduce final yr at Gleneagles, was fourth after the primary spherical, however slipped to T-48 after a spherical of 6-over 77.
Jeev gave away 4 bogeys and a double on the entrance 9 and was at risk of lacking reduce.
He recovered properly with two birdies on Par-3 fifteenth and the Par-5 18th, which he had birdied on the primary day additionally.
At 4-over he was right down to T-48, however with the chief Steven Alker (71-68) at 4-under, the leaderboard was tight and Jeev may make a transfer on the weekend.
“It was brutal on the market,. Although there was no rain, the wind made it actually powerful,” mentioned Jeev, who gained the 2012 Scottish Open in powerful circumstances a decade in the past.
Issues didn’t pan out properly for the opposite two Indians in fray, Arjun Atwal and Jyoti Randhawa, who have been making their Open debuts.
Atwal (78-76) and Jyoti, who got here by way of the qualifiers, shot rounds of 76-78. Each missed the reduce.
– PTI
RACKETLON
Vikram, Chaufla, Nandal to shoulder India’s problem at Racketlon World Championship
India has named a 16-member squad for the Racketlon World Championship starting in Rotterdam on August 2.
Adarsh Vikram will captain India within the ‘World Cup’, which is the premier class within the competitors.
Former badminton participant Vikramaditya Chaufla and Siddharth Nandal, who gained silver medals within the particular person class within the final version in Austria, are additionally a part of the World Cup squad. The Indian staff had gained gold within the Nations Cup on the World Championship final yr.
Racketlon is a mix sport wherein the opponents are required to play 4 racket sports activities: desk tennis, badminton, tennis and squash.
Prashant Sen, Adit Patel, Nikhil Mansukhani, Varun Motasha and Krishna B Kotak will likely be seen within the C class ‘Problem Cup’. Ok A Aadith and Ok A Aadirai kind the under-18 staff.
Ok Ok Cheema, who’s the president of Racketlon India Sports activities Affiliation, would be the staff supervisor.
– PTI
ATHLETICS
Soniya, Jisna take gold and silver in Sri Lankan Nationals
Soniya Baishya gained the ladies’s 400m, clocking 53.46s, within the Sri Lankan Nationwide athletics championships in Colombo on Saturday.
Jisna Mathew completed second in a season-best 53.75s whereas M.R. Poovamma, who was returning to competitors after greater than a yr after failing an in-competition dope take a look at in Patiala in February 2021, was seventh in 56.20s. She had clocked a greater 55.84 in Friday’s heats.
THE RESULTS (INDIAN PERFORMANCES ONLY)
Ladies, 400m: 1. Soniya Baishya (53.46s), 2. Jisna Mathew (53.75), 7. M.R. Poovamma (56.20).
– Stan Rayan
TENNIS
Ankita Raina in partnership with Yue Yuan of China was crushed 6-0, 6-7(6), [10-6} by Heather Watson and Yanina Wickmayer in the doubles semifinals of the $259,303 WTA tennis tournament in Warsaw, Poland.
The Indo-Chinese pair collected 110 WTA points and $4.020. In the $40,000 Challenger in Astana, Kazakhstan, SD Prajwal Dev and Niki Poonacha won the doubles title by beating the top seeds Toshihide Matsui and Kaito Uesugi 6-3, 7-6(4).
The champion team won 50 ATP points and $2,130.
The results:
$259,303 WTA, Warsaw, Poland: Doubles (semifinals): Heather Watson (GBR) & Yanina Wickmayer (Bel) bt Ankita Raina & Yue Yuan (Chn) 6-0, 6-7(6), [10-6].
$40,000 Challenger, Astana, Kazakhstan: Doubles (closing): SD Prajwal Dev & Niki Poonacha bt Toshihide Matsui & Kaito Uesugi (Jpn) 6-3, 7-6(4).
$25,000 ITF males, Brazzaville, Congo: Doubles (semifinals): Rishab Agarwal & Ishaque Eqbal bt Atharva Sharma & Tushar Sharma 6-2, 6-3.
$100,000 ITF ladies, Figueira Da Foz, Portugal: Doubles (semifinals): Eudice Chong (Hkg) & Arianne Hartono (Ned) bt Rutuja Bhosale & Emily Webley-Smith (GBR) 6-3, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Monastir, Tunisia: Singles (semifinals): Angella Okutoyi (Ken) bt Zeel Desai 6-1, 7-6(5).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
BADMINTON
Kerala State Senior Championships: Abhishek jolts high seed Ajay, joins defending champion Jacob in semifinals
That loss damage. S. Abhishek had misplaced an in depth under-19 closing in opposition to Aman Suresh on Friday evening and the Ernakulam teen was decided to make amends within the males’s singles on the Kerala State senior badminton championships right here on Saturday.
The unseeded Abhishek shocked the top-seeded Ajay Satish Kumar in a pre-quarterfinal thriller within the morning after which brushed apart his district-mate Sanjay S. Nair and moved to the boys’s semifinal on the CSN Belief courts.
In the meantime, defending champion Jacob Thomas overcame a second-game surge from Palakkad’s Athul John Mathew, a fantastic retriever, earlier than coming into the last-four stage.
After successful the opener, Jacob and Athul have been degree for a serious a part of the following recreation. The tall Jacob, from Pathanamthitta, gained a three-point lead and moved to 18-15 however he was pressured to sweat until the tip as Athul got here very shut at 19-20. And when Athul put a drop into the online, Jacob heaved a sigh of aid.
The ladies’s singles ran on the anticipated traces with the highest two seeds Andrea Sarah Kurien and Farza Nazrin, who had performed the under-19 closing on Friday, cruising into the semifinals
The outcomes (singles):
Males’s quarterfinals: S. Abhishek (Ekm) bt Sanjay Nair (Ekm) 21-14, 21-12; S. Akshit (Alp) bt S.D. Aadithyan (Tvm) 21-17, 21-16; Ok. Govind (Koz) bt Arjun Shine (Tvm) 21-18, 21-14; Jacob Thomas (Pta) bt Athul John Mathew (Pkd) 21-14, 21-19.
Pre-quarterfinals: S. Abhishek bt Ajay Satish Kumar Nair 21-19, 21-15.
Ladies’s quarterfinals: Andrea Sarah Kurien (Ekm) bt Aadhya Shine (Tsr) ; C.H. Keerthika (Knr) bt Nayana S. Oasis (Koz) 21-19, 21-8; Farza Nazrin (Tvm) bt S. Megha (Alp) 21-16, 21-14; Drisya Vijesh (Ekm) bt B.M. Neerja (Tvm) 21-16, 21-17.
Friday’s late matches:
Beneath-19 boys doubles closing: S. Akshit & Joseph Dilraj bt S. Athul Krishna and Joshual Antony 21-18, 21-16.
Beneath-19 women doubles closing: C.H. Keerthika & Nayana S. Oasis bt Meenakshi Vinu & Nanda Ghosh 16-21, 21-8, 21-11.
-Stan Rayan