The key developments from the world of sports activities on August 6 the place Indians took half are as follows:
GOLF
Legends Tour: Jeev Milkha finishes tied fifth at JCB Open
Jeev Milkha Singh adopted his excellent Prime-15 end on the Senior British Open with a fifth place end on the JCB Open on the Legends Tour for Seniors (Over 50) in Europe.
Jeev shot 69-72 because the occasion was lowered to 36 holes after the ultimate spherical was sadly cancelled, with heavy rain from Storm Antoni rendering the course unplayable regardless of the perfect efforts of the good greens workers. Jeev totalled 3-under 141.
Former Ryder Cup star, Peter Baker has gained his second Legends Tour occasion of the season by defeating a world class line-up of main winners.
Baker was the 36-hole chief and have become champion with out hitting one other shot after the ultimate spherical. Baker with rounds of 69-69 was the winner and Vijay Singh completed second with rounds of 71-68.
Steven Alker (71-69) and Ernie Els (69-71) had been tied for third at 4-under 140.
The Senior Open winner, Alex Cejka (7k1-71) was tied sixth with Niclas Fasth (73-69).
– PTI
Aditi nonetheless Sixty fifth as Diksha exits in Scottish Open
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok carded a second straight 74 to lie tied-Sixty fifth on the finish of the third spherical of the Ladies’s Scottish Open.
Aditi, who had 73-74 within the first two rounds, added a 74 with two birdies, two bogeys and a double bogey within the third spherical. Climate has been tough this week, but it surely was significantly better within the third spherical than earlier at Dundonald Hyperlinks.
One other Indian within the fray, Diksha Dagar missed out of weekend motion.
Aditi and Diksha may even play within the Ladies’s Open subsequent week at Walton Heath
– PTI
Veer Ahlawat finishes tied-Eleventh in Indonesia open
Veer Ahlawat missed out on a top-10 end as he bogeyed late within the closing spherical of the Indonesia Open 2023 on Sunday.
After being 4-under by 15 holes, he dropped a shot on the sixteenth and completed with pars on seventeenth and 18th for a spherical of 68.
Ahlawat completed tied-Eleventh as Rashid Khan performed an excellent spherical of 7-under 64 to complete tied-19 with a complete of 10-under.
Additionally, at 10-under was Viraj Madappa (70) whereas S. Chikkarangappa (70) was tied-Thirty third and Kartik Sharma (71) was tied-40.
– PTI
TENNIS
Prarthana Thombare wins ITF girls’s title
Prarthana Thombare in partnership with Anastasia Tikhonova beat Estelle Cascino and Diana Marcinkevica 3-6, 6-1, [10-7} in the doubles final of the $60,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament in Barcelona, Spain.
It was the 26th career doubles title in the professional circuit for the 29-year-old Prarthana.
In the €145,000 Challenger doubles final in Porto, Portugal, Rithvik Bollipalli and Arjun Kadhe were pipped 6-7(5), 6-3, [10-5] by the Japanese Toshihide Matsui and Kaito Uesugi.
The outcomes:
$60,000 ITF girls, Barcelona, Spain
Doubles (closing): Prarthana Thombare & Anastasia Tikhonova bt Estelle Cascino (Fra) & Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) 3-6, 6-1, [10-7]; Semifinals: Prarthana & Anastasia bt Nahia Berecorechea (Fra & Isabella Kruger (RSA) 6-1, 7-5; Quarterfinals: Prarthana & Anastasia bt Arianne Hartono (Ned) & Daniela Seguel (Chi) 6-2, 6-3; Pre-quarterfinals: Prarthana & Anastasia bt Anastasia Gureva & Ksenia Zaytseva 6-4, 2-6, [10-8].
€145,000 Challenger, Porto, Portugal Doubles (closing): Toshihide Matsui & Kaito Uesugi (Jpn) bt Rithvik Bollipalli & Arjun Kadhe 6-7(5), 6-3, [10-5].
– Kamesh Srinivasan
Athletics
World College Video games: Javelin throwers, relay groups disappoint
Javelin thrower Vikrant Malik was 11 metres behind his private greatest (final 12 months’s 81.82m) as he completed eighth with 80.81m on the World College Video games athletics in Chengdu on Sunday.
Anuj Kalera, the opposite Indian within the fray, was additionally greater than 12m behind his private greatest whereas ending 11 th.
The relays marked the conclusion of athletics occasions on the Universiade on Sunday however there have been loads of disappointment there too. India couldn’t end the ladies’s 4x100m relay after a botched handover which noticed the third-leg runner lose her stability and fall within the closing. And the Indian 4x400m relay girls had been disqualified within the closing for lane infringement.
The lads had tousled their relays in comparable trend in Saturday’s heats. The 4x100m males had a DNF (didn’t end) whereas the mile relay staff was disqualified for beginning outdoors the takeover zone.
In the meantime, the Indian girls completed fifth within the half marathon’s staff occasion however within the particular person occasion, the nation’s greatest finisher was Reshma Kevate who took the 19 th spot.
The outcomes (gold medallists and Indian performances in finals):
Males: 800m: 1. Michal Wyderka (Pol) 1:49.09s. 5000m: 1. Henri Bedard (Fra) 14:14.10s. 4x100m relay: 1. China (38.80s). 4x400m relay: 1. Turkey (3:03.46s). Lengthy leap: 1. Jingqiang Zhang (Chn) 7.93m. Javelin throw: 1. Edis Matuse (Lit) 80.37m; 8. Vikrant Malik (Ind) 70.81, 11. Anuj Kalera (Ind) 66.87.
Half marathon: 1. Sezgin Atac (Tur) 1:04.36s; 14. Arun Rathod (Ind) 1:06.56. Half marathon, staff: 1. Turkey (3:14.31s).
Ladies: 1500m: 1. Laura Pellicoro (Ita) 4:15.82s. 4x100m relay: 1. China (43.70s), India (DNF). 4x400m relay: 1. Poland (3:32.81s); India (DQ, lane infringement).
Excessive leap: 1. Amoanimaa Rose Yeboah (Gha) 1.94m.
Half marathon: 1. Hikaru Kitagawa (Jpn) 1:13.17s; 19. Reshma Kevate (Ind) 1:18.50s, 22. Bharatjee Nirmaben (1:20.52), 26. Rani Muchandi (Ind) 1:2320, 27. Poonam Sonune (Ind) 1:24.23. Half marathon, staff: 1. Turkey (3:43.14s); 5. India (4:03.02).
Annu Rani seventh in German meet
Nationwide girls’s record-holder Annu Rani completed seventh within the Hylo javelin throw assembly in Offenburg, Germany, on Sunday.
Annu, who was seventh and eighth within the final two World Championships and who has a private better of 63.82m, may handle solely a better of 54.76m on Sunday.
Japan’s Haruka Kitaguchi, a bronze medallist on the final Worlds, took the title with 61.88m.
STAN RAYAN