TENNIS
Havisha to face Manshi in U-16 women remaining
Havisha Chaudhary beat high seed Vennela Reddy 6-3, 6-3 within the under-16 women semifinals of the AITA Nationwide sequence junior tennis event on the Joygaon Academy on Friday.
Within the remaining, Havisha will face Manshi Singh. The boys remaining will likely be between Vishvajeet Sanas and Aaditya Sansanval.
THE RESULTS
Beneath-16 boys (semifinals)
Vishvajeet Sanas bt Prateek Sheoran 6-4, 2-6, 6-3; Aaditya Sansanval bt Uttam Karthik 7-6(3), 6-3.
Doubles (remaining)
Anuj Tashildar & Paramveer Singh bt Aditya Acharya & Kanishk Kathuria 6-4, 7-6(1).
Beneath-16 women (semifinals)
Havisha Chaudhary bt Venela Reddy 6-3, 6-3; Manshi Singh bt Anandita Upadhyay 6-2 (conceded).
Doubles (remaining)
Ridhima Singh & Avika Yadav bt Hirva Rangnani & Rishita Bokka 6-4, 7-6(5).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
GOLF
Lahiri finest amongst Indians at Newcastle
Contemporary from his second-place end on the Liv Collection occasion in Bedminster, ace Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri carded a hat-trick of birdies on the back-nine to be positioned tied sixteenth, the perfect amongst his compatriots, on the Worldwide Collection England at Shut Home close to Newcastle on Friday.
Lahiri was at one-under 70 that included a hat-trick of birdies from 14th to the sixteenth, as Thailand’s Sarit Suwannarut fired a gap spherical of five-under-par 66 to take the lead in situations that had been chilly and wintry.
There are as many as 15 Indians within the area and the subsequent finest Indian after Lahiri, was Ajeetesh Sandhu (71) at T-40.
The remainder of the Indian contingent had a troublesome time with Rashid Khan (73) mendacity at T-71, veterans Jeev Milkha Singh and Jyoti Randhawa capturing 74, as did Khalin Joshi to be positioned T-86th and in peril of lacking the minimize.
Additional down had been SSP Chawrasia and Shiv Kapur with 75 every and had been T-103rd, S Chikkarangappa, Gaganjeet Bhullar and Kartik Sharma carded 76 every to be T-114 and Rahil Gangjee and Karandeep Kochhar scored 77 every to be T-128th.
Honey Baisoya (78) was T-138, as was Veer Ahlawat and Viraj Madappa (79) at T-148th spot.
Lahiri’s card had 5 birdies in opposition to an early double on second and two different bogeys.
Thailand’s Sarit fired six birdies and one bogey in chilly situations on the Colt Course to complete the day in entrance of American Jason Kokrak and Jaewoong Eom from Korea, who carded 67s every.
– PTI
Strong begin for Manu Gandas and Diksha Dagar in World Invitational
Indian golfer Diksha Dagar within the girls’s part and Manu Gandas within the males’s class had been off to wonderful begins within the first spherical of the ISPS HANDA World Invitational Introduced by AVIV Clinics.
The left-handed Diksha shot 1-under 71 to be tied-Thirteenth on a crowded leaderboard, whereas Gandas carded an excellent 5-under 67 and was tied second with three others.
The occasion is tri-sanctioned by the DP World Tour (DPWT), Women European Tour (LET) and LPGA Tour, with the lads’s and girls’s tournaments being performed on the identical course on the identical time and having equal prize funds of $1.5m.
Dan Brown took benefit of beneficial climate situations to put up a gap seven-under-par spherical of 64 at Castlerock Golf Membership to steer the sector.
Within the girls’s part, 4 gamers — Switzerland’s Kim Metraux, England’s Gabriella Cowley, Sweden’s Ellinor Sudow and Australia’s Karis Davidson — fired rounds of 69 (-4) to be out within the entrance.
– PTI
CHESS
Praggnanandhaa to characteristic in Tata Stell Chess India occasion
FIDE World Cup semifinalist R. Praggnanandhaa will likely be one of many main Indian names within the fifth version of Tata Metal Chess India (TSCI) occasion to be held on the Nationwide Library right here from August 31 to September 9.
Moreover, Gukesh D, Vidit Gujrathi and Arjun Erigaisi, the opposite Indians who made it to the quarterfinals of the FIDE World Cup in Baku lately, may also be seen in motion.
Present girls’s world champion Ju Wenjun will make her debut within the occasion.
Each open and girls’s classes could have equal prize cash ($41,500). Competitions will likely be held in speedy and blitz format.
PARTICIPANTS
Open: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France, World blitz champion 2021), Alexander Grischuk (Russia), Teymour Radjabov (Azerbaijan, FIDE World Cup Winner 2019), Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan, World speedy champion 2021), Vincent Keymer (Germany, runner-up in World speedy championship), Vidit Gujrathi, Arjun Erigaisi, Gukesh D, R. Praggnanandhaa and Pentala Harikrishna
Girls: Ju Wenjun (China, World girls’s champion),  Tingjie Lei (China, runner-up in World championships), Nino Batsiashvili (Georgia), Anna Ushenina (Ukraine, winner of TSCI speedy 2022),  Irina Krush (USA), Koneru Humpy, Harika Dronavalli, R. Vaishali, Savitha Shri, Vantika Agarwal.
-Y.B. Sarangi
ARCHERY
Disappointing day for India at Archery World Cup in Paris
India’s recurve and compound archers exited earlier than reaching the medal rounds within the Archery World Cup Stage-4 in Paris on Friday.
In the meantime, 4 compound archers, World champion Aditi Swami, V. Jyothi Surekha, Prathamesh Jawkar and Abhishek Verma certified for the World Cup Finals to be held in Hermosillo, Mexico, on September 9 and 10.
RESULTS
Recurve: Particular person: Males: B. Dhiraj bt Imadeddine Bakri (Alg) 6-2, bt Alex Smart (Gbr) 7-1, bt Romain Fichet (Fra) 6-5 (10-9), misplaced to Baptiste Addis (Fra) 4-6 in pre-QF; Atanu Das bt Elian Van Steen (Bel) 6-0, bt Konrad Kupczak (Pol) 6-2, misplaced to Jean-Charles Valladont (Fra) 1-7; Tushar Shelke misplaced to Peter Boukouvalas (Aus) 2-6; Mrinal Chauhan misplaced to Florian Faber (Sui) 3-7; Girls: Bhajan Kaur obtained a bye, bt Fatma Marasli (Tur) 6-2, misplaced to Tomomi Sugimoto (Jpn) 2-6; Simranjeet Kaur bt Robin Selley 6-2, misplaced to Fleur van de Ven (Ned) 2-6; Ankita Bhakat bt Beatrice Miklos (Rou) 6-0, bt Gaby Schloesser (Ned) 6-5 (shoot-off: 10-9), misplaced to Misun Choi (Kor) 5-6 (shoot-off: 9-9*, Choi shot nearer to centre); Prachi Singh misplaced to Aida Roman (Mex) 4-6; Combined crew: India (Bhajan Kaur, B. Dhiraj) obtained a bye, bt Japan 5-3, misplaced to Mexico 1-5 in QF.
Compound: Combined crew: India (V.Jyothi Surekha, Ojas Deotale) obtained a bye, bt El Salvador 158-156, misplaced to Netherlands 158-158 (20-20*) in QF.
-Y.B. Sarangi
SQUASH
Sanchit Vaid by to semifinals of under-17 Delhi State squash championship
Sanchit Vaid fought his well beyond Suhaan Jauhar 11-6, 6-11, 12-10 within the under-17 boys quarterfinals of the Delhi State squash championship on the Delhi Gymkhana Membership courts on Friday.]
Within the males’s pre-quarterfinals, Dharmender Wenwal pipped Prateek Challia 11-5, 7-11, 11-8.
RESULTS
Males (pre-quarterfinals): Ashray Oohri bt Vidur Parashar 11-4, 11-7; Arjun Minocha bt Ashish Puri 11-9, 12-10; Karata Dasmahipatra bt Prabhot Chandhok 11-0, 11-2; Harshit Jain bt Rahul Batra 11-8, 12-10; Dharmender Wenwal bt Prateek Challia 11-5 7-11, 11-8; Mohd. Qurban bt Gitesh Talwar 11-0, 11-1; Aryan Bajaj bt Udit Pat Singhania 14-12, 15-13; Junaid Muzaffar Thoker bt Arihant Jain 11-8, 11-3.
Beneath-17 boys (quarterfinals): Ishkaran Singh bt Harish Khan 11-3, 11-4; Sanchit Vaid bt Suhaan Jauhar 11-6, 6-11, 12-10; Shaurya Gautam bt vansh Khurana 11-2, 11-3; Sahir Sethi bt Kabir Sahni 11-7, 11-6.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
HOCKEY
Hockey India names 40 gamers for ladies’s nationwide sub-junior teaching camp
Hockey India on Friday introduced a 40-member girls’s Sub-Junior group a nationwide teaching camp. The camp will begin on twenty first August 2023 on the Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium in Rourkela.Â
The gamers have been picked on the premise of their current performances within the Hockey India Sub-Junior Nationwide Championships. The camp will likely be adopted by worldwide matches in Europe.Â
India worldwide Rani Rampal will herald the younger group of gamers.
-Workforce Sportstar