TENNIS
Shrivalli in pre-quarterfinals
Shrivalli Bhamidipaty beat qualifier Jessie Culley 6-3, 6-3 within the first spherical of the $25,000 ITF girls’s tennis event in Perth,
Australia, on Tuesday.
The outcomes
$15,000 ITF males, Monastir, Tunisia Singles (first spherical): Dev Javia bt Maksim Tikhomirov (USA) 6-4, 6-4.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Aurel Ciocanu (Can) & Jean-Christian Morandais (Glp) bt Shivank Bhatnagar & Sarthak Suden 6-2, 6-0.
$60,000 ITF girls, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal Singles (first spherical): Fiona Ferro (Fra) bt Riya Bhatia 6-1, 6-2.
$25,000 ITF girls, Slobozia, Romania Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Weronika Forys (Pol) & Valeriia
Olianovskaia bt Alexandra Azarko & Saumya Vig 6-4, 4-6, [10-7].
$25,000 ITF girls, Perth, Australia Singles (first spherical): Shrivalli Bhamidipaty bt Jessie Culley (Aus) 6-3, 6-3.
Doubles (pre-quarterfnals): Sowjanya Bavisetti & Sravya Shivani bt Amy Findlay & Riana Tan (Aus) 6-1, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF girls, Monastir, Tunisia Singles (first spherical): Smriti Bhasin bt Elena Jamshidi (Den) 6-4, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF girls, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Ashmitha Easwaramurthi & Anna Sedysheva
bt Elizaveta Krokhina & Nathalie Mokhtar (Egy) 6-2, 6-0.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
GOLF
Diksha fantastically positioned on Women European Tour’s Order of Benefit race
Indian golfer Diksha Dagar is fantastically positioned to goal for the highest spot on the Women European Tour’s Order of Benefit race — additionally referred to as Race to Costa Del So — following her chic run thus far this season.
Diksha continued her sizzling run this summer time on the LET, signing off from the VP Financial institution Swiss Women Open at tied-Seventh on Sunday.
She fired a 4-under par 68 within the third and ultimate spherical for a complete of 10-under for her seventh top-10 end of the season, which additionally features a title.
It additionally closed the hole between her and the highest two on the Race to Costa Del Sol.
The 22-year-old Indian, who received the second title of her profession on the LET Tour, is now third, however solely a handful factors behind second positioned Ana Pelaez Trivino of Spain.
Celine Boutier of France leads the race, and for Diksha to overhaul her, the Indian will want a couple of extra good ends in the remaining 5 occasions, together with the house occasion, the Hero Ladies’s Indian Open.
“I’m very assured, and I’m taking part in properly,” mentioned Diksha, who will take a break because the LET Tour is targeted on the Solheim Cup this week.
In 22 begins this season, Diksha has received one and been within the top-10 six occasions. But, her excellent efficiency of the season has additionally been the tied-Twenty first on the AIG Ladies’s Open, the place her outcome was one of the best achieved by an Indian girl at a Ladies’s Main.
The unlucky half for Diksha has been that she missed out on a spot on the Indian workforce for the Asian Video games. She didn’t make it to the top-two within the trials held some months again, after which her efficiency has been very good.
Diksha is targeted on the LET Order of Benefit, a attainable entry into the LPGA by way of the ultimate stage of Q-Faculty because the LPGA and LET determined to push again by a yr their plan to present the top-4 on LET a full card to the LPGA.
Diksha’s focus can also be on the 2024 Paris Olympics, for which she appears to be a certainty alongside Aditi Ashok. Diksha can be making her second Olympic look whereas Aditi will play her third.
– PTI
Tvesa shoots bogey free 65 to take 6-shot lead in thirteenth leg of Hero WPGT
Tvesa Malik shot an excellent seven-under 65 to take a whopping six-shot lead after the opening day of the thirteenth leg of the Hero Ladies’s Professional Golf Tour on Tuesday.
Taking part in on the DLF Golf and Nation Membership, which is able to host the Hero Ladies’s Indian Open subsequent month, Tvesa had seven birdies and no bogeys as she closed with a string of 4 birdies within the final 4 holes.
Final week’s winner Neha Tripathi put collectively a good one-under 71 and Ananya Datar recovered from an early triple bogey on par-4 second gap for the same 71. But they have been six photographs behind Tvesa, who was in full move.
“It’s a aid to get a spherical of golf like that. Does nice for the arrogance, particularly forward of the Hero Ladies’s Indian Open, out flagship occasion,” Tvesa mentioned.
Jasmine Shekar (72) is sole fourth, whereas Agrima Manral and Anisha Agarwalla are tied fifth at one-over 73 every.
Tvesa, who has managed just a few begins on the Women European Tour this yr, is utilizing the Hero Ladies’s Professional Golf Tour to play herself again into kind. To that extent she has succeeded.
She received the eleventh leg, and completed runner-up within the twelfth leg. She was earlier runner-up within the sixth leg.
Neha, one of many senior and seasoned gamers, has additionally been taking part in properly on the home Tour. She received the tenth and twelfth legs, and is now second on the Order of Benefit.
One of many disappointments of the opening day was Asian Video games-bound Pranavi Urs, who had two double bogeys in her spherical. They got here on the Par-5 fourth and the Par-4 eighth. She had two different bogeys and two birdies, one in every of them on the 18th.
Tvesa, Neha and Ananya exit within the ultimate group on the second day.
Kriti Chowhan (74), Khushi Khanijau (75) and Pranavi (76) are positioned seventh to ninth. Three gamers Asmitha Sathish, Durga Nittur and Sneha Singh are tied for tenth with playing cards of 77 every.
– PTI
WRESTLING
World Championships: Indian girls crash out
4 Indian girls wrestlers crashed out of the medal race within the World wrestling championships in Belgrade, Serbia, on Tuesday.
Neelam (50kg) defeated Kazakh Maral Tangirbergenova 10-0 and Ukrainian Oksana Livach 6-4 earlier than dropping to Chinese language Ziqi Feng ‘by fall.’
A 2021 Worlds bronze medallist in 59kg, Sarita Mor (57kg) bought previous Venezuelan Betzabeth Colmenarez 6-1 however was overwhelmed by veteran Nigerian Odunayo Adekuoroye 6-4.
World under-20 silver medallist Antim Kundu (65kg) beat Croatian Iva Geric 6-0 however was pinned by Chinese language Lilli Lilli.
Asian medallist Divya Kakran (76kg) recorded a 7-5 win over Turkey’s Mehtap Gultekin earlier than being edged out by Canadian Justina di Stasio 4-4 on standards.
– Y. B. Sarangi