Listed below are all the most important updates and outcomes from Indian sports activities on November 8.
TENNIS
Manas and Rushil win in Rod Laver Junior Problem Finals
Manas Dhamne and Rushil Khosla received their singles and doubles matches to pave a powerful basis for India’s 4-2 victory over Britain within the first league match of the IC Rod Laver Junior Problem Finals on the La Jolla Seashore and Tennis Membership in San Diego, California.
Asmi Adkar bought crushed by Brooke Black within the singles, however Sohini Mohanty received her singles match in opposition to Maria Ustic to safe the fourth win for India. That sealed the competition earlier than the ladies doubles.
In different matches within the round-robin format, South Africa beat Argentina and Italy beat host USA. India was scheduled to play USA within the second league match. The topper of the league would be the champion.
The outcomes (league):
India bt Britain 4-2 (Manas Dhamne bt Joseph Mazingham 6-4, 6-0; Rushil Khosla bt Arthur Attrill 6-2, 6-1; Asmi Adkar misplaced to Brooke Black 2-6, 2-6; Sohini Mohanty bt Maria Ustic 6-4, 3-6, [10-7]; Rushil & Manas bt Joseph & Arthur 6-2, 6-3; Asmi & Sohini misplaced to Brooke & Maria 4-6, 4-6).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Anirudh reaches doubles quarterfinals of ATP 250 Metz
Anirudh Chandrasekar in partnership with Bart Stevens beat Theo Arribage and Lluca Sanchez 6-3, 6-4 within the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the €630,705 ATP tennis event in Metz, France.
Within the quarterfinals, the Indo-Dutch pair will play fourth seeds Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul.
Within the Challenger in Japan, Ramkumar Ramanathan and Purav Raja beat the highest seeds Ivan Sabanov and Matej Sabanov 6-4, 6-7(2), [11-9] within the doubles pre-quarterfinals.
Sumit Nagal made the singles quarterfinals of the Challenger in Helsinki, Finland.
RESULTS
€630,705 ATP, Metz, France
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Anirudh Chandrasekar & Bart Stevens (Ned) bt Theo Arribage & Luca Sanchez (Fra) 6-3, 6-4; Constantin Frantzen & Hendrik Jebens (Ger) bt Yuki Bhambri & Victor Cornea (Rou) 6-3, 7-6(4).
€145,000 Challenger, Helsinki, Finland
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Sumit Nagal bt Jakub Mensik (Cze), 7-5, 6-2.
$80,000 Challenger, Matsuyama, Japan
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Purav Raja & Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Ivan Sabanov & Matej Sabanov (Srb) 6-4, 6-7(2), [11-9]; Shintaro Mochizuki & Sho Shimabukuro (Jpn) bt Niki Poonacha & Divij Sharan 7-6(5), 6-1.
$15,000 ITF males, Hua Hin, Thailand
Singles (first spherical): Zhang Tianhui (Chn) bt Rohan Mehra 7-5, 6-4.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): David Pichler (Aut) & Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Jiayang Dong (Auss) & Mattias Southcombe (GBR) 6-2, 4-6, [10-3].
$15,000 ITF ladies, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
Singles (first spherical): Alisa Kummel bt Humera Baharmus 6-3, 6-1; Darja Suvirdjonkova (Srb) bt Ashmitha Easwaramurthi 6-4, 6-1.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Yasmin Ezzat (Egy) & Vlada Mincheva bt Ashmitha Easwaramurthi & Fan An Lin (Tpe) 2-6, 6-4, [10-5]; Humera Baharmus & Elizabeth Danailova (Bul) bt Annelin Bakker & Sarah van Ernst (Ned) 1-6, 6-4, [10-8].
-Workforce Sportstar
Parth Aggarwal storms into finals of AITA Males’s event
Fourth seed Parth Aggarwal beat Sarthak Suden 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 within the quarterfinals of the Rs. 2,50,000 AITA males’s tennis event on the CLTA Advanced on Wednesday.
The highest three seeds Neeraj Yashpaul, Udit Kamboj and Jagmeet Singh additionally made the semifinals.
The outcomes:
Singles (quarterfinals): Neeraj Yashpaul bt Tushar Mittal 6-0, 6-3; Parth Aggarwal bt Sarthak Suden 6-2, 2-6, 6-2; Jagmeet Singh bt Ajay Kundu 6-2, 3-6, 6-2; Udit Kamboj bt Shubh Negi 6-1, 6-2.
Doubles (semifinals): Udit Kamboj & Jagmeet Singh bt Eklavya Singh & Neeraj Yashpaul 4-6, 6-1, [10-6]; Siddharth Basaiti & Ajay Kundu bt Amandeep Singh Bahai & Ricky Chaudhary 6-3, 6-7(4), [12-10].
-Kamesh Srinivasan
GOLF
Bogey-free Urs leads by two at pre-qualifier Asia
Golfer Pranavi Urs opened her marketing campaign to earn a Girls European Tour (LET) card with a bogey-free four-under 68 that gave her a two-shot lead after the primary spherical of the three-round Pre-Qualifier – Asia, in Gurugram.
Tvesa Malik, who’s seeking to regain her standing on the LET, and Durga Nittur, who’s making an attempt to get on Tour for the primary time, carded matching rounds of two-under 70 every. Just one different participant, Neha Tripathi (71) was underneath par.
Nittur had a fantastic end with 4 birdies within the final 5 holes, with the positive aspects approaching the 14th and fifteenth and once more on seventeenth and the 18th.
Event favorite beginner Avani Prashanth was one of many 5 gamers to shoot even par 72. The others had been Ananya Datar, Ridhima Dilawari, who opened the day’s proceedings and performed alone with a marker, Seher Atwal and Singapore’s Sock Hwee Koh, who had additionally performed on the Hero Girls’s Indian Open.
A complete of 29 gamers are within the fray within the 54-hole affair, from which the top-8 and ties will progress to LET Q-Faculty Last Stage.
Urs, who dominated the home Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour in 2022, divided her time in 2023 between the Epson Tour within the US and LET in Europe. Now she is taking a look at stepping into the LET.
Nittur was two-over after seven holes however fought very properly on the again 9. She birdied the tenth however once more dropped a shot on thirteenth to go two-over once more. Then she birdied 4 occasions within the final 4 holes for a tremendous two-under spherical.
Prashanth was disillusioned along with her begin. The 16-year-old was not pleased along with her play on the greens. She had 4 birdies in opposition to 4 bogeys, with two every of birdies and bogeys on both aspect of the course.
Whereas that is the primary pre-qualifier, a second one is scheduled to be held on the Golf Membership Rotana and Samanah Golf by Nicklaus and Noria Golf Membership from December 10-12.
The gruelling five-round 90-hole Qualifying Faculty Last Stage will probably be held on the Al Maadan Golf Marrakech & Royal Membership de Marrakech from December 16-20.
– PTI
CRICKET
Tripunithura CC pays tribute to Jayaraman
Former Kerala captain Okay. Jayaraman.
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THE HINDU ARCHIVES
Former Kerala captain Okay. Jayaraman.
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THE HINDU ARCHIVES
Tripunithura Cricket Membership, the membership the place Okay. Jayaraman performed his first aggressive match, fittingly paid a memorable tribute to the previous Kerala captain and one of many State’s most interesting cricketers who handed away not too long ago at age 67, on Wednesday night in Kochi.
Fellow cricketers, pals, cricket officers and relations fondly remembered Jayaram. Although he performed primarily for Swantons CC in Kochi, Jayaram was a daily on the Tripunithura Cricket Membership which hosts the Pooja all-India cricket event – one of many world’s oldest 50-over tournaments – at its famed Palace Oval in Tripunithura. By the way, the Pooja event’s 73rd version begins on Thursday.
Jayaram, as he was fondly referred to as, had a protracted checklist of pals from all walks of life and nearly all people remembered him as a really pleasant and humble individual.
Former Kerala stars J.Okay. Mahendra, P. Balachandran, former Kerala Cricket Affiliation secretary S. Haridas and Dr. P. Ramakrishnan had been amongst those that spoke on the occasion.
– Stan Rayan
FOOTBALL
Companies lifts Nationwide Video games title
Companies, the lads’s soccer champion on the Nationwide Video games.
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Companies, the lads’s soccer champion on the Nationwide Video games.
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Companies defeated Manipur 3-1 and received the lads’s soccer title within the thirty seventh Nationwide Video games in Fatorda on Wednesday.
Christopher Kamei, Soibam Abhinash Singh (personal aim) and Rahul Ramakrishnan scored for Companies whereas Phijam Sanathoi Meetei netted Manipur’s comfort aim.
Odisha defeated Manipur 5-3, by way of the tiebreaker, and received the ladies’s title on Sunday. The groups had been tied 1-1 on the finish of the regulation interval.
– Stan Rayan