Indian sports activities information wrap, November 26

TENNIS

Rashmikaa grabs maiden ITF title at Bowring Institute ITF Ladies’s World Tennis Tour

Shrivalli Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty graduated from being a Nationwide champion to a world champion when she annexed her maiden ITF title with the Bowring Institute ITF Ladies’s World Tennis Tour honours defeating Zeel Desai. In a pulsating last attended by a full home crowd on the Bowring Institute courts right here on Sunday, Rashmikaa dropped a set earlier than rising a 6-0, 4-6, 6-3 winner.

Rashmikaa took residence the winner’s cheque of US $ 3935 however extra importantly pocketed 50 WTA factors which might assist her surge within the WTA rankings. Zeel gained US $ 2107 and 30 WTA factors for her bridesmaid end.

“It’s nonetheless not sunk in. In all probability it can by the night,” mentioned the champion. “I knew Zeel is an efficient participant and I used to be ready for a 3-setter. However after having misplaced the second set, I assumed I already had a trophy however by giving all of it, I might win the trophy and that’s what I did,” mentioned Rashmikaa.

-Staff Sportstar

ITF junior tennis match: Kriish Tyagi and Malika Amirgalieva seeded primary

Kriish Tyagi and Malika Amirgalieva of Kazakhstan have been seeded No.1 within the girls and boys sections respectively within the ITF junior tennis match being performed on the DLTA Advanced.

The champion of the final match in Guwahati, Rethin Pranav finds himself seeded No.5.

With some high quality gamers from overseas, it must be a vigorous competitors this week, particularly within the women part wherein solely three Indian gamers, Sohini Mohanty, Aishwarya Jadhav and Rishitha Basireddy, have been seeded.

The seedings:

Boys: 1. Kriish Tyagi, 2. Kazuma Kimura (Jpn), 3. Cahir Warik, 4. Debasis Sahoo, 4. Rethin Pranav, 6. Juan Kim (Kor), 7. Aleksandar Daskalovic (Srb), 8. Aarjun Pandit.

Women: 1. Malika Amirgalieva (Kaz), 2. Yasmin Vavrova (Svk), 3. Sohini
Mohanty, 4. Leila Akhmetova, 5. Ariana Gogulina (Kaz), 6. Eva Khrustaleva, 7. Aishwarya Jadhav, 8. Rishitha Basireddy.

The outcomes: Qualifying singles (third and last spherical):

Boys: Kazuma Kimura (Jpn) bt Siddhant Sharma 6-0, 6-2; Vishal Prakash bt Aryan Karnani 6-4, 6-3; Bushan Haobam bt Parag Jain 6-2, 6-0; Shanker Heisnam bt Navya Verma 6-4, 7-5.

Women: Suhani Gaur bt HarithashreeVenkatesh 6-3, 6-4; Kkaira Chetnani bt Apara Khandare 6-2, 6-2; Aakruti Sonkusare bt Aarushi Raval 6-4, 6-7(4), 6-4; Avani Chitale bt Shruti Nanajkar 6-3, 6-4.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

ITF males’s tennis match: Ramkumar Ramanathan beat nationwide champion Siddharth Vishwakarma

Davis Cupper Ramkumar Ramanathan beat nationwide champion Siddharth Vishwakarma 6-0, 6-4 within the last of the $25,000 ITF males’s tennis match on the GA Ranade Centre on Sunday.

It was the second singles title this season for the 29-year-old Ramkumar after the one in Dharwad. He had additionally gained the doubles title earlier with Purav Raja.

It was the nineteenth profession singles title for Ramkumar who was ranked a career-best 111 in 2018.

The tame defeat within the last aside, it was a wonderful run for the wiry left-hander, Siddharth Vishwakarma who whips his serve and strokes with appreciable aptitude and ferocity.

The outcomes (last): Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Siddharth Vishwakarma 6-0, 6-4.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

Yubrani sails by first spherical in Ahmedabad

Yubrani Banerjee beat Kavya Khirwar 6-4, 6-3 within the first qualifying spherical of the $15,000 ITF ladies’s tennis match on the Ahmedabad Metropolis Tennis Basis courts on Sunday.

Vaidehi Chaudhari would be the prime seed in the primary draw. The champion of the $25,000 occasion in Bengaluru, Shrivalli Bhamidipaty, would be the fourth seed behind Diletta Cherubini and Ekaterina Yashina.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

MOTOR SPORTS

JK Tyre Motorsport drivers excel on the Asia Pacific Rally Championship in Indonesia

The weekend turned out to be a rewarding one for JK Tyre Motorsport drivers supported by Vamcy Merla Sports activities Basis who had been taking part on the last spherical of Asia Pacific Rally Championship (APRC) 2023 in Indonesia on the Danau Toba Rally.

The 21-year-old Jahaan Singh Gill from Chandigarh underlined his supremacy to clinch the celebrated FIA Junior Asia Pacific Rally Championship title 2023 in his maiden outing.

In a complete grid comprising 63 aggressive drivers throughout classes, whereas Jahaan lead the junior class, the opposite JK Tyre Motorsports drivers had been additionally at their dominating finest with Suhem Kabeer and Lokesh Gowdawinning within the NVA class.

“I’m actually proud of this achievement and want to assist to thank JK Tyre Motorsport and Vamcy Merla Basis for his or her assist. It was very tough terrain and driving for the primary time was not a straightforward job. The phases had been already very tough and the rains made it worse. We knew the hazards of driving on this floor however we held our act collectively and managed to finish on the rostrum,” Jahaan mentioned.

Driving for the primary time in a world rally, the Mysuru lad Suhem Kabeer alongside together with his navigator PVS Murthy was at his imperious finest and posted some spectacular timings to win the NVA class and obtain the fourth place total. Within the M2 class of Indonesia Nationwide Rally Championship, Suhem completed a formidable second.

The celebration simply didn’t finish with the drivers ruling the rostrum as crew JK Tyre Motorsport was awarded one of the best crew efficiency award.

GOLF

Shubhankar Sharma slips in Johannesburg

Indian {golfing} ace Shubhankar Sharma’s modest kind continued as he added a fair par 70 within the third spherical and was tied forty eighth on the Joburg Open on Sunday.

Shubhankar, with 4 birdies and 4 bogeys, had a horrible run of three bogeys in a row, which ruined his card.

At even par for 3 days, he was manner behind as residence star Thriston Lawrence took a three-shot lead.

The house favorite carded a 67 to get to fifteen underneath and paved the way from countryman Dean Burmester, with Jacques Kruyswijk and Nikhil Rama at 11 underneath, one away from Zander Lombard because the South Africans locked out the highest six.

Lawrence turned the primary winner of the DP World Tour period when he gained this occasion two years in the past, and he has gone on so as to add three extra titles and declare the 2022 Sir Henry Cotton Rookie of the Yr Award.

-PTI

SHOOTING

Capturing Nationals 2023: Sift Kaur Samra wins ladies’s 50-metre rifle inclined gold

Sift Kaur Samra shot 627.3 to clinch the ladies’s 50-metre rifle inclined gold within the 66th Nationwide taking pictures championship on the Dr. Karni Singh Vary, Tughlakabad.

Nischal gained the junior gold.

Within the 50-metre free pistol occasion, staged on the Madhya Pradesh Academy in Bhopal, Simranpreet Kaur Brar gained the ladies’s and junior gold medals with a rating of 551.

The outcomes:

25m sports activities pistol: Junior males: 1. Shiva Narwal 590; 2. Mayank Choudhary 583; 3. Abhinav Choudhary 582.

50m free pistol: Ladies: 1. Simranpreet Kaur Brar 551; 2. TS Divya 541; 3. Sainyam 540.

Junior ladies: 1. Simranpreet Kaur Brar 551; 2. Sainyam 540; 3. Nancy Solanki 537.

50m rifle inclined: Ladies: 1. Sift Kaur Samra 627.3; 2. Shriyanka Sadangi 624.7; 3. Manini Kaushik 624.4.

Junior ladies: 1. Nischal 620.4; 2. Nupur Kumrawat 618.8; 3. Heena Goheii 618.0.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

POLO

Cavalry Gold Cup: Vimal Arion Achievers beat Jindal Panther

Abhimanyu Pathak slotted 4 objectives as Vimal Arion Achievers beat Jindal Panther 6-2 within the last of the Habanos Cavalry Gold Cup polo match on the Jaipur Polo floor right here on Sunday.

Mare Rufino was adjudged the ‘finest polo pony’ of the match.

The outcomes (last): Vimal Arion Achievers 6 (Abhimanyu Pathak 4, Hurr Ali, Daniel Otamendi) bt Jindal Panther 2 (Siddhant Sharma 2).

-Kamesh Srinivasan

KHELO INDIA PARA GAMES

Khelo India Para Video games: Ujjwala, the sparrow, named as mascot

The Union Sports activities Minister Anurag Singh Thakur unveiled mascot for the Khelo India Para Video games, Ujjwala, the sparrow, within the Capital on Sunday.

The sparrow is an emblem and delight of Delhi. Its uniqueness portrays willpower and empathy. Because the mascot, Ujjwala, reminds that power is available in many types and human spirit is unbreakable.

The launch was attended by many distinguished sportspersons, Pramod Bhagat, Bhavina Patel, Avani Lekhara, Sumit Antil, Rani Rampal, Yogeshwar Dutt, Sarita Mor and Akhil Kumar amongst others.

The Sports activities Minister expressed happiness about para video games becoming a member of the 11 Khelo India Video games held to date. He additionally introduced that the finances for Khelo India could be greater than Rs.3,300 crore over the subsequent 5 years.

Pramod Bhagat, the gold medallist within the Tokyo Paralympics lauded it as essentially the most important initiative of Khelo India.

The Khelo India Para Video games, scheduled from December 10 to 17, is anticipated to have greater than 1400 athletes from throughout the nation, competing in athletics, taking pictures, archery, soccer, badminton, desk tennis and weightlifting on the Nehru Stadium, Dr. Karni Singh taking pictures Vary in Tughlakabad and the Indira Gandhi Stadium.

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HOCKEY

Nehru ladies’s hockey match: SAI, Bhopal defeats NCOE, SAI Sonipat

A objective every from Sumita and Deepali helped Sports activities Authority of India (SAI), Bhopal, to a 2-1 victory over Nationwide Centre of Excellence (NCOE), SAI, Delhi in a league match of the SNBP 2nd Nehru ladies’s hockey match on the Shivaji Stadium right here on Sunday.

The outcomes (league):

Nationwide Centre of Excellence (NCOE) SAI, Sonipat, 6 (Nidhi 2, Ritika Mann, Kanika Siwach, Manisha, Ravina) bt Bhilai XI 0.

SAI, Bhopa, 2 (Sumita, Deepali) bt NCOE, SAI, Delhi 1 (Prabhleen Kaur).

-Kamesh Srinivasan

Northern India squash c’ship: Aditya Prakash goes previous Haris Khan

Aditya Prakash fought his well beyond Haris Khan 11-7, September 11, 11-8, September 11, 11-6 within the under-19 boys first spherical of the Northern India squash championship on the Delhi Gymkhana Membership courts.

The outcomes :

Underneath-19 boys (first spherical): Sujal Pathak bt Ranvir Singh 11-4, 7-11, 11-8, 11-3; Aditya Prakash bt Haris Khan 11-7, September 11, 11-8, September 11, 11-6; Robin Saxena bt Gautham Das 11-7, 11-7, 11-3.

Underneath-15 women (first spherical): Palak Kumar bt Vani Bisht 11-2, 7-11, 13-11, 12-10; Gargi Arya bt Telluri Agnes 11-5, 11-2, 11-2.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

ARCHERY

Archery Nationals: Ojas Deotale and Aditi Swami emerge on prime in qualification

World champions Ojas Deotale and Aditi Swami emerged as the highest women and men archers within the compound qualification spherical of the Nationwide archery championships at Ayodhya on Sunday.

Prime 25 male archers breached the 700 mark.

The outcomes: Compound: Qualification spherical:

Males: 1. Ojas Deotale (Mah) 713, 2. Prathamesh Fuge (Mah) 713, 3. Priyansh (Del) 712, 4. Prathamesh Jawkar (Mah) 710, 5. Kunderu Venkatadri (AP) 709, 6. Rajat Chauhan (AIP) 708, 7. Chirag Vidyarthi (MP) 708, 8. Abhishek Verma (Del) 707, 9. Rishabh Yadav (Har) 706, 10. Hritik Sharma (JK) 706.

Ladies: 1. Aditi Swami (Mah) 709, 2. Taniparthi Chikitha (Tel) 705, 3. Sakshi Chaudhary (UP) 700, 4. Parneet Kaur (Pun) 699, 5. Avneet Kaur (Pun) 699, 6. Purvasha Shende (Mah) 698, 7. Srishti Singh (MP) 697, 8. Priya Gurjar (Raj) 696, 9. Akshita (Del) 694, 10. Pragati (Del) 694.

-Y. B. Sarangi

BOXING

Boxing Nationals 2023: Sachin defeats Vishal

Former World youth champion and Asian bronze medallist Sachin Siwach Junior recorded a complete 5-0 victory over Vishal Kumar to start his marketing campaign in fashion on the Nationwide boxing championships on the SAI Indoor Corridor in Shillong on Sunday.

Three-time champion Varinder Singh gained his second victory to achieve the pre-quarterfinals.

Essential outcomes (preliminary rounds):

48kg: Umar Shaikh (Mah) bt Mohd. Askin (AIP) 5-0, Rohit (DNH) bt Ankit Saini (JK) 4-3, Daksh Chouhan (Cht) bt Atchutha Rao (AP) 4-1; 51kg: Gourav Mazumdar (Asm) bt Donaald Winston (Tel) 4-3, Krishna Rai (Sik) bt Himanshu Singh (Utk) 4-1; 54kg: Anat Chopade (RSPB) bt Anubhav Pradhan (DNH) RSC-R2; 57kg: Roshan Saini (Raj) bt Raman (DNH) 5-2, Ashish Kumar (HP) bt Kingson (Man) 5-2; Sachin Siwach Jr. (SSCB) bt Vishal Kumar (Pun) 5-0; 60kg: Varinder Singh (RSPB) bt Vishal Nupe (Mah) 5-0, Harsh (AIP) bt Himnashu (DNH) 5-0; 63.5kg: Vanshaj (SSCB) bt Ashish (AIP) 5-0; 67kg: Rajat (SSCB) bt Abhishek Kumar (UP) 5-0; 71kg: Sahil Chauhan (Har) bt Chander Mohan (HP) 5-0; 75kg: Ishmeet Singh (RSPB) bt Kapil Sharma (MP) 3-2, Akshay (Chd) bt Kunal (AIP) 5-0.

-Y. B. Sarangi