TENNIS
Manish, Siddharth enter pre-quarterfinals of ITF Mandya Open
Indians Manish Ganesh and Siddharth Vishwakarma registered straightforward wins to enter the boys’s singles pre-quarterfinals of the ITF Mandya Open on Tuesday.
Ganesh breezed previous Neeraj Yashpaul 6-1, 6-1, whereas Vishwakarma overcame Adil Kalyanpur 6-3, 6-1 to succeed in the spherical of 16.
Nevertheless, native man SD Prajwal Dev, who was lately added to the Indian Davis Cup staff to face Pakistan, suffered a disappointment within the males’s doubles spherical of 16.
Prajwal and his associate Nitin Kumar Sinha, seeded second within the occasion, have been main 5-4 in opposition to Indo-Koren pair of Woobin Shin and Karan Singh within the first set.
However Sinha needed to withdraw from the match after growing abdomen cramps.
The eight seeded Prajwal will meet Korea’s Yunseok Jang within the singles first spherical match on Wednesday.
RESULTS
Singles (Spherical of 32)
Siddharth Vishwakarma bt Adil Kalyanpur 6-3, 6-1; Manish Ganesh bt Neeraj Yashpaul 6-1, 6-1.
Doubles (Spherical of 16)
Parikshit Somani/Manish Sureshkumar bt Siddhant Banthia/Giles Hussey (GBR) 6-4, 6-3; Sai Karteek Reddy Ganta/Vishnu Vardhan bt Ishaque Eqbal/Faisal Qamar 6-4, 7-6(8); Orel Kimhi (ISR) / Ofek Shimanov (ISR) bt Yash Chaurasia/Jagmeet Singh 6-2, 6-1; M Rifqi Fitriadi (INA)/Mitsuki Wei Kang Leong (MAS) bt Preetham Ganesh AS/Chandan Shivaraj 4-6, 6-0, 10-6; Thijmen Loof (NED)/Jelle Sels (NED) bt Tsung-Hao Huang (TPE)/Kris Van Wyk (RSA) 6-4, 7-5; Woobin Shin (KOR)/Karan Singh bt SD Prajwal Dev/Nitin Kumar Sinha 4-5 (retd); Grigoriy Lomakin (KAZ)/David Pichler (AUT) bt Manish Ganesh/Rishi Reddy 6-3, 6-2; Yunseok Jang (KOR)/Nam Hoang Ly (VIE) bt Rishab Agarwal/Adil Kalyanpur 7-5, 7-6 (4).
– PTI
GOLF
Avani lies fifth regardless of scorching begin at Australian Masters of Amateurs
Indian golfer Avani Prashanth carded seven birdies earlier than dropping a double bogey to lie fifth after the primary spherical on the Australian Masters of Amateurs in Melbourne on Tuesday.
At 6-under by 12, she regarded set for an awesome rating however she then dropped a double bogey and two bogeys within the final 5 holes.
Avani, ranked fiftieth on the planet, completed the spherical with 2-under 71 on the Par-73 course. The lead was held by Japan’s Nika Ito, who carded 5-under 68.
Avani opened with a bogey, however then birdied second, fourth and seventh. She then had 4 birdies in a row from ninth to twelfth to maneuver a sensational 6-under with six holes to go. She dropped 4 photographs between the 14th and the 18th and ended with 2-under 71.
Three gamers Sarah (Seryeong) Cho, Ng Jing Xuen and Rianne Malixi have been tied for second at 3-under 70 and Avani alongside Ashley Chow, Hannah Reeves, Eunseo Choi and Lion Higo was tied fifth.
The scores weren’t too promising for the opposite Indians as Heena Kang shot 10-over 83 and was Tied-61st.
Among the many males, Rohit Narwal shot 4-over 76 for T-79 on the Par-72 course, whereas Sandeep Yadav was 12-over 84 and ninety fifth.
Max Morning, Zackary Swanwick and SI Ngai have been tied for the lead amongst males at 5-under 67 every.
– PTI