GOLF
WPGT: Novice Nishna aiming for encore as Vani, Amandeep search early kind
Novice Nishna, buoyed by a profitable begin to 2024, will likely be on the lookout for one other good week on the Bombay Presidency Golf Membership when the second leg of the Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour will get underway on Tuesday.
Nishna produced a sterling end to beat Sneha Singh and Hitaashee Bakshi within the first leg to offer herself a giant confidence booster.
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The sphere consists of Vani Kapoor, who will likely be trying to assess her kind earlier than she performs just a few occasions on the Sunshine Tour in South Africa, the place she will likely be joined by Amandeep Drall, amongst others.
Amandeep can be within the area this week.
Neha Tripathi, Seher Atwal and Ridhima Dilawari may even hope to seek out kind and rhythm early within the season earlier than they play on the worldwide excursions.
Whereas Vani and Ridhima didn’t play final week, Seher was tied fourth, Amandeep was sixth and Neha completed simply outdoors the top-10.
Sneha Singh, the Hero Order of Advantage winner in 2023, and Hitaashee Bakshi will proceed to be the highest contenders this week. The amateurs and seasoned execs aside, there are fairly just a few upcoming gamers eager to make an impression.
The sphere, comprising 33 professionals and 6 amateurs, will play for a handbag of Rs 12 lakh.
Of the 4 amateurs within the area this week, nationwide champion, Vidhatri Urs, and Mannat Brar are additionally because of play the Girls’s Novice Asia-Pacific early subsequent month, and this must be a very good tune-up for them.
Final week, Nishna was the winner whereas Mannat was tied fourth, indicating that the amateurs have develop into a drive to reckon with on the professional Tour.
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ATHLETICS
Gurjar, Ankita declare senior cross-country titles
Hemant Gurjar and Ankita of the Railways walked away with the boys’s and girls’s titles respectively on the one-day 58th Nationwide Cross Nation Championships held right here on Monday.
However total, Railways (28) completed second behind Providers who clinched the title with 20 factors within the males’s crew occasion. Haryana with 64 factors was third.
Railways alternatively clinched the highest honours within the girls’s crew occasion with 16 factors. Uttar Pradesh (41 factors) have been declared second with Maharashtra (77) coming third.
Within the males’s 10km run, Hemraj Gurjar of RSPB surged forward of his rivals within the closing phases to cross the end line in 29:30.00.
Puneet of Providers was shut second with a time of 29:35.00, whereas Sawan Barwal of Himachal Pradesh got here third (29:38.00) The ladies’s 10 km gold as anticipated went to Ankita, whose profitable time was 34:36.00. Anjali Kumai of Bihar and Poonam Sonune (Maharashtra) took the following two locations on the rostrum, clocking 34:47.00 and 34:47.35, respectively.
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