GOLF
Newbie Nishna playing cards bogey-free 64 to rise to fourth
Newbie Nishna Patel fired a shocking 6-under 64 to climb to tied fourth place within the second leg of the Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour right here on Wednesday.
Nishna, who had a disappointing first spherical of 77, is now 1-over as Hitaashee Bakshi (70) was in lead at 3-under 137 after 36 holes on the Bombay Presidency Golf Membership.
Hitaashee, on the lookout for her first win since 2022, shot even par 70 after a primary spherical 67, to stay at 3-under 137. She birdied twice and had two bogeys.
Hitaashee led by two pictures over Amandeep Drall (68-71), whereas Ridhima Dilawari (68-72) was third at even par 130.
The day belonged to Nishna, who after one birdie on the third gap in her first 10 holes, was on hearth over the following eight. She birdied eleventh and twelfth, once more had back-to-back beneficial properties on fifteenth and sixteenth and closed with one more birdie on the 18th.
Nishna gained the primary leg in Pune final week and should battle it out with Hitaashee, Amandeep and Ridhima as she makes an attempt back-to-back victories.
Tied at fourth alongside Nishna had been 2023 Hero Order of Advantage winner Sneha Singh (68-73) and Khushi Khanijau (71-70).
The skilled pair of Vani Kapoor (76-69) and Neha Tripathi (71-74) had been tied for tenth.
-PTI
Honey Baisoya and Aman Raj high Indians in Asian Tour Q-Faculty
Honey Baisoya returned a second consecutive card of 69 to be tied eighth on the finish of the second spherical Ultimate Stage of the Asian Tour’s Qualifying Faculty.
The Delhi participant is among the many 16 Indians, who’re making an attempt to earn an Asian Tour card for 2024.
Aman Raj, who was off to an outstanding begin on the again 9 with a string of seven birdies additionally dropped 4 pictures between the fifth and seventh and completed with 68 and was Tied-Thirty first at 2-under for 2 rounds.
Amongst different Indians, Sunhit Bishnoi (73-69) was at T-34, Khalin Joshi (73-70), Gaurav Singh (71-72) and Yashas Chandra (73-70) had been T-45.
Kartik Sharma (72-72) and Rahil Gangjee (73-71) had been T-63, Saptak Talwar (72-74) at T-99, Arjun Prasad (69-78) and Pukhraj Singh Gill (69-78) at T-120.
Manu Gandas (72-76) was T-138. Sachin Baisoya, Harshjeet Sethie, Akshay Sharma and Divyanshu Bajaj had been additional behind and missed the lower.
Korean Jeunghun Wang continued his calm and calculated return to the highest of the sport by taking the second-round lead.
He shot a four-under-par 68 at Springfield Royal Nation Membership to guide on 10-under-par, by one from Japan’s Taichi Nabetani – who shot an eight-under-par 63 at Lake View Resort and Golf Membership.
-PTI
EQUESTRIAN
Nationwide Equestrian Championship (Dressage) to kickstart equestrian season from January 18
The EFI shall be conducting the Nationwide Equestrian Championship (Dressage) 2024 in Auroville from January 18 to 26. This occasion will mark the start of the Equestrian season as round 100 riders from throughout India will compete for medals in particular person and crew occasions
The anticipation for the championship is at an all time excessive following India’s extremely profitable marketing campaign on the Hangzhou Asian Video games, the place each gold and bronze medals got here within the dressage occasions.
“We’ve got obtained a very good variety of entries for the Championship. The curiosity in sport has grown through the years and the medals gained in Hangzhou have solely added to the joy and expectations,” stated Col Jaiveer Singh, Secretary Normal, Equestrian Federation of India (EFI).
There shall be seven phases – preliminary, elementary, medium, superior medium, superior, Prix St George and Intermediate – I. The scoring can be accomplished on a scale of 1 to 10. Romanov Yuri, a 5-star Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) choose, from Russia is among the many six judges to evaluate the riders.
The dressage occasion has at all times the viewers the place the rider and his horse exhibit pre-determined and well-rehearsed actions.
The rider-horse combo performs in an area of 20m x 60m, bordered by a low rail which the horse should keep inside. The world has 12 lettered markers positioned symmetrically indicating the place the actions are to start out and the place the modifications to tempo are to happen and the place the actions will finish.
-Staff Sportstar
ARCHERY
Archery nationwide choice trials: Deepika makes a superb comeback
Seasoned archer Deepika Kumari made a superb comeback to say the highest spot within the recurve ladies’s part after the primary part of the Nationwide choice trials for the World Cups, Asia Cups and Paris Olympics.
Deepika, who unsuccessfully tried to return to the Indian facet final yr after the delivery of her daughter and went along with her archer husband Atanu Das to Korea for a three-week coaching stint, topped the chart with 24 factors following a system that concerned a qualifying spherical, elimination rounds and spherical robin matches.
Bhajan Kaur (21), Simranjeet Kaur (18), Ankita Bhakat (17.5) and Sangeeta (13) took the second, third, fourth and fifth locations respectively after the top of the phase-1 trials on the Sports activities Authority of India campus right here on Wednesday.
Olympic quota place winner B. Dhiraj was primary with 24 factors within the recurve males’s part. He was adopted by Parth Salunkhe (20), Tarundeep Rai (20), Pravin Jadhav (19.5) and Atanu (17).
Rishabh Yadav (22) perched atop the compound males’s part. Prathamesh Fuge (20.5), Abhishek Verma (18.5), Rajat Chauhan (17.5) and Ojas Deotale (16.5) had been second, third, fourth and fifth respectively.
V. Jyothi Surekha (23.5), Aditi Swami (20.5), Sakshi Chaudhary (16.5), Muskan Kirar (15) and Parneet Kaur (15) had been the highest 5 archers in compound ladies’s class.
The subsequent two choice trials shall be held in Pune (February 9 to 16) and Sonepat (March 10-17). Factors earned from the three trials shall be added to pick out 4 archers for World Cup phases 1 and a pair of and Asia Cup phases 1 and a pair of. Performances within the World Cups will even be taken under consideration for future choice.
-Y.B. Sarangi
TENNIS
Aryan knocks out seventh seed, to play towards Loof in pre-quarters
Qualifier Aryan Shah knocked out the seventh seed Orel Kimhi of Israel 6-1, 6-3 within the first spherical of the $25,000 ITF males’s tennis match on the Arera Membership courts on Wednesday.
Within the pre-quarterfinals, Aryan will play fellow qualifier Thijmen Loof of the Netherlands.
High seed Oliver Crawford of Britain wriggled out of the clutches of Karan Singh in three units.
David Pichler of Austria beat eighth seed Mukund Sasikumar after dropping the primary set within the tie-break.
The outcomes:
Singles (first spherical): Oliver Crawford (GBR) bt Karan Singh 6-7(2), 6-4, 6-2; Thijmen Loof (Ned) bt Siddhant Banthia 6-2, 7-5; Aryan Shah bt Orel Kimhi (Isr) 6-1, 6-3; Eric Vanshelboim (Ukr) bt Jelle Sels (Ned) 6-7(9), 7-6(8), 6-4; Nam Hoang Ly (Vie) bt Ofek Shimanov (Isr) 6-4, 6-3; Siddharth Vishwakarma bt Jiayang Dong (Aus) 6-1, 6-3; Matt Hulme (Aus) bt Giles Husseb (GBR) 7-5, 0-6, 6-3; Manish Sureshkumar bt Madhwin Kamath 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; Bogdan Bobrov bt Parth Aggarwal 6-2, 6-4; David Pichler (Aut) bt Mukund Sasikumar 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-4.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Rishab Agarwal & Tsung-Hao Huang (Tpe) bt M Rifqi Fitriadi (Ina) & Mitsuki Leong (Mas) 6-2, 7-5; Parikshit Somani & Manish Sureshkumar bt Bhavesh Gour & Raghav Jaisinghani 6-3, 6-1.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
ITF Juniors: Indians Rethin, Cahir attain quarters
Rethin Senthil, seeded fourth, and eighth-seeded Cahir Warik of India notched up straight-set wins to maneuver into the quarterfinals of the boys’ singles occasion of the Central Excise and CGST ITF Junior (J200) occasion underway on the Bengal Tennis Affiliation advanced.
Within the pre-quarterfinals on Wednesday, Rethin proved too good for Roshan Santosh of the USA and sailed to a snug 6-2, 6-0 win.
Rethin will face seventh-seeded Duje Markovina of Croatia within the quarterfinals.
Warik encountered a troublesome problem from Hyeon Seok Search engine marketing of Korea however produced the winners on the proper second to win 6-4, 7-6(3). Cahir will meet second-seeded Vojtech Vales of the Czech Republic within the spherical of eight.
The outcomes:
Boys’ singles (pre-quarterfinals): Nikita Bilozertsev (Ukr) bt Se Hyuk Cho (Kor) 6-1, 6-3, Hikaru Takahashi (Jpn) bt Pham La Hoang Anh (VIE) 6-4, 6-1, Rethin Pranav Senthil Kumar (Ind) bt Roshan Santhosh (USA) 6-2, 6-0, Duje Markovina(Cro) bt Roman Kharlamov (Rus) 6-4 (retd), Iliyas Maratuly (Kaz) bt Aradhya Kshitij (Ind) 5-7, 6-4, 6-3, Ognjen Milic (Srb) bt Marat Salbiev (Rus) 6-2, 6-2, Cahir Warik (Ind) bt Hyeon Seok Search engine marketing (Kor) 6-4, 7-6(3), Vojtech Vales (Cze) bt Eito Komada (Jpn) 6-3, 6-1.
Women’ singles (pre-quarterfinals): Maayan Laron (Isr) bt Anna Pushkareva (Rus) 6-3, 6-3, Shihomi Li Xuan Leong (Mas) bt Ingkar
Dyussebay (Kaz) 6-4, 6-4, Christasha McNeil (USA) bt Rishitha Reddy Basireddy (Ind) 6-2, 6-2, Anastasiya Krymkova (Kaz) bt Rioko Umekuni (Jpn) 6-3, 5-7, 6-4, Sara Borkop(Den) bt Jo-Leen Noticed (Mas) 7-6(4), 6-4, Daria Shadchneva (Rus) bt Ariana Gogulina (Kaz) 6-3, 6-2, Maria Golovina (Rus) bt Aoi Watanabe (Jpn) 6-0, 4-6, 7-6(3), Maya Iyengar (USA) bt Maya Boonyaaroonnet (Tha) 6-3, 6-3.
-Amitabha Das Sharma
HOCKEY
Gurbux Singh, Vece Paes present assist for upcoming Beighton Cup
With the a hundred and twenty fifth version of the Beighton Cup all set to start on the Sports activities Authority of India (SAI) astroturf floor from Friday, Olympic medallists Gurbux Singh and Vece Paes confirmed their assist for the oldest hockey match on the planet and hoped for the revival of hockey actions in West Bengal.
Gurbux went down reminiscence lane to take pleasure in his affiliation with the match. “I and Vece are the 2 of the oldest dwelling gamers who performed on this match. I hope and pray the match continues for one more 500 years,” stated Gurbux at a press convention to announce the dates of the occasion on Wednesday.
“Two hockey stadiums in Salt Lake and Howrah are being constructed right here. I believe it will deliver extra hockey matches to Bengal.”
“Beighton Cup was probably the most necessary tournaments within the calendar,” stated Paes, underlining the significance of the occasion just a few many years in the past.
Some high gamers are anticipated to function within the match this yr. A complete of 14 outstation groups and 6 native sides will compete within the occasion, which can proceed till January 28.
-Y. B. Sarangi