GOLF
Sneha flies on twin eagles to win, Hitaashee falters in 2nd leg of Hero WPGT
Sneha Singh performed an outstanding closing spherical to seize her first win of the season within the second Leg of the Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour on Thursday.
Sneha, winner of the Hero Order of Benefit in 2023, opened and closed the ultimate spherical with eagles on method to a card of 7-under 63. She rallied from 4 pictures behind in a single day chief Hitaashee Bakshi (68) to win by one.
Sneha, with 68-73-63 totalled 6-under 204 and Hitaashee, who completed runner-up for the second time in as many weeks, completed at 5-under 205.
Ridhima Dilawari had a strong 2-under 68 and was third, whereas final week’s winner, newbie Nishna Patel shot a 71. She was tied fourth with Khushi Khanijau (71) at 2-over 212.
Amandeep Drall (68-71-74) completed sixth, and Vani Kapoor (76-69-70) was seventh.
Amateurs Mannat Brar (72) and Vidhatri Urs (73) emphasised the newbie energy in Indian girls’s golf by ending tied eighth at 216. Rhea Jha (76) was tenth, Neha Tripathi (74) was eleventh, and Ananya Datar (70) ended twelfth.
Sneha and Hitaashee performed in several teams however had been engaged in an in depth tussle.
Sneha, who was 4 behind Hitaashee, received off to a brilliant begin with an eagle and added a birdie on the third. Hitaashee, enjoying within the lead group, additionally birdied the second and third and added a 3rd birdie on the sixth.
Sneha eagled the ultimate gap and joined Hitaashee at 6-under for the event.
Hitaashee wanted a birdie on the Par-5 18th, and a par would imply a play-off. She ended up dropping a shot handy Sneha the win. Sneha and Hitaashee had been tied for second final week behind newbie Nishna who received.
Sneha now takes the lead on the Hero Order of Benefit after the primary two legs of the Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour.
-PTI
Avani rallies on again 9 to be positioned seventh at Australian amateurs
India’s Avani Prashanth recovered from two double bogeys on the entrance 9 with 5 birdies on the again 9 earlier than closing with a bogey within the third spherical of the Australian Beginner Championships right here on Thursday.
Avani carded a second straight 2-over 75 on the Par-73 programs. Avani, ranked fiftieth on this planet and the highest ranked star from the Indian Golf Union, shot 72-75 on the primary two days and is now 3-over 222 and in tied seventh place.
The chief within the girls’s part is Amelia Harris, who had two eagles in her spherical of 5-under 68 and he or she is 9-under for 3 rounds. She is approach forward of second positioned Mamika Shinchi of Japan who carded 71 within the third spherical and has a complete of 3-under.
Solely 4 gamers are beneath par after three rounds on the difficult course, the place the circumstances turned more durable after rain on the second day.
The opposite Indian within the girls’s part, Heena Kang, missed the reduce on the weather-hit second day. She shot 80-80.
Within the males’s part the lone Indian to make the reduce was Varun Muthappa (74-73-77) who was 12-over and T-74, whereas Sandeep Yadav and Rohit Narwal missed the reduce.
Avani opened with three pars after which ran right into a disastrous stretch with a bogey and two double bogeys in a span of 4 holes between the fourth and the sixth.
She fought again on the second 9 at Yarra Yarra Golf Membership with birdies on the tenth, twelfth, 14th, sixteenth and seventeenth with only one bogey until then on eleventh.
Avani, who was runner-up final week on the Australian Masters of Amateurs, can be trying to a decrease spherical and transfer up forward of subsequent month’s Girls’s Beginner Asia Pacific (WAAP) in Thailand.
-PTI
TENNIS
$25,000 ITF males’s tennis: Wild card entrant Manish beats fifth seed Van Wyk in pre-quarters
Wild card entrant Manish Sureshkumar beat fifth seed Kris van Wyk of South Africa 6-1, 7-6(4) within the pre-quarterfinals of the $25,000 ITF males’s tennis event on the Arera Membership courts on Thursday.
Within the quarterfinals, Manish will problem fourth seed Bogdan Bobrov.
Nationwide champion Siddharth Vishwakarma sailed previous Matt Hulme of Australia for the lack of six video games and can face third seed Eric Vanshelboim of Ukraine within the quarterfinals.
The younger Aryan Shah additionally made the quarterfinals, as his opponent, qualifier Thijmen Loof of the Netherlands, retired whereas trailing 0-5 within the first set. Aryan will meet prime seed Oliver Crawford of Britain.
In doubles quarterfinals, Manish in partnership with Parikshit Somani missed a match level and received overwhelmed 2-6, 6-3, [13-11] by Sai Karteek Reddy and Vishnu Vardhan.
The outcomes:
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Oliver Crawford (GBR) bt Mitsuki Leong (Mas) 6-3, 3-6, 6-1; Aryan Shah bt Thijmen Loof (Ned) 5-0 (retired); Eric Vanshelboim (Ukr) bt Nam Hoang Ly (Vie) 2-6, 6-3, 6-0; Siddharth Vishwakarma bt Matt Hulme (Aus) 6-4, 6-2; Manish Sureshkumar bt Kris van Wyk (RSA) 6-1, 7-6(4); Bogdan Bobrov bt Raghav Jaisinghani 6-2, 6-1; David Pichler (Aut) bt Tsung-Hao Huang (Tpe) 7-6(1), 6-3; Dominik Palan (Cze) bt Luca Castelnuovo (Sui) 6-4, 7-6(3).
Doubles (quarterfinals): Ishaque Eqbal & Faisal Qamar bt Rishab Agarwal & Tsung-Hao Huang (Tpe) 6-2, 6-4; Sai Karteek Reddy & Vishnu Vardhan bt Parikshit Somani & Manish Sureshkumar 2-6, 6-3, [13-11]; Nicholas Bybel (USA) & Eric Vanshelboim (Ukr) bt Woobin Shin (Kor) & Kris van Wyk (RSA) 6-1, 6-4; Bogdan Bobrov & Luca Castelnuovo (Sui) bt Kabir Hans & Aryan Shah 7-5, 6-3.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
ITF Junior tennis: Rethin, Cahir make it to the semis
Fourth seeded Rethin Senthil Pranav and eighth seeded Cahir Warik saved the Indian flag flying as two produced emphatic wins of their respective quarterfinal outings within the Central Excise and CGST ITF Junior (J200) tennis on the artificial courts of the BTA Advanced on Thursday.
Rethin needed to dig deep into his assets to beat seventh seeded Duje Markovina of Croatia in a contest lasting greater than three hours. Rethin, who received his quarterfinal match 6-4, 7-6(1), can be going through prime seeded Nikita Bilozertsev of Ukraine within the semifinal on Friday. Bilozertsev received the higher of Japan’s Hikaru Takahashi 6-4, 6-1. Cahir Warik additionally produced a robust recreation to breeze previous second seeded Vojtech Vales of Czech Republic 6-1, 7-6(8). Fourth seeded Cahir can be assembly third seeded Ognjen Milic of Serbia within the different semifinal match.
The outcomes:
Boys’ singles (quarterfinals): Nikita Bilozertsev (Ukr) bt Hikaru Takahashi (Jpn) 6-4, 6-1, Rethin Pranav Senthil Kumar (Ind) bt Duje Markovina(Cro) 6-4, 7-6(1), Ognjen Milic (Srb) bt Iliyas Maratuly (Kaz) 6-1, 6-0, Cahir Warik (Ind) bt Vojtech Vales (Cze) 6-1, 7-6(8).
Ladies’ singles (quarterfinals): Maayan Laron (Isr) bt Shihomi Li Xuan Leong (Mas) 7-6(4), 5-7, 6-1, Christasha McNeil (USA) bt Anastasiya Krymkova (Kaz) 6-0, 6-1, Daria Shadchneva (Rus) bt Sara Borkop (Den) 6-3, 6-2, Maria Golovina (Rus) bt Maya Iyengar (USA) 7-5, 6-4.
– Crew Sportstar
Rithvik and Niki in Challenger semifinals
Rithvik Bollipalli and Niki Poonacha beat Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan and Christopher Rungkat of Indonesia 6-3, 6-7(4), [10-5] within the doubles quarterfinals of the $82,000 Challenger tennis event in Nonthaburi, Thailand, on Thursday.
The Indian pair had earlier knocked out the second seeds Manuel Guinard and Gregoire Jacq of France in straight units.
The outcomes:
€120,950 Challenger, Abama, Spain Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Karol Drzewiecki & Piotr Matuszewski (Pol) bt Sathi Chirala & Fabio Fognini (Ita) 7-5, 6-3; Arjun Kadhe & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt David Marrero (Esp) & Dhruva Mulye (USA) 6-2, 6-1.
$82,000 Challenger, Nonthaburi, Thailand Doubles (quarterfinals): Rithvik Bollipalli & Niki Poonacha bt Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi (Pak) & Christopher Rungkat (Ina) 6-3, 6-7(4), [10-5]; Pre-quarterfinals: Ray Ho (Tpe) & Kaichi Uchida (Jpn) bt Saketh Myneni & Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-7(5), 7-5, [10-7]; Rithvik & Niki bt Manuel Guinard & Gregoire Jacq (Fra) 6-3, 6-4.
$40,000 ITF girls, Antalya, Turkey Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Cristina Dinu (Rou) & Nika Radisic (Slo) bt Sebastianna Scilipoti (Sui) & Vasanti Shinde 6-2, 6-2.
$25,000 ITF girls, Petit-Bourg, France Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Jaeda Daniel (USA) & Katarina Kozarov (Srb) bt Brianna Baldi (USA) & Priyanka Rodricks 6-0, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF males, Monastir, Tunisia Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Miljan Zekic (Srb) bt Chirag Duhan 7-6(5), 7-6(7); First spherical: Chirag bt Alexander Donski (Bul) 3-6, 7-6(3), 6-4.
$15,000 ITF males, Manacor, Spain Singles (first spherical): Manas Dhamne bt Stefan Hampe (Ger) 6-4, 6-0.
– Crew Sportstar
ARCHERY
Round 220 archers, together with a number of prime names, can be seen in motion within the Indian Open Indoor Archery Event to be held on the Biswa Bangla Exhibition Centre in Kolkata from Friday.
The three-day occasion, being organised for the second time after six years by the Dola and Rahul Banerjee Sports activities Basis, could have competitions in under-18 and elite classes in recurve and compound divisions.
“Younger archers get to work together with massive names because the variety of entries is so big. Indoor taking pictures requires consistency as climate circumstances will not be an element right here. With smaller targets, taking pictures must be excellent and a bit of error can show expensive,” stated ace archer Deepika Kumari at a press convention right here on Thursday.
The organisers are planning to show the occasion right into a circuit with three legs.
– Crew Sportstar
HOCKEY
Beighton Cup: Kolkata Port Belief beats West Bengal Police
A. Suresh Sharma scored 4 objectives as Kolkata Port Belief thrashed West Bengal Police 9-1 in a qualifying spherical match of the 125 th Coal India Beighton Cup hockey event right here on Thursday.
The outcomes (qualifying spherical)
Kolkata Port Belief 9 (A.Suresh Sharma-4, Anand Ekka-2, Bidyananda Singh-2, A. Bada) bt West Bengal Police 1 (Santosh Rajbhar); Police Athletic Membership 2 (Dipak, Karambir Singh) bt Vivid Youth Hockey Membership 0.