GOLF
Randhawa turns into first Indian to win Senior Euro Q-College, qualifies for Legends Tour
Veteran golfer Jyoti Randhawa turned the primary Indian to complete on high within the Senior European Tour’s Qualifying College and declare full enjoying rights within the Legends Tour this season.
Randhawa completed with a 12-under 276 whole and 4 pictures forward of his nearest rivals. Randhawa, who turned 50 in 2022 and performed his first few occasions on the Senior Tour in Europe in 2023, shot rounds of 71-67-68-70 for 276 on the Gloria Golf Membership in Antalya.
Three gamers France’s Lionel Alexandre (72), Simon Griffiths (72) of England and Spaniard Carlos Balmaseda (72) have been tied for second at 280, whereas Andrew Marshall of England with 75 claimed the fifth and remaining card on supply.
The ultimate stage of Legends College is commonly thought-about harder than the primary occasion as solely 5 playing cards can be found from the sector. The sphere had 55 gamers this yr and lots of have been previous European Tour champions.
“It feels actually good,” stated Randhawa, a three-time (2000, 2006, 2007) Hero Indian Open winner.
-PTI
Avani to guide Indian staff at Girls’s Novice Asia-Pacific golf
Avani Prashanth, the one Indian ranked inside the highest 50 amateurs on the planet, will lead a six-member contingent from the nation on the prestigious Girls’s Novice Asia-Pacific (WAAP) championship in Thailand, beginning February 1.
The opposite Indian gamers are Mannat Brar, Heena Kang, Vidhatri Urs, Keerthana Rajeev Nair and Saanvi Somu.
The WAAP champions obtain exemptions into three main championships in 2024 – the AIG Girls’s Open at St Andrews, the Amundi Evian Championship in France and the Chevron Championship in america of America.
The winner will even obtain invites to some different elite championships such because the Hana Monetary Group Championship, ISPS Handa Girls’s Australian Open, The 121st Girls’s Novice Championship and the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Novice.
Avani, ranked 42 on the planet, is the winner of the Queen Sirikit Cup particular person honours in 2023, and was additionally fourth on the people within the 2023 World Novice Group Championships.
Her most important teen rivals will embrace Japan’s Mamika Shinchi, Filipina Rianne Mikhaela Malixi and New Zealander Eunseo Choi.
Shinchi (33), Prashanth (42) and Malixi (43) are among the many top-ranked gamers within the subject.
-PTI
HOCKEY
Hockey India names 40-member core possible group for Junior Males’s Nationwide Teaching Camp
Hockey India on Thursday introduced a 40-player core possible group for the upcoming Junior Males’s Nationwide Teaching Camp set to begin on twenty ninth January 2024, on the Sports activities Authority of India (SAI) facility in Bengaluru.
The collection of this new core group was primarily based on their notable performances throughout the home championships held in 2023.
Below the steerage of Coach Janardhana C B, the gamers from the core possible group are scheduled to assemble on twenty ninth January for a 20-day coaching camp, concluding on seventeenth February.
Among the many notable picks are 5 goalkeepers, together with Prince Deep Singh from Hockey Punjab, Bikramjit Singh from Hockey Chandigarh, Adarsh G from Kerala Hockey, and Ashwani Yadav and Ali Khan from Uttar Pradesh Hockey.
Listing of gamers within the 40-member core-probable group:
FULL 40-PLAYERS SQUAD
Goalkeepers:
Prince Deep Singh, Bikramjit Singh, Ashwani Yadav, Adarsh G, Ali Khan
Defenders:
Sharda Nand Tiwari, Sukhvinder, Amir Ali, Rohit, Yogember Rawat, Manoj Yadav, Anmol Ekka, Prashant Barla, Akash Sorong, Sundaram Rajawat, Anand . Y, Talem Priyo Barta
Midfielders:
Ankit Pal, Rosan Kujur, Thounaojam Ingalemba Luwang, Mukesh Toppo, Thokchom Kingson Singh, Ritik Kujur, Ankush, Jeetpal, Chandan Yadav, Manmeet Singh, Vachan H A, Govind Nag, Bipin Billavara Ravi,
Forwards:
Mohit Karma, Sourabh Anand Kushwaha, Araijeet Singh Hundal, Gurjot Singh, Mohd. Konain Dad, Prabhdeep Singh, Dilraj Singh, Arshdeep Singh, Mohd. Zaid Khan, Gursewak Singh,
-Group Sportstar
Sumeet, Harman excel as Military XI beat Comptroller in Beighton Cup
KOLKATA: Sumeet Pal Singh and Harman Singh discovered the goal twice every to assist Military XI submit a slim 4-3 victory over Comptroller and Auditor Common of India (CAG) within the Coal India 125 th Beighton Cup hockey event on the SAI astro-turf floor right here on Thursday.
The outcomes: Indian Oil 6 (Affan Yusuf-2, Talwinder Singh-2, Gurjinder Singh-2) bt Canara Financial institution 1 (Prithviraj G.N.); Indian Air Drive 2 (Manip Kerketta, Jaggat Nachappa) bt Oil and Pure Fuel Company 1 (Ajeet Yadav); Military XI 4 (Sumeet Pal Singh-2, Harman Singh-2) bt CAG 3 (Faraz Mohd., Abharan Sudev, Manish Yadav).
-Y.B. Sarangi
TENNIS
ITF ladies’s event: Rutuja Bhosale-Ankita Raina beat Shrivalli Bhamidipaty-Vaidehi Chaudhari
Rutuja Bhosale and Ankita Raina bounced again from a sluggish begin to beat Shrivalli Bhamidipaty and Vaidehi Chaudhari 3-6, 6-4, [10-7] within the doubles quarterfinals of the NECC $40,000 ITF ladies’s tennis event on the Deccan Gymkhana on Thursday.
Within the semifinals, the third seeded Rutuja and Ankita will problem the highest seeds Naiktha Bains and Fanni Stollar.
It was the one Indian problem left within the event, as Prarthana Thombare, seeded second with Sapfo Sakellaridi of Greece, was overwhelmed by the Japanese duo of Saki Imamura and Naho Sato in straight units.
In singles, lucky-loser Zeel Desai was overwhelmed 6-1, 6-2 by fifth seed Alexandra Eala of Philippines. Nationwide champion Shrivalli Bhamidipaty was unable to match second seed Anastasia Tikhonova and managed to eke out three video games.
The outcomes:
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Darja Semenistaja (Lat) bt Naho Sato (Jpn) 6-1, 6-7(2), 6-2; Alexandra Eala (Phi) bt Zeel Desai 6-1, 6-2; Moyuka Uchijima (Jpn) bt Viktoria Morvayova (Svk) 6-3, 6-3; Anouk Koevermans (Ned) bt Anastasia Kulikova (Fin) 5-7, 6-0, 7-5; Anca Alexia Todoni (Rou) bt Sapfo Sakellaridi (Gre) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3; Dalila Jakupovic (Slo) bt HimenoSakatsume (Jpn) 6-4 (retired); Tina Nadine Smith (Aus) bt Tatiana Prozorova 6-3, 7-5; Anastasia Tikhonova bt Shrivalli Bhamidipaty 6-1, 6-2.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Naiktha Bains (GBR) & Fanni Stollar (Hun) bt Anastasia Kulikova (Fin) & Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) 1-6, 7-6(2), [10-6]; Rutuja Bhosale & Ankita Raina bt Shrivalli Bhamidipaty & Vaidehi Chaudhari 3-6, 6-4, [10-7]; Alexandra Eala (Phi) & Darja Semenistaja (Lat) bt Jessie Aney (USA) & Lena Papadakis (Ger) 6-4, 2-6, [10-4]; Saki Imamura & Naho Sato (Jpn) bt Sapfo Sakellaridi (Gre) & Prarthana Thombare 6-4, 6-2.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Arjun Kadhe and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan in quarterfinals
Fourth seeds Arjun Kadhe and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan reached the doubles quarterfinals with a 7-6(5), 6-4 victory over Viktor Durasovic and Otto Virtanen within the €145,625 Challenger tennis event in Quimper, France.
The outcomes:
€148,625 Challenger, Quimper, France
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Arjun Kadhe & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt Viktor Durasovic (Nor) & Otto Virtanen (Fin) 7-6(5), 6-4.
$25,000 ITF ladies, Le Gosier, France
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Brandy Mina & Aminata Sall (Fra) w.o. Nifemi Akinbiyi (Can) & Priyanka Rodricks.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
SHOOTING
Nationwide choice trials to start on February 24
The Nationwide Rifle Affiliation of India (NRAI) has revised the dates for the third and fourth choice trials for rifle and pistol occasions to February 24 to March 1. It will likely be hosted on the Madhya Pradesh Academy in Bhopal.
The third choice trials for shotgun shall be held on the New Moti Bagh Gun Membership, Patiala, from February 25 to March 2.
Not like rifle and pistol, which may have separate Olympic choice trials later, the shotgun shooters have already shot two trials that additionally double up as Olympic trials. The third can be related in nature, serving each as nationwide and Olympic choice trial.
-Kamesh Srinivasan