GOLF
Chouhan begins with spherical of 71 in Bahrain
Indian golfer Om Prakash Chouhan, enjoying his maiden season on the DP World Tour, dropped a late double bogey for a gap spherical card of 1-under 71 on the Bahrain Championship right here.
He was positioned T-69 and can want a pointy second spherical to make his first DP World Tour lower outdoors India.
Chouhan, who gained the PGTI’s Order of Benefit to seize a full card to the DP World Tour, missed the lower final week in Ras Al Khaimah.
In Bahrain, the place he’s the lone Indian as Shubhankar Sharma has taken the week off, Chouhan did a high quality job by selecting three of his birdies on the Par-5s and putted properly.
He bogeyed the second and the fourth, however birdies on the par-5 third and Par-3 seventh from 16 ft meant he turned in even par. A birdie on the par-5 eleventh from 9 ft and a gap out from 27 yards on the Par-5 14th noticed him get to 2-under however a double bogey on Par-3 sixteenth ruined his card. He did handle a 13-foot birdie on the 18th for a 71.
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Avani on fifth, stays in hunt; debutant Saanvi makes lower
India’s Avani Prashanth stayed within the high 5 with one other strong card of 3-under 69 within the second spherical of the Girls’s Novice Asia-Pacific Championships right here on Friday.
The 17-year-old Avani started with a flourish with three birdies within the first six holes, however thereafter the putter went dry, and he or she had only one extra birdie and one bogey.
At 7-under for 36 holes, Avani is tied fifth with China’s Yahui Zhang (69), however the chief, Chun-Wei Wu of Taiwan, enjoying within the second final group after a tenth tee begin, was on hearth in her second 9.
Wu carded 7-under 65 to get to 12-under and 5 forward of the Indian.
Aside from Avani, the one different Indian to make the lower was debutant Saanvi Somu (72) who performed fantastically to hold on for the weekend.
The opposite Indians missed the lower. Vidhatri Urs, who was 1-over after the primary added a 77 and at six-over as she missed the lower by 4 pictures.
She had a tough 7-over entrance 9. Mannat Brar (82-75) confirmed plenty of enchancment, and Heena Kang (81-79) and Keerthana Rajeev Nair (81-79) additionally missed the lower.
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BOXING
Boxing: Amit, Ishneet, Sachin transfer to semifinals of Boxam Worldwide
Indian boxers Amit Kumar (63.5kg) and Ishmeet Singh (75kg) entered the semifinals of the Boxam Worldwide Match in La Nucia, Spain with contrasting victories.
Sachin Kumar (80kg) too moved to the final 4 levels after receiving a walkover from Spain’s Pablo Coy Bernal on Thursday.
Amit put up an excellent efficiency as he eked out a shocking 3-2 cut up choice win to defeat Mexico’s Miguel Angel Martinez, who has already certified for the Paris Olympics within the gentle welterweight class.
He’ll face Uzbekistan’s Ruslan Abdullaev of Uzbekistan within the semifinal.
Ishmeet too registered a cut up choice win within the quarterfinal. He knocked out native pugilist Didac Lopez Gomez 4-1 to arrange a last-four conflict with Poland’s Michal Jarlinski.
Nonetheless, it was the tip of the street for Bilal Mohammed (54kg), Dikshyant Dahiya (60kg) and Rubal Sindh Dhanda (67kg) after disappointing quarterfinal losses.
Whereas Bilal suffered a third-round RSC defeat to Portugal’s Marcio Cardodo, Dikshyant misplaced by a 5-0 unanimous choice to Munarbek Seiitbek Uulu of Kyrgyzstan and Dhanda suffered a 1-4 defeat to Mateusz Grejber of Poland.
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