SHOOTING
ISSF World Cup: Sheeraz, Ganemat high Indian finishers in skeet
Sheeraz Sheikh and Ganemat Sekhon have been the highest Indian finishers in males’s and ladies’s skeet, respectively, on the ISSF World Cup for Shotgun in Rabat, Morocco.
Sheeraz shot 120, courtesy 5 similar rounds of 24 throughout two days and 125 targets. He completed eleventh, with the sixth and ultimate qualifying spot going at 121.
Abhay Singh Sekhon (116) and Munek Battula (109) completed additional down the standings.
In girls’s skeet, Ganemat’s tally of 114 gave her the twelfth spot, with the ultimate qualification spot going at 117. Areeba Khan’s 107 gave her the twenty sixth spot.
Monday will see the ultimate occasion – the combined staff skeet competitors.
– PTI
TENNIS
Nagal and Ramkumar draw French rivals in opening spherical of Bengaluru Open
Indian ace Sumit Nagal is pitted in opposition to Geoffrey Blancaneaux, whereas wild card entrant Ramkumar Ramanathan will face Maxime Janvier within the males’s singles primary draw of the Bengaluru Open starting right here on Monday.
World ranked 121 Nagal will goal to increase his dominance over French participant Blancaneaux, whom he has overwhelmed thrice, together with within the Australian Open Qualifiers.
India No. 2 Ramkumar has a 1-1 head-to-head file in opposition to Janvier of France and if he clears the first-round hurdle, he’s more likely to run into top-seed Italian Luca Nardi, who has been drawn to satisfy a qualifier in his opening spherical.
Australian Adam Walton has been seeded third and can open his marketing campaign in opposition to Indian wild card entrant Prajwal Dev.
There are 9 Indians within the doubles primary draw.
N. Sriram Balaji and Andre Begemann of Germany will conflict with the German duo of Mark Wallner and Jakob Schnaitter.
The ATP Challenger occasion is being organised by Karnataka State Garden Tennis Affiliation at KSLTA Stadium. Qualifying rounds started on Sunday, whereas the ultimate is scheduled on February 18.
– PTI
ITF Masters: Sonal beats Nazneen for girls’s over-45 title
Sonal Vohra beat Nazneen Rahman 6-1, 6-2 for the ladies’s over-45 title within the ITF Masters tennis match on the Alexander Athletic Membership.
Mansi Majeji cruised to the ladies’s over-45 title, beating Pinky Sharma for the lack of one recreation within the ultimate.
Meenu Pandey received all her three league matches in opposition to Jyoti, Nikunj Kamal and Priti Bansal to clinch the over-30 girls’s title.
Outcomes
Males
Over-45: Mohit Phogat bt Rohan Bhasin 5-7, 6-2, [10-5].
Over-50: Jagdish Tanwar bt Vijay Kumar 6-0, 6-0.
Over-55: George Varghese bt Yaspal Arora 6-1, 6-1.
Over-70: Ajit Chhatwal bt SJS Randhawa 6-2, 6-4.
Over-75: MS Venkatachalam bt Shrikant Parekh 6-1, 6-7(5), [10-8].
Girls
Over-40: Mansi Majeji bt Pinky Sharma 6-0, 6-1.
Over-45: Sonal Vohra bt Nazneen Rahman 6-1, 6-2.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
FOOTBALL
Kajol’s double strike helps Sethu FC cross East Bengal bridge
Kajol D’Souza scored a brace to assist Sethu FC earn its third win within the IWL 2023-24 marketing campaign, defeating East Bengal 2-0 on the Tilak Maidan on Sunday.
This much-needed victory meant that Sethu may now put its three-match dropping streak behind them.
The Madurai-based membership, taking part in out of Goa this season, has now accrued 10 factors from eight video games, however stays rooted to fifth within the IWL desk, behind HOPS, which is on the identical variety of factors, however forward as a result of a greater head-to-head file.
Nevertheless, neither staff appears to be like more likely to take its battle into the championship zone since Gokulam Kerala FC, Kickstart FC, and Odisha FC stand means forward within the desk — the three-way battle for the title happening 9 factors forward of the Madurai membership.
East Bengal, alternatively, continues to languish deep into the underside half, simply forward of Sports activities Odisha with solely 4 factors in its pocket. Sunday’s defeat was its seventh in 9 outings.
Sethu FC will not be having an incredible season both, however in opposition to East Bengal, it appeared much more cohesive and undoubtedly initiated higher penetrative strikes.
Its forwards, Malvika P, Kajol D’Souza, and Kaviya Pakkirisamy, who needed to depart the pitch within the second half due to an damage, did an excellent job of retaining the rival defence busy commonly.
Sethu FC may have added a number of extra however missed possibilities, and its tendency to aim unrealistic lengthy rangers restricted them to a few.
Kajol D’Souza scored the primary objective of the match, neatly changing a penalty kick within the seventh minute after an East Bengal defender dealt with the ball inside the realm.
Her second objective got here within the 82nd minute when she caught the defence off-guard to spherical off the goalkeeper earlier than pushing the ball over the road.
The dropping facet did not make a lot of an affect within the away outing. This was although the East Bengal gamers, who have been on responsibility for the India U19 staff in Dhaka not too long ago, returned to strengthen the facet.
Sibani Devi, who did effectively in SAFF U19, couldn’t produce the identical kind on the Tilak Maidan.
One other junior worldwide, Sulanjana Raul, got here on within the second half and made some inroads. Certainly one of her free-kicks from outdoors the field missed the goal by a whisker and sailed over the bar.
– PTI
GOLF
Diksha fires 68 to complete in High-20, debutant Shannon wins Kenya Girls Open
Indian golfer Diksha Dagar’s nice five-under 68 on the ultimate day helped her to complete within the high 20 of the Magical Kenya Girls Open on Sunday.
Diksha, who was third on the LET order of Benefit in 2023, signed off at tied nineteenth with a four-day complete of 292.
Pranavi Urs, who was within the operating at Tied-eighth after three rounds, collapsed to three-over 76 within the ultimate spherical and ended T-Twenty third, whereas Vani Kapoor (73) was T-36 on the opening occasion of 2024 on the Girls European Tour (LET).
Beginning on the again 9, Diksha was on hearth with 5 birdies on the again 9 of the course. She had yet another birdie and a bogey on her second 9.
Pranavi had an up-and-down day with an eagle, two birdies, 5 bogeys and a double bogey in her 76 as she slipped down the leaderboard to Tied Twenty third.
Vani had two birdies and two bogeys.
– PTI