HOCKEY
Karthi to play in CHA tremendous division league
The 59th Chennai Hockey Affiliation tremendous division league shall be held on the SDAT-Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium from March 1 to 24. India gamers, S. Karthi, S. Mareeswaran and many of the gamers who had performed for the Tamil Nadu State within the lately concluded Senior Nationals in Chennai shall be participating.
Fourteen groups divided into two teams are taking part within the league and the highest two groups from every group will conflict within the semifinals.
Talking to newspersons right here on Wednesday, V. Baskaran, CHA president, mentioned the Affiliation is eager to complete the league on time. “There shall be no postponements this time as there aren’t any main tournaments clashing with the league. It’s going to undoubtedly be a greater league than final time,” he mentioned.
Mohammed Muneer, the match director, mentioned CHA is planning to make use of the companies of umpires from different districts of Tamil Nadu to make sure higher high quality.
The promoted groups are Tamil Nadu Postal and Adyar United.
The groups:
Pool A: ICF, SDAT, AG’s Workplace, Earnings Tax, FCI, Southern Railway, Tamil Nadu Postal.
Pool B: IOB, Indian Financial institution, Tamil Nadu Police, GST & Central Excise, Larger Chennai Metropolis Police, SBI, Adyar United.
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GOLF
Randhawa begins with 69, lies 51st in New Zealand
Veteran Indian golfer Jyoti Randhawa, who plans to divide his time between the Asian Tour and Legends European Tour, received off to an honest begin on the New Zealand Open, carding a two-under 69 within the opening spherical right here on Thursday.
The 50-year-old Indian, who’s a former Asian Tour No. 1, was positioned Tied-51st after the primary spherical in an occasion that incorporates a Professional-Am format.
Ranging from the tenth tee, Randhawa went by way of the back-nine in a powerful four-under 32 and was five-under with a birdie on the primary gap.
Then got here a crippling triple bogey on Par-4 fifth gap and his rating dropped to two-under. He’s the one Indian within the subject this week.
One other veteran Scott Hend, who has 10 victories, shot a seven-under 64 to take a share of the first-round lead with countryman Matthew Griffin, who gained this occasion in 2016.
Hend made a exceptional restoration from prostate most cancers two years in the past and final yr gained on the European Seniors Tour.
The occasion is being performed at two programs, the Remarkables Course and the Coronet Course at Millbrook Resort, simply exterior Queenstown.
-PTI
Aditi makes even par begin to occupy T-Twenty third place in Singapore
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok, enjoying her second occasion on LPGA’s Asian Swing, opened with an action-packed even par spherical to be positioned tied-Twenty third on the HSBC Ladies’s Championship golf match right here.
Aditi, ranked fortieth on the earth, is mendacity inside top-25 within the 66-player subject within the USD 1.8 million occasion, being performed on the Tanjong Course on the Sentosa Island.
Aditi had 5 birdies and as many bogeys with eight pars. She discovered solely half the greens in laws and 9 of the 14 fairways.
Final week Aditi was T-31 in Honda LPGA Thailand.
American Sarah Schmelzel, who made 20 cuts in 27 begins with two top-10s in 2023, led the sector with 4-under 68, that had 5 birdies between the primary and the eighth holes. Her lone bogey was on the Par-4 twelfth.
Swede Linn Grant was tied second with 69 alongside world No. 1 Lilia Vu and German Esther Henseleit.
The 29-time LPGA winner, Lydia Ko, on the lookout for a win that can get her into the LPGA Corridor of Fame routinely, had a tough begin with a 4-over 76 with 4 bogeys and no birdies.
The Amundi Evian Championship winner Celine Boutier (73) was T-30.
Two-time defending champion Jin Younger Ko shot 1-under 71 and is T-10.
That is the sixteenth version of the HSBC Ladies’s World Championship, an occasion, which is sometimes called “Asia’s Main”.
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