Listed here are all the foremost updates and outcomes from Indian sports activities on Sunday, March 3.
TENNIS
Ishaque and Adil lose closing
Second seeds Ishaque Eqbal and Adil Kalyanpur had been crushed 5-7, 6-4, [10-6] within the doubles closing by Matyas Fuele and Gergely Madarasz of Hungary within the $15,000 ITF males’s tennis event in Kish Island, Iran, on Sunday.
THE RESULTS
$15,000 ITF males, Kish Island, Iran
Doubles (closing): Matyas Fuele & Gergely Madarasz (Hun) bt Ishaque Eqbal & Adil Kalyanpur 5-7, 6-4, [10-6].
– Kamesh Srinivasan
ATHLETICS
Triple jumper Chitravel takes eleventh spot at World Indoor Championships
Asian Video games bronze medallist Praveen Chitravel was removed from his private finest, leaping 16.45m to complete eleventh within the males’s triple leap occasion of the World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow.
The 22-year-old, who has a nationwide document of 17.37m, jumped 15.76m within the first try and steadily improved it to 16.29m after which 16.45m in his third try on the Emirates Enviornment right here on Saturday.
By the way, it was the season’s finest effort for Chitravel who received bronze at Hangzhou final 12 months with a leap of 16.68m.
Burkinabe athlete Hugues Fabrice Zango (17.53m), Yasser Mohammed Triki of Algeria (17.35m) and Tiago Pereira of Portugal (17.08m) took the highest three locations on the rostrum.
– PTI
Six veteran athletes from HP to take part in World Masters Athletics C’ships
Six veteran athletes from Himachal Pradesh, together with lengthy distance runner Surinder Singh Dehal of Hamirpur, will take part within the World Masters Athletics Championships to be held in Gothenburg, Sweden from August 13 to 25.
The World Masters Athletics Championships are the biennial championships for masters athletics occasions held underneath the auspices of World Masters Athletics for athletes who’re 35 years of age or older.
“It’s a matter of pleasure for the state. Athletes from HP had carried out properly and received eight medals within the forty fourth Nationwide Grasp Athletics Competitors held in Pune from February 13 to 17,” Masters Athletics Federation Himachal Pradesh President Ripudaman Kaushik stated on Sunday.
Dehal (10,000m) and Ashwini Kumar Sharma (1500m and 2000m steeplechase, 800m) will compete within the above 65 years age class.
Whereas Harish Kumar (triple leap), Dwarika Thakur (1500 meters and 5000 meters), Brijlal Thakur (100m and 300m hurdles) have been chosen within the 60 above age group.
Bhishan Singh Chauhan, who will participate within the discus throw, javelin throw and shot put occasions, will compete within the above 55 years age group.
– PTI
GOLF
Aditi finishes twenty first in Singapore, Australia’s Inexperienced wins Girls’s World Championship title
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok completed twenty first on the ladies’s World Championship with a closing card of 2-under 70 right here on Sunday after being in top-10 within the first two days.
Aditi had an early bogey, however recovered properly with three birdies on the Par-5s on the fifth, eighth and thirteenth and one other one on Par-4 ninth.
She dropped a bogey on the closing 18th. Aditi, who was making her debut within the occasion, shot 72-69-73 in her earlier rounds.
Per week in the past Aditi was T-31 on the Honda LPGA. Aditi, a five-time Girls European Tour winner, is already sure to play her third Olympic Video games in Paris this 12 months.
– PTI
Vani to play Hana Monetary Group Singapore Girls’s Open
Vani Kapoor might be in world-class firm when she tees off on the Hana Monetary Group Singapore Girls’s Open ranging from March 7.
Will probably be the primary time the 30-year-old performs in an occasion co-sanction with the Korean LPGA.
A a number of winner on the Indian home Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour, Vani additionally performs on the Girls European Tour, the place she has notched up quite a few High-10 finishes.
Vani, who was T-36 on the Magical Kenya Girls in her solely look this season to date, would be the solely Indian to tee off on the event.
The occasion carries a large purse of 1 million Singapore {dollars} and a win earns the participant a card into the extremely profitable Korean LPGA Tour and likewise the Girls Asian Tour Sequence.
Excited in regards to the alternative to compete alongside main winner Patty Tavatanakit of Thailand and high KLPGA stars, Vani believes {that a} sturdy efficiency will bolster her confidence for the rest of the LET season.
“To have the ability to play an occasion just like the Hana Monetary Group Singapore Girls’s Open is a good alternative as a result of it’ll function a whole lot of world-class gamers, and a superb displaying will set me for the remainder of the season,” she stated.
“Indian ladies’s golf has been on an upswing with some nice performances throughout, and having a superb native Tour has been useful for us.”
After her T-36 begin in Kenya, Vani is in search of to place behind her struggles in the direction of the tip of final 12 months, the place she missed the lower in 4 out of her final six appearances.
“I began my season in Kenya, the place I performed alright and it was the primary occasion of the 12 months. My predominant season begins after Singapore, so I’m actually trying ahead to it, and I additionally love Singapore.”
Vani can also be trying ahead to tackling the difficult Tampines Course of TMCC. She’ll be counting on ideas from a neighborhood buddy to help her in navigating the course successfully.
“As for the course, it’s a nice one. I’ve a buddy in Singapore who is aware of the course properly, so I’m hoping to get some good recommendation on it,” she added.
– PTI
Lahiri finishes T-6 in Jeddah
India’s Anirban Lahiri completed tied-sixth within the third occasion of the LIV Golf League with a closing spherical of 5-under 65 on the Par-70 Royal Greens in Jeddah.
After rounds of 68-67, the 36-year-old Lahiri shot 65 within the third spherical to complete 10-under.
It was his finest end on the LIV Sequence, having signed off at T-44 and T-21 within the first two occasions.
Joaquin Niemann, winner of the primary occasion this season, additionally received the third as he shot 63-64-66 to complete 17-under.
Veteran South African Louis Oosthuizen (64-66-67) was tied second with compatriot Charl Schwartzel (63-66-68) at 13-under.
Bryson De Chambeau (62) was fourth at 12-under, whereas Jon Rahm (68) was fifth at 11-under.
Lahiri was tied sixth with 5 others together with Phil Mickelson, Charles Howell III, Talor Gooch, Adrian Meronk and Jason Kokrak.
– PTI
POLO
Chris Mackenzie scored 4 objectives in serving to Rajnigandha Achievers to a 7-5 victory over Mayfair Polo within the closing of the Radha Mohan Rajinder Mohan Gold Vase polo event on the Jaipur Polo floor on Sunday.
Mare Jha, ridden by Anay Shah, was adjudged the ‘finest polo pony’. Vishwarupe Bajaj was declared the ‘Most worthy participant’.
THE RESULTS (FINAL)
Rajnigandha Achievers 7 (Chris Mackenzie 4, Dhruvpal Godara 2, Vishwarupe Bajaj) bt Mayfair Polo 5 (Daniel
Otamendi 4, Gaurav Sahgal).
– Kamesh Srinivasan