SQUASH
Bristol Open squash: Urwashi Joshi enters quarterfinals
India’s Urwashi Joshi upset second-seeded Australian Sophie Fadaely 3-2 to advance to the quarterfinals of the Bristol Open squash match right here on Friday.
Urwashi, a semi-finalist in the course of the 2023 Nationwide Championships, was engaged in an exciting contest as she conquered the Australian 7-11, 11-6, Sept. 11, 11-5, 11-7 in the course of the intense 35-minute pre-quarterfinal assembly of the USD 3000 PSA Challenger occasion.
The Maharashtra participant, who defeated Jasmin Kalar of England 11-4, 11-5, Sept. 11, 11-9 within the opening spherical inside 21 minutes, will tackle fifth seed Erin Classen of Australia within the quarterfinals.
Classen prevailed over Olivia Besant of England within the pre-quarterfinal, routing her 3-0 (11-5, 11-5, 14-12).
-PTI
MOTORSPORTS
Sai Sanjay to race full season in British GT championship
Former Indian Formulation 2000 champion Sai Sanjay is ready to drive a full season within the British GT Championship 2024 beginning at Oulton Park, England on March 29.
The 21-year-old turns into the primary driver from Tamil Nadu to do a full season at this stage within the prestigious British GT sequence.
A Mechatronics pupil at VIT Chennai, Sanjay made his motorsports debut in 2015 and have become the Rotax Senior Max UAE vice-champion in 2018.
He made the swap to formulation vehicles the identical 12 months and raced within the LGB Formulation 1300 and MRF 1600 championships. All alongside, he notched up many podiums and dished out many quickest laps and gained the Formulation 2000 Indian title in 2022.
The season consists of seven rounds. The primary spherical is scheduled to be held from March 29 to April 1 adopted by Silverstone 500 from April 26 to twenty-eight, Donington Park from Might 25 to 26, after which the drivers transfer to Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium from June 22 to 23.
After one other spherical in Snetterton from July 12 to 14, they’re scheduled to revisit Donington Park from September 7 to eight earlier than concluding the season finale on the famend Manufacturers Hatch on September 28 and 29.
-PTI
WEIGHTLIFTING
IWLF appoints coach educator
With the intention to develop coach training throughout the nation within the run-up to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, the Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWLF) on Friday appointed Ahmed Awad Ahmed Hassan of Egypt as a coach educator.
Hassan, in session with chief nationwide coach Vijay Sharma, will develop a brand new syllabus course for NIS diploma holders. Key initiatives of the engagement embody coaching and growth programmes, data trade and collaboration, supportive ecosystem and long-term imaginative and prescient.
-Y. B. Sarangi
ATHLETICS
Junior Federation Cup: Gaurav, Shilpa take 3000m golds
Maharashtra’s Gaurav Bhaskar Bhosali and Gujarat’s Shilpa Dhora gained the boys’s and ladies’s 3000m within the 22 nd Nationwide Federation Cup junior under-20 athletics championships which started on the SAI Centre in Lucknow on Friday.
The highest eight finishers within the males’s 3000m and the highest 4 in girls’s made the AFI’s qualification normal for the following month’s junior Asians in Dubai.
-Stan Rayan
The outcomes (winners solely):
Males: 10,000m: Vinod Singh (MP) 30:14.00s. 3000M: Gaurav Bhaskar Bhosali (Mah) 8:40.13s.
Ladies: 3000m: Shilpa Dhora (Guj) 9:53.23s. Hammer throw: Anushka Yadav (UP) 56.63m.
TENNIS
Ankita, Ramkumar win PSPB inter-unit match
Ankita Raina of Oil and Pure Gasoline Company (ONGC) and Ramkumar Ramanathan of Indian Oil emerged because the champions within the forty second PSPB inter-unit tennis match on the DLTA Complicated in New Delhi on Friday.
With the entire match of crew championships and particular person occasions of singles and doubles packed in 4 days, the format needed to be tweaked.
Thus, Ramkumar beat teammate Chirag Duhan 9-5 within the ultimate for the boys’s title. Ramkumar had earlier crushed Vishnu Vardhan and Rithvik Bollipalli on his strategy to the ultimate.
Ankita beat Riya Bhatia of Indian Oil 9-5 within the girls’s ultimate. By the way, Ankita had crushed Riya in straight units in a thriller in the course of the crew championship. Ankita had crushed Prarthana Thombare within the semifinals, whereas Riya Bhatia had crushed Riya Sachdeva.
The boys’s doubles title was gained by Vishnu Vardhan and Rithvik who beat Ramkumar and Chirag within the ultimate.
Rajkumar Dubey gained the veterans title for Bharat Petroleum Company Restricted (BPCL) and joined with Monish Sharma to clinch the doubles title as properly. BPCL had earlier gained the crew title as properly.
The Chairman and Managing Director of the host, Engineers India Restricted (EIL), Vartika Shukla, offered the trophies.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
GOLF
Amandeep coasts to four-shot win in fifth leg of Hero WPGT
Amandeep Drall had a roller-coaster fourth and ultimate spherical and held on onto her four-shot result in coast to a lovely win within the fifth leg of the Hero Ladies’s Professional Golf Tour on Friday.
Amandeep, who final gained 13 months in the past, overcame two early bogeys and a double bogey to publish 1-under 71 for a complete of 10-under 278.
Gaurika Bishnoi, who shot 66 on the second day however couldn’t conjure up the identical magic, additionally shot 71 and stayed second at 6-under 282.
Khushi Khanijau (73) was third at 3-under 285, whereas Hitaashee Bakshi (72) and Ridhima Dilawari closed with an eagle for a 74 and accomplished the top-5.
Amandeep, who started the ultimate day with a four-shot lead, bogeyed the second and third, however with Gaurika additionally dropping a shot on the second, the previous saved a sizeable lead.
Each gamers birdied the fifth, however Gaurika dropped a shot on the sixth. A birdie on the seventh did give her an outdoor probability, however Amandeep ensured there are not any hiccups with an eagle on the ninth. It was her fourth eagle of the week.
On the again 9, Amandeep birdied the eleventh however dropped a double bogey on Par-4 seventeenth. She shrugged that off with a closing birdie, as Gaurika managed just one birdie in her final 11 holes.
The win additionally introduced a number of aid for Amandeep, who had dropped her kind and misplaced her full Tour card on the Women European Tour.
This win would pep her up as she tries to search out her kind to get again to the upper Excursions.
For Gaurika, making her first begin of 2024, was starting. She can be again for the sixth leg subsequent week, as will Amandeep.
Seher Atwal and Neha Tripathi, with 76 every, had been tied for sixth, Ananya Garg (73) was eighth, and Lavanya Jadon (74) was the highest novice at ninth. Jasmine Shekar (70) and Astha Madan (72) rounded off the top-10. Sneha Singh, who didn’t have an incredible week, did produce her greatest spherical of the week on the fourth day with a 71 that included an eagle. She completed T-12, however it was not sufficient to maintain her on the highest of the Order of Advantage.
Hitaashee Bakshi, who completed fourth this week, now has prime honours with Sneha proper behind her.
Amandeep, having a lacklustre season, rose to 3rd place with the win at this occasion. Khushi and Jasmine Shekar are fourth and fifth within the cash rankings.
– PTI