SQUASH
Senthilkumar, Akanksha in quarters in abroad PSA occasions
Prime-seeded Indian Velavan Senthilkumar eased previous Frenchman Matteo Carrouget in straight video games to maneuver into the quarterfinals of the Batch Open squash, a USD 12,000 PSA Challenger Tour occasion in Paris.
Nationwide champion Senthilkumar, ranked 58 on this planet, beat Carrouget 11-4, 11-6, 11-7 in 29 minutes within the second spherical on Thursday after receiving a bye within the opening spherical, and can meet fifth seed Jakub Solnicky of the Czech Republic within the quarterfinals.
Elsewhere, Nationwide Video games girls’s champion Akanksha Salunkhe superior to the quarterfinals of the Expression St James Open, a USD 20,000 PSA Challenger Tour occasion in Springfield, US.
Fourth seed Salunkhe, ranked 70 on this planet, beat Winifer Bonilla of Guatemala 11-8, 11-2, 11-9 in 25 minutes within the second spherical following a bye within the first, and can tackle fifth seed Alina Bushma of Ukraine subsequent.
– Staff Sportstar
TENNIS
Nationwide wheelchair championship: Veeraswamy beats Subramanian to enter finals
Second seed Shekar Veeraswamy fought his well beyond third seed Balachandar Subramanian 3-6, 6-1, [10-7] to arrange a title conflict in opposition to high seed Karthik Karunakaran within the second Nationwide wheelchair tennis championship on the DLTA Complicated on Friday.
Within the girls’s ultimate, high seed KP Shilpa will play second Prathima Narayan Rao within the ultimate.
The outcomes (semifinals)
Males: Karthik Karunakaran bt BM Kundaragi 6-0, 6-1; Shekar Veeraswamy bt Balachandar Subramanian 3-6, 6-1, [10-7].
Ladies: KP Shilpa bt Ok Shilpa 6-1, 6-0; Prathima Narayan Rao bt A Ruthrajeswari 6-0, 6-0.
-Staff Sportstar
Arjun and Jeevan storm into semifinals
Prime seeds Arjun Kadhe and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan beat Thai-Son Kwiatkowski and Alex Lawson 6-3, 7-5 within the doubles quarterfinals of the $82,000 Challenger tennis match in Savannah, USA.
Within the $40,000 ITF girls’s occasion in Wuning, China, Rutuja Bhosale and Paige Hourigan recovered from an detached begin to beat Ekaterina Shaliova and Wang Jiaqi 0-6, 6-2, [10-3] within the doubles semifinals.
The outcomes:
$82,000 Challenger, Savannah, USA: Doubles (quarterfinals): Arjun Kadhe & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt Thai-Son Kwiatkowski & Alex Lawson (USA) 6-3, 7-5.
$15,000 ITF males, Shymkent, Kazakhstan: Singles (quarterfinals): Vladyslav Orlov (Ukr) bt Dev Javia 6-4, 1-6, 7-6(4). Doubles (semifinals): SD Prajwal Dev & Sai Karteek Reddy bt Chirag Duhan & Karan Singh 7-5, 6-3.
$40,000 ITF girls, Wuning, China: Doubles (semifinals): Rutuja Bhosale & Paige Hourigan (Nzl) bt Ekaterina Shalimova & Wang Jiaqi (Chn) 0-6, 6-2, [10-3].
$15,000 ITF girls, Kursumlijska Banja, Serbia: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Karola Bejenaru (Rou) & Tea Nikcevic (Mne) bt Kiara Cvetkovic (Sui) & Annika Kannan 7-6(5), 6-2.
$15,000 ITF girls, Monastir, Tunisia: Doubles (quarterfinals): Paris Corley & Dasha Ivanova (USA) bt Diva Bhatia & Zeel Desai 6-3, 6-2.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
GOLF
Diksha playing cards 70 and enters high 20 at South African Ladies’s Open
India’s Diksha Dagar put collectively a stable 2-under 70 in powerful situations and entered the highest 20 on the Investec South African Ladies’s Open in Cape City, South Africa, on Friday.
The southpaw is now 1-under for 2 rounds and tied 18th, up from in a single day tied 53rd. A number of gamers are nonetheless out on the course and Diksha’s place might change barely on the par-72 Erinvale Nation & Golf Property.
Diksha, who gained the Czech Women Open and completed tied third in Amundi German Masters and Hero Ladies’s Indian Open, can be a former champion at Ladies’s South African Open, which she gained in 2019 for her maiden victory on the Women European Tour.
As Diksha moved into high 20, the lead had modified with England’s Eleanor Givens (69 and 4-under by way of 13 holes) and Belgium’s Manon de Roey (69 and 4-under 15 in second) have been each at 7-under.
They have been adopted by Sweden’s Lisa Petterson (68-71) and Annabell Fuller, who had two extra holes to play, and in a single day chief, Rosie Casals, who had two extra holes to play. They have been all at 5-under.
As many as 10 gamers together with Diksha have been at 1-under.
Diksha, who shot 73 on the primary day, started the second day with a bogey however shortly received again the shot on the par-5 third. She adopted up that with six pars and turned in even for the day.
On the again 9, Diksha birdied tenth, however dropped a shot on eleventh. She repeated that sequence on thirteenth which she birdied however bogeyed 14th to remain at even for the day. Then got here birdies on the fifteenth and sixteenth adopted by pars on the final two for a card of 70.
Diksha picked three of her 5 birdies on the Par-5s.
On a day when scoring was harder than the primary day, Diksha was the one Indian to make sure of constructing the lower.
Vani Kapoor, who had performed solely 9 holes within the second spherical thus far, was 6-over and wanted no less than yet one more birdie to get contained in the lower line, which appeared prone to fall at 5-over.
Vani, who was 3-over 75 for the primary day, was 3-over for her first 9 holes to go to 6-over.
Ridhima Dilawari (74-77) was 7-over and Tvesa Malik (76-76), who had two double bogeys within the second spherical, ended at 8-over and can miss the lower.
That is the ultimate occasion on the Sunshine Women Tour and the Ladies’s South African Open can be co-sanctioned with the Women European Tour.
-PTI
CRICKET
Maa Saroda XI clinch NCC Ladies’s T20
Maa Saroda Membership has emerged champions of the NCC Ladies’s T20 Budding Challenger Cup, defeating Rani Rashmoni Membership by 9 wickets in a lopsided ultimate conflict in Howrah.
Opting to bat on a sultry Thursday night, Rani Rashmoni Membership was skittled out for 57 with Debarati Guha returning with splendid figures of 4/6 from her 4 overs.
In reply, Maa Saroda Membership gained in 11.2 overs with Shamaita Adhikari enjoying the sheet-anchor position in a 38-ball 37 not out and was adjudged player-of-the-match.
Organised in reminiscence of late Chandralekha Dalmiya, the NCC Budding Ladies’s T20 Challenger Cup 2024 commenced on March 12 with eight groups from throughout Bengal.
The league stage of the match was performed on the Rajasthan Membership in Kolkata and the ultimate was staged on the Gulmahor Floor right here.
– PTI