GOLF
Diksha, Pranavi and Vani prepared for Aramco Collection Korea
Diksha Dagar would look to make sure that her present type fetches her a title after three top-10 finishes this season when she spearheads the Indian problem within the Women European Tour’s Aramco Workforce Collection golf competitors subsequent week.
Diksha will likely be joined by Pranavi Urs and Vani Kapoor, whereas Tvesa Malik waits on the reserve checklist at quantity three.
The Aramco Workforce Collection will likely be held in South Korea for the primary time from Could 10-12 on the New Korea Nation Membership. The format will see 36 groups of three professionals and an newbie compete for the group title.
Will probably be a powerful area led by world no.8 Charley Hull of England. The Brit is gunning for her first title of the yr.
This would be the first the Women European Tour occasion to be organised in South Korea.
Diksha already has a noteworthy end in Aramco Collection Tampa the place she was tied sixth and her different High-10s got here in Lalla Meryem Cup (ninth) and Joburg Women Open (T-3).
Final yr Diksha gained the Tipsport Czech Women and was tied third on the Hero Indian Open and the Amundi German Masters. General, she had 9 particular person top-10 finishes and was third on the LET Order of Benefit.
Pranavi, a winner of the Order of Benefit on the Hero Ladies’s Professional Golf Tour, has performed 5 occasions this season and has a finest end of fifth on the Lalla Meryem Cup. She was additionally within the group that was sixth in Aramco Collection Tampa.
Vani will likely be taking part in her first Aramco Collection occasion this yr. Final yr she missed the reduce in Florida and London.
Hull will captain one of many 36 groups that may go head-to-head.
Hull will likely be joined by South Korea’s very personal Hyo-Joo Kim and United States’ Danielle Kang. The match has a prize fund of USD a million.
-PTI
BOXING
ASBC Asian U-22 & Youth Boxing Championships 2024: Jadumani, Ajay shine as 4 Indians advance to semifinals
Indian boxers Mandengbam Jadumani Singh, Nikhil, Ajay Kumar and Ankush registered spectacular victories to maneuver into the lads’s U-22 semi-finals on the ASBC Asian U-22 & Youth Boxing Championships 2024 in Astana, Kazakhstan on Thursday.
Jadumani led India’s cost with a convincing 5-0 over Bhutan’s Phuntsho Kinley within the 51kg quarter-finals bout. Nikhil (57kg) put up an identical show of dominance, securing a 4-0 win over Uzbekistan’s Bakhtiyorov Ayubkhon to proceed India’s profitable momentum.
Ajay (63.5kg) and Ankush (71kg) gained their respective bouts with a referee cease the competition (RSC) selections. Ajay gained the bout within the first spherical itself in opposition to Mongolia’s Damdindorj P whereas Ankush wrapped up his match within the third spherical in opposition to Korea’s Lee Ju Sang.
In the meantime, Ashish went down preventing 2-3 in opposition to Oyun Erdene E of Mongolia within the males’s 54g quarter-finals
The U-22 semi-finals will likely be performed on Saturday.
Dhruv Singh (80kg), Guddi (48kg) and Poonam (57kg) will likely be in motion later tonight within the U-22 quarter-finals.
Late on Wednesday, Aryan (92kg), Nisha (52kg), Akansha Phalaswal (70kg) and Rudrika (75kg) gained their respective quarter-finals within the youth class.
Friday will see the 22 youth Indian boxers, together with 10 males, competing within the semi-finals.
Brijesh Tamta (48kg), Aryan (51kg), Sagar Jakhar (60kg), Yashwardhan Singh (63.5kg), Sumit (67kg), Priyanshu (71kg), Rahul Kundu (75kg), Sahil (80kg), Aryan (92kg) and Lakshay Rathi (+92kg) will battle within the males’s part whereas Annu (48kg), Laxmi (50kg), Nisha (52kg), Tamanna (54kg), Yatri Patel (57kg), Nikita Chand (60kg), Shrushti Sathe (63kg), Parthavi Grewal (66kg), Akansha (70kg), Rudrika (75kg), Khushi Pooniya (81kg) and Nirjhara Bana (+81kg) will likely be in motion within the ladies’s part.
The distinguished match has been witnessing high-voltage motion with the presence of 390-plus boxers from greater than 24 international locations, preventing for the medals throughout 25 weight classes.
The finals for the youth and U-22 class will likely be performed on Could 6 and seven respectively.
– Workforce Sportstar
TENNIS
Rohan Bopanna’s academy launches tennis programme for underprivileged kids
Geared toward empowering underprivileged kids, India’s prime tennis participant Rohan Bopanna has picked 25 such children from the distant areas of Majuli Island and Bongaigaon in Assam, for help.
The collaborative initiative between Rohan Bopanna Tennis Academy (RBTA) and Kamal India Basis UK will present complete tennis coaching to the chosen children who’re aged between 9 and 11.
The children underwent a talent and health evaluation course of and have been handpicked by reigning Australian Open champion Bopanna.
The chosen gamers will relocate to Bengaluru, the place they are going to be supplied with state-of-the-art infrastructure, a world-class tennis curriculum, skilled teaching college, boarding & lodging throughout the faculty campus, schooling, and steerage from Bopanna himself at RBTA.
“We’re thrilled to accomplice with Kamal India Basis UK to carry this transformative alternative to gifted younger people who might not in any other case have had entry to such sources,” Bopanna was quoted as saying in a press launch.
“By this program, we intention to not solely nurture their athletic skills but additionally empower them with schooling and life abilities that may form their future,” mentioned Bopanna, who lately grew to become the oldest world primary on the ATP Tour.
– PTI