GOLF
Shubhankar makes reduce in Beijing, lies T-Thirty second
Indian golfer Shubhankar Sharma carded a one-over 73 within the second spherical to make the reduce on the Volvo China Open right here on Friday.
The 27-year-old had only one birdie on the second day on the Hidden Grace Golf Membership to lie Tied-Thirty second place right here.
Sharma had a bogey free 6-under 66 on the primary day. He’s now 5-under for 36 holes.
The opposite Indian golfer within the discipline, Om Prakash light away after an honest first spherical. Prakash, who had a 70 on the primary day, carded a 2-over 75 and at even par 144 he missed the reduce in T-94th place.
Sharma birdied the ninth gap on the entrance 9 however gave away two photographs on the again 9 on the twelfth and the 14th holes, whereas Om Prakash had a double, two bogeys and two birdies.
On the high, Sebastian Soderberg, who shot 63 on the primary day, blazed by way of the again 9 after ranging from the tenth.
He had six birdies on the again 9 of the course and in his second 9 he had one bogey and two extra birdies for a day’s work of 7-under 65. At 16-under, he was three photographs forward of England’s Paul Warring (66-67) at 13-under.
Italian Guido Migliozzi (65-67) was third at 12-under.
-PTI
Lahiri begins with 70, lies Twenty ninth in Liv Singapore
Anirban Lahiri had a disappointing begin with 1-under 70 within the opening spherical of the LIV Golf Singapore. The one Indian on the LIV League had 5 birdies towards 4 bogeys.
Lahiri was method behind in T-Twenty ninth place as Sebastian Munoz produced his greatest spherical of the 2024 season to take the first-round lead.
Munoz’s 6-under 65 at Sentosa Golf Membership’s Serapong course put him one shot forward of six gamers — Brooks Koepka, Martin Kaymer, Kevin Na, Thomas Pieters, Cameron Tringale and Abraham Ancer.
One other eight gamers are two photographs behind, together with Joaquin Niemann, the present Particular person factors chief.
High gun Jon Rahm (69) was T-22, whereas Cameron Smith (71) was T-35 and Phil Mickelson (72) was T-41.
Within the group standings, Fireballs and Smash share the lead at 11-under, with three groups only one shot again -– Cleeks, Vary Goats and Stinger GC.
– PTI
Chawrasia high Indian in tied thirteenth place in Korea
India’s SSP Chawrasia, who’s winless on the Asian Tour since 2017, shot a bogey-free 4-under 67 to rise to tied thirteenth on the midway stage of the GS Caltex Maekyung Open right here on Friday.
Chawrasia, who shot 1-over 72 within the first spherical is now 3-under and up from in a single day tied 52nd.
Chawrasia was amongst solely two Indians to make the reduce this week in Korea. The opposite one was Ajeetesh Sandhu (71-71) and he was tied forty second.
Among the many remaining three, Shiv Kapur (75-69) missed the reduce by one shot, whereas S Chikkarangapa (71-77) was method off in tied 104th, and Karandeep Kochhar (78-79) was even additional behind in tied 129th.
Chawrasia began from the tenth and birdied the eleventh and the 18th after which added two extra birdies on second and ninth.
Thailand’s Chonlatit Chuenboonngam upstaged the favoured house stars from Korea to take the midway lead after taking pictures the bottom spherical of the week up to now.
His sensible bogey-free nine-under-par 62 featured eagles on two of the par fours and was one wanting the 23-year-old course report. He shot nine-under and together with his first spherical 71, he was 9-under and one shot forward of Koreans Kyungnam Kang, the first-round chief, and Hongtaek Kim.
Chonlatit additionally missed a 12-foot birdie putt on the par-five ninth, which was his 18th as he started on 10, to narrowly miss matching Chinese language Taipei’s Chung Chun-Hsing’s course report, set method again in 2001.
Kang carded a 69 and Kim a 65, whereas their compatriot Yubin Jang, a member of Korea’s gold medal successful Asian Video games group final 12 months, is one other stroke again following a 69.
-PTI
BOXING
Brijesh, Aryan amongst seven Indians to enter finals at ASBC Asian U-22 & Youth Boxing Championships 2024
Brijesh Tamta and Aryan alongside 5 different Indian boxers entered the finals within the youth males’s class on the ASBC Asian U-22 & Youth Boxing Championships 2024 in Astana, Kazakhstan on Friday.
Starting the proceedings for India, Brijesh defeated Mongolia’s Taalaibek Iasur within the 48kg class with a convincing 5-0 scoreline. Following an identical go well with Rahul Kundu (75kg) and Aryan (92kg) outclassed China’s Kanjiebayi Ersi and Kyrgyzstan’s Alybaev Tynystan with an identical unanimous choices.
Sagar Jakhar (60kg), then again, compelled a referee to cease the competition (RSC) win within the last spherical over Kyrgyzstan’s Sadirov Dilerbek
Aryan (51kg), Yashwardhan Singh (63.5kg) and Priyanshu (71kg) additional prolonged India’s successful run with cut up resolution verdicts.
Sumit (67kg) and Sahil (80kg) signed off with bronze medals after taking place 0-5 towards Kazakhstan’s Sabyrkhan Torekhan and Kyrgyzstan’s Zakirov Mukhammadaziz.
The Indian youth contingent has secured 22 medals, together with 12 within the ladies’s class, on the prestigious event.
Later tonight, Lakshay Rathi (92+kg) and the reigning junior world champions Nisha (52kg) and Akansha (70kg) will combat for a spot within the last together with 10 different Indian youth boxers
On Thursday night time, Dhruv Singh (80kg), Guddi (48kg) and Poonam (57kg) made their method into the last-4 of the U-22 class.
On Saturday, Olympic-bound Preeti (54kg) and reigning youth world champion Vishvanath Suresh (48kg) will lead the cost for India within the U-22 semi-finals together with 17 different boxers.
Muskan (75kg) and Alfiya Pathan (81kg) have obtained byes of their respective U-22 semi-finals.
The event has been witnessing high-voltage motion with the presence of 390-plus boxers from greater than 24 nations, together with robust boxing nations similar to China, India, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan preventing for the medals throughout 25 weight classes.
The finals for the youth and U-22 classes shall be performed on Monday and Tuesday respectively.
-Staff Sportstar
SHOOTING
twenty second Kumar Surendra Singh championship to start in June
The twenty second Kumar Surendra Singh taking pictures championship shall be organised on the Madhya Pradesh Academy in Bhopal from June 1 to 19.
The pistol and rife occasions, together with the non-Olympic occasions like rifle susceptible, customary pistol, centre hearth pistol and free pistol, shall be performed.
Shooters with minimal qualifying rating from the final two nationwide championships aside from the final version of the Kumar Surendra Singh championship shall be eligible to take part.
Entries shut on Might 17. Late entries with triple payment could be accepted until Might 20.
Scores recorded throughout the championship shall be thought of for choice of shooters for worldwide competitions. The finals shall be performed in all Olympic occasions, together with the juniors and youth sections.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
CRICKET
Bengal Professional T20 League trophy unveiled
(L-R)Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Manoj Tiwary, Sourav Ganguly, Snehashis Ganguly, & Jhulan Goswami on the unveiling of the Trophy of Bengal Professional T20 League.
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(L-R)Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Manoj Tiwary, Sourav Ganguly, Snehashis Ganguly, & Jhulan Goswami on the unveiling of the Trophy of Bengal Professional T20 League.
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The inaugural Bengal Professional T20 League (BPTL) shall be performed on the Eden Gardens and the Jadavpur College (JU) floor right here from June 11 to twenty-eight.
The league will function eight franchises having each women and men groups. The boys’s matches shall be performed on the Eden, whereas the ladies’s matches shall be held on the JU floor concurrently.
Marquee gamers of every franchise had been named and the trophy was unveiled within the presence of former India captains Sourav Ganguly and Jhulan Goswami at a operate organised by the Cricket Affiliation of Bengal (CAB) right here on Friday.
The franchises and their marquee gamers:
Murshidabad Kings (males: Manoj Tiwary, ladies: Sukanya Parida); Kolkata Royal Tigers (Abishek Porel, Mita Pal); Howrah Warriors (Anustup Majumdar, Dhara Gujjar); Malda Smashers (Mukesh Kumar, Hrishita Basu); Siliguri Strikers (Akash Deep, Priyanka Bala); Rahr Tigers (Shahbaz Ahmed, Titas Sadhu); Medinipur Wizards (Abhimanyu Easwaran, Richa Ghosh); Murshidabad Kings (Sudeep Gharami, Deepti Sharma).
– Y.B. Sarangi
HOCKEY
Haryana, Maharshtra win in Nationwide Girls’s Hockey League
Haryana and Maharashtra received their respective matches by an identical 2-1 margin within the Nationwide Girls’s Hockey League 2024-2025 (Part 1) right here on Friday.
Within the opening match of the day, Haryana defeated Mizoram 2-1 to carry up its second consecutive victory.
Haryana captain Neelam (twenty eighth minute) transformed a penalty nook late within the second quarter to place her group forward at halftime. Vanlalrinhlui (thirty ninth) scored a discipline purpose for Mizoram to revive parity and apply strain on their opponents.
Nonetheless, a decisive discipline purpose from Pinki (forty third) in the direction of the tip of the third quarter ensured the win for Haryana.
Within the day’s second match, Maharashtra defeated Bengal 2-1.
The first purpose of the sport got here late within the second quarter by way of a penalty nook conversion by Aishwarya Dubey (Twenty ninth).
The lead, although, didn’t final lengthy as Jamuna Ekka (thirty third) transformed a penalty nook for Bengal to equalise early within the third quarter.
Tanushree Dinesh Kadu (54th) scored a discipline purpose within the last quarter to attain the winners for Maharashtra. Later within the day, Manipur will tackle Odisha, whereas Jharkhand will lock horns with Madhya Pradesh.
-PTI
TENNIS
Fred Perry Cup over-50 occasion – Nitten Kirrtane stars in India’s 2-1 win towards Britain in semis
Nitten Kirrtane received each his singles and doubles matches to assist India beat Britain 2-1 within the semifinals of the Fred Perry Cup over-50 occasion within the ITF Tennis Masters World Championship in Mexico on Thursday.
The Indian group had stored an unbeaten report within the league section, because it beat Canada, France and Turkey, to high the group and qualify for the semifinals. The important thing to India’s progress was Nitten successful all of the doubles matches in partnership with Ajit Sail.
Towards France, it was Jagdish Tanwar who gave a powerful begin successful towards Paulo Freitas in three units within the first singles. Nitten misplaced the second singles to Benoit Hallle however got here again robust to win the decisive doubles in partnership with Ajit Sail.
India was scheduled to play Italy within the last. Italy had received previous the Netherlands within the semifinals.
The outcomes
Semifinals: India bt Britain 2-1 (Jagdish Tanwar misplaced to Nick Adams 4-6, 6-3, 1-6; Nitten Kirrtane bt Sebastian Jackson 6-3, 6-2; Ajit Sail & Nitten bt Nick Adams & Jeffrey Hunter 7-6(5), 6-4).
League: India bt Turkey 3-0 (Jagdish bt Erdal Gunes 6-0, 6-0; Nitten bt Bulent Nicimoglu 6-0, 6-1; Ajit Sail & Nitten bt Erdal & Bulent 6-0, 6-0).
India bt France 2-1 (Jagdish bt Paulo Freitas 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-4; Nitten misplaced to Benoit Halle 3-6, 3-6; Ajit Sail & Nitten bt Thomas Dupre & Benoit Halle 6-3, 6-4).
India bt Canada 2-1 (Jagdist misplaced to Benjamin Woo 6-3, 4-6, 1-6; Nitten bt Jason Christie 7-5, 6-2; Ajit Sail & Nitten bt Hugues Laverdiere & Benjamin Woo 6-1, 6-1).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Cagliari Challenger Match: Sriram Balaji in doubles semifinals
Sriram Balaji in partnership with Andre Begemann beat the third seeded Yuki Bhambri and Francisco Cabral 7-6(5), 7-6(4) within the doubles quarterfinals of the €205,000 Challenger tennis event in Cagliari, Italy.
The Indo-German pair will play second seeds Alexander Erler and Lucas Miedler of Austria within the semifinals.
The outcomes:
€205,000 Challenger, Cagliari, Italy Doubles (quarterfinals): Sriram Balaji & Andre Begemann (Ger) bt Yuki Bhambri & Francisco Cabral (Por) 7-6(5), 7-6(4).
$15,000 ITF males, Monastir, Tunisia Singles (quarterfinals): Karan Singh bt Pedro Araujo (Por) 6-2, 6-2.
$100,000 ITF ladies, Gifu, Japan Doubles (quarterfinals): Kimberly Birrell (Aus) & Rebecca Marino (Can) bt Arianne Hartono (Ned) & Prarthana Thombare 6-3, 6-1; Madeleine Brooks (GBR) & Eudice Wong Chong (Hkg) bt Rutuja Bhosale & Sarah Gray (GBR) 2-6, 6-1, [10-7].
$15,000 ITF ladies, Monastir, Tunisia Singles (quarterfinals): Vaishnavi Adkar bt Zou Ruirui (Chn) 7-5, 6-3.
Doubles (semifinals): Aixirefu Aitiyaguli & Xiao Zhenghua (Chn) bt Aaddi Gupta & Sara Lanca (Por) 6-1, 6-3; Hiromi Abe & Natsuho Arakawa (Jpn) bt Dayeon Again (Kor) & Zeel Desai 6-3, 5-7, [15-13].
-Kamesh Srinivasan