GOLF
Diksha set for landmark a centesimal begin on LET
Diksha Dagar will change into the primary Indian lady golfer to play 100 occasions on the Women European Tour when she tees up on the Aramco Group Collection Korea, her first look within the sequence.
Diksha, who turned professional in 2019 and received on LET in her first full season, has been a daily on LET since then.
At present ninth on the LET Order of Benefit, Diksha turned 23 in December. She is likely one of the three Indians to tee off on the New Korea Nation Membership. The opposite two Indians within the subject are Pranavi Urs and Vani Kapoor.
Diksha may even lead the staff of Czech Tereza Melecka and Korean Do Yeon Park, whereas Pranavi and Vani are within the staff led by Singaporean Shannon Tan, who has already received as soon as in her rookie season.
She was a part of the successful staff within the Aramco Group Collection in London in 2021. That was the 12 months when the sequence was performed throughout 5 nations.
Diksha has completed within the High-10 of the person part solely as soon as. That first High-10 got here this 12 months in Tampa Florida, the place she was tied sixth.
Diksha, a lock-in for the Olympic Video games in Paris, is ranked 147th on the earth and the second greatest Indian after Aditi Ashok (53rd).
A gold medallist on the 2021 Deaflympics, Diksha can also be a recipient of the Arjuna Award in 2023.
“Representing India is the largest honour one can have so I’m wanting ahead to my second Olympic look,” mentioned Diksha, who’s the one golfer to have performed at each the Summer season Olympics (2021 Tokyo) and the Deaflympics (2017 and 2021).
Diksha is one in every of solely two Indian girls to have received on the LET and he or she has carried out it twice – as soon as in Investec South African Ladies’s Open in 2019 and in Czech Women Open in 2023.
“For the current my focus is the LET, the place I’ve received twice and I need to do higher,” mentioned Diksha, who can also be aiming to get to the LPGA Tour in the USA.
Diksha, who received as soon as within the Tipsport Czech Women Open and was T-3 on the Amundi German Masters and Hero Indian Open final 12 months, was additionally third within the Order of Benefit. She had 9 particular person High-10 finishes and another within the staff occasion in Hong Kong.
This season she has had High-10 finishes in Lalla Meryem Cup in Morocco (ninth) and in Tampa Florida (T-6). The busy a part of the season continues to be forward of her.
Vani has been round for some years however continues to be searching for her first win on the LET, as is Pranavi Urs, who’s enjoying her first full season on the Tour.
– PTI
SHOOTING
Anantjeet narrowly misses the ultimate at Taking pictures World Cup
Anantjeet Singh Naruka shot 120 out of 125 and missed the ultimate by two factors in skeet within the taking pictures World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Thursday.
The Asian Video games silver medallist and Olympic quota winner, Anantjeet had a sequence of twenty-two, 25, 25, 24 and 24, for the fifteenth spot in a subject of 80.
In girls’s skeet, Olympic quota winner Raiza Dhillon shot 114 for the sixteenth spot in a subject of 45. The opposite Olympic quota winner Maheshwari Chauhan shot 113 for the twentieth place.
The outcomes:
Skeet: Males: 1. Lyu Jianlin (Chn) 56 (122); 2. Federico Gil (Arg) 50 (122); 3. Ben Llewellin (GBR) 42 (124); 15. Anantjeet Singh Naruka 120; 54. Sheeraz Sheikh 115; 76. Mairaj Ahmad Khan 105. RPO: Kuldeep Sanyashi 117; Arjun Thakur 110.
Ladies: 1. Austen Smith (USA) 56 (119); 2. Martina Maruzzo (Ita) 50 (120); 3. Danka Bartekova (Svk) 43 (119); 16. Raiza Dhillon 114; 20. Maheshwari Chauhan 113; 25. Ganemat Sekhon 111.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
CRICKET
Younger Cricketers beat Expertise Academy by three wickets in Goswami Ganesh Dutt match
An all-round present by Sourabh Kumar and a affected person half century by Siddharth Yadav paved the way in which for Younger Cricketers’ three-wicket victory over Expertise Academy within the pre-quarterfinals of the forty ninth all-India Goswami Ganesh Dutt cricket match on the Khalsa School floor on Thursday.
For his three wicket bag and 31 runs, Sourabh was adjudged the “man of the match”. Siddharth scored 65 with eight 4s to clinch the “excellent participant” award.
Within the quarterfinals, to be performed on Might 15, Younger Cricketers will problem Rajnigandha Membership.
On Friday, Delhi Wanderers will play Mount Academy within the final pre-quarterfinals.
The scores:
Expertise Academy 220/8 in 40 overs (Mayank Rawat 60, Dev Lakra 47, Sourabh Kumar 3/35; Tusya Naman 3/38) misplaced to Younger Cricketers 222/7 in 36.4 overs (Siddharth Yadav 65, Abhishek Goswami 39, Sourabh Kumar 31).
– Kamesh Srinivasan
BASKETBALL
Nationwide junior championship: Kerala beats Uttar Pradesh
Kerala bounced again from being down 33-49 at half time to beat defending champion Uttar Pradesh 92-88 in a group-A league match of the 74th Nationwide junior basketball championship on the Emerald Heights Worldwide College courts on Thursday.
Within the girls’s part, Rajasthan stunned Kerala 80-63.
The outcomes:
MEN:
Group-A: Kerala 92 (Vinay Sankar 28, LR Niranjan 15, Jins Joby 14, Asswin Krishna 12, Niyukth Salil 11) bt Uttar Pradesh 88 (Vedansh Ranot 24, Kunal Singgh 24, Harshit Tomar 14). Chandigarh 70 (Gourav Kumar Singh 19, Himanshu Hooda 12, Ravinder Kaushik 10) bt Punjab 64 (Sahibrjit Singh 20).
Group-B: Rajasthan 64 (Nitesh Kumar 17, Nuhammed Ishan 15, Mayank Jawa 11) bt Andhra Pradesh 24 (Dwaraknatha Reddy 22). Madhya Pradesh 77 (Mohit Jogchand 25, Ajay 12, Kirtiraj Singh 10) bt Odisha 32 (Biswanath Sisa 14)
WOMEN:
Group-A: Rajasthan 80 (Priyanka Pal 29, Bhumika Verma 22, Priyanshi Joshi 14) bt Kerala 63 (Amanda Rocha 23). Madhya Pradesh 66 (Kushpal Singh 29, Guni Agarwal 14) bt Karnataka 56 (Aditi Subramaniam 19, Tarun Tarushree 18).
Group-B: Maharashtra 98 (Aananya Bhavssar 37, Rajvi Maladhari 18, Gunjan Mantri 11) bt Chhattisgarh 54 (Palakshi Thakur 20, Komalpreet Kaur 17). Gujarat 86 (Archi Patel 30, Aahana George 25, Aradhana Patel 12) bt Uttar Pradesh 77 (Ruby Rajput 24, Anushka Chouhan 23, Saloni Kumari 12).
– Group Sportstar
HOCKEY
Haryana beats Madhya Pradesh, Odisha defeats Mizoram
Haryana prevailed over Madhya Pradesh 3-2 in a shootout whereas Odisha defeated Mizoram 2-0 within the Nationwide Ladies’s Hockey League 2024 right here on Thursday.
The Haryana-MP match went into shootout after the rating remained 0-0 on the finish of regulation time.
Within the day’s opening showdown, each Haryana and Madhya Pradesh fought tooth and nail however couldn’t convert their probabilities.
Madhya Pradesh was awarded 5 penalty corners whereas Haryana was given 4, however none of them resulted in a objective.
Within the shootout, Manju Chorsiya, Pinki and Khasa Shashi scored for Haryana whereas Karmanpreet Kaur and Swati struck for Madhya Pradesh. Ishika saved three objectives for Haryana to assist it win two factors.
The primary quarter of the second match turned out to be goalless however Pratibha Ekka (25’) put Odisha forward with a subject objective within the second quarter. The third quarter didn’t see any objectives as Odisha led 1-0 going into the ultimate 10 minutes of regulation time.
Karuna Minz (52’) doubled Odisha’s lead with a subject objective within the last quarter.
– PTI
TENNIS
Vidhi Jani defeats Sahira Singh in quarterfinals
Vidhi Jani battled previous second seed Sahira Singh 6-1, 3-6, 6-1 within the girls’s quarterfinals of the Rs.200,000 AITA rating tennis match on the Ace Academy on Thursday.
Within the males’s part, Adil Kalyanpur, Moksh Puri, Ricky Chaudhary and Dmitrii Baskov made the semifinals.
The outcomes (quarterfinals):
Males: Adil Kalyanpur w.o. Yash Yadav; Moksh Puri bt Nishit Nilesh Rahane 6-2, 6-3; Ricky Chaudhary bt Nirav Shetty 6-2, 6-2; Dmitrii Baskov bt Deep Munim 6-3, 7-6(3).
Ladies: Sejal Bhutada bt Khusshali Modi 6-2, 6-4; Saumrita Verma bt Mirdhula Palanivel 6-3, 3-6, 6-4; Divya Sharma bt Ira Shah 6-3, 7-5; Vidhi Jani bt Sahira Singh 6-1, 3-6, 6-1.
– Group Sportstar