TENNIS
Niki, Rithvik lose doubles finals with totally different companions
Rithvik Bollipalli in partnership with Hans Verdugo of Mexico was overwhelmed 6-4, 3-6, [10-7] within the doubles closing by Liam Draxl and Benjamin Sigouin of Canada within the $82,000 Challenger tennis match in Little Rock, USA.
In one other doubles closing within the €74,825 Challenger in Vicenza, Italy, Niki Poonacha in partnership with Andre Begemann was overwhelmed 6-3, 6-4 by Vladyslav Manafov and Patrik Niklas-Salminen.
Within the $15,000 ITF males’s occasion in Kingston, Jamaica, the 18-year-old Aryan Shah made the singles closing with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Kosuke Ogura of Japan.
RESULTS
$82,000 Challenger, Little Rock, USA
Doubles (closing): Liam Draxl & Benjamin Sigouin (Can) bt Rithvik Bollipalli & Hans Verdugo (Mex) 6-4, 3-6, [10-7]; Semifinals: Liam & Benjamin bt Joshua Parris (GBR) & Ramkumar Ramanathan 1-6, 6-4, [16-14]; Rithvik & Hans bt Thai-Son Kwitkowski & Alex Lawson (USA) 6-1, 6-1.
€74,825 Challenger, Vicenza, Italy
Doubles (closing): Vladyslv Manafov (Ukr) & Patrik NIkls-Salminen (Fin) bt Andre Begemann (Ger) & Niki Poonacha 6-3, 6-4; Semifinals: Andre & Niki bt Luca Giacomini & Giovnni Oradini (Ita) 6-4, 3-6, [10-6].
$15,000 ITF males, Kingston, Jamaica
Singles (semifinals): Aryan Shah bt Kosuke Ogura (Jpn) 6-4, 6-2.
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GOLF
Aditi Ashok tied-Twenty ninth after powerful third spherical at US Ladies’s Open
Aditi Ashok in motion in the course of the U.S. Ladies’s Open at Lancaster Nation Membership in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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Aditi Ashok in motion in the course of the U.S. Ladies’s Open at Lancaster Nation Membership in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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 Aditi Ashok endured one other curler coaster spherical, carding a below-par 3-over 73 to go tied Twenty ninth on the third day of the US Ladies’s Open.
Aditi’s rounds included two birdies, three bogeys and a double bogey.
The double bogey got here on the fourth, the place she had misplaced two photographs on the primary day too.
Aditi’s first two rounds have been 73-71 and he or she is at present at 7-over in her Twenty ninth Main.
Aditi, who got here near a medal on the Tokyo Olympics, remains to be searching for her first top-20 end in a Main.
On a course which has been tough to attain, solely 5 gamers are below and there are three co-leaders.
The lead at 5-under is shared by Wichanee Meechai (69), Andrea Lee (67) and Minjee Lee (66).
Former British Open champion Hinako Shibuno had seven birdies for a 66 and was two behind.
One other shot again was Yuka Saso, who saved photographs together with her putter and one chic shot over a bunker to a good pin on the par-3 seventeenth.
She dropped two photographs late for a 69.
Nelly Korda, Rose Zhang and another massive stars have missed the lower on a troublesome course.
The prize purse this week is $2.4 million for the winner, by far the most important in girls’s golf.
-PTI