CHESS
Divya Deshmukh takes lead at World Junior Chess
After a day’s relaxation, the World junior chess championship will resume on the Reward Metropolis Membership in Gandhinagar on Sunday. With 5 rounds remaining, the open in addition to the ladies’ sections look fairly open with a number of gamers in with an opportunity to be topped champions.
Whereas 4 gamers are collectively main the open occasion, there’s a sole chief among the many women. Divya Deshmukh had begun as a agency favorite and he or she is on 5.5 factors, out of a attainable six.
The Nagpur lady has received 5 video games and drawn one. She is adopted half-a-point behind, although, three gamers — Mariam Mkrtchyan, Narmin Abdinova and Ksenia Norman.
Within the open part, there’s a four-way tie between Jose Gabriel Cardoso, Kazybek Nogerbek, Rudik Makarian and L.M.S.T. De Silva. They’re all on 5 factors.
Behind them are 13 gamers on 4.5. However the prime seed Abhimanyu Mishra is just not amongst them; the Indian-origin participant representing the USA has had a disappointing occasion thus far and is on 3.5 factors.
High outcomes (Indians until acknowledged):
Jose Gabriel Cardoso (Col, 5) drew with Nogerbek Kazybek (Kaz, 5); Aleksey Grebnev (Fid, 4.5) drew with Daniel Quizon (Phi, 4.5); Prraneeth Vuppala (4.5) drew with Pranav Anand (4.5); Mayank Chakraborty (4) misplaced to Rudik Makarian (Fid, 5); Marius Fromm (Ger, 4.5) drew with V S Nandish (4.5); L M S T De Silva (Sri, 5) beat Subelj Jan (Slo, 3.5); Dudin Gleb (Hun, 4.5) beat Simon Rybka (Svk, 3.5); Emin Ohanyan (Arm, 4.5) beat Domalchuk-Jonasson Aleksandr (Isl, 3.5); Artiom Stribuk (Fid, 4.5) beat L R Srihari (3.5); Gharibyan Mamikon (Arm, 4.5) beat Tarun Kanyamarala (Irl, 3.5); Harshit Pawar (4) drew with Tobias Koelle (Ger, 4); Aditya Samant (4) drew with Ayush Sharma (4); Sanket Chakravarty (3.5) misplaced to Luka Budisavljevic (Srb, 4.5); A R Ilamparthi (4.5) beat Adireddy Arjun (3.5); Zhangir Bizhigitov (Kaz, 3.5) drew with Abhimanyu Mishra (Usa, 3.5); Mark Smirnov (Kaz, 3) misplaced to Siddharth Jagadeesh (Sgp, 4);Alekhya Mukhopadhyay (3) misplaced to Ethan Vaz (4); Nihal Swarna (3) misplaced to Sambit Panda (4); S Aswath (4) beat Jyotshnav Talukdar (3).
Women:
Ayan Allahverdiyeva (Aze, 4.5) misplaced to Divya Deshmukh (5.5); Mrittika Mallick (4) misplaced to Mariam Mkrtchyan (Arm, 5); Beloslava Krasteva (Bul, 4) misplaced to Norman Kseniya (Fid, 5); Martyna Wikar (Pol, 4.5) drew with Sachi Jain (4.5); Balabayeva Xeniya (Kaz, 4.5) drew with R Kashthuri Bhai (4.5); Narmin Abdinova (Aze, 5) beat V Rindhiya (4); Lucia Striskova (Svk, 4) misplaced to Rakshitta Ravi (4.5); Mrudul Dehankar (3.5) misplaced to Sofia Hryzlova (Sui, 4.5); Anna Zhurova (Fid, 4.5) beat Oshini Gunawardhana Devindya (Sri, 3.5); Lala Shohradova (Tkm, 4) drew with Anastasia Grozdanovic (Srb, 4); Yashvi Jain (3.5) misplaced to Kaldarova Ayaulym (Kaz, 4.5); Swara Lakshmi S Nair (4) drew with Milena Gasparyan (Arm, 4); Bhagyashree Patil (4) beat Liya Kurmangaliyeva (Kaz, 3); Trisha Kanyamarala (3.5) drew with Ishvi Aggarwal (3.5); Dakshita Kumawat (4) beat Rzali Sabina (Aze, 3); Nia Donghvani (Geo, 3.5) drew with Bristy Mukherjee (3.5); Arshiya Das (3.5) drew with G Tejaswini (3.5); Sharanya Gade (4) beat Anishka Vikram (3); Saparya Ghosh (3) misplaced to Sneha Halder (4); Meryem Agajanova (Tkm, 4) beat Chinnam Vyshnavi (3); Elisa Cassi Ita, 3.5) beat Arya G Mallar (3).
– P.Okay. Ajith Kumar
GOLF
Lahiri fires 69, lies T-15 in Liv Golf Houston
Anirban Lahiri had a sluggish begin with a bunch of pars earlier than discovering the momentum and lifting himself to 3-under for the primary spherical of the Liv Golf Houston. He was Tied-15 alongside Bryson DeChambeau and Jon Rahm.
Lahiri, ranging from the thirteenth, had six pars after which discovered birdies 5 occasions within the subsequent seven holes and ended with a 69 within the USD20m occasion.
Caleb Surratt, 20, began with a bogey-free 7-under 65 to share the first-round lead with Martin Kaymer, the captain of his group, Cleeks GC, and fellow group member Adrian Meronk.
The Cleeks additionally led the group occasion at 17-under to seize a three-shot benefit over Torque GC within the group competitors.
The trio of particular person leaders are one shot forward of Kevin Na and Carlos Ortiz and 7 gamers are two pictures again, together with Particular person factors chief Joaquin Niemann and Patrick Reed.
As many as 41 of the 54 gamers within the area broke par and included 9 bogey-free rounds.
-PTI
TENNIS
Karan Thapa wins maiden under-18 Nationwide Collection title
Kochi’s Karan Thapa who received the boys singles title within the AITA Nationwide Collection under-18 tennis event in Bengaluru on Saturday.
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Kochi’s Karan Thapa who received the boys singles title within the AITA Nationwide Collection under-18 tennis event in Bengaluru on Saturday.
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 Kerala’s unseeded Karan Thapa defeated Karnataka’s third-seeded Kevin Titus Suresh 6-4, 6-4 and received the boys singles title within the AITA Nationwide Collection under-18 tennis event in Bengaluru on Saturday.
It was the primary under-18 Nationwide Collection title for the 16-year-old who’s coached by his dad Bimal Thapa and uncle Mansingh Thapa on the Regional Sports activities Centre-Subsequent Technology Tennis Academies in Kochi.
-Stan Rayan
Riya Sachdeva wins ladies’s title
Riya Sachdeva, with the ladies’s singles winner’s trophy in Faridabad.
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Riya Sachdeva, with the ladies’s singles winner’s trophy in Faridabad.
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Riya Sachdeva saved two match factors to beat prime seed Aditi Rawat 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 within the closing of the Rs.100,000 AITA ladies’s tennis event on the Faridabad Tennis Academy.
Within the semifinals, the 17-year-old Riya had crushed Yashika Shokeen, a member of the Indian junior Billie Jean King Cup group.
It was the third singles title within the ladies’s circuit for Riya.
The outcomes (closing): Riya Sachdeva bt Aditi Rawat 2-6, 7-5, 6-4; Semifinals: Aditi bt Samaira Malik 6-3, 6-1; Riya bt Yashika Shokeen
– Kamesh Srinivasan
Sahaja Yamalapalli loses quarterfinals
Sahaja Yamalapalli was crushed 6-3, 7-5 by Maria Mateas within the quarterfinals of the $60,000 ITF ladies’s tennis event in Sumter, USA.
The outcomes:
€148,625 Challenger, Surbiton, Britain Doubles (semifinals): Nicolas Barrientos (Col) & Diego Hidalgo (European) bt Yuki Bhambri & Lloyd Glasspool (GBR) 6-3, 7-6(7).
$25,000 ITF males, Cordoba, Spain Doubles (closing): Blake Bayldon (Aus) & Mats Hermans (Ned) bt Siddhant Banthia & Tennyson Whiting (USA0 7-6(3), 6-3.
$15,000 ITF males, Monastir, Tunisia Singles (semifinals): Cengiz Aksu (Tur) bt Manish Sureshkumar 6-2, 6-1.
$60,000 ITF ladies, Sumter, USA Singles (quarterfinals): Maria Mateas (USA) bt Sahaja Yamalapalli 6-3, 7-5.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Antonia Schmidt (Ger) bt Saumya Vig 6-1, 6-0; Jessica Gomez (Mex) bt Sharmada Balu 6-1, 6-1;; Riya Bhatia bt Sabastiani Leon (USA) 6-3, 6-4.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Kolie Allen & Sabastiani Leon (USA) bt Shria Atturu (USA) & Saumya Vig 6-0, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Monastir, Tunisia Singles (semiifinals): Patricija Paukstyte (Ltu) bt Zeel Desai 6-2, 2-6, 6-1.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
FOOTBALL
Title holders India to face Maldives and Bangladesh in SAFF U-17 Championship
Defending champions India have been clubbed alongside aspect Maldives and Bangladesh in Group A on this 12 months’s SAFF U-17 Championship.
The draw was carried out on Saturday for the SAFF U-17, U-20 Championship, and SAFF Girls’s Championship. India is the reigning champions of the U-17 Championship. Hosts Bhutan, together with Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, have been drawn in Group B of the event, set to run from September 18 until 28.
As for the U-20 Championship, defending champion India has been clubbed in Group B together with Maldives and Bhutan.
Hosts Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have been drawn in Group A, with the competitors occurring between August 16-28 in Kathmandu.
Within the Girls’s Championship, five-time champions India has been clubbed in Group A alongside reigning champion Bangladesh and Pakistan.
Hosts Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Bhutan have been drawn in Group B, with the occasion set to run between October 17-30.
The format for the tournaments stays the identical — league-cum-knockout — with the highest two sides from each teams making it to the semifinals.
-PTI