TENNIS
New Delhi to host Nationwide Championship from September 30
The Fenesta Nationwide Tennis Championship is scheduled to be held on the DLTA Complicated right here from September 30 to October 5. The lads’s, ladies’s and under-18 occasions for girls and boys can be staged within the first week.
The next week will characteristic the under-16 and under-14 occasions for girls and boys as has been the apply through the years.
Nonetheless, aside from the ITF junior occasions, the Indian tennis calendar doesn’t have any worldwide occasions for women and men.
The secretary common of the All India Tennis Affiliation (AITA), Anil Dhupar, had hinted that the subsequent set of worldwide occasions for women and men could be staged from September.
Until March, Indian tennis had a bunch of Challengers, a WTA occasion, and a collection of ITF occasions for women and men.
Thereafter, the cream of Indian tennis has stored itself busy by competing world wide, attempting to construct on the positive factors of the worldwide occasions staged at dwelling.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
Ankita Raina reaches quarterfinals in Gaiba
Ankita Raina beat Irina Bara of Romania 6-2, 2-6, 6-0 within the pre-quarterfinals of the €100,000 WTA tennis match in Gaiba, Italy.
Making the principle draw as a lucky-loser, the 263rd ranked Ankita has received two matches on the grass courts, to arrange a quarterfinal towards qualifier Susan Bandecchi of Switzerland who had crushed her in the one spherical of the qualifying occasion.
RESULTS
€100,000 WTA, Gaiba, Italy
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Ankita Raina bt Irina Bara (Rou) 6-2, 2-6, 6-0.
€148,625 Challenger, Ilkley, Britain
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Nicolas Barrientos (Col) & Francisco Cabral (Por) bt Rithvikk Bollipalli & Niki Poonacha 6-7(2), 6-3, [10-8]; Andre Goransson (Swe) & Sem Verbeek (Ned) bt Anirudh Chandrasekar & Arjun Kadhe 6-4, 7-6(6); Sriram Balaji & Luke Johnson (GBR) bt Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan & Vijay Sundar Prashanth 6-3, 7-5.
€36,900 Challenger, Blois, France
Doubles (quarterfinals): Benjamin Lock & Courtney Lock (Zim) bt Siddhant Banthia & Divij Sharan 7-6(4), 6-4; Pre-quarterfinals: Banthia & Divij bt James Davis & James Mackinlay (GBR) 6-4, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF males, Hillcrest, South Africa
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Devin Badenhorst (RSA) bt Ishaque Eqbal 6-4, 6-3; Aryan Shah bt Khololwam Montsi (RSA) 1-6, 6-2, 6-1.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Kabir Hans & Aryan Shah bt Calum Jestin & Khololwam Montsi (RSA) 1-6, 6-4, [15-13].
$15,000 ITF males, Koszalin, Poland
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Sebastian Sorger (Aut) bt Manas Dhamne 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF males, Hong Kong
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Jake Delaney (Aus) bt Dev Javia 6-1, 6-4; SD Prajwal Dev bt Shan-Yuan Ou (Tpe) 6-4, 6-1.
Doubles (quarterfinals): SD Prajwal Dev & Adil Kalyanpur bt Ren Nakamura & Taiyo Yarnanaka (Jpn) 6-4, 6-2.
$25,000 ITF ladies, Wichita, USA
Singles (first spherical): Sahaja Yamalapalli bt Hong Wong (Hkg) 6-4, 1-6, 6-2.
$25,000 ITF ladies, Tauste, Spain
Doubles (quarterfinals): Rutuja Bhosale & Tian Fangran (Chn) bt Silvia Alejo & Andrea Palazon (Esp) 6-2, 6-2.
$25,000 ITF ladies, Taipei, Taiwan
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Lizette Cabrera (Aus) bt Shrivalli Bhamidipaty 6-0 (retired).
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Mayuka Aikawa & Rinon Okuwaki (Jpn) bt Monique Barry (Nzl) & Shrivalli Bhamidipaty 6-1, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Rancho Santa Fe, USA
Singles (first spherical): Teja Tirunelveli bt Anita Sahdiieva (Ukr) 1-6, 6-4, 6-4.
– Workforce Sportstar
CRICKET
Bengal Professional T20 League: Shrachi Rarh Tigers beats Sobisco Smashers Malda
Prime-scorer Ankita Chakraborty (43 off 47) helped Shrachi Rarh Tigers report a 28-run win over Sobisco Smashers Malda within the ladies’s competitors of the Bengal Professional T20 League on the Jadavpur College floor in Kolkata on Thursday.
SCORES
At Eden Gardens: Males: Servotech Siliguri Strikers 94/6 in 11 overs (Ritwik Roy Chowdhury 44, Ankur Pal 42, Saksham Chaudhary 4/8) misplaced to Adamas Howrah Warriors 74/2 in 7.4 overs by six runs by way of DLS technique; Sobisco Smashers Malda 142/9 in 20 overs (Saurabh Singh 34, Kaif Ahmed 31) misplaced to Shrachi Rarh Tigers 145/3 in 15.5 overs (Arindam Ghosh 48 n.o., Pradipta Pramaik 41 n.o., Sumanta Gupta 36).
At Jadavpur College floor: Ladies: Shrachi Rarh Tigers 101/7 in 20 overs (Ankita Chakraborty 43, Piyali Ghosh 3/12) bt Sobisco Smashers Malda 73/9 in 20 overs.
– Workforce Sportstar
GOLF
Anvitha picks up title on her second professional begin in eighth Leg of WPGT
Anvitha Narender, who held at the very least a share of the lead from the opening spherical, accomplished a complete seven-shot win within the eighth leg of the Hero Ladies’s Professional Golf Tour on the Bangalore Golf Membership on Thursday.
In solely her second skilled match, the New Jersey-born golfer, who was T-8 on her debut every week earlier, shot three positive rounds within the 60s for 69-65-68 to complete 8-under 210 and beat newbie Lavanya Jadon, who had a tough begin however held on for a spherical of 73 and completed second at 1-under 209.
Vidhatri Urs, who like Anvitha is enjoying solely her second professional occasion, shot the day’s equal better of 68 regardless of a end that had a double-bogey and a bogey on the finish.
Vidhatri, who was T-3 final week, completed third time at even par 210 with playing cards of 72-70-68.
Anvitha, beginning the day with a two-shot lead, discovered herself 5 forward after the primary three holes regardless of making solely three pars. Her enjoying companion Lavanya, who was two behind firstly, double bogeyed the second and bogeyed the third. The third participant within the lead group, Seher Atwal parred the primary six holes.
Anvitha dropped a shot on the Par-5 fourth, the place Lavanya birdied for a two-shot swing. Nonetheless, Anvitha fought again with birdies on the sixth and the eighth and seemingly ran away with additional birdies on the twelfth and the thirteenth.
Because the gamers discovered the going robust within the closing levels, Anvitha may afford bogeys on the 14th and the seventeenth although she had a birdie in between on the sixteenth.
With a last spherical of 68 she coasted to a cushty seven-shot win as Lavanya had three bogeys and two birdies on the again 9.
Vidhatri, after a bogey begin, made a cost with 5 birdies within the subsequent eight holes, together with three in a row from eighth to the tenth.
5 pars and a birdie on the sixteenth put her second behind Anvitha, however a double bogey and a bogey on final two holes dropped her to 3rd place as Lavanya ended second with three pars on the finish.
Seher had a tough again 9 with 4 bogeys on a tricky scoring day.
One other newbie, Saanvi Somu from Bengaluru, shot 1-over 71 and was tied fourth with the skilled Seher Atwal, who dropped 4 bogeys in her final seven holes in a card of 3-over 73 and a complete of 2-over 212.
The 2023 Hero Order of Benefit winner, Sneha Singh, who had a share of the lead after the primary day, started in a disastrous method with 4 bogeys in her first seven holes. She had one birdie and one other bogey in a spherical of 74 and was sixth at 6-over 216.
Gaurika Bishnoi, winner final week, additionally dropped photographs on the robust closing holes as she completed bogey-bogey for 70 and was Tied-Seventh with Snigdha Goswami (74), who had 4 bogeys and no birdies.
4 gamers, Amandeep Drall (69), Jahaanvie Walia (70), Agrima Manral (71) and Rhea Jha (74), one of many co-leaders after Day 1, led to a tie for ninth place.
The chief Hitaashee Bakshi, who completed 14th, stayed within the lead on the Hero Order of Benefit.
– PTI