BASKETBALL
Elite Professional Basketball League declares launch of Collegiate Slam Showdown
The Elite Professional Basketball League, in collaboration with the Elite Ladies’s Professional Basketball League, the largest basketball platforms in India introduced the launch of the Collegiate Slam Showdown, an open basketball event for college college students throughout India ranging from the June 14, 2024.
The Collegiate Slam Showdown will probably be divided into 4 zones – North, South, East, and West – with each female and male classes over a complete of 20 days with hundreds of newbie {and professional} basketball gamers.
The zonal championships will probably be adopted by a nationwide championship, which is scheduled to happen in Noida from July 11 to 14, 2024.
Along with competing for the championship title, high gamers from the profitable groups may stand the prospect to coach with and probably be drafted into groups within the Elite Professional Basketball and Elite Ladies’s Professional Basketball Leagues.
Zonal Championship
South Zone: June 14-16, 2024
East Zone: June 21-23, 2024
West Zone: June 28-30, 2024
North Zone: July 5-7, 2024
TENNIS
AITA males’s tennis event: Kesharwani beats Borthakur to succeed in last
Maan Kesharwani beat Abhinansu Borthakur 5-7, 6-4, 6-2 to arrange a title conflict towards Oges Theyjo Jaya Prakash within the Rs. 250,000 AITA males’s tennis event on Thursday.
The outcomes (semifinals):
Maan Kesharwani bt Abhinansu Borthakur 5-7, 6-4, 6-2; Oges Theyjo bt Ajay Malik 6-4, 2-6, 6-1; Quarterfinals: Abhinansu bt Keerthivassan Suresh 6-0, 6-0; Maan bt Aditya Balsekar 6-4, 0-6, 6-4; Oges Theyjo bt Rashein Samuel 7-6(5), 3-6, 6-1; Ajay Malik bt Omar Sumar 6-3, 6-2.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Ankita Raina reaches quarterfinal of $40,000 ITF girls’s tennis event
Ankita Raina fought her well past Angelina Wirges of Germany 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-3 within the pre-quarterfinals of the $40,000 ITF girls’s tennis event in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal, on Thursday.
The outcomes:
€148,625 Challenger, Surbiton, Britain
Doubles (quarterfinals): Yuki Bhambri & Lloyd Glasspool (GBR) bt Anirudh Chandrasekar & Arjun Kadhe 6-2, 6-3;
Pre-quarterfinals: Nicolas Barrientos (Col) & Diego Hidalgo (European) bt Rithvik Bollipalli & Niki Poonacha 1-6, 7-6(3), [10-5]; Anirudh Chandrasekar & Arjun Kadhe bt Charles Broom & Ben Jones (GBR) 6-7(4), 6-4, [10-2]; Yuki & Lloyd bt Mackenzie McDonald (USA) & Shang Juncheng (Chn) 7-6(5), 6-3.
$82,000 Challenger, Tyler, USA
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Colin Sinclair (NMI) & Coleman Wong (Hkg) bt Joshua Parris (GBR) & Ramkumar Ramanathan 3-6, 6-4, [10-8].
$25,000 ITF males, Cordoba, Spain
Doubles (quarterfinals): Siddhant Banthia & Tennyson Whiting (USA) bt Mario Fernandez (Esp) & Karol Malirz (Pol) 7-5, 6-4.
$15,00 ITF males, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland
Singles (first spherical): Ignacio Monzon (Arg) bt Manas Dhamne 6-3, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF males, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Manish Sureshkumar bt Nikita Ianin 6-1, 6-1.
$60,000 ITF girls, Sumter, USA
Singles (first spherical): Sahaja Yamalapalli bt Charlotte Chavatipon (USA) 7-5, 6-1.
$40,000 ITF girls, Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Ankita Raina bt Angelina Wirges (Ger) 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-3.
$25,000 ITF girls, Daegu, Korea
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Kim Cherry (Kor) bt Vaidehi Chudhari 6-2, 6-4; Petra Hule (Aus) bt Shrivalli Bhamidipaty 2-6, 6-2, 6-4.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Sakura Hosogi & Misaki Matsuda (Jpn) bt Shrivalli Bhamidipty & Vaidehi Chaudhari 6-4, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF girls, San Diego, USA
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Eryn Cayetano (USA) & Lily Fairclough (Aus) bt Abigail Amos (GBR) & Teja Tirunelveli 6-3, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF girls, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Zeel Desai bt Carolann Delaunay (Ncl) 6-3, 6-3.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
HANDBALL
Ladies’s Handball League to scout upcoming gamers by way of nationwide ‘Future handball champions expertise hunt’
Southeast Asia’s groundbreaking Ladies’s Handball League (WHL), promoted by Pavna Sports activities Enterprise, has launched an formidable “future handball champions program” ranging from the upcoming league season in January 2025 with a concentrate on scouting and growing younger and proficient Indian girls gamers from throughout the nation.
The Indian handball staff is at the moment ranked fifth in Asia and the nation has 10,000 registered gamers and near 30,000 gamers taking part in the sport in India, at the moment.
The ladies’s handball league will function distinguished gamers from India, together with these from the Center East, Southeast Asia, Europe, and Africa.
The league, which will probably be performed below the auspices of the South Asian Handball Federation and supported by the Asian Handball Federation, is ready to function six franchise groups in its inaugural version.
With this purpose in thoughts, the League has entered right into a long-term partnership with homegrown gear producer, Nivia Sports activities, to conduct a number of expertise hunt applications throughout the nation to faucet and nurture younger prospects of the sport and likewise intention to make sport extra accessible, with particular emphasis on advancing girls’s handball India.
-Staff Sportstar
WRESTLING
Aman Sehrawat wins silver in Budapest Rating Collection
Olympic-qualified wrestler Aman Sehrawat (freestyle 57kg) took the silver medal within the second Rating Collection in Budapest on Thursday. Sehrawat, who beat Georgia’s Roberti Dingashvili 11-1 and particular person impartial athlete Aryan Tsiutryn 14-4 to succeed in the ultimate, misplaced to Japan’s World championships silver medallist Rei Higuchi 11-1 within the title conflict.
-Staff Sportstar
CHESS
Divya Deshmukh, Ayan Allahverdiyeva share lead in World junior ladies’ chess championship
High seed Divya Deshmukh, who beat the only in a single day chief Narmin Abdinova, and Ayan Allahverdiyeva shared the lead on the finish of the fifth spherical of the World junior ladies’ chess championship at Gandhinagar on Thursday. That they had 4.5 factors every.
Within the boys’ occasion, Jose Gabriel Cardoso and Kazybek Nogerbek had been within the joint lead with 4.5 factors apiece
Necessary outcomes (fifth spherical):
Open: Jose Gabriel Cardoso (Col) 4.5 drew with Mayank Chakraborty 4; Kazybek Nogerbek (Kaz) 4.5 bt A.R. Ilamparthi 3.5; L. Srihari 3 misplaced to Aleksey Grebnev (FIDE) 4; Pranav Anand 4 bt Aruj Shrivatri 3; Aleksandr Domalchuk-Jonasson (Isl) 3.5 drew with Gleb Dudin (Hun) 3.5; Siddharth Jagadeesh (Sgp) 3 misplaced to L.M.S.T. De Silva (SL) 4; Sambit Panda 3 misplaced to Rudik Makarian (FIDE) 4; Jan Subelj (Slo) 3.5 drew with Sanket Chakravarty 3.5; Ayush Sharman 3.5 drew with Emin Ohanyan (Arm) 3.5; Tobias Koelle (Ger) 3.5 drew with Avinash Ramesh 3.5.
Women: Divya Deshmukh 4.5 bt Narmin Abdinova (Aze) 4; Mariam Mkrtchyan (Arm) 4 drew with Kashthrui Bhai 4; V. Ridhiya 4 drew with Beloslava Krasteva (Bul) 4; Ksenia Norman (FIDE) 4 drew with Xeniya Balabayeva (Kaz) 4; Sofia Hryzlova (Sui) 3.5 misplaced to Ayan Allahverdiyeva (Aze) 4.5; Liya Kurmangaliyeva (Kaz) 3 misplaced to Lucia Striskova (Svk) 4; G. Tejaswini 3 misplaced to Martyna Wikar (Pol) 4; Rakshitta Ravi 3.5 drew with Lala Shohradova (Tkm) 3.5; Sachi Jain 4 bt Meryem Agajanova (Tkm) 3; Anastasia Grozdanovic (Srb) 3.5 drew with Milena Gasparyan (Arm) 3.5.