Indian sports activities wrap, July 1: Jamshedpur FC retains Seiminlen Doungel

FOOTBALL

Jamshedpur FC retains Seiminlen Doungel

Manipur midfielder Seiminlen Doungel prolonged his tenure with Jamshedpur FC till the top of the 2024-25 season of the Indian Tremendous League, the membership introduced on Monday.

A skillfull, robust and versatile participant who has been an important a part of the Jamshedpur FC facet for the previous 4 seasons, Doungel was essential within the ISL Protect successful marketing campaign in 2021-22.

“I’ve unfinished enterprise from the final two seasons and we have to get the membership again on the highest of the ISL desk, a spot that the Jharkhand followers deserve,” the 30-year-old stated in a launch.

Doungel has had a stellar profession in ISL representing Jamshedpur, FC Goa, Kerala Blasters, North East United, Bengaluru FC, Delhi Dynamos and East Bengal.

Over his 63 appearances for the Males of Metal, Doungel has scored 5 objectives and offered one help. He’s additionally one of many six Indian gamers to attain a hat-trick within the ISL.

Doungel has additionally received the I-League within the 2015-16 season and the Federation Cup in 2012 and 2017.

He was a member of Bengaluru FC’s runner-up squad within the AFC Cup in 2016 and performed an important position in FC Goa’s 2019-20 ISL season, serving to it end on the high of the league and develop into the ISL Premiers (defend winners).

– PTI

CRICKET

India deaf cricket workforce wins bilateral T20 sequence in opposition to England

The Indian deaf cricket workforce defeated host England by six wickets within the seventh and last T20 to assert the sequence 5-2 in Leicester.

Abhishek Singh was awarded the man-of-the-match within the last recreation, whereas Sai Akash bagged the player-of-the-series honour.

Electing to bowl, India restricted England to 164 for 4 after which chased down the goal with 4 balls to spare, driving on half-centuries by Abhishek (68) and Umar Ashraf (56).

India didn’t have one of the best of begins to its chase, shedding the primary three wickets for under 46 runs. However Abhishek and Ashraf shared a 95-run partnership to rebuild the innings and took the facet over the road.

– PTI

BADMINTON

Badminton Asia Junior Championships: Valiant India go down 2-3 in opposition to Malaysia in quarters

India’s Badminton Asia Junior Combined workforce championships problem ended on the quarterfinal stage after shedding to Malaysia 2-3 on Monday.

The gamers will now take part within the particular person championship starting from Wednesday.

Within the quarterfinals, India made one more change to its blended doubles pairing, combining Sanskar Saraswat with Shravani Walekar. And the duo gave the workforce the lead with a 21-16, 13-21, 21-17 win over Kang Khai Xing and Noraqilha Maisarah.

Senior Nationals runners-up Tanvi Sharma then doubles India’s lead when she received the higher of Siti Zulaikha 21-15, 15-21, 22-20 in ladies singles.

India regarded on track of an upset win when Pranay Shettigar clinched the opening recreation in opposition to Muhammad Faiq. However he couldn’t maintain the momentum and misplaced 15-21, 21-18, 21-19 in an hour and 6 minutes and Malaysia then grabbed the chance.

Walekar and Navya Kanderi went down 16-21, 15-21 in opposition to Bui Ong Xin Yee and Carmen Ting after which boys doubles mixture of Bhargav Ram Arigela Arsh Mohammad misplaced to Kang and Aaron Tai 18-21, 10-21.

Tanvi Sharma impresses

The loss within the quarterfinals not withstanding, the squad had plenty of positives to take from the competitors as Tanvi Sharma remained unbeaten in all her matches and the adjustments in blended doubles mixture labored nicely.

In reality, India didn’t lose any ladies singles match as Navya Kanderi additionally punched above her weight to win the one rubber in opposition to Indonesia within the group stage.

GOLF

Shubankar Sharma finishes fifth in Italian Open

 India’s Olympic-bound golfer Shubhankar Sharma dropped an important double bogey and a bogey within the area of three holes on the again 9 to complete a sole fifth on the Italian Open.

The 2-time DP World Tour winner was at 11-under whole and one below for the day when he got here to the 14th tee.

One of many 4 co-leaders after three days, Sharma began at 10-under.

After being even par for the entrance 9 in swirling winds and tough circumstances, he dropped a double on 14th and a bogey on sixteenth and didn’t fund birdies on the final two holes.

The Mauritius-based German Siem, who was cruising at 3-under for entrance 9 and at 13-under hit a roadblock with 4 bogeys on eleventh, 14th, fifteenth and seventeenth and was all of the sudden behind Tom McKibbin, who with 6-under 65, set the clubhouse goal of 10-under greater than three hours earlier.

Carrying the now standard vibrant shirt, a trademark from his adopted house nation, Siem birdied the 18th to get right into a play-off.

He once more birdied the 18th within the first play-off gap to finish a exceptional comeback from damage to win his sixth DP World Tour title on the Italian Open.

It was his first win since his fifth success on the Hero Indian Open in February 2023.

-PTI

Unfortunate Bhatia three-putts on last gap to lose by one shot at Rocket Mortgage golf

Indian-American golfer Akshay Bhatia, who performed so nicely all week, three-putted on the 72nd gap and misplaced by one shot to complete tied-2nd with an combination of 17-under 271 on the Rocket Mortgage Traditional.

Australian Cam Davis, beginning the day one behind in a single day leaders Bhatia and Aaron Rai, carded 2-under 70 with a birdie on the seventeenth and a par on 18th. His 18-under turned the clubhouse goal.

On the 18th tee, Bhatia, within the last group with Aaron, was one-under for the day and a complete of 18-under. He wanted a birdie to win and a par to get into the play-off. However he three-putted from 32 toes and his par putt didn’t drop from six toes for a bogey as he fell to second with 72 within the last spherical and a complete of 17-under.

Aaron had 4 pars in his final 4 holes for a 72 and, at 17-under, he was additionally in in a tie for second with Davis Thompson (68) and Min Woo Lee (69).

It was Davis’ second success on the Rocket Mortgage Traditional.

Bhatia stated, “It sucks. No different solution to put it. I imply, simply sucks.” Bhatia, 22, was trying to be a part of a small checklist of modern-era Tour execs to win three titles earlier than he turns 23. The checklist consists of Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, Jordan Spieth, Tom Kim and Sergio Garcia.

Bhatia hadn’t made a bogey by means of 54 holes however broke that run on the par-4 third earlier on Sunday.

He received that one again instantly, draining a 32-foot birdie on the very subsequent gap. Bhatia added a birdie on the seventh to maneuver to 18-under and was regular sufficient for the subsequent 10 holes till the par-4 ending gap. It was his first three-putt of the week and his first miss inside six toes.

Bhatia was in search of his second win of the season after capturing the Valero Texas Open in April. He additionally received final 12 months’s Barracuda Championship whereas competing on Particular Short-term Membership.

This was Bhatia’s third top-10 end of the season and second in a row after ending T5 on the Vacationers Championship. He strikes from No. 15 to No. 11 on the season-long FedExCup standings and additional establishes his rising standing within the professional recreation.

Bhatia entered the ultimate spherical as the one participant within the area with out a bogey by means of 54 holes and made two bogeys within the last spherical.

-PTI

Runner-up end in Switzerland bolsters Tvesa’s confidence

Tvesa Malik ending with 5-under within the final 4 holes for a runner-up end, following a play-off on the Swiss Women Open, has pushed her rating to a decent thirty first on the Women European Tour after languishing approach down for the final two years.

The career-best runner-up end has additionally earned her a spot on the elite Aramco Sequence, which she final performed in November 2022.

The million-dollar occasion, which is 2 rolled into one with a person and workforce occasion collectively, is an effective place to make up plenty of locations with a powerful end as Tvesa has joined Diksha Dagar and Pranavi Urs, who took per week off.

The Indian trio might be in motion on the Aramco Sequence London the place Diksha was a part of the successful workforce a few years in the past.

This has been a season of resurrection for Tvesa, who, initially of 2024, received an occasion in South Africa on the Sunshine Tour.

On the LET, this was her second top-10 of the season after an analogous end on the Dormy Open in Helsingborg.

There are nonetheless greater than 10 occasions left to go on the LET and the trio, Tvesa, Diksha and Pranavi are choosing some titles.

Tvesa, who received married to professional golfer Ajeetesh Sandhu earlier than the beginning of the 2024 season, is the third positioned Indian on LET this season after Diksha, who’s 14th and rookie Pranavi at sixteenth.

“I’m enjoying nicely once more, and this was so near getting my first LET win, however I’ll take it as a optimistic that I fought so nicely on the end within the last spherical with three birdies and an eagle within the final 4 holes,” Tvesa stated.

“The play-off didn’t go my approach however the win is nearer than ever earlier than,” stated Tvesa, whose earlier finest was second on the Gant Women Open in 2021.

-PTI

TENNIS

ITF titles for Sahaja, Mukund

Photograph of, Champion Sahaja Yamalapalli within the ITF girls’s tennis
match in Los Angeles, USA.
| Photograph Credit score:
Particular Association

Prime seed Sahaja Yamalapalli beat third seed Amy Zhu 6-4, 7-6(4) within the last of the $15,000 ITF girls’s tennis match in Los Angeles, USA.

It was the fourth profession singles title for the 23-year-old Sahaja. She didn’t drop a set within the match.

Prime seed within the males’s occasion in Tianjin, China, S Mukund was additionally capable of assert his recreation with the title, as he beat Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul of Thailand 6-3, 6-4 within the last.

It was the seventh profession singles title for the 27-year-old Mukund who was ranked a career-best 229 in 2019.

With Vaidehi Chaudhari having received the title within the $25,000 occasion in Taiwan earlier, it was a contented week for Indian tennis.

The outcomes:

$15,000 ITF girls, Los Angeles, USA Singles (last): Sahaja Yamalapalli bt Amy Zhu (USA) 6-4, 7-6(4).

$15,000 ITF males, Tianjin, China

Singles (last): S Mukund bt Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul (Tha) 6-3, 6-4.

-Kamesh Srinivasan