GOLF
Aditi, Diksha disappoint on opening day of Amundi Championships
India’s Olympic-bound golfers Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar made underwhelming begins on the Amundi Evian Championships, one of many Majors on the ladies’s circuit.
Aditi shot even par 71 to be T-52, whereas Diksha carded 5-over 76 to be T-120.
Aditi, who has performed over 30 Majors, a report for any Indian, had two birdies and was 2-under via 12 holes, however back-to-back bogeys on thirteenth and the 14th pulled her again to par and T-52nd place.
Diksha, ranging from the tenth, had a birdie, two bogeys and a double in her first 9 holes, which performed in 2-over after a birdie on the 18th.
On her second 9, she had only one birdie towards two birdies and a double bogey. Total, she had had two birdies, 4 bogeys and two double bogeys, leaving her dangerously positioned.
– PTI
Arjun Atwal 57th at Kaulig Champs
Arjun Atwal was properly headed to a stable even-par spherical with 5 holes to go earlier than he bogeyed 4 of them within the first spherical of the Kaulig Firms Golf Championships at Firestone Akron.
The 4 bogeys noticed him drop to T-57 on the leaderboard.
Atwal, who birdied the primary and sixth, birdied back-to-back on the eleventh and twelfth as nicely to get to even par. Nonetheless, he bogeyed 14th, fifteenth, seventeenth and the 18th.
– PTI
SQUASH
Anahat carries India’s medal hopes in World Junior squash
Gifted Anahat Singh will carry India’s medal hopes on the World Junior Squash Championships which start in Houston (US) later right this moment.
The 16-year-old girls’s Nationwide champion roared into 4 finals in as many tournaments in her debut PSA Tour season this 12 months, successful three titles whereas an damage compelled her to overlook a remaining in Japan final month.
Asian Video games medallist Anahat spearheads a 12-member robust Indian squad which is split equally within the boys’ and ladies’ classes, whereas the Delhi lady (5/8) can be the highest Indian seed within the 128-player particular person ladies’ draw.
The opposite Indians within the fray are:
Boys: Shaurya Bawa (17/32), Yuvraj Wadhwani (17/32), Ayaan Vaziralli, Arihant KS, Avlokit Singh & Tavneet Singh.
Women:Â Unnati Tripathi, Nirupama Dubey, Shameena Riaz, Tiana Parasrampuria (17/32) & Sehar Nayar.
The competitors begins with the person occasions (12-17 July) and concludes with the crew occasions (18-23 July).
– Group Sportstar
TENNIS
AITA Nationwide collection: Mahika Khanna beats Dhatri Dave in U-18 semifinals
Mahika Khanna survived 4 match factors at 3-5 within the decider to beat Dhatri Dave 2-6, 6-0, 7-5 within the under-18 ladies semifinals of the HPCL Mittal AITA Nationwide collection junior tennis event on the CLTA Complicated in Chandigarh on Friday.
Within the remaining, Mahika will problem Sherry Sharma. The boys remaining will probably be between Gurbaaz Narang and Aditya Mor.
The outcomes:
Below-18 boys (semifinals): Gurbaaz Narang bt Aarav Chawla 6-4, 6-3; Aditya Mor bt Tarussh Ghildyal 6-4, 6-3.
Doubles (remaining): Aarav Chawla & Aditya Mor bt Jevin Kanani & Neeraj Ringangaonkar 6-3, 6-2.
Below-18 ladies (semifinals): Sherry Sharma bt Satakshi Choudhary 6-1, 6-2; Mahika Khanna bt Dhatri Dave 2-6, 6-0, 7-5.
Doubles (remaining): Satakshi Choudhary & Snigdha Patibandla bt Sherry Sharma & Tamanna Walia 6-2, 6-0.
– Group Sportstar
ITF event: Mukund loses to Bai Yan in quarterfinals
Bai Yan of China beat S Mukund 7-5, 6-4 within the quarterfinals of the $25,000 ITF males’s tennis event in Tianjin, China, on Friday.
Within the €148,625 Challenger in Braunschweig, Germany, Sriram Balaji was within the doubles semifinals with Gnzalo Escobar of Ecuador.
The outcomes:
€148,625 Challenger, Braunschweig, Germany
Doubles (quarterfinals): Sriram Balaji & Gonzalo Escobar (European) bt Marcel Demoliner (Bra) & Guillermo Duran (Arg) 6-4, 6-2.
€120,950 Challenger, Iasi, Romania
Doubles (quarterfinals): Cezar Cretu & Bogdan Pavel (Rou) bt Anirudh Chandrasekar & Arjun Kadhe 7-6(6), 4-6, [10-2].
€120,950 Challenger, Trieste, Italy
Doubles (semifinals): Daniel Dutra Da Silva (Bra) & Courtney Lock (Zim) bt Rithvik Bollipalli & Niki Poonacha 6-4, 3-6, [10-5].
$25,000 ITF males, Tianjin, China
Singles (quarterfinals): Bai Yan (Chn) bt S Mukund 7-5, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF males, Nakhon Si Thammarat
Doubles (quarterfinals): Adil Kalyanpur & Vishnu Vardhan bt Mitsuki Leong (Mas) & Stefanos Sakellaridis (Gre) 6-4, 6-4.
$40,000 ITF girls, Corroios-Seixal, Portugal
Doubles (quarterfinals): Matilde Jorge (Por) & Elena Micic (Aus) bt Riya Bhatia & Chiara Girelli (Ita) 6-2, 6-2.
$25,000 ITF girls, Aschaffenburg, Germany
Doubles (quarterfinals): Sapfo Sakellaridi (Gre) & Marie Vogt (Ger) bt Stefania Bojica (Rou) & Zeel Desai 6-2, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF girls, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
Doubles (quarterfinals): Monique Barry (Nzl) & Alicia Sith (Aus) bt Humera Baharmus & Akanksha NItture 6-1, 6-3; Pre-quarterfinals: Humera & Akanksha bt Laquisa Khan (Aus) & Sofia Nagornaia (Isr) 3-6, 6-3,[10-4].
$15,000 ITF girls, Lakewood, USA
Doubles (quarterfinals): Amelia Honer (USA) & Teja Tirunelveli bt Jane Dunyon & Marika Jones (USA) 6-2, 6-3.
– Group Sportstar
MOTORSPORT
Former rally star George Antony passes away
George Antony, considered one of India’s main rally drivers within the late eighties and early nineties, handed away in Kochi on Thursday night time. He was 69 and had been battling most cancers for the previous few months.
George, from Kothamangalam in Ernakulam, gained Kerala’s Fashionable Rally – which was a part of the nationwide circuit – twice within the late eighties and was quickly included within the star-studded Group MRF for the Indian Nationwide Rally Championship. He drove for the crew for practically 10 years and amongst his wins have been the Scissors Motion Rally and the South India Rally. He was additionally in motion in a few of the nation’s greatest motorsport occasions, together with the Himalayan Rally.
He was additionally a outstanding planter in Kothamangalam.
– Stan Rayan