GOLF
Aditi, Diksha to play in Ladies’s Open at iconic Outdated Course in St Andrews
India’s Aditi Ashok and Diksha Dagar will tee off on the iconic Outdated Course on Thursday, hoping to place apart their detached kind on the Paris Olympics earlier this month.
The Ladies’s Open, which carries a handbag of USD 9 million, one of many largest within the sport, will see the return of the Ladies’s Main to St. Andrews for the primary time since 2013, when Stacey Lewis gained the title.
The one different time the course staged the Ladies’s Main was in 2007, when it was gained by Mexican star Lorena Ochoa.
Aditi is grouped with A Lim Kim of Korea and American Cheyenne Knight, whereas Diksha goes out with Japan’s Hikaru Yoshimoto and Casandra Alexander. Each begin on the again 9.
Whereas Diksha has not performed on the course competitively prior to now, Aditi performed on the Outdated Course in 2015 when she gained the St Rule Trophy, an beginner occasion. Aditi went on to win the title and is the one Indian to have carried out it.
Aditi, who began taking part in on the age of 5, has quite a few firsts to her credit score.
Diksha, 23, has charted her personal path within the sport. Born with a listening to impairment, Diksha overcame a number of odds to win gold on the Deaflympics after which turned the primary golfer ever to have performed the Deaflympics and the Summer time Olympics, which she has carried out twice.
Aditi is taking part in her eighth Ladies’s Open, the place her greatest has been T-22 in 2018 — her greatest in a Main is T-17 at 2024 Evian Championship. Diksha, making her fifth Ladies’s Open begin, achieved her greatest end — a tied-21 — on the 2023 version.
Diksha, who was together with her household when their automobile met with an accident forward of the Paris Olympics, mentioned she is feeling higher.
Her father, Naren Dagar, who can be her caddie, was behind the wheel when the mishap occurred.
Defending champion Lilia Vu is again and can attempt to emulate the commanding win she original at Walton Heath.
-PTI
TENNIS
Ankita Raina in second spherical
Ankita Raina eased previous Lucia Llinares Domingo 6-2, 6-2 within the first spherical of the $25,000 ITF ladies’s tennis event in Vigo, Spain, on Wednesday.
Ankita was top-seeded in doubles with Vasanti Shinde and the duo had a bye within the first spherical.
The outcomes:
$15,000 ITF males, Arad, Romania
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Felix Balshaw (Fra) & Manas Dhamne bt Mircea Mortasifu (Rou) & Fredrik Solheim (Nor) 6-1, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF males, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
Singles (first spherical): S Mukund bt Park Seungmin (Kor) 6-3, 6-1; Vishnu Vardhan bt Jayden Courtroom (Aus) 7-6(5), 6-3.
$25,000 ITF ladies, Vigo, Spain
Singles (first spherical): Ankita Raina bt Lucia Domingo (Esp)
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Claudia Perez (Esp) & Shuqian Xu (Chn) bt Madhurima Sawant & Saumya Vig 7-6(8), 6-0; Sakura Hosogi & Misaki Matsuda (Jpn) bt Madison Frahn (Aus) Aaddi Gupta 6-3, 6-2.
$25,000 ITF ladies, Kunshan, China
Singles (first spherical): Hong Yi Cody Wong (Hkg) bt Riya Bhatia 6-3, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
Singles (first spherical): Monique Barry bt Humera Baharmus 4-6, 7-5, 6-3; Alisa Kummel bt Sonal Patil 3-6, 7-6(4), 6-3.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Patcharin Cheapchandej & Bunyawi Thamchaiwat (Tha) bt Vaishnavi Adkar & Yui Chikaraishi (Jpn) 6-3, 6-1.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
PICKLEBALL
Ritesh Jaiswal and Anjali Pol winners on Day 1 of Monsoon Pickleball Championship
The primary day of the Monsoon Pickleball Championship was witness to winners in seven classes held on day one of many championship with Ritesh Jaiswal and Anjali Pol successful their respective Advance Males’s and Ladies’s Singles classes. The 50+ Males’s and Ladies’s have been dominated by Niten Kirtane and Shakks Devnani.
Eight extra classes will likely be performed on Day 2 of the championship held from the 20 th of August 2024 until the 25 th of August 2024 at NESCO, Mumbai.
Day two may even be witness to an exhibition match between prime worldwide gamers that can embody headliner Jay DeVilliers and worldwide pickleball stars like Quang Duong, Ryler DeHeart, Rob Nunnery, Megan Fudge DeHeart, Roos VanReek and Emilia Shmidt.
Full Record of Winners on Day 1:
50+ Ladies’s Singles
Shaks Devnani (Gold)
Unaiza Punjabi (Silver)
50+ Males’s Singles
Nitten kirtane (Gold)
Bhushan (Silver)
Intermediate Males’s Singles
Karan Bhatt (Gold)
Aariv Raj Khanna (Silver)
Samir Pokharen (Bronze)
Intermediate Ladies’s Singles
Agnimitra Bhhatacharya (Gold)
Punji Rawal (Silver)
Zena Chattwal (Bronze)
Advance Males’s Singles
Ritesh Jaiswal (Gold)
Rohin Rajani (Silver)
Purvansh Patel (Bronze)
Advance Ladies’s Singles
Anjali Pol (Gold)
Manika Bhargava (Silver)
Mansha Malhotra (Bronze)
60+ Males’s Singles
Bhushan Akut (Gold)
Ajeet Bhardwaj (Silver)