FOOTBALL
Kattimani rejoins FC Goa on one-year deal
Goalkeeper Laxmikant Kattimani on Friday returned to FC Goa after signing a one-year deal, the Indian Tremendous League membership introduced.
Kattimani, who hails from Goa, started his senior skilled profession with Vasco SC in 2008 earlier than transferring to Dempo SC within the subsequent season the place he performed for seven years.
He has performed for 2 ISL golf equipment, Goa (2014-19) and Hyderabad FC (2016-24). In between, Kattimani additionally performed a season for Mumbai FC (2016-17) within the I-League.
Total, Kattimani has featured in 212 aggressive matches. He has received the I-League twice with Dempo in 2009-10 and 2011-12, the Indian Tremendous Cup with Goa in 2019 and the ISL with Hyderabad FC in 2021-22.
“Returning to FC Goa appears like coming again residence. The membership’s ambition to proceed competing on the highest degree aligns completely with my private targets, making it one of the best subsequent step for my profession,” he stated in launch shared by the membership.
– PTI
GOLF
Aditi and Diksha combat exhausting on a tricky opening day at AIG Girls’s Open
Indian golfers Diksha Dagar and Aditi Ashok made essential birdies on their last holes to maintain alive their possibilities of making the minimize after the primary spherical of the AIG Girls’s Open.
Aditi carded a 4-over 76 to be T-79 whereas Diksha was 5-over 77, sitting at T-100 as play ended late on the opening day which was marred by sturdy winds.
The minimize regarded seemingly at 3-over or 4-over after the second spherical.
For a very long time, Diksha’s rating on the board confirmed a birdie on Par-5 14th, which was later corrected and it was proven as 5-over.
FILE PHOTO: Indian Golfers Aditi Ashok (L) and Diksha Dagar.
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FILE PHOTO: Indian Golfers Aditi Ashok (L) and Diksha Dagar.
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Aditi opened with two pars after which had a bogey on twelfth and a double on thirteenth for 3-over first 9. She dropped additional photographs on first and second to go 5-over earlier than the birdie on ninth made it 4-over for the day.
Diksha, T-21 final yr at Walton Heath, was 5-over for her first 9 holes, the again 9 of the Previous Course with bogeys on 10, 11, 13, 16 and 17.
-PTI
Shubhankar makes respectable begin in Denmark, Hojgaard takes lead
Shubhankar Sharma had equivalent scores of 2-under 69 in his first two rounds on the Danish Golf Championship and was mendacity tied-fifth on Friday.
Shubhankar, who took a brief break after the Paris Olympics, was tied-14th when the primary spherical ended late on Wednesday.
Shubhankar Sharma of India tees off on the tenth gap throughout Day one of many Danish Golf Championship 2024 at Lübker Golf Resort in Aarhus, Denmark.
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Shubhankar Sharma of India tees off on the tenth gap throughout Day one of many Danish Golf Championship 2024 at Lübker Golf Resort in Aarhus, Denmark.
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He was one over for the second spherical, earlier than he birdied the primary, seventh and eighth to complete with a second 69, and at four-under he was well-placed.
India’s different participant, Om Prakash was approach behind at 5-over 76 and was tied-145th. He’ll want a really low spherical to have an opportunity of weekend play.
Rasmus Hojgaard began his Danish Golf Championship title defence in earnest, firing a six-under par 65 to steer by two strokes. At present twentieth on the Race to Dubai Rankings, Højgaard has set his sights on incomes a PGA Tour card and becoming a member of his twin brother Nicolai as a twin member for 2025.
– PTI
PICKLEBALL
Monsoon Pickleball Championship: Duong, DeHeart arrange summit conflict
USA’s Quong Duong in motion.
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USA’s Quong Duong in motion.
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USA’s Quong Duong defeated India’s Armaan Bhatia 2-0 to arrange the lads’s singles summit conflict with compatriot Ryler DeHeart on the second Monsoon Pickleball Championship in Mumbai on Sunday.
DeHeart beat headliner Jay DeVilliers of France 2-0 within the different semifinal on Friday.
Britain’s Thaddea Lock and Chinese language Taipei’s Pei Chuan Kao will combat it it out within the girls’s singles occasion.
Thaddea defeated Emilia Shmidt in a closely-contested 2-1 semifinal, whereas Pei Chuan Kao beat Nicola 2-0.
Jason Tailore, Yeong Ding Hwang and KuochiungWen, Hsieh Yu, Shourya Ok/Samaira Sippy received the gold respectively within the males’s singles 30+, blended doubles 50+, girls’s singles 30+ and blended intermediate doubles.
Eight extra classes might be performed on Day 4 of the championship at NESCO, Mumbai.
The Championship affords a prize cash of USD 100,000 throughout 47 classes.
-PTI
TENNIS
ITF: Vaishnavi beats Miho Kuramochi in quarterfinals
Eighth seed Vaishnavi Adkar overcame a tricky begin to beat second seed Miho Kuramochi of Japan 3-6, 6-4, 6-0 within the quarterfinals of the $15,000 ITF girls’s tennis match in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, on Friday.
Within the semifinals, Vaishnavi will problem the third seed Rina Saigo of Japan.
The outcomes:
$15,000 ITF males, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
Singles (quarterfinals): Kasidit Samrej (Tha) bt S Mukund 7-5, 6-3.
$25,000 ITF girls, Vigo, Spain
Singles (quarterfinals): Vitalia Diatchenko bt Ankita Raina 6-3, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF girls, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
Singles (quarterfinals): Vaishnavi Adkar bt Miho Kuramochi (Jpn) 3-6, 6-4, 6-0.
– Crew Sportstar
Parth Aggarwal wins AITA Bijwasan title
High seed Parth Aggarwal beat Lakshya Gupta 6-2, 6-2 within the last of the Godspeed Rs.100,000 AITA males’s tennis match in Bijwasan.
The outcomes:
Singles (last): Parth Aggarwal bt Lakshya Gupta 6-2, 6-2; Semifinals: Parth bt Shivank Bhatnagar 6-0, 6-3; Lakshya bt Arthav Neema 6-4, 6-3.
– Crew Sportstar
BASKETBALL
With new guidelines coming in, groups may take time to cool down at Kerala State youth championship
With the Basketball Federation of India’s new substitution guidelines coming in, gamers and coaches may take a while to cool down within the fortieth Kerala State youth basketball championship which begins on the Carmel CMI Public Faculty, Vazhakulam, on Saturday.
The BFI’s new guidelines for youth and junior Nationals, authorized on the federation’s current AGM in Chennai, say that no less than 10 of the crew’s 12 gamers should play in each match. And every of those 10 should play one full quarter.
Prior to now groups have typically pressured two or three gamers to play a full match, leaving them exhausted. The brand new guidelines hope to vary that and likewise be certain that gamers are chosen on advantage.
Kerala might be one of many early States to implement these new guidelines which can make their official debut within the youth Nationals in Kolkata in December.
“Since that is the primary time, there may very well be some confusion at first. However it shouldn’t be an issue for our crew as a result of we now have 11 gamers who’re sturdy sufficient to play in each quarter. Eleven of our gamers are virtually of equal energy,” stated E. Athul Krishnan, the coach of ladies defending champion Kozhikode, on Friday night.
“Eight gamers in our crew are from Windfall Faculty (in Kozhikode) and we received two titles just lately. Three of our gamers had been additionally within the State crew’s beginning 5 on the final youth Nationals,” stated Athul who can be the Windfall Faculty coach. “Nonetheless, it received’t be simple for us…Alappuzha, Kollam and Thrissur may very well be sturdy opponents.”
Kottayam received the boys title final yr.
– Stan Rayan
The teams:
Boys:
Group A: Kottayam, Kozhikode, Ernakulum, Idukki.
Group B: Thrissur, Alappuzha, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam.
Group C: Malappuram, Wayanad, Kannur.
Group D: Pathanamthitta, Kasargod, Palakkad.
Women:
Group A: Kozhikode, Alappuzha, Ernakulum, Kottayam.
Group B: Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Kannur.
Group C: Pathanamthitta, Wayanad, Palakkad.
Group D: Malappuram, Idukki, Kasargod.