HOCKEY
Former Kerala participant Rajagopal passes away
Former Kerala State hockey participant A.V. Rajagopal handed away in Alappuzha on Thursday. He was 73.
Rajagopal did his education in Chennai and picked up the game from the St. Thomas Mount space. Later, he went on to symbolize Kerala in three senior Nationals within the late Nineteen Sixties.
“He was a left half-back and later he was a coach in Alappuzha,” mentioned his brother A.V. Suresh, additionally a former State hockey participant.
“Hockey in Alappuzha was managed by individuals from Gujarat these days. Rajagopal was the one who launched hockey among the many native individuals and developed Alappuzha hockey. He was popularly referred to as as the daddy of Alappuzha hockey.”
– Stan Rayan
TENNIS
Ankita in quarterfinals
Ankita Raina beat Cadence Brace of Canada 6-4, 6-2 within the pre-quarterfinals of the $25,000 ITF girls’s tennis match in Vigo, Spain, on Thursday.
Within the $867,750 ATP occasion in Winston-Salem, USA, Dhakshineswar Suresh, in partnership with Luca Pow of Britain, reached the doubles semifinals with a 6-1, 4-6, [10-8] victory over Gonzalo Escobar and Aleksandr Nedovyesov, who had knocked out the second seeds earlier.
THE RESULTS
$867,750 ATP, Winston-Salem, USA
Doubles (quarterfinals): Luca Pow (GBR) & Dhakshineswar Suresh bt Gonzalo Escobar (Eu) & Aleksandr Nedovyesov (Kaz) 6-1, 4-6, [10-8].
$15,000 ITF males, Arad, Romania
Doubles (semifinals): Matteo De Vincentis (Ita) & Milos Karol (Svk) bt Felix Balshaw (Fra) & Manas Dhamne 6-2, 6-7(6), [10-8]; Quarterfinals: Balshaw & Manas bt Dominic Ducariu (Ger) & Matei Onofrei (Rou) 7-5, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF males, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Ilia Simakin bt Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-2, 6-4; Leo Borg (Swe) bt Vishnu Vardhan 6-4, 6 7(1), 7-6(5); S Mukund bt Lu Pengyu (Chn) 6-2, 6-2.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Markos Kalovelonis (Gre) & Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Leo Borg (Swe) & Lu Pengyu (Chn) 4-6, 6-4, [10-7]; Jirat Navasirisomboon & Pawit Sornlaksup (Tha) bt Sai Karteek Reddy & S. Mukund 7-5, 6-2.
$25,000 ITF girls, Vigo, Spain
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Ankita Raina bt Cadence Brace (Can) 6-4, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF girls, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Vaishnavi Adkar bt Alexandra Iordache (Rou) 2-6, 6-1, 6-1. Doubles (quarterfinals): Alexandra Iordache (Rou) & Wi Hwuiwon (Kor) bt Akanksha Nitture & Soha Sadiq 7-5, 6-2.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
GOLF
Chennai Professional Championship: Dhruv shoots 67 to emerge joint chief together with Manu
Dhruv Sheoran shot a superb five-under 67 to seize a share of lead on the Chennai Professional Championship with an mixture of 13-under 203 on Thursday.
Manu Gandas signed for a four-under 68 to remain in lead for the third day operating on the TNGF Cosmo Golf Course.
Pune’s Rohan Dhole Patil, the co-leader on the midway stage, struck a 71 to finish the day in third place at 10-under 206.
Faridabad’s Abhinav Lohan (69) and Bangladesh’s Jamal Hossain (70) had been tied for fourth at eight-under 208.
Sheoran (69-67-67), who was in a single day third and one off the lead, posted a second consecutive 67. He carried the momentum from spherical two, the place he had gone bogey-free.
After one birdie on the front-nine, the 29-year-old Sheoran, a two-time winner on the PGTI Feeder Tour, produced a second of magic when he holed out his second with a terrific punch shot from near the timber to sink an eagle on the par-4 tenth gap.
Sheoran, presently twenty third within the PGTI Rating, then received on a run along with his putter, sinking three 12-feet birdies on the thirteenth, 14th and seventeenth. His solely blemish of the spherical was a bogey on the fifteenth.
“I used to be specializing in one shot at a time and never getting too forward of myself. The important thing was staying within the second. I not too long ago modified one thing in my placing that helped me put up good scores yesterday and at the moment,” mentioned Sheoran Gandas (67-68-68), the co-leader on the primary two days, who continued on the prime of the pack because of his 68 that featured six birdies and two bogeys.
At the moment second on the PGTI Order of Advantage and in search of his ninth skilled win, he made quite a lot of high quality up and downs for birdies at the same time as he struggled along with his ball-striking.
“It was as soon as once more an inconsistent spherical. I made fairly a couple of errors and my placing was not up to speed. I had three-putts on two events. The tee pictures and method pictures weren’t as much as my expectations both,” Gandas mentioned.
Chennai-based S. Prasanth was positioned tied forty ninth at four-over 220.
– PTI
FOOTBALL
Subroto Cup: Infocus India Public College enters quarterfinals of Sub-Junior boys
Infocus India Public College of West Bengal entered the quarterfinals of the Subroto Cup Sub-Junior Boys Worldwide Soccer Event after beating Govt. Chawngfinga Center College, Mizoram 2-0 in a winner takes match to resolve the winners of Group H.
Pritam and Rajdeep scored the targets for the winners.
Infocus India Public College joins St. Stephen’s, Chandigarh, Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan, Main Dhyanchand Sports activities School, Uttar Pradesh, Manikpara Vivekananda Vidyapeeth, West Bengal and Military Boys Sports activities Firm, Bengaluru within the quarterfinals.
The remaining two quarterfinalists can be determined tomorrow after the ultimate group stage matches.
Within the different matches of the day, JNV, Pakur I, Jharkhand beat Mom’s Satisfaction Public College, Himachal Pradesh 2-1 in Group D for its first win of the match. In a Group B encounter Nongiri Presbyterian Secondary College, Meghalaya thrashed Navrachna Worldwide College 6-0 for its second straight win. In a Group C match, Tashi Namgyal Academy, Sikkim received the higher of Hyderabad Public College 3-0.
RESULTS
GROUP B: Nongiri Presbyterian Secondary College, Meghalaya bt Navrachna Worldwide College (ISSO) – 6-0
GROUP C: Tashi Namgyal Academy, Sikkim bt Hyderabad Public College (IPSC) – 3-0
GROUP D: JNV, Pakur I, Jharkhand bt Mom’s Satisfaction Public College, Himachal Pradesh – 2-1
GROUP H: Infocus India Public College, West Bengal bt Govt. Chawngfinga Center College, Mizoram – 2-0
– Workforce Sportstar