Indian sports activities wrap, August 31: Diksha Dagar makes lower in Irish Open with a late birdie

GOLF

Diksha Dagar makes lower in Irish Open with a late birdie

A late birdie saved Diksha Dagar on the second day because the Indian golfer made the lower regardless of a spherical of 1-over on the KPMG Ladies’s Irish Open right here.

The 2-time Girls European Tour winner was one shot wanting the lower line when she holed a birdie on the Par-5 seventeenth gap to get to 1-over for the day.

Olympian Diksha who shot 1-under 72 on the primary day had two bogeys on the Par-5 fourth and the eighth gap on the entrance 9 on the second day as she turned in 2-over.

At that stage she was 1-over for the event. The birdie introduced her again to even par for the 2 rounds and he or she squeezed into weekend motion in tied-Fifty fifth place.

Among the many different three Indians, Pranavi Urs (73-74) missed by one whereas Tvesa Malik Sandhu (76-78) and Ridhima Dilawari (79-76) missed the lower by a good margin.

Ursula Wikstrom fired back-to-back rounds of 68 (-5) to guide on the midway stage.

After some early morning fog, there was a 30-minute delay to the tee occasions and afternoon tee occasions by 20 minutes.

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Shubhankar Sharma makes lower at British Masters

Two-time winner on the DP World Tour, India’s Shubhankar Sharma moved into the weekend spherical motion on the British Masters regardless of a closing bogey on Day 2, the place he shot an even-par 72.

Sharma, who had shot 1-under 71 on the opening day, was 1-under after two rounds of 71-72 and positioned tied-37 after 36 holes.

The opposite Indian within the subject Om Prakash (71-83) missed the lower after a disastrous second spherical.

Sharma, who was T-14 final week in Denmark, will now play the third spherical alongside Jeff Winther and Richie Ramsay.

England’s Tyrrell Hatton held a one-shot lead on the midway stage after including a second-round seven beneath par 65 to his opening 69.

The six-time DP World Tour winner made the a lot of the superb morning situations on Friday to set the clubhouse goal at 10-under par and can take a slender lead into the weekend with not one of the afternoon starters in a position to catch him on the summit.

Amongst these seeking to hunt him down are Jorge Campillo of Spain, Frenchman Jeong weon Ko, and South Africa’s Brandon Stone, who posted a blistering spherical of 64 to sit down one shot off the lead at nine-under.

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Jeev Milkha in sizzling pursuit of Haeggman at India Legends Championship

Jeev Milkha Singh, within the HSBC India Legends golf championship in Larger Noida on Saturday.
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Jeev Milkha Singh was in sturdy type, regardless of feeling bodily drained within the second half, as he notched up his second four-under 68 rating within the penultimate spherical of the $500,000 HSBC India Legends golf championship on the Jaypee Greens on Saturday.

His general 8-under effort within the three-day occasion noticed Jeev respiratory down the neck of chief Joakim Haeggman of Sweden, one stroke behind.

The trouble raised hopes of the 52-year-old Jeev profitable his maiden worldwide title at dwelling.

Jyoti Randhawa adopted with a par-72 rating on the second day to be 4 strokes behind Jeev within the third place. Adilson da Silva of Brazil (141), Clark Dennis of USA (142) adopted the leaders.

“The ninth gap was particular as a result of I hit a nasty bunker shot and I holed 20-foot putt. As we speak was a a lot better placing day for me. I’ll simply give it a greatest shot tomorrow,” mentioned Jeev.

Haeggman conceded that it was essential to be affected person on the difficult course in robust situations.

“I used to be hitting the greens at this time which is essential right here as a result of chipping and placing round thee greens are very difficult. The primary distinction at this time was I didn’t gap as many putts as I did yesterday,”, mentioned Haeggman, who was 9-under 135, after having shot 7-under 65 on the opening day.

Jyoti Randhawa felt that he maybe had put himself beneath strain, “making an attempt to play spherical”.

“It’s nice for the event that we’ve two Indians enjoying effectively,” acknowledged Haeggman.

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TENNIS

ITF masters: Sonal Vohra wins triple crown

Sonal Vohra gained a triple crown within the ITF Masters tennis event organised by the Excellence Academy right here.

Sonal gained the league matches in opposition to Amita Maurya and Meenakshi Srinivasan to clinch the ladies’s over-45 singles title. She gained the ladies’s doubles title with Meenakshi, and the over-35 blended doubles title with Aditya Khanna.

Within the males’s over-45 remaining, second seed Raj Kumar beat prime seed Aditya Khanna 6-3, 6-3 for the title.

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ITF: Vaidehi beats Bunyawi in semifinals

Vaidehi Chaudhari saved two match factors to get previous Bunyawi Thamchaiwat within the semifinals of the $25,000 ITF ladies’s tennis event in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, on Saturday.

Vaidehi was trailing 3-6, 3-5 and confronted two match factors within the eventual tie-break earlier than turning the match round, together with her sturdy serve particularly as shefired 15 aces within the match. Bunyawi retired with Vaidehi main 2-0 within the decider.

Within the remaining, Vaidehi will play seventh seed Rina Saigo of Japan.

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BADMINTON

Rawat, Tamiri attain India Junior Worldwide Grand Prix Badminton finals

Indian qualifier Suryaksh Rawat and seventh seeded Surya Charisma Tamiri on Saturday made their option to the girls and boys finals respectively within the India Junior Worldwide Grand Prix Badminton event.

Rawat continued his prime type as he defeated fellow qualifier Maharishiel Timotius Achieve from Indonesia 21-18, 21-18.

Rawat will face Chinese language Taipei’s Chiang Tzu Chieh within the remaining, who obtained previous his compatriot Yang Chieh Dan 21-17, 18-21, 21-13 within the different semifinal.

Tamiri obtained the higher of the third seeded Prashansa Bonam 21-9, 21-10 in an all India contest to arrange the summit conflict in opposition to Indonesia’s Thalita Ramadhani Wiryawan.

Thalita registered a 21-17, 21-14 win over Tanvi Reddy Andluri.

– PTI