SHOOTING
ISSF Junior World C’Ship: Indian shooters win two bronze medals to remain on high
The Indian combined air pistol and combined air rifle groups received the bronze medals within the World Junior Capturing Championship in Lima, Peru.
The hassle helped India keep on high of the medals desk with two gold and 5 bronze medals. Romania, Taiwan and Germany adopted with one gold medal every.
The pair of Gautami Bhanot and Ajay Malik beat the Croats Anamarija Turk and Darko Tomasevic 17-9 for the combined air rifle bronze.
Within the combined air pistol occasion, the battle for bronze was between two Indian groups, as Lakshita and Parmod beat Kanishka Dagar and Mukesh Nelavalli 16-8.
The outcomes:
Combined air pistol: 1. Germany 17 (576); 2. Ukraine 9 (576); 3. India-2 (Lakshita & Parmod) 16 (575); 4. India (Kanishka Dagar, Mukesh Nelavalli) 8 (573).
Combined air rifle: 1. China 17 (634.1); 2. France 15 (631.3); 3. India (Gautami Bhanot, Ajay Malik) 17 (628.9); 4. Croatia 9 (628.7); 6. India-2 (Shambhavi Kshirsagar, Abhinav Shaw) 628.1.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
BADMINTON
Younger Indian shuttler Raksha Kandasamy wins titles in Croatia and Belgium
Younger Indian badminton participant Raksha Kandasamy continued her good run as she clinched back-to-back titles within the Croatian Worldwide and Belgium Junior tournaments.
The 16-year-old remained unbeaten all through the 2 tournaments as she received every of her 5 video games en path to her title wins.
Raksha defeated England’s Leona Lee 21-9, 21-5 within the last of the Croatian Worldwide performed at Samobor on Sunday. She had earlier defeated Bulgaria’s Stefani Stoeva 21-14, 21-23 within the semifinal and Poland’s Joanna Rudna 21-11, 21-10 within the quarterfinal.
Earlier, Raksha had crushed the problem from Tammi van Wonterghem of Belgium 21-5, 21-8 within the quarterfinals of the Belgium Junior occasion.
Eire’s Siofra Flynn introduced a robust combat in opposition to Rakha, however the Indian prevailed 21-8, 19-21, 25-23 of their last-four conflict.
Raksha beat Germany’s Gloria Poluektov 21-14, 10-21, 22-20 within the last performed within the Belgian metropolis of Herstal.
-PTI
Pune’s Chaudhari, Ardey rating hard-fought wins
Pune’s Jidnyasa Chaudhari and Arpita Ardey recorded hard-fought victories in ladies’s singles first-round matches of Shri Nandu Natekar Memorial Maharashtra State Senior Inter District (Crew) and State Badminton Championship right here.
After dropping the primary sport, Chaudhari bounced again to win the subsequent two to beat Samprati Pathrabe from Raigad 18-21, 21-9, 21-10 and superior to the second spherical.
Ardey overcame Shruti Shankargouda from Sangli 21-17, 16-21, 21-16 in one other first spherical encounter.
Outcomes:
Girls’s singles (round-1):
Vedika Kulkarni bt Kyra Barua 21-12, 21-13; Mrunmayee Deshpande bt Pranali Wadar 21-12, 21-10; Shreya Bhosale bt Purva Bagkar 21-7, 21-12; Sanika Patankar bt Rishika Goyal 21-13, 21-6; Asmita Shedge bt Netra Jhalani 21-14, 21-14; Nishika Gokhe bt Anushka Bhise 21-10, 21-14; Gargee Degvekar bt Shraddha Hakke 21-14, 21-15; Aarti Chougale bt Apurva Ghadge 21-16, 21-14; Sanskruti Satarkar bt Ishita Korgaonkar 21-9, 21-13; Aarya Korgaonkar bt Riya Vinherkar 21-16, 21-12; Ananya Durugkar bt Divyansha Wahal 21-5, 21-18; Shivani Herlekar bt Shruti Phanse 21-6, 22-20; Nehal Gosavi bt Deepti Pillay 21-13, 21-9.
-PTI
GOLF
Sharma finishes T-57 as Hidalgo triumphs over Rahm in Spain
India’s Shubhankar Sharma posted a modest last spherical of one-over 72 to complete in a disappointing Tied-57th place on the 2024 Acciona Open de España.
Sharma, who held the highlight with three eagles, two of them within the third, additionally dropped three double bogeys in the course of the 4 rounds. He dropped a double within the first, third and last rounds, carding 74-70-69-72 to be one-over for the week.
Spaniard Angel Hidalgo secured his maiden DP World Tour title by defeating three-time champion Jon Rahm in a playoff. The duo confronted off in an all-Spanish last group alongside David Puig, with each gamers ending tied at 14 underneath par after Rahm’s birdie-birdie end.
-PTI
MOTORSPORT
Sai Sanjay finishes on podium in British GT Championship
Indian driver Sai Sanjay completed creditable third general and in addition made it to the rostrum in silver class within the GT4 class of the British GT Championship right here.
The 21-year Indian driver from Chennai did a commendable job within the final spherical of the British GT championship, the place fashionable Tamil actor Ajith Kumar might be making his debut within the GT4 subsequent 12 months.
Driving for Britain-based motorsports staff Race-Lab, Sanjay certified P4 general within the class and completed third general, in a uncommon feat by an Indian.
Sanjay, the 2022 Indian nationwide champion within the MRF Components 2000, drove a McLaren Artura GT4 automobile within the GT4 Silver class with British driver Callum Davies, and exhibited his driving expertise to bag a podium end.
That is Sanjay’s first 12 months in worldwide GT racing and he’s additionally the primary from Tamil Nadu to drive a complete season in British GT races.
-PTI
TENNIS
Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam stroked with ease and retained a peaceful manner proper by way of to knock out third seed Ishaque Eqbal 6-1, 7-6(5) within the males’s first spherical of the Fenesta Nationwide tennis championship on the DLTA Advanced on Monday.
Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam in motion on the Nationwide tennis championship in Delhi.
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Kamesh Srinivasan
Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam in motion on the Nationwide tennis championship in Delhi.
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Kamesh Srinivasan
The 25-year-old Abhinav, who was ranked a career-best 509 on the ATP pc in 2019 earlier than the pandemic, and has now slipped to 1694, dealt with the climax properly to race to victory from being down 3-5 within the second set tie-break.
Ishaque, fairly a fluent participant with a outstanding counter-punching type of play, did get well from being down 2-4 within the second set and led 6-5, earlier than Abhinav scotched any additional hopes.
In one other attention-grabbing match, Ajay Malik received previous fifth seed Parth Aggarwal in straight units.
Within the ladies’s part, former Nationwide champion and second seed Riya Bhatia was compelled to deliver out her finest sport when stretched to 3 units by the wiry Joell Nichole.
Third seed Akanksha NItture was teased by Sahira Singh within the first set however recovered to drag by way of in three units. Yubrani Banerjee dealt with the second set tie-break with competence to oust eighth seed Abhaya Vemuri.
Left-hander Aditi Rawat caught the attention as she spanked winners on the sluggish centre courtroom in accelerating her well beyond Chandana Potugari for the lack of three video games.
The outcomes (first spherical):
Males: Vishnu Vardhan bt Udit Kamboj 7-5, 6-1; VM Ranjeet bt Oges Theyjo 6-0, 6-2; Kabir Hans bt Prasad Ingale 6-2, 4-6, 6-1; Nitin Kumar Sinha bt A Deepak 6-3, 7-6(3); Abhinansu Borthakur bt Rashein Samuel 6-4, 3-6, 6-4; Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam bt IshaqueEqbal 6-1, 7-6(5); Ajay Malik bt Parth Aggarwal 6-4, 6-4; Raghav Jaisinghani bt Ritabrata Sarkar 6-2, 6-0.
Girls: Vaidehi Chaudhari bt Saily Thakkar 6-2, 6-4; Riya Sachdeva bt Samaira Malik 6-1, 5-7, 6-4; Aditi Rawat bt Chandana Potugari 6-0, 6-3; Akanksha Nitture bt Sahira Singh 3-6, 6-3, 6-1; Soha Sadiq bt Kashish Bhatia 6-0, 6-1; Yubrani Banerjee bt Abhaya Vemuri 6-1, 7-6(9); Nemha Sarah Kispotta bt Janani Ramesh 6-1, 7-6(5); Riya Bhatia bt Joell Nichole 6-7(2), 6-2, 6-1.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
EQUESTRIAN
Jai Singh Sabharwal Wins Gold at Equestrian Premier League Present 2024
The equestrian season in India has begun on a excessive be aware with a outstanding achievement of a 14-year-old equestrian rider Jai Sabharwal, from The Newbie Riders’ Membership (ARC), securing first place within the Equestrian Premier League (EPL), held in Bangalore.
Jai has been coaching at ARC for the previous six years, the place he will get entry to international-level teaching whereas the membership additionally prepares riders who compete and win in occasions just like the Asian Video games and the Olympics.
Not too long ago, Jai competed within the Fédération Équestre Internationale (FEI) CSI2*-1*-YH Present Leaping competitors held at Azelhof in Lier, Belgium, the place he received two medals within the CSI1* class.
Alongside together with his horse Carna, Jai overcame a difficult second simply minutes earlier than the 130 cm competitors spherical the place he suffered a fall throughout his warm-up in an try and seize the 150 cm leap.
Regardless of the problem Jai not solely accomplished a double clear spherical however did so within the shortest time of 39.16 seconds Leap Off making it to the Gold.
-Crew Sportstar
CHESS
Sujin maintains second spot regardless of combined day in world junior blind chess
John Harris Sujin of India suffered a combined day however nonetheless managed to carry on to his joint second place within the boys’ part of the World Junior and Girls Chess Championship for the Blind and Visually Impaired on Monday.
Sujin (2.5 factors) suffered a defeat in opposition to table-topper Racis Michale (3.5) within the spherical 4, however a win in spherical 3 over compatriot Rahul Vaghela helped him to keep up his second slot.
The day featured two rounds because the gamers can have a relaxation day on Tuesday earlier than getting again in entrance of the board on Wednesday.
Within the women’ part, India’s Aisha Sainaba and Megha Chakaraborty, an Asian para video games medallist, secured joint second slot (2.5 factors every) behind chief Lisenko Lubov (4 factors).
In spherical 3, Sainaba and Megha performed out a draw to bag half some extent every. Within the spherical 4, Sainaba overcame Olena Bondar, whereas Megha waltzed previous Poland’s Bozena Chudoba to clinch full factors.
-PTI