PARA BADMINTON
Sukant Kadam to compete in Inclusive Video games in Madrid
World No 1 Indian para badminton participant Sukant Kadam will take part within the second version of the Inclusive Video games titled ‘II Juegos Inclusivos’ in Madrid on Thursday.
Kadam will group up with Spanish badminton participant Clara Azurmendi and can face Italy’s Gianna Stiglich and Spain’s para-badminton medallist Iván Segura in a contest that includes Olympics and Paralympics gamers.
The II Juegos Inclusivos is held below the honorary presidency of HM King Felipe VI wherein the athletes with and with out disabilities compete aspect by aspect.
“It’s an honour to be a part of the II Juegos Inclusivos. This occasion not solely celebrates athletic excellence but in addition highlights the significance of equality and inclusion in sports activities,” Kadam mentioned in a launch.
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CHESS
Kulkarni, Kherdekar share lead in All India FIDE Chess Ranking event
Mumbai challengers IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni and Arnav Kherdekar gained their respective seventh-round matches to share lead in All India FIDE Ranking Open Chess Event right here on Wednesday.
The highest-ranked Kulkarni (2185), taking part in with the black items, opted for the Nizmo Indian Basic opening in opposition to Delhi’s Saikat Nath (1829) on the highest board.
Below stress, Nath made a mistake on the twenty ninth transfer which allowed his opponent to power a win.
Taking part in with white piece, Kherdekar (1846) began with the Philidor defence opening in opposition to Yash Kapadi (1818) and was in management all through on the third board.
An error on the forty seventh transfer from Kapadi proved pricey as Kherdekar went on to report his victory.
Pune’s Yash Watarkar (1963) was compelled to share honours with Thane’s Arharv Soni (1968) in one other seventh-round contest.
Each Watarkar and Soni are collectively positioned within the second place with 5 different gamers all with six factors every.
Outcomes (prime 10):
Spherical 7: AIM Saikat Nath (5.5) misplaced to IM Vikramaditya Kulkarni (6.5) 0-1; Atharv Soni (6) drew with Yash Watarkar (6) 0.5-0.5; Arnav Kherdekar (6.5) beat Yash Kapadi (5); Udupi Acharya (5) misplaced to Sanjeev Mishra (6); Darsh Shetty (6) beat Atish Laddad (5) 1-0; Deepak Soni (5) misplaced to Guruprasad Kulkarni (6) 0-1; Tarun N (5) misplaced to Kshaunish Jaiswal (6) 0-1; Shubh Patel (5) misplaced to Kartik Kumbhar (6) 0-1; Yuti Patel (6) beat Prisha Margai (5) 1-0; Shraddha Padvekar (4.5) misplaced to Om Gada (5.5) 0-1.
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GOLF
Kartik stays inside top-10 at Nomura Cup
Indian teenager Kartik Singh shot a good par 72 within the second spherical to remain inside top-10 on the midway stage of the Asia-Pacific Novice Crew Championship for Nomura Cup.
The 14-year-old, who’s India’s prime world ranked participant and was a part of the junior Presidents Cup’s Worldwide group, had 4 birdies in opposition to three bogeys within the first spherical and had two birdies and two bogeys within the second spherical.
He was 1-under for 36 holes and mendacity tied-Tenth. Kartik is among the 10 gamers below par after two rounds within the 57-player area.
Japan’s Masayuki Yamashita (71-65) and Vietnam’s Nguyen Anh Minh (71-65) have been tied for the highest spot.
Among the many different Indian gamers, Anant Singh Ahlawat (75-74) was T-Twenty fourth and Rohit (74-76) was T-Twenty seventh.
Within the 19-nation group competitors, the Indian group was positioned eighth at 3-over. Japan topped the charts at 10-under with Vietnam second at 8-under and tied with New Zealand after the second spherical of the 2024 Nomura Cup at Vinpearl Hai Phong.
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HOCKEY
S.R. Increased Secondary College thrashes SNBP Institute 10-0
Captain Rutvik Solanki scored 5 targets in guiding S.R. Increased Secondary College, Dahod, Gujarat, to a 10-0 victory over SNBP Institute, Pune, in a league match of the Kanwarji 52nd Nehru junior hockey event on the Shivaji Stadium on Wednesday.
The outcomes (league):
SR HSS, Dahod, Gujarat, 10 (Rutvik Solanki 5, Jenis Chauhan 2, Dharmesh Patel, Alpesh Vala, Janmesh Rathod) bt SNBP Institute, Pune, 0.
Mukherjee Seminary College, Muzaffarpur, Bihar, 7 (Amrendra Kumar 4, Sonu Ansari 2, Abhay Sah) bt Hockey Assam 1 (Mriganka Basumatary).
Mary Matha Excessive College, Palakkad, 5 (Rinu Mathew, Dilshai Majesh, Ok.R.
Nufail, S Govind, T.S. Febin) bt Janta Excessive College, Mapusa, Goa, 0.
Guru Nanak HSS, Rajnandgaon, 10 (Om Yadav 4, Gulshan Yadav 3, Manikpuri Lavi 2, Sunny Yadav) bt Authorities HSS Excellence, Kurai, 0.
Authorities SSS, Gurugram, 13 (Shubham 4, Ashish Ray 2, Chirag 2, Raj 2, Aaditya Raj 2, Vansh) bt Sainik College, Amravati Nagar, 1 (Sanket Kumar).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
TENNIS
Sumit Nagal loses first spherical
Sumit Nagal was overwhelmed 6-0, 6-4 by Quentin Halys of France within the first spherical of the $767,455 ATP tennis event in Stockholm, Sweden.
Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Vijay Sundar Prashanth did properly to achieve the doubles quarterfinals by beating Flip Bergevi and Erik Grevelius of Sweden 5-7, 6-2, [10-5].
The outcomes:
$767,455 ATP, Stockholm, Sweden Singles (first spherical): Quentin Halys (Fra) bt Sumit Nagal 6-0, 6-4.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan & Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Filip Bergevi & Erik Grevelius (Swe) 5-7, 6-2, [10-5].
$1,117,465 ATP, Almaty, Kazakhstan Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Guido Andreozzi (Arg) & Sriram Balaji bt James Duckworth & Aleksandar Vukic (Aus) 6-3, 6-2.; Rithvik Bollipalli & Arjun Kadhe bt Marco Bortolotti (Ita) & Patrik Niklas-Salminen (Fin) 6-4, 7-6(3); Jakob Schnaitter & Mark Wallner (Ger) bt Yuki Bhambri & Albano Olivetti (Fra) 6-4, 6-4.
$133,250 Challenger, Shenzhen, China Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Yan Bai (Chn) bt S Mukund 6-2, 6-4.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Pruchya Isaro (Tha) & Aoran Wang (Chn) bt Toshihide Matsui (Jpn) & Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-2, 6-2; Sai Karteek Reddy & Rio Noguchi (Jpn) bt Yang Zijiang & Zeng Yaojie (Chn) 7-6(4), 7-6(4).
$25,000 ITF males, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt Singles (first spherical): Tomasz Berkieta (Pol) bt Sidharth Rawat 5-7, 7-6(4), 6-4.
$15,000 ITF males, Kampala, Uganda Singles (first spherical): Rishi Reddy bt Albert Njogu (Ken) 6-3, 6-7(2), 7-6(6); Pranav Karthik bt Raghav Jaisinghani 1-6, 6-4, 6-1; Kiruthik Kalyaan bt Eduard Vlasceanu (Rou) 6-4, 6-3; Gregor Ramskogier (Aut) bt Maan Kesharwani 6-2, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF males, Winston-Salem, USA Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Pedro Rodenas (Esp) & Theodore Winegar (USA) bt Dhakshineswar Suresh & Ioannis Xilas (Gre) 6-2, 6-4.
$100,000 ITF ladies, Macon, USA Singles (first spherical): Katarzyna Kawa (Pol) bt Sahaja Yamalapalli 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.
$40,000 ITf ladies, Kayseri, Turkey Singles (first spherical): Adelina Lachinova (Lat) bt Ankita Raina 7-5, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Sant Vicenc de Torello, Spain Doubles (quarterfinals): Nicole Gadient (Sui) & Ana Requena (Esp) bt Maria Andrienko & Madhurima Sawant 6-3, 3-6, [12-10].
-Kamesh Srinivasan