BADMINTON
Korea Masters 2024: Kiran George defeats Chi Yu Jen, by way of to quarterfinal
India’s Kiran George dished out one more gritty efficiency to upset third seed Chi Yu Jen of Chinese language Taipei in a tricky three-game match and progress to the lads’s singles quarterfinals of the Korea Masters badminton event on Thursday.
The 24-year-old Indian overcame his Chinese language Taipei opponent, ranked 31 on the earth, 21-17, 19-21, 21-17 in a second spherical match that lasted one hour and quarter-hour.
World quantity 44 George will play fifth seed Takuma Obayashi of Japan within the last-eight spherical. Earlier additionally, George needed to dig deep to defeat Vietnam’s Kuan Lin Kuo 15-21, 21-12, 21-15 within the opening spherical of the BWF Tremendous 300 event.
George, the lone Indian shuttler competing within the event, began brightly and at all times had his nostril forward of his Chinese language Taipei rival within the opening recreation to finally take the lead.
Within the second recreation, George continued in the identical vein and loved early lead earlier than Jen bounced again to attract stage.
However the Indian returned to his components within the decider and raced to 8-2 lead earlier than his opponent slowly and steadily clawed his manner again to stage issues at 14-14 after which to 17-17.
However from there on, it was George who took management of the proceedings to seal his quarterfinal berth.
-PTI
BEACH VOLLEYBALL
Worldwide seashore volleyball is again within the metropolis after 14 years. Marina Seaside Sports activities Membership will conduct the World Professional Tour Problem on the Inter-Continental Lodges & Resort, ECR right here from November 21 to 24. The boys’s part can have 32 groups whereas the ladies’s will include 24 groups. The qualifying matches can be on Nov. 22.
The Indian participation can have 4 pairs, two every in women and men. S. Bharath and R. Robin will play in the principle draw whereas S. Selvam and G. Thiyagarajan will compete within the qualifying.
Within the ladies’s part, Kanimozhi and Sasikala will function in the principle draw and the pair of Pavithra and Deepika can be in qualifying. The full prize cash of the event is $200000.
The duo of Bharath and Robin for whom will probably be solely its second Problem Tour, mentioned it should combat onerous. “There are a few Paris Olympians–Austria’s Horst & Leitner, Thomas Hodges and Zachery Schubert (Australia), Trevor Crabb & Theodore Brunner (USA). The competitors can be extraordinarily powerful however we are going to give our greatest,” mentioned the pair.
Chatting with reporters right here on Thursday, A. J. Martin Sudhakar, Secretary of Marina Seaside SC mentioned: “Marina Seaside SC has signed an settlement with FIVB (Worldwide volleyball physique).
FIVB has given us the consent to organise the occasion There are 18 tournaments this yr. Chennai is the sixteenth cease. We enchantment to the State Authorities to financially assist us in operating the event.”
– Group Sportstar
TENNIS
Rethin defeats Agafonov to advance to ITF males’s event quarterfinals
Nationwide champion Rethin Pranav obtained previous fourth seed Egor Agafonov within the pre-quarterfinals of the $25,000 ITF males’s tennis event on the Kalinga Stadium on Thursday.
Rethin led 2-6, 6-4, 4-0 when Agafonov retired. He’ll play Aryan Shah within the quarterfinals.
Dev Javia knocked out Davis Cupper Siddharth Vishwakarma to arrange a quarterfinal in opposition to high seed Dalibor Svrcina of the Czech Republic.
Within the different quarterfinals, Karan Singh will play third seed Bogdan Bobrov, whereas S. D. Prajwal Dev will conflict with Nick Chappell of USA.
The outcomes:
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Dalibor Svrcina (Cze) bt Manas Dhamne 7-5, 6-3; Dev Javia bt Siddharth Vishwakarma 6-3, 6-1; Rethin Pranav bt Egor Agafonov 2-6, 6-4, 4-0 (retired); Aryan Shah bt Sidharth Rawat 7-5, 6-3; Karan Singh bt M Rifqi Fitriadi (Ina) 6-1, 6-2; Bogdan Bobrov bt Yash Chaurasia 6-1, 6-1; Nick Chappell (USA) bt Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-3, 6-4; S.D. Prajwal Dev bt Rohan Mehra 6-4, 3-0 (retired).
Doubles (quarterfinals): Egor Agafonov & Bogdan Bobrov bt Raghav Jaisinghani & Bharath Kumaran 6-3, 7-6(2); Ishaque Eqbal & Faisal Qamar bt Dev Javia & Sidharth Rawat 7-5, 3-6, [10-8]; Siddhant Banthia & Vishnu Vardhan bt M Rifqi Fitriadi (Ina) & Karan Singh 2-0 (retired); Rishab Agarwal & Kabir Hans bt S. D. Prajwal Dev & Adil Kalyanpur 6-7(7), 6-3, [10-6].
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Anjali Rathi enters ultimate of ITA ladies’s tennis event
Anjali Rathi eased previous high seed Yubrani Banerjee 6-3, 6-2 to arrange a title conflict in opposition to second seed Sahira Singh within the Rs.2,50,000 AITA ladies’s tennis event on the Joygaon Academy on Thursday.
Yubrani did make the doubles ultimate in partnership with Kashish Bhatia and can play second seeds Divya Bhardwaj and Chandana Potugari.
The outcomes (semifinals):
Singles: Anjali Rathi bt Yubrani Banerjee 6-3, 6-2; Sahira Singh bt Durganshi Kumar 6-0, 6-0.
Doubles: Yubrani Banerjee & Kashish Bhatia bt Mirdhula Palanivel & Chevika Sama 4-6, 6-2, [11-9]; Divya Bhardwaj & Chandana Potugari bt Sahira Singh & Snigdha Patibandla 6-1, 6-2.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Raghav Sarode beats Daksh Patil in Endurance Nationwide clay court docket event
Raghav Sarode upset fifth seed Daksh Patil 6-2, 5-7, 7-5 within the boys quarterfinals of the Endurance Nationwide clay court docket under-14 tennis championship on the Marathwada Centre on Thursday.
The outcomes (quarterfinals):
Beneath-14 boys: Aaradhya Mhasde bt Viran Chaudhary 6-0, 6-1; Raghav Sarode bt Daksh Patil 6-2, 5-7, 7-5; Varad Undre bt Aarav Chhallani 6-2, 6-3; Pradnyesh Shelke bt M Puneeth 6-2, 6-2.
Beneath-14 ladies: Aaradhya Meena bt Khushi Kadian 6-4, 6-2; Jensi Kanabar bt Pooja Nagaraj 6-2, 6-2; Shravee Deore bt Aarohi Deshmukh 6-3, 6-1; Srishti Kiran bt Vrandika Rajput 6-0, 6-4.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Saketh-Ramkumar pair lose in quarterfinal of Matsuyama Challenger event
Saketh Myneni and Ramkumar Ramanathan have been overwhelmed 6-3, 4-6, [11-9] by Thomas Fancutt and Ray Ho within the doubles quarterfinals of the $82,000 Challenger tennis event in Matsuyama, Japan, on Thursday. The Indian pair, which had received the title final week, collected 16 ATP factors and $950.
Within the $25,000 ITF ladies’s occasion in Solarino, Italy, Riya Bhatia obtained a walkover from second seed Natalija Stevanovic of Serbia, within the pre-quarterfinals.
The outcomes:
$82,000 Challenger, Knoxville, USA Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Aidan Mayo & Govind Nanda (USA) bt Francis Alcantara (Phi) & Sai Karteek Reddy 6-7(3), 7-6(4), [10-6].
$82,000 Challenger, Matsuyama, Japan Doubles (quarterfinals): Thomas Fancutt (Aus) & Ray Ho (Tpe) bt Saketh Myneni & Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-3, 4-6, [11-9].
$115,000 WTA, Midland, USA Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Sophie Chang & Rasheeda McAdoo (USA) bt Prarthana Thombare & Anastasia Tikhonova 7-6(6), 7-6(5).
$40,000 ITF ladies, Veracruz, Mexico Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Jessica Gomez (Mex) & Hiroko Kuwata (Jpn) bt Zoe Hitt (USA) & Saumya Vig 6-2, 6-0; Sofia Dominguez (Ven) & Dasha Plekhanova (Can) bt Priyanka Rodricks & Ximena Senties (Mex) 6-1, 6-1.
$25,000 ITF ladies, Solarino, Italy Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Riya Bhatia w.o. Natalija Stevanovic (Srb).
$15,000 ITF ladies, Monastir, Tunisia Doubles (quarterfinals): Ekaterina Ivanova & Iva Ivanova (Bul) bt Valerija Kargina (Lat) & Vanshita Pathania 6-1, 6-4.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
POLO
Otamendi scores 5 as Vimal Arion Achievers beats Military-Navy in Cavalry Gold Cup
Daniel Otamendi scored 5 targets in guiding Vimal Arion Achievers to an 8 targets to five ½ victory over Military-Navy in a league match of the Habanos Cavalry Gold Cup polo event on the Military Equestrian Centre, Delhi Cantonment, on Thursday.
Within the semifinals, to be performed on the Jaipur Polo floor right here on Friday, Vimal Arion Achievers will play Achievers, whereas the opposite match can be between Delta Polo and Jindal Panther.
The outcomes (league):
Vimal Arion Achievers 8 (Daniel Otamenndi 5, Shamsheer Ali 3) bt Military-Navy 5 ½ (Bautista Alberdi 3, Vishal Chauhan, handicap 1 ½).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
HOCKEY
Tamil Nadu makes Senior Males’s Nationals quarters after thrashing Andaman and Nicobar
It was not a very good commercial for the game as Tamil Nadu handed a 43-0 drubbing to a hapless Andaman and Nicobar (A&N) in a Pool-C tie of the 14th Hockey India-Senior Nationwide males’s hockey championship. This win enabled the facet to enter the knockouts (quarterfinals), whereas additionally elevating numerous questions on the necessity to have a relook on the format of the Nationals.
The variety of one-sided matches–Maharashtra thumping Gujarat 30-0, Manipur thrashing Bihar 19-1, Madhya Pradesh (MP) blanking A&N 29-0 and a number of others–definitely warrant a dialogue.
After Madhya Pradesh thumped Andhra Pradesh 17-0 in a Pool-C contest, TN, which subsequent took on A&N, was introduced with a transparent goal: win by a margin of 40 targets to enter the final eight and forestall MP from doing so.
The outcomes:
Pool B
Mizoram bt Telangana 2 (Stalin Abilash 46, 49) bt Telangana 1 (Venkatesh Telugu 18).
Pool C
MP 17 (Yousuf Affan 10, 30, Shreyas Dhupe 13, 22, 29, 36, 41, Armaan Qureshi 17, Sushil Dhanwar 18, 51, Mohd. Umar 27, Mohd. Zaid Khan 30, 46, Mohd. Nizamuddin 33, Sourabh Pashine 38, 53, 57) bt AP 0.
TN 43 (S. Karthi 1, 2, 8, 19, 21, 25, 32, 37, 38, 43, 48, 56, B. P. Somanna 3, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 51, 53, Sundarapandi 4, 9, 22, 25, 27, 30, 35, 49, 60, G. M. Pruthvi 7, 32, 41, S. Mareeswaran 14, 24, 28, 29, 37, 54, Ok. Selvaraj 34, 45, H. Shyam Kumar 58) bt A&N 0.
Pool D
Chandigarh 9 (Sumit 7, 8, Paramvir Singh 12, 15, Amandeep Singh 18, 26, Surinder Singh 35, Mohit 37, Manjinder Singh 59) bt Uttarakhand 0.
Pool F
Uttar Pradesh 4 (Chandan Singh 4, Arun Sahani 19, Manish Sahani 20, Faraz Mohd. 26) bt Delhi 1 (Govind Singh Bisht 17).
– Group Sportstar
GOLF
Karandeep Kochhar, Naveed Kaul proceed as joint leaders in Poona Membership Open
Chandigarh’s Karandeep Kochhar and Kshitij Naveed Kaul of Delhi continued as joint leaders for the second day operating at The Poona Membership Open, an INR 1 crore occasion on Thursday.
Kochhar (64-66) and Kaul (64-66), the spherical one joint leaders by one shot, continued within the lead on the midway stage with totals of 12-under 130 after they carded scores of five-under 66 in spherical two on the Poona Membership Golf Course.
TATA Metal PGTI Rating chief Veer Ahlawat and Samarth Dwivedi too returned rounds of 66 to be tied third at eight-under 134.
The reduce got here down at even-par 142. Fifty-eight professionals made the reduce.
Kochhar, a tenth tee starter, couldn’t have requested for a greater begin to the day as he holed his chip from 35 yards for an eagle on the Par-4 tenth. A few good iron pictures and two lengthy conversions then earned him birdies on the thirteenth and sixteenth.
The bogeys on the 18th and the second holes didn’t derail his spherical as Kochhar rallied with an incredible restoration shot over the timber to say an eagle on the seventh. Kochhar adopted that up with a 15-feet birdie conversion on the eighth.
Kaul drove the Par-4 14th inexperienced for the second consecutive day to choose up a birdie there. He added one other birdie thereafter however stumbled with a few bogeys on the seventeenth and third.
Kaul, who received his maiden skilled title on the Poona Membership Golf Course again in 2019 and has additionally received beginner, junior and sub-junior occasions on the identical venue, went on to bag an eagle with a 12-feet conversion on the Par-5 seventh.
He signed off with a flourish by following up the eagle with birdies from brief vary on the eighth and ninth.
-PTI