BRIDGE
Asha Sharma, Puja Batra clinch high honours in Nationwide Rating Bridge C’ship
Asha Sharma and Puja Batra from New Delhi clinched the highest honours within the women pair competitors within the Nationwide Rating Bridge Championship right here on Wednesday.
Asha and Puja, who had been the in a single day leaders on the finish of the qualifying spherical, maintained the prevalence among the many 18 finalists within the ultimate part of the competitors.
The Delhi pair discovered its rhythm on the midway stage to place up a powerful efficiency, ending with 56 IMPs that helped them win the women pair crown.
Mumbai’s Usha Kabra and Kolkata’s Bharati Dey completed runner-up with 50 IMPs, whereas one other pair from Delhi in Devi Bhatnagar and Alka Jain was third with 37 IMPs.
The profitable pair of Asha and Puja acquired prize cash of Rs 40,000, whereas the runner-up mixture of Usha and Bharati obtained Rs 30,000. Devi and Alka acquired Rs 20,000, and the pairs as much as the eighth place additionally acquired money awards.
The blended groups and blended pairs occasions might be held later this week.
Ultimate positions (high 8):
1. Asha Sharma and Puja Batra, 2. Usha Kabra and Bharati Dey, 3. Devi Bhatnagar and Alka Jain, 4. Subhasree Basu and Meenal Thakur, 5. Aditi Jhaveri and Marianne Karmarkar, 6. Bindiya Kohli and Priya Balasubramanian, 7. Anjali Karthikeyan and Ritu Bangaria, 8. Veena Bobb and Ramani Menon.
-PTI
GOLF
Japir Open: Arjun sole chief on opening day
Arjun Prasad shot an 8-under 62 to be the only chief on the opening day of the Rs.1 crore Jaipur Open golf match on the Rambagh Golf Membership on Wednesday.
Pranav Mardikar shot a 7-under 63 on the par-70 course to be within the second spot.
Seven gamers, Kshitij Naveed Kaul, Rashid Khan, M Dharma, Harendra Gupta, Jamal Hossain, Mari Muthu and Mohd. Azhar had been tied within the third place with 64.
“I learn the traces on the greens rather well and thus managed to roll in lots of birdie putts,” stated Arjun, as he praised the host for the “glorious greens”.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
TENNIS
ITF males’s tennis: Wild card Siddhanth beats Davis Cupper Siddharth
Wild card Siddhant Banthia knocked out Davis Cupper and eighth seed Siddharth Vishwakarma 7-5, 6-2 within the first spherical of the $25,000 ITF males’s tennis match on the MSLTA Complicated on Wednesday.
At 5-5, Banthia broke serve, dropping one level and served out at love within the subsequent sport to achieve a stranglehold over the proceedings. He ran up a 5-1 lead within the second set earlier than closing it out with none bother. He transformed 5 of six break factors to make it a clean affair.
Within the pre-quarterfinals, Banthia will play Adhithya Ganesan of the USA.
Seventh seed Karan Singh beat Nick Chappell, the finalist of the match final week in Bhubaneswar, with a 6-3, 7-6(6) rating.
Vishnu Vardhan beat fellow qualifier Ishaque Eqbal in three units to arrange a second spherical in opposition to fourth seed S Mukund.
The champion of the final match, second seed Dalibor Svrcina overcame a gradual begin to beat S.D. Prajwal Dev in three units that lasted three hours underneath the floodlights.
The outcomes:
Singles (first spherical): Khumoyun Sultanov (Uzb) bt Adil Kalyanpur 6-2, 6-1; Siddhant Banthia bt Siddharth Vishwakarma 7-5, 6-2; Manish Sureshkumar bt Jang Yunseok (Kor) 6-4, 2-6, 6-1; Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Rishi Reddy 6-3, 6-4; Yuvan Nandal bt Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 7-6(2), 6-2; Bogdan Bobrov bt Yuta Kawahashi (Jpn) 1-6, 6-4, 6-2; Karan Singh bt Nick Chappell (USA) 6-3, 7-6(6); Rishab Agarwal bt M Rifqi Fitriadi (Ina) 7-6(5), 2-6, 6-4; Vishnu Vardhan bt Ishaque Eqbal 6-4, 3-6, 6-3; S Mukund bt Sidharth Rawat 7-6(5), 6-4; Egot Agafonov bt Udit Kamboj 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(4); Aryan Shah bt Dheeraj Srinivasan 6-3, 7-6(6); Maxim Zhukov bt Manas Dhamne 6-3, 6-3; Dalibor Svrcina (Cze) bt S.D. Prajwal Dev 6-7(5), 6-1, 6-4.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Ishaque Eqbal & Faisal Qamar bt Lucas Deliano (Ger) & Khuoyun Sultanov (Uzb) 6-3, 6-2; Yuta Kawahashi & Kazuki Nishiwaki (Jpn) bt Parikshit Somani & Manish Sureshkumar 7-6(4), 4-6, [11-9].
-Kamesh Srinivasan
ITF ladies’s tennis: Two-time nationwide champion Vaidehi beats qualifier Tahlia
Two-time nationwide champion Vaidehi Chaudhari beat qualifier Tahlia Kokkinis 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 within the first spherical of the $40,000 ITF ladies’s tennis match in Brisbane, Australia, on Wednesday.
Vaidehi was joined by Ankita Raina and Shrivalli Bhamidipaty within the second spherical.
The outcomes
$133,250 Challenger, Kobe, Japan Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Shinji Hazawa & Masamichi Imamura (Jpn) bt Ray Ho (Tpe) & Saketh Myneni 7-6(4), 7-5.
$82,000 ITF males, Champaign-Urbana, USA Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Francis Alcantara (Phi) & Sai KarteekReddy bt Toby Kodat (USA) & Kelsey Stevenson (Can) 6-4, 3-6, [10-3].
$40,000 ITF ladies, Brisbane, Australia Singles (first spherical): Ankita Raina bt Ya Yi Yang (Tpe) 6-3, 6-3; Vaidehi Chaudhari bt Tahlia Kokkinis (Aus) 4-6, 6-4, 6-3; Shrivalli Bhamidipaty bt Naiktha Bains 6-3, 7-6(3).
$40,000 ITF ladies, Funchal, Portugal Singles (first spherical): Riya Bhatia bt Ella McDonald (GBR) 7-5, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Riya Bhatia & Polina Iatcenko bt Sara Borkop (Den) & Teresa Dias (Por) 7-6(2), 6-3.
$40,000 ITF ladies, Chihuahua, Mexico Singles (first spherical): Sofia Dominguez (Ven) bt Saumya Vig 6-1, 6-0.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Shria Atturu (USA) & Priyanka Rodricks bt Basant Kaur (USA) & Vivian Toma (Bra) 7-5, 6-3.