GOLF
Pranavi Urs fired a bogey-free spherical of six-under 66 to be T-2 after the opening spherical of the Andalucía Costa del Sol Open de Espana in Malaga.
She was one shot behind the chief, Noora Komulainen of Finland, who received off to a flying begin with a spherical of 65 (-7) on the Actual Membership Guadalhorce Golf.
Pranavi, enjoying her rookie season on the LET, birdied holes two, three, seven, eight, 12 and 18 for her spherical of six-under. The three gamers sharing the second place with Pranavi included the German duo Helen Briem and Patricia Isabel Schmidt, and Spain’s Ana Peláez Trivino all fired rounds of 66 (-6).
The opposite Indians, together with defending champion Aditi Ashok, had first rate rounds. Aditi, who gained right here final yr, was 2-under 70 to be tied-Twentieth, whereas. Diksha Dagar (71) was T-32 and Tvesa Malik (72) was T-41.
Aditi had 5 birdies in opposition to three bogeys in her spherical. Three of these birdies got here on the entrance facet of the course as she turned in 3-under. A fourth birdie noticed her get to 4-under, however bogeys on eleventh, fifteenth and the 18th noticed her fall again regardless of one other birdie on the seventeenth.
Diksha had three birdies in opposition to two bogeys and Tvesa had two bridies and bogeys in her 72.
“I began off fairly good, I gave myself a whole lot of alternatives. It’s been three weeks since our final occasion, so I didn’t know what to anticipate heading into this week, however I’m glad to have shot a bogey-free six-under. I do know the sport continues to be there,” stated Pranavi.
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Join India Japan to host inaugural Indo-Japan Golf Event
The inaugural Indo-Japan Golf Event, geared toward strengthening diplomatic and cultural ties between India and Japan, might be held on the ITC Traditional Golf Resort right here on Saturday.
The one-day event, organised by Join India Japan, will convey collectively an illustrious lineup of diplomats, enterprise leaders, and cultural ambassadors from each nations.
The occasion guarantees to foster collaboration and have fun shared values by the unifying platform of sports activities.
Distinguished contributors embody G20 Sherpa and former NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant, and Harinder S. Sikka, Group Director at Piramal Enterprises and creator of Calling Sehmat.
Sikka, who can also be the producer of the Nationwide Award-winning movie Nanak Shah Fakir, will function the occasion’s advisor and mentor.
“We’re thrilled to convey collectively such an esteemed group of people for this distinctive event,” stated Nupur Tewari.
“The Indo-Japan Golf Event is not only about sports activities; it’s a sworn statement to the ability of collaboration between India and Japan. We’re excited to see how the synergy of those leaders on the inexperienced will translate into stronger bilateral ties and lasting friendships.”
The occasion will supply a platform for networking, collaboration, and exploring alternatives for enterprise and cultural trade, underlining the rising synergy between the 2 nations.
Organisers stated the event is a testomony to the ability of sports activities as a diplomatic software and marks a major milestone in Join India Japan’s mission to strengthen bilateral relations.
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TENNIS
ITF junior tennis: High seed Arnav beats Roshan in semifinals, Rishitha reaches ultimate
High seed Arnav Paparkar recovered his assured recreation within the nick of time to wriggle out of the clutches of the artful Roshan Santhosh for a 6-3, 0-6, 6-4 victory within the semifinals of the ITF junior tennis event on the DLTA Complicated on Friday.
After a vibrant first set, the wiry Arnav managed to win solely one of many subsequent 10 video games, as he trailed 1-3 within the decider, on having misplaced the second set at love. Whereas Roshan was at his fluent greatest, Arnav struggled to seek out the arrogance in his recreation.
With the tide working over his head, Arnav shrugged off the lethargy, delivered thunderbolt serves that boosted his confidence, and began unleashing the attacking recreation, breaking by the defensive mode to overwhelm the American opponent.
Within the ultimate, Arnav will play Arjun Rathi who outclassed Kanata Ozaki of Japan, conceding a solitary recreation.
Within the ladies’ part, prime seed Rishitha Basireddy continued to name the pictures as she raced previous third seed Polina Sleptsova of Kazakhstan for the lack of three video games. The champion of the event final week in Guwahati, Rishitha, will play qualifier Nelli Ivanova within the ultimate.
Rishitha Basireddy made the ultimate of the ITF junior tennis event in Delhi on Friday.
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Kamesh Srinivasan
Rishitha Basireddy made the ultimate of the ITF junior tennis event in Delhi on Friday.
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Kamesh Srinivasan
In a battle of wits between two qualifiers, Ivanova was capable of step it up after dropping the primary set to get previous Harshini Nagaraj.
The outcomes
Below-18 boys (semifinals): Arnav Paparkar bt Roshan Santhosh (USA) 6-3, 0-6, 6-4; Arjun Rathi bt Kanata Ozaki (Jpn) 6-1, 6-0.
Doubles (ultimate): Izyan Ahmad (USA) & Aaron Gabet (Fra) bt Fedor Altukhov & Egor Shcherbakov 6-4, 5-7, [10-8].
Below-18 ladies (semifinals): Rishitha Basireddy bt Polina Sleptsova (Kaz) 6-3, 6-0; Nelli Ivanova bt Harshini Nagaraj 4-6, 6-0, 6-3.
Doubles (ultimate): Malika Amirgalieva (Kaz) & Sara Oliveriusova (Cze) bt Aishwarya Jadhav & Aakruti Sonkusare 6-3, 7-6(1).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
HPCL Mittal event: Samriti beats Danica to clinch girls’s title
Samriti Punyani beat Danica Fernando 6-3, 6-4 to clinch the ladies’s title within the HPCL Mittal Rs.200,000 AITA rating tennis event on the CLTA Complicated on Friday.
Within the males’s ultimate, prime seed Sarthak Suden prevailed over the second seed Moksh Puri in three units.
The outcomes (finals):
Males: Sarthak Suden bt Moksh Puri 6-3, 5-7, 6-2.
Ladies: Samriti Punyani bt Danica Fernando 6-3, 6-4.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
PSPB inter-unit event: Bopanna-Sharan duo beats Vishnu and Yuki
Asian Video games gold medallists Rohan Bopanna and Divij Sharan needed to be at their aggressive greatest to beat Vishnu Vardhan and Yuki Bhambri 6-7(5), 7-6(5), [10-7] within the decisive doubles to clinch the boys’s group title for Indian Oil in opposition to Oil and Pure Gasoline Company (ONGC) within the forty third PSPB inter-unit tennis event on the Deccan Gymkhana on Friday.
Earlier, Sumit Nagal equalised for Indian Oil by beating Yuki Bhambri in singles, after Divij had misplaced his singles match to Vishnu Vardhan.
Within the girls’s ultimate, Indian Oil scored a 2-0 win over Gasoline Authority of India Restricted (GAIL). Riya Bhatia and Prarthana Thombare gained the singles matches in opposition to Laxmisiri Dandu and Sohini Mohanty respectively.
The outcomes
Workforce championship (finals):
Males: Indian Oil bt ONGC 2-1 (Divij Sharan misplaced to Vishnu Vardhan 3-6, 3-6; Sumit Nagal bt Yuki Bhambri 6-2, 6-3; Rohan Bopanna and Diivj Sharan bt Vishnu Vardhan & Yuki Bhambri 6-7(5), 7-6(5), [10-7]).
Ladies: Indian Oil bt GAIL 2-0 (Riya Bhatia bt Laxmisiri Dandu 6-3, 6-3; Prarthana Thombare bt Sohini Mohanty 6-3, 6-3).
Males’s doubles (ultimate): Sumit Nagal & Divij Sharan bt VM Ranjeet & Vishnu Vardhan 9-6.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
ITF girls’s tennis: Zeel Desai beats Germany’s Marie Vogt in quarterfinals
Zeel Desai edged out Marie Vogt of Germany 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(3) within the quarterfinals of the $15,000 ITF girls’s tennis event in Monastir, Tunisia, on Friday.
Outcomes
$15,000 ITF males, Luanda, Angola Singles (quarterfinals): Robert Strombachs (Ger) bt Chirag Duhan 6-2, 6-2.
Doubles (semifinals): Robert Strombachs& Kai Wehnelt (Ger) w.o. Alan Bojarski (Pol) & Aryan Lakshmanan.
$25,000 ITF girls, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Singles (second spherical): Daria Frayman (Cyp) bt Saumya Vig 6-2, 6-0.
$15,000 ITF girls, Monastir, Tunisia Singles (quarterfinals): Zeel Desai bt Marie Vogt (Ger) 6-4, 3-6, 7-6(3).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
HOCKEY
Chandigarh, Mizoram, MP, Haryana win in girls’s Sub-Junior Nationals hockey
Chandigarh, Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana gained their respective matches on the 14th Hockey India Sub-Junior Ladies’s Nationwide Championship right here on Friday.
The day began with a good match between Chandigarh and Kerala in Pool E through which the previous prevailed 3-2. Dipanjali Tirkey (forty second minute), and Parameswari Pinapothula (forty eighth) scored for Kerala, whereas Simran (forty fourth) and Annu (56th) scored for Chandigarh.
The profitable purpose was scored by Chandigarh’s Tamanna (sixtieth).
This was adopted by one other Pool E match through which Mizoram gained 11-0 over Arunachal. Captain Laltlanchhungi (18th, thirtieth, forty fourth, fifty fifth) was in great type and scored 4 targets for her facet, whereas Vanlalrinhlui (1st, 52nd, 58th), C Lalruatsiami (tenth), Manglawmsang (nineteenth), Lalthakimi (twenty sixth) and Laldinpuii (forty second) additionally chipped in with targets.
In Pool F, Delhi and Bihar shared the spoils after enjoying out a goalless draw.
In Pool H, Madhya Pradesh crushed Andhra Pradesh 11-1. Parmar Ronak (4th, sixtieth), Tanvi (twelfth, nineteenth), Sailu Pukhrambam (fifteenth, thirty fourth) and captain Krishna Sharma (thirtieth, 53rd) scored two targets every for his or her facet.
Gungun Kaur (thirteenth), Bhabar Keshar (thirty ninth) and Rubi Rathore (forty third) additionally struck for Madhya Pradesh.
In Pool A, Haryana beat Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu 9-1, whereas Maharashtra and Punjab settled for a 2-2 attract Pool G.
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Nehru event: CBDT beats Naval Tata Academy
Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) beat Naval Tata Academy, Jamshedpur, 3-1 within the tie-break after the groups have been locked 3-3 in a league match of the SNBP sixtieth Nehru hockey event on the Shivaji Stadium on Friday.
(Mehkeet Singh, P.A. Machaiah and R Manikandan transformed the probabilities within the shoot-off for CBDT. Ankush alone was profitable in changing for the Jamshedpur group.
CBDT joined the Railway Sports activities Promotion Board (RSPB), Military XI, and Comptroller and Auditor Common XI within the group for the quarterfinal league.
Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) beat Central Reserve Police Power (CRPF) 4-1 to qualify for the quarterfinal league. It joined Indian Navy, Punjab Nationwide Financial institution and Petroleum Sports activities Promotion Board (PSPB) within the different group.
The outcomes (league):
Central Board of Direct Taxes 3 (P.A. Machaiah, Vikash Choudhary, R Manikandan) bt Naval Tata Academy, Jamshedpur, 3 (Mohamed Saeed, Simon Bodra, Ujjwal Pal) 3-1 (tie-break).
Indo Tibetan Border Police 4 (Vjay Kumar Gond 2, Rahul Yadav, Shubham) bt Central Reserve Police Power 1 (Rahul Sharma).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
BASKETBALL
thirty ninth Nationwide youth basketball c’ships: Karnataka ladies beats Punjab however loses in boys part to UP
Deepika P.P. scored 23 factors to information Karnataka ladies to a convincing 66-37 win over Punjab in a Group-B match on the opening day of the thirty ninth Nationwide youth basketball championships on the Dumurjala Indoor Stadium, Howrah, on Friday.
Nevertheless, within the boys part, Karnataka was crushed 77-56 by Uttar Pradesh in a Group B contest, whereas Punjab defeated Chandigarh 86-69.
Choose outcomes:
Stage 1:
Boys: Group A: Telangana 69 (Saharsh Maheswar 18, Reyhan Ellore 13) bt Madhya Pradesh 64 (Krishna Sumeriya 16, Anuj Verma 16, Aditya Jayswal 10); Group B: Punjab 86 (Joypreet Singh Sidhu 23, Suhaan Masih 21, Ajinder Singh 15) bt Chandigarh 69 (Sachin 18, Kushnaz Singh Baidwan 14, Nikhil 14), Uttar Pradesh 77 (Ayush Kumar 25, Sanjay Mahakunda 17, Raj Singh 12, Sumit Kumar Singh 10) bt Karnataka 56 (Dev Charan Jonnalagadda 18, Samarth Manur 16).
Women: Group A: Maharashtra 69 (Reva Kulkarni 26) bt Madhya Pradesh 42 (Vaishnavi Singh 10); Group B: Karnataka 66 (Deepika P.P. 23, Nidhi Umesh 13, Aditi Subramanian 12) bt Punjab 37 (Tishmeet Kaur 10, Ok.Vanshika 10).
Stage 2:
Boys: Group C: Mizoram bt Goa 45-22; Group D: Chhattisgarh bt Odisha 80-67; Group F: Andhra Pradesh bt Arunachal Pradesh 68-10, Jharkhand bt Jammu and Kashmir 51-25.
Women: Group C: Telangana bt Chandigarh 52-49, Chhattisgarh bt Uttarakhand 63-23; Group D: Delhi bt Bihar 54-11, Puducherry beat Goa 62-31; Group E: Assam bt Andaman and Nicobar 84-9, Himachal Pradesh bt Odisha 39-36; Group F: Jharkhand bt Arunachal Pradesh 44-8, Andhra Pradesh bt Jammu and Kashmir 62-11.
-Y.B.Sarangi
SQUASH
Xtreme Open: Yusha beats Udit in U-19 boys’ semifinal
Yusha Nafees beat prime seed Udit Mishra 11-7, 11-1, 11-3 within the under-19 boys semifinals of the Xtreme Open squash event on the Dhyan Chand Nationwide Stadium on Friday.
Within the ultimate, Yusha will face the present US Open under-15 champion Aryaveer Dewan, who sailed previous second seed Abhiraj Singh 11-6, 11-4, 11-3.
Outcomes
Boys
Below-19: Yusha Nafees bt Udit Mishra 11-7, 11-1, 11-3; Aryaveer Dewan bt Abhiraj Singh 11-6, 11-4, 11-3.
Below-17: Parthvir Singh bt Arjun Morey 11-6, 11-9, 11-5; Raghav Vashishtha bt Ijaz Mohammed 11-6, 11-7, 11-8.
Below-15: Shresht Iyer bt Raghavendra Thirani 11-2, 11-3, 11-4; Harshal Rana bt Reyansh Kulshreshtha 11-7, 11-5, 13-15, September 11, 11-2.
Below-13: Prabhav Bajoria bt Viaan Khemani 11-6, 8-11, 11-9, September 11, 11-4; Abhyuday Arora bt Ansh Kumar 12-10, 11-4, 11-3.
Below-11: Prahlad Singh Majithia bt Agastya Uppal 11-5, 11-6, 11-2; Nirvaan Uppal bt Shaurya Bakshi 11-1, 11-3, 11-2.
Women
Below-17: Sanvi Batar bt Ishika Anand 11-7, 11-6, 11-3; Kaashvi Mangal bt Riya Maheshwari 11-1, 11-2, 11-2.
Below-15: Anya Sood bt Niranjana Nair 11-4, 11-4, 11-5; Maira Ghosh bt Saanvi Bakshi 11-6, 11-5, 11-9.
Below-13: Nandikasree Kalaivanan bt Rashi Choudhary 13-11, 13-11, 8-11, 11-8; Chhavi Panchal bt Prernaa Kanoi 11-2, 11-2, 11-2.
Below-11: Jerusha Jebindran bt Suhasini Mishra 10-12, 11-5, 11-9, 11-4; Aarna Rao bt Shravanthi Sendilnath 3-11, 11-3, 12-10, 11-4.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
KHO-KHO
Junior Nationwide Kho-Kho C’ship: Maharashtra clinch double gold medals
Maharashtra’s girls and boys groups clinched gold medals on the forty third Junior Nationwide Kho-Kho Championship, which concluded right here on Friday. It’s the nineteenth consecutive gold medal for the boys’ group and general, their thirty fifth within the competitors. The women’ group bagged their tenth title win in a row and general, their twenty sixth within the historical past of the championship.
The championship was held on the Maharani Ahilyabai Holkar Sports activities Stadium right here.
Within the boys’ ultimate, Maharashtra defeated Odisha 33-29. The winners led the sport 18-14 at halftime as their triumph was marked by an all-round contribution from Jitendra Vasave, Krishna Bansode, Parth Devkate and Prem Dalvi.
Within the ladies’ summit conflict, it was as soon as once more a contest between Maharashtra and Odisha through which the previous emerged winners 24-20.
Maharashtra held a lead of 14-10 on the midway mark, and gamers together with Tanvi Bhosale, Sneha Lamkane, Pranali Kale, Suhani Dhotre, and Prajakta Birajdar shone of their win.
“Groups earned ‘dream factors’ when a batch of three gamers defends for 4 minutes, with further factors awarded for each subsequent minute till out the entire batch,” a launch stated.
“Maharashtra’s boys earned 1 dream level, whereas the ladies earned 4. Odisha’s boys earned 1 level,” it added.
Awards: Veer Abhimanyu Award: Jitendra Vasave (Maharashtra) Janaki Award: Suhani Dhotre (Maharashtra) Greatest attacker: Prem Dalvi (Maharashtra), Lisa Rani (Odisha) Greatest defender: Bapi Murmu (Odisha), Tanvi Bhosale (Maharashtra).
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ADMINISTRATION
Roy Choudhury elected as Bengal Olympic Affiliation president
Chandan Roy Choudhury defeated incumbent president Swapan Banerjee 45-20 within the Bengal Olympic Affiliation (BOA) elections in Kolkata on Friday.
Amid allegations of inaction in opposition to Banerjee, the youthful brother of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the victory of the Roy Choudhury-led panel, which had the backing of the ruling Trinamool Congress, was a foregone conclusion.
Roy Choudhury can also be the president of the West Bengal State Weightlifting Affiliation and the secretary of the distinguished Calcutta Rowing Membership.
Jahar Das was elected the final secretary of the BOA, whereas Kamal Kumar Maitra was chosen the treasurer.
– Workforce Sportstar