Indian sports activities wrap, November 30: Pranavi Urs tied in third place after spherical two in Malaga

GOLF

Pranavi Tied-third in Spain

Pranavi Urs added a strong 3-under 69 to her first spherical of 6-under 66 to be tied third after the second spherical on the Andalucía Costa del Sol Open de España.

The Mysuru golfer, who’s taking part in her first full season on the Women European Tour, is now 9-under for 36 holes and trails chief Carlota Ciganda (67-66) who’s 11-under.

Pranavi is tied third with Helen Briem of Germany who shot 66-69 to be 9-under. Mendacity second is Pia Babnik of Slovenia, who has had two straight 67s.

She received off to a very good begin with two birdies in her first three holes earlier than dropping her solely shot of the day on the eighth. She later rolled in two extra birdies on the ninth and fifteenth holes.

“I may have holed much more putts than dropped, so hopefully within the subsequent couple of days it’ll,” stated the Indian.

“The sport was fairly strong, I additionally didn’t give myself as many alternatives as yesterday. I had little errors right here and there, however that’s golf. It was general an honest day.

“I’m slowly getting used to taking part in within the final group. The gang is clearly unbelievable right here they usually’re all cheering for you. It’s been unbelievable.” Defending champion Aditi Ashok carded a 71 to be Tied-Twenty third, whereas Diksha Dagar, two-time winner on the is 1-under 143 and Tied-Thirty first. Tvesa Malik (72-75) is Tied-61st.

Ciganda, a seven-time LET winner started the day two photographs off the tempo and had a bogey-free second day round Actual Membership Guadalhorce Golf.

She started with a birdie on the second earlier than including one other on the fourth and back-to-back birdies on holes six and 7 to make the flip in four-under.

The 20-year-old Slovenia’s Pia Babnik, who has her brother on the bag, carded a bogey-free spherical of 67 (-5) for the second day in a row to be in outright second place after 36 holes in Spain.

The 2024 La Sella Open champion Briem had two bogeys and 5 birdies on her scorecard to maintain her inside touching distance of chief Ciganda.

Spain’s Maria Hernandez fired a bogey-free spherical of 66 (-6) to be in a tie for fifth place on seven-under-par alongside Belgium’s Manon De Roey.

De Roey had an eagle, three birdies and a bogey on her scorecard to seal a spherical of 68 (-4) on day two in Malaga.

-PTI

TENNIS

Arjun, Rishitha win singles titles at ITF junior tennis match

Champions Rishitha Basireddy and Arjun Rathi within the ITF junior tennis match in Delhi on Saturday.
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Kamesh Srinivasan

Arjun Rathi performed with endurance and got here up with explosive strokes at any time when required to beat high seed Arnav Paparkar 7-5, 2-6, 6-4 within the ultimate of the ITF junior tennis match on the DLTA Complicated on Saturday.

Each the gamers got here up with a high-quality fare, during which the lengthy rallies have been punctuated with imaginative strokes, to entertain the sparse gathering.

Within the decider, Arjun fought onerous to tilt the steadiness in his favour, along with his artful recreation backed by sensible athleticism. It was the second title in current weeks for the trainee of Aditya Sachdeva on the Roundglass Academy in Chandigarh.

Within the ladies ultimate, Rishitha Basireddy was capable of flip the match on its head halfway via the second set, for a memorable 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 victory towards qualifier Nelli Ivanova. It was the second successive title for her following the one final week in Guwahati.

Rishitha was taking part in properly proper via however was lacking the strains narrowly, until halfway via the second set. She clawed her method again and led 5-4 within the second set when Ivanova confronted two set factors on her serve.

The Russian’s shot was referred to as proper, which might have helped her save a set level, however the referee was available watching the match and overruled the umpire, that closed the set and introduced a burst of tears from Ivanova.

The free-stroking Ivanova composed herself to maintain the battle within the third, however Rishitha was capable of step up her recreation, transferring properly and stroking with depth, to emerge victorious, with none additional drama.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

SQUASH

Yusha beats Aryaveer to safe Xtreme Open squash match title

Yusha Nafees calls the shot towards Aryaveer Dewan (again) within the under-19 boys ultimate of the Xtreme Open squash match in Delhi on Saturday.
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Kamesh Srinivasan

Yusha Nafees asserted his sturdy recreation as he beat Aryaveer Dewan 15-13, 11-7, 11-7 within the under-19 boys ultimate of the Xtreme Open squash match on the Dhyan Chand Nationwide Stadium right here on Saturday.

After a string of thrilling finals that noticed many high seeds being crushed in varied girls and boys occasions, the match between Yusha and the reigning US Open champion Aryaveer lived as much as its projection as a cracker of a contest.

It was the beautiful recreation of Yusha that prevailed as he drove his opponent to the bottom in robust rallies, breaking the resistance systematically, and crusing residence to the trophy.

Within the under-11 boys ultimate, Prahlad Singh Majithia recovered after dropping the primary two video games to pip Nirvaan Uppal 11-9 within the fifth recreation.

Within the ladies under-17 ultimate, high seed Sanvi Batar gained a thriller in 5 video games towards Kaashvi Mangal.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

Manognya Madasu wins AITA ladies’s tennis match

Manognya Madasu beat Rituparna Choudhary 6-1, 6-2 within the ultimate of the Rs. 100,000 AITA ladies’s tennis match on the Gurukul Resorts and Nation Membership.

Chandana Potugari and Diva Bhatia gained the doubles title.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

Nagal, Vaishnavi safe singles titles at PSPB Inter-Unit meet

Girls’s champion Vaishnavi Adkar receives the trophy after successful the PSPB inter-unit tennis match in Pune on Saturday.
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Vaishnavi Adkar gained the ladies’s singles title for host Bharat Petroleum as she beat Riya Bhatia of India Oil 6-2, 6-2 within the ultimate of the forty third PSPB inter-unit tennis match on the Deccan Gymkhana on Saturday.

The nation’s No.1 Sumit Nagal gained the boys’s singles title for Indian Oil on anticipated strains as he beat Vishnu Vardhan of ONGC 6-4, 6-3.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

Zeel Desai crashes out of ITF ladies’s tennis match

Second seed Sakura Hosogi of Japan beat Zeel Desai 6-1, 6-4 within the semifinals of the $15,000 ITF ladies’s tennis match in Monastir, Tunisia, on Saturday.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

POLO

Col. Girdhari Singh Cup polo match: Delta Polo beats Jindal Panther in semifinal

Santiago Marambio scored seven targets together with the golden objective within the ‘sudden demise’ chukker to assist Delta Polo to a 7-6 victory over Jindal Panther within the semifinal of the Col. Girdhari Singh Cup polo match on the Jaipur Polo floor right here on Saturday.

Within the different semifinal, Shamsheer Ali scored six targets together with the golden objective to information Mayfair Polo to a 10-9 win over Vimal Arion Achievers for which Chris Mackenzie scored all of the 9 targets.

The ultimate might be performed on the similar venue at 3 PM IST on Sunday.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

HOCKEY

RSPB beats CBDT in Nehru hockey match

Railways Sports activities Promotion Board (RSPB) was ruthless in handing out a 9-1 defeat to Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) in a quarterfinal league match of the SNBP sixtieth Nehru hockey match on the Shivaji Stadium right here on Saturday.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

BASKETBALL

Rajasthan data win towards Madhya Pradesh in Nationwide youth basketball championships

Defending champion Rajasthan boys rode on Piyush Choudhary’s 20 factors to outsmart Madhya Pradesh 79-31 in a Group-A match of the thirty ninth Nationwide youth basketball championships on the Sabuj Sathi Indoor Stadium, Howrah, on Saturda