BADMINTON
Haryana’s Unnati Hooda breezed previous Unnati Jaral of Jammu & Kashmir 21-10, 21-9 to enter the second spherical of the ladies’s singles on the 2024 Senior Nationwide Badminton Championship on the KBA courts right here on Friday.
The 17-year-old Unnati was far superior than her opponent within the first sport however confronted slight resistance within the second as Jaral saved tempo, taking 9 factors to her opponent’s 11 at one stage. However from there, Unnati stepped it up, manoeuvring via the quick circumstances in skilled style to romp residence with out dropping one other level.
RESULTS
Males: Abhishek Yeligar (Kar) bt M. Anshad (A&N) 21-2, 21-7; Saahas Kumar Potipi Reddi (Tel) bt Harshit Thakur (Chg) 21-23, 21-17, 21-7; Naren Iyer (Kar) bt Soumyadeep Saha (Tri) 21-6, 21-15; Rohan Gurbani (Mah) bt Paras Mathur (Odi) 21-14, 21-9; S. Rithvik Sanjeevi (TN) bt Gitchiak Sangma (Meg) 21-6, 21-11; Tushar Suveer (Kar) bt Bhaskar Chakraborty (RBI) 21-14, 21-11; S. Sankar Muthusamy (TN) bt C.G. Yash Yogi 21-17, 21-12; Abhinav Garg (Kar) bt Samuel Tamang (Anp) 22-20, 21-14; M. Raghu (Kar) bt Harshal Bhoyar (Chd) 21-17, 21-17.
Girls: Ilishaa Pal (Kar) bt Divyanshi Gautam (UP) 22-24, 21-19, 21-7; Tanya Hemanth (Kar) bt Manya Ralhan (Pun) 21-7, 21-6; A. Mokshitha (TN) bt Sunandita Bista (Skm) 21-6, 21-3; S. Rakshitha Sree (Tel) bt Riya Mookerjee (Rly) 21-16, 21-15; Sadhana Fenelon (TN) bt Srenakshi Mandal (WB) 21-14, 21-17; Jahnavi Nammi (AP) bt Andrea Sarah Kurien (Ker) 21-15, 21-14; Samridhi Bhardwaj (Pun) bt Kanak Singhal (Del) 21-17, 16-21, 21-14; Rujula Ramu (Kar) bt Sheetal Joshi (Meg) 21-3, 21-4; N.B. Adarshini Shri (TN) bt Sarah Sharma (Jhk) 21-7, 21-6; S. Sneha (Kar) bt Aadhya Shine (Ker) 21-13, 21-10.
-N. Sudarshan
SQUASH
79th Western India Slam: Anahat, Akanksha sail into semifinals
Two-time champion Anahat Singh of India cruised into the semifinals of the ladies’s occasion within the 79th Western India Slam, a USD 9,000 prize-money Skilled Squash Affiliation Challenger event on the CCI courts in Mumbai on Friday.
The 16-year-old Anahat defeated eighth seeded compatriot Anjali Semwal 11-3 11-7 11-7 within the quarterfinal.
Prime seed Akanksha Salunkhe additionally progressed to the semi-finals, defeating Hong Kong’s Sze Wing Wai 11-5 11-4 11-3.
In males’s competitors, the highest two seeds Viktor Byrtus of the Czech Republic and Malaysian Ameeshenraj Chandaran superior to the semifinals.
The Primary seed Viktor simply defeated seventh seed Hong Komg’s Wailok To 11-6 11-3 and 11-5, whereas second seed Ameeshenraj Chandaran bought the higher of fifth seed Yassin Shohdy of Egypt 11-6 11-2 11-5.
Outcomes:
Males (quarter-finals): 2-Ameeshenraj Chandaran (MAS) bt. 5-Yassin Shohdy (EGY) 11-6, 11-2, 11-5; 6-Veer Chotrani (IND) bt. 3-Ravindu Laksiri (SRI) 11-7, 10-12, 11-9, 11-4; 4-Rowan Damming (NED) bt. Rahul Baitha (IND) 11-8, 11-5, 11-13, 11-6; 1-Viktor Byrtus (CZE) bt. 7-Wailok To (HKG) 11-6, 11-3, 11-5.
Girls (quarter-finals): 2-Anahat Singh (IND) bt. 8-Anjali Semwal (IND) 11-3, 11-7, 11-7; 3-Nour Khafagy (EGY) bt. 6-Wong Po Yui Kirstie (HKG) 11-8, 11-3, 11-9; 5-Jana Swaify (EGY) bt. Bobo Lam (HKG) 4-11, 11-6, 11-5, 11-8; 1-Akanksha Salunkhe (IND) bt. Sze Wing Wai (HKG) 11-5, 11-4, 11-3.
-PTI
WEIGHTLIFTING
Asian Youth Weightlifting Championships 2024: Jyoshna Sabar creates new Youth Asian report in complete
Jyoshna Sabar created a New Youth Asian report in complete with a carry of 135kg within the 40kg Youth Women weight class on the 2024 Asian Youth (Boys & Women) Weightlifting Championships in Doha, Qatar, on Friday.
General, Indian athletes gained two gold and two bronze medals on the opening day.
RESULTS
Jyoshna Sabar (40kg Youth Women): Snatch – 60kg, Clear & Jerk – 75kg, Whole – 135kg, Place – 1 (New Asian Youth report in complete)
Payal (45kg Youth Women): Snatch – 70kg, Clear & Jerk – 85kg, Whole – 155kg, Place – 1
Preetismita Bhoi (45kg Youth Women): Snatch – 60kg, Clear & Jerk – 85kg, Whole – 145kg, Place – 5
Payal (45kg Junior Women): Snatch – 70kg, Clear & Jerk – 85kg, Whole – 155kg, Place – 3
Akanksha Vyavahare (45kg Junior Women): Snatch – 68kg, Clear & Jerk – 83kg, Whole – 151kg, Place – 5
Babulal Hembrom (49kg Junior Boys): Snatch – 88kg, Clear & Jerk – 109kg, Whole – 197kg, Place – 3
– Workforce Sportstar
TENNIS
74th Inter-Companies tennis championship: Sriram Balaji wins singles title
N. Sriram Balaji (proper) grew to become the singles champion on the Inter-Companies
tennis championship in Delhi on Friday.
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
N. Sriram Balaji (proper) grew to become the singles champion on the Inter-Companies
tennis championship in Delhi on Friday.
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Olympian Sriram Balaji asserted his supreme health and singles prowess but once more as he raced previous second seed Manish Ganesh for the title within the 74th Inter-Companies tennis championship on the DLTA Complicated in New Delhi on Friday.
After having misplaced the workforce championship ultimate to Indian Navy, it was redemption for the robust Military workforce to seize to the person title via Balaji.
A prime doubles participant who had reached the third spherical of French Open this 12 months, Balaji dropped 16 video games in successful 4 matches. He bought a walkover from one other former Nationwide champion like him, Mohit Mayur, within the semifinals.
RESULTS
Last: Sriram Balaji bt Suraj Prabodh 6-3, 6-3
Semifinals: Balaji w.o. Mohit Mayur; Suraj bt Manish Ganesh 6-3, 2-0 (retired).
– Workforce Sportstar
Mayank wins Rajesh Patel memorial AITA event
Mayank Sharma with the winner’s trophy on the seventh Rajesh Patel memorial AITA males’s rating tennis event in Gurugram on Friday.
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Mayank Sharma with the winner’s trophy on the seventh Rajesh Patel memorial AITA males’s rating tennis event in Gurugram on Friday.
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Mayank Sharma emerged the champion within the seventh Rajesh Patel memorial Rs.100,000 AITA males’s tennis event on the Tennis Vidyalaya, Sector-61, Gurugram, on Friday.
Mayank led 6-0, 2-0 when the highest seed Parth Agarwal retired.
It was a fantastic run for Mayank as he beat a collection of robust opponents – Udit Gogoi, Bushan Haobam and Bhicky Sagolshem – and dropped one set alongside the way in which.
Equally, it has been a commendable train by tennis coach Ankit Patel to host the occasion in his father’s reminiscence. Rajesh Patel was a famend basketball coach who helped the Chhattisgarh women dominate the nationwide scene, at occasions beating the would possibly of the Railways.
– Workforce Sportstar
ITF Girls, Navi Mumbai: Reyngold knocks out Sahaja in quarterfinals
Ekaterina Reyngold stopped the fantastic run of second seed Sahaja Yamalapalli with a 7-6(5), 6-3 victory within the quarterfinals of the $40,000 ITF ladies’s tennis event on the Ganesh Naik Complicated on Friday.
Sahaja did have her possibilities as she fought again from 2-4 to 5-4 within the first set, and later did lead 5-4 within the tie-break. Sahaja led 3-1 within the second set earlier than Reyngold ran away with the match, sweeping the subsequent 5 video games.
Sahaja transformed all of the three break factors that she pressured, however Reyngold prevailed by changing 4 of 9 break factors.
Within the semifinals, Reyngold will play Priska Nugroho of Indonesia, whereas the opposite semifinal will probably be between Thasaporn Naklo of Thailand and Tian Fangran of China.
There was some cheer for the Indian camp, as Riya Bhatia and Zeel Desai made the doubles ultimate. The highest seeded Indian pair of Ankita Raina and Prarthana Thombare bowed out as Ankita has been grappling with a abdomen an infection that noticed her retire halfway via her singles second spherical earlier.
Riya and Zeel, who beat the second seeds Shrivalli Bhamidipaty and Zhibek Kulambayeva, will play the Japanese duo of Kanaka Morisaki and Naho Sato within the doubles ultimate.
RESULTS
Singles (quarterfinals): Thasaporn Naklo (Tha) bt Zuzanna Pawlikowska (Pol) 7-5, 7-5; Tian Fangran (Chn) bt Punnin Kovapitukted (Tha) 6-2, 6-4; Priska Nugroho (Ina) bt Zhibek Kulambayeva (Kaz) 6-4, 6-4; Ekaterina Reyngold bt Sahaja Yamalapalli 7-6( 5), 6-3.
Doubles (semifinals): Kanaka Morisaki & Naho Sato (Jpn) bt Ankita Raina & Prarthana Thombare 6-2, 6-3; Riya Bhatia & Zeel Desai bt Shrivalli Bhamidipaty & Zhibek Kulambayeva (Kaz) 6-3, 3-6, [10-5].
– Workforce Sportstar
GOLF
Tata Metal Championship: Saarthak Chhibber takes sole lead after second spherical
Delhi’s Saarthak Chhibber shot into the only lead with a 13-under 129 after a scorching seven-under 64 within the second spherical of the Tata Metal Rs. 3 crore golf championshi on the Beldih and Golmuri programs in Jamshedpur on Friday.
Amardeep Malik (64) and N Thangaraja (66) of Sri Lanka had been tied second at 11-under 131.
Leaderboard
1. Saarthak Chhibber (65, 64) 129; 2T. Amardeep Malik (67, 64), N Thangaraja (Sri) (65, 66) 131; 4. Udayan Mane (67, 65) 132; 5. Yashas Chandra (69, 64) 133; 6T. Sudhir Sharma (70, 64), Jamal Hossain (Ban) (66, 68), Shamim Khan (66, 68) 134; 9T. C Muniyappa (70, 65), Vasu Sehgal (68, 67), Veer Ahlawat (67, 68), Rohan Dhole Patil (66, 69) 135; 13T. Abhinav Lohan (69, 67), Om Prakash Chouhan (68, 68) 136; 15T. Mohd. Azhar (70, 67), Kapil Kumar (70, 67), Saptak Talar (68, 69), Milind Soni (68, 69), Raunil Kukar (67, 70), Aadil Bedi (65, 72) 137.
– Workforce Sportstar
Avani stays in top-20, Hitaashee fights again to remain alive at LET Qualifiers
Avani Prashanth stayed within the top-20 to maintain alive her hopes of the Class 12 Women European Tour card as she shot 2-under 71 within the Last Qualifiers in Marrakech, Morocco.
Avani, whose 4 rounds have been 69-69-73-71 is 8-under and Tied-Thirteenth because the top-20 get the Class 12 standing for 2025.
The subsequent finest Indians are Amandeep Drall (70-71-72-72) and Sneha Singh (73-70-72-70) who’re each at 5-under.
Amongst different Indians within the Last Qualifiers, Hitaashee Bakshi, who started the Qualifiers slowly with 76-77 continued her battle again as she shot 67-68 within the subsequent two rounds to make the next cuts and could have an extra probability to enhance from her present T-51st place.
Vani Kapoor (72-73-75-73) was T-78th and missed the fourth spherical minimize. Additionally lacking out was Vidhatri Urs (77-68-78-71) as she was T-86.
Avani, who had a bogey-bogey begin within the fourth spherical rallied beautifully with 5 birdies in opposition to only one bogey for a 71 that saved her hopes alive.
Bakshi had 5 birdies in opposition to one bogey in her fourth spherical and can search a ultimate massive surge to try to get into Prime-20 with a really low spherical.
The 29-year-old Ecuador’s Daniela Darquea fired a spherical of 66 (-7) to carry a two-shot lead on the 72-hole mark of the Last Qualifier of Lalla Aicha Q-Faculty.
The Ecuadorian went bogey-free on day 4 as she teed it up at Al Maaden Golf Marrakech for the second time.
Germany’s Polly Mack produced a bogey-free spherical for the third day in a row carding a 66 (-7) at Al Maaden.
Two gamers are in a tie for third place with Wales’ Darcey Harry (67) and Spain’s Teresa Toscano (69) each on 15-under-par. Eire’s Anna Foster produced a spherical of 70 (-2) at Royal Golf Marrakech to be in solo fifth place on 13-under-par.
The minimize fell at +1 with 70 gamers making it via to the ultimate spherical which will probably be performed at Al Maaden Golf.
– PTI
Ninth-placed Ajeetesh Sandhu lone Indian in hunt for Asian Tour card
India’s Ajeetesh Sandhu continued his quest for an Asian Tour card, including an even-par 71 to be the one Indian to get previous the fourth-round minimize, which fell at 4-under in Hua Hin, Thailand, on Friday.
The fifth and final spherical of the Last Stage of the Asian Tour Qualifying Faculty will decide the Prime-35 and ties who will get the Tour card for 2025.
Sandhu, who gained final week in his residence Tour in India, has performed rounds of 63-70-68-71 to be 12-under and is tied-ninth after being joint chief on day one.
After 4 days of intense golf, 73 gamers have made it to the ultimate spherical of the Asian Tour Qualifying Faculty.
The others Indians who fell by the wayside are Karandeep Kochhar (67-73-69-72) at T-74, Arjun Sharma (73-70-70-68) T-74.
S Chikkarangappa, Pukhraj Gill and Rashid Khan (T-88), Aryan Roopa Anand (T-101), Anshul Kabthiyal (T-136), Honey Baisoya (T-142), Syed Saqib Ahmed and Khalin Joshi (T-144), Dhruv Sheoran and Aman Raj (T-170) additionally missed the cuts, which had been utilized after the second and fourth rounds.
Japan’s Takumi Murakami carded a six-under-par 65 to maneuver to 19-under, whereas South Korean Kyungnam Kang shot a 70 to be two behind the chief.
Japan’s Yosuke Asaji (67) and Taiki Yoshida (69), and Korean Doyeob Mun (67) are joint third, 4 behind the chief.
Australian Jack Thompson (69), the winner right here two years in the past, is one shot additional behind together with countryman Lawry Flynn 68.
– PTI