GOLF
Senthil, Revathi to steer dwelling problem in Delhi’s first ITF World Tennis Tour J300 Occasion
India’s prime junior gamers, Senthil Kumar and Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi, will lead the nation’s problem within the girls and boys classes, respectively, on the ITF J300 occasion, beginning January 6 on the DLTA complicated right here.
Other than Senthil, who made various finals on the ITF junior circuit in season 2024, India’s different top-5 gamers, Hitesh Chauhan (R3), Arnav Paparkar (R4), and Varun Verma (R5) — have additionally secured their locations in the primary draw of the boys match.
From among the many gamers from overseas, Nikta Bilozertsev, the world quantity 87 from Ukraine and Turkey’s Haydar Cem Gokpinar (R111) may also vie for the highest honour.
World quantity 51 Yoana Konstantinova from Bulgaria, world quantity 71 Eleejah Inisan from France and her compatriot Daphnee Mpetshi Perricard (R73) are the highest attracts within the women singles occasion.
Ada Kumru (R74) and Petra Konjikusic (R75) are the opposite top-100 gamers to function within the match.
Rishita Reddy Basireddy is the one different Indian participant within the women singles important draw whereas a number of others will try to make their method from the qualifying occasion.
The wild playing cards for the primary attracts have been awarded to Shanker Heisnam Samarth Sahita, Aarav Chawla and Rian Sharma in boys class and Aishwarya Jadhav, Mahika Khanna,Riya Sachdeva and Aishi Bisht in women important draw.
The qualifying match that’s providing eight locations in the primary attracts is at present underway.
-PTI
Matsuyama prices into midway lead, Bhatia, Theegala method again
Japanese star Hideki Matsuyama charged right into a one-stroke lead by means of 36 holes at The Sentry as he saved up his daring chase to start his 2025 PGA Tour marketing campaign on a successful be aware.
The 32-year-old had loads of causes to be comfortable on the Plantation Course on Friday as he snared eighth birdies for a bogey-free second spherical of 65 and 16-under complete to steer from fellow main champion, Collin Morikawa (65) within the season-opening USD 20 million Signature occasion.
4 gamers — Corey Conners (66), Maverick McNealy (64), Tom Hoge (68) and Thomas Detry (65) — have been tied third at 14-under.
Indian People Akshay Bhatia (71-72) and Sahith Theegala (76-68) have been T-49 and T-51, whereas Aaron Rai (68-71) was T-29.
-PTI
TENNIS
Somani, Suresh clinch ITF males’s tennis match doubles title in Indore
Dhakshineswar Suresh and Parikshit Somani, the doubles champions within the ITF males’s tennis match in Indore on Saturday.
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Dhakshineswar Suresh and Parikshit Somani, the doubles champions within the ITF males’s tennis match in Indore on Saturday.
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Parikshit Somani and Dhakshineswar Suresh emerged doubles champions within the $30,000 ITF males’s tennis match on the Indore Tennis Membership on Saturday.
The unseeded Indian pair, which had overwhelmed the highest seeds within the first spherical, received a walkover within the closing from Mathys Erhard and Alastair Grey.
It was a maiden title within the skilled circuit for the 24-year-old Dhakshineswar who had made the doubles semifinals of the ATP Tour occasion in Winston-Salem in August final yr with Luca Pow of Britain.
It was the seventh doubles title within the skilled circuit for the 25-year-old Parikshit who was ranked a career-high 256 in doubles in 2023.
Within the singles semifinals, Samir Banejree of USA beat third seed Oliver Crawford to arrange a title conflict in opposition to Alastair Grey.
The outcomes:
Singles (semifinals): Alastair Grey (GBR) bt Florent Bax (Fra) 7-5, 6-0; Samir Banerjee (USA) bt Oliver Crawford (GBR) 6-3, 6-4.
Doubles (closing): Parikshit Somani & Dhakshineswar Suresh w.o. Mathys Erhard (Fra) & Alastair Grey (GBR).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
ITF girls’s tennis match: Sahaja Yamalapalli loses in semis
High seed Kathinka von Deichmann of Liechtenstein proved too scorching for Sahaja Yamalapalli as she raced to a 6-0, 6-3 victory within the semifinals of the $60,000 ITF girls’s tennis match in Nonthaburi, Thailand, on Saturday.
The 30-year-old Kathinka, ranked 173, transformed seven of 17 break factors in organising a title conflict with Kyoka Okamura of Japan who received a walkover from Claire Liu of USA.
Unseeded Sahaja had executed very effectively to beat the third and eighth seeds alongside the way in which, enduring two three-setters.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
BASKETBALL
74th Nationwide basketball championship to start on Sunday
Defending champions, Tamil Nadu males and Railways girls head the sphere in group ‘A’ within the 74th Nationwide basketball championship to be performed on the Sidsar Sports activities Complicated in Bhavnagar, Gujarat, from Sunday.
The match, performed on a league cum knock-out foundation, options 30 males’s and 25 girls’s groups. The highest-10 groups within the two sections determine within the first two teams, whereas the remainder compete within the subsequent stage.
The groupings:
Males:
Group-A: Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Companies, Rajasthan, Kerala.
Group-B: Railways, Punjab, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Chandigarh.
Group-C: Telangana, Arunachal Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Puducherry.
Group-D: Gujarat, Andaman & Nicobar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Tripura.
Group-E: Maharashtra, Assam, Goa, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand.
Group-F: West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh.
Ladies:
Group-A: Railways, Karnataka, Punjab, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh.
Group-B: Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat.
Group-C: West Bengal, Chandigarh, Haryana.
Group-D: Maharashtra, Bihar, Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand.
Group-E: Rajasthan, Assam, Jharkhand, Telangana.
Group-F: Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Puducherry.
-Kamesh Srinivasan