GOLF
Amandeep Drall, one of many high performers within the final season, will lead the sector within the season-opening occasion of the Ladies’s Professional Golf Tour which can make its first-ever cease on the Golmuri Golf Course in Jamshedpur.
The sector consists of quite a few winners from the 2024 season. Jasmine Shekar who gained two of the final three legs in 2024, Sneha Singh (Leg 2 and Leg 4), Anvitha Narender (Leg 8).
Different seasoned professionals to be careful for embrace Neha Tripathi, Seher Atwal, Shweta Mansingh and Khushi Khanijau.
Amandeep and Sneha, who’ve conditional standing in Class 16 on the Women European Tour for 2025, would be the main contenders.
The 2024 Order of Benefit winner, Hitaashee Bakshi, who additionally earned a standing on the LET, is skipping the primary two legs.
Amandeep gained as soon as and completed runner-up twice final season in 14 begins and completed second on the Benefit Record.
After having missed out on enjoying on LET for many of 2024, she is taking a look at getting some beneficial match play earlier than heading to the LET this yr.
She is among the many reserves for LET’s opening occasion in Morocco subsequent month. Additionally among the many reserves presently are Sneha and Hitaashee.
The opening occasion may have two gamers making their professional debut: Lavanya Jadon, who ended a runner-up within the eighth leg final yr as an newbie, and Jia Kochhar.
-PTI
TENNIS
Siddharth Vishwakarma sails into second spherical with ease USD 30,000 ITF males’s tennis match
Two-time Nationwide champion Siddharth Vishwakarma obtained previous fourth seed Florent Bax of France within the first spherical of the USD 30,000 ITF males’s tennis match on the Arera Membership on Tuesday.
Siddharth led 6-2, 4-3 when the Frenchman retired. Bax later retired early within the second set of the doubles as nicely.
The doubles champions of the final match in Indore, Parikshit Somani and Dhakshineswar Suresh ousted the second seeds, Egor Agafonov and Bogdan Bobrov 7-6(8), 7-6(5) within the pre-quarterfinals.
The outcomes:
Singles (first spherical): Dev Javia bt Adhiraj Thakur 6-3, 6-2; Siddharth Vishwakarma bt Florent Bax (Fra) 6-2, 4-3 (retired); Egor Agafonov (Rus) bt Udit Kamboj 7-5, 6-4; Yuta Kawahashi (Jpn) bt Dominik Palan (Cze) 6-1, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Constantin Kouzmine (Fra) & Vladyslav Orlov (Ukr) bt Yunseok Jang (Kor) & Rishi Reddy 6-3, 6-3; Yeongseok Jeong & Uisung Park (Kor) bt Sergey Fomin (Uzb) & Maxim Zhukov 6-3, 6-3; Sai Karteek Reddy & Vishnu Vardhan bt SD Prajwal Dev & Adil Kalyanpur 6-2, 3-6, [10-4]; Luca Castelnuovo (Sui) & Eric Vanshelboim (Ukr) bt Ishaque Eqbal & Aryan Shah 6-4, 4-6, [10-2]; Nitin Kumar Sinha & Manish Sureshkuar bt Yurii Dzhavakian (Ukr) & Sidharth Rawat 6-1, 6-1; Maan Kesharwani & Rohan Mehra bt Florent Bax (Fra) & Grigoriy Lomakin (Kaz) 6-2, 1-1 (retired); Chirag Duhan & Dev Javia bt Tanik Gupta & Arthav Neema 6-3, 6-1; Parikshit Somani & Dhakshineswar Suresh bt Egor Agafonov & Bogdan Bobrov 7-6(8), 7-6(5).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Maaya Rajeshwaran enters second spherical of ITF juniors
Maaya Rajeshwaran unleashed a greater arsenal and demonstrated a powerful composure to beat the fourth seed Ada Kumru of Turkey 6-1, 7-6(1) within the women first spherical of the ITF junior tennis match on the DLTA Advanced on Tuesday.
Maaya Rajeshwaran expresses grit throughout her victory over the fourth seed within the ITF junior tennis match in Delhi on Tuesday.
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Kamesh Srinivasan
Maaya Rajeshwaran expresses grit throughout her victory over the fourth seed within the ITF junior tennis match in Delhi on Tuesday.
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Kamesh Srinivasan
Serving nicely and stroking with aptitude, Maaya referred to as the photographs from the beginning. She may have completed the match loads faster, however the 74th ranked Ada was fairly audacious along with her restoration after being down a break within the second set.
Nevertheless, Maaya dealt with the tie-break with aplomb, operating up a 5-0 lead earlier than closing it out with none fuss.
Within the pre-quarterfinals, Maaya will play qualifier Manon Favier of France.
High seed, the 51st ranked Yoana Konstantinova was knocked out with shocking ease 6-3, 6-1, by qualifier Yuka Naito of Japan, ranked 481.
Within the boys part, lucky-loser Maximus Zavier Wong of Singapore, taking the place of second seed, raced previous Sehaj Singh Pawar 6-1, 6-1.
Arjun Rathi went down combating within the second set tie-break to Arturs Zagars of Latvia.
The outcomes (first spherical):
Beneath-18 boys: Daniel Tazabekov (Kaz) bt Aarjun Pandit 6-0, 6-2; Emanuel Ivanisevic (Cro) bt Fedor Alutkhov 6-1, 6-2; Arturs Zagars (Lat) bt Arjun Rathi 6-3, 7-6(3); Kanata Ozaki bt Haydar Gokpinar (Tur) 6-4, 6-3; Damir Zhalgasbay (Kaz) bt Aaron Gabet (Fra) 6-4, 6-0; Maximus Zavier Wong (Sgp) bt Sehaj Singh Pawar 6-1, 6-1.
Beneath-18 women: Yuka Naito (Jpn) bt Yoana Konstantinova 6-3, 6-1; Manon Favier (Fra) bt Rira Kosaka 7-6(5), 6-2; Maaya Rajeshwaran bt Ada Kumru (Tur) 6-1, 7-6(1); Priyanka Rana (USA) bt Yesung Choo (Kor) 6-1, 6-4; Eleejah Inisan (Fra) bt Misaki Yamagishi 7-6(4), 6-1.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
BASKETBALL
Delhi girls beat Madhya Pradesh in a nail-biting end
Delhi girls scored an exhilarating 76-71 victory over Madhya Pradesh in a group-A league match of the 74th Nationwide Basketball Championship on the Sidsar Sports activities Advanced on Tuesday.
It was the second victory for the Delhi workforce, which was nicely served by Garima Gosain, Preeti Kumar, Prakriti Ranjan and Namrata.
Within the males’s part, Rajasthan scored a 82-70 victory over Kerala, with Ayush Choudhary high scoring with 19 factors.
Karnataka and Punjab scored sturdy wins over Madhya Pradesh and Chandigarh respectively in males’s group-B matches.
The outcomes (league):
Males: Group-A: Rajasthan 82 (Ayush Choudhary 19, Piyush Meena 14, Mahaveer 14, Sharad Dadich 10, Jaideep Rathore 10) bt Kerala 70 (Sejin Mathew 20, Vaisak Manoj 13, Antony Johnson 12).
Group-B: Karnataka 75 (Prathyanshu Tomar 18, Aaron Michael 14) bt Madhya Pradesh 51 (Harshvardhan Singh 15).
Punjab 89 (Gurwinder Singh 20, Amritpal Singh 17, Kanwar Gurbaz Singh Sandhu 17, Amjyot Gill 14) bt Chandigarh 47.
Ladies: Group-A: Punjab 73 (Manmeet Kaur 25, Priyanka Behal 23, Komalpreet Kaur 11) bt Karnataka 62 (T Mohanabala 18).
Delhi 76 (Garima Gosain 19, Preeti Kumar 15, Prakriti Ranjan 15, Namrata 12) bt Madhya Pradesh 71 (Yashika Singhal 22, Riya Khunghadkar 16, Priya Goswami 10).
Group-B: Chhattisgarh 89 (Divyani Gangwal 28, NIsha Kashyap 21, shanti Xaxa 15) bt Uttar Pradesh 81 (Jasmeen Kaur 27, Manali Vora 20, Rakhi Rai 11).
Gujarat 65 (Aahana George 14, Hemangnee Gamit 14, Talveer Kaur 11) bt Uttar Pradesh 60 (Anushka Chouhan 18, Nancy Gupta 16, Manali Vora 11).
-Kamesh Srinivasan