BASKETBALL
Tamil Nadu, Railways clinch titles at Nationwide basketball championship
Champions Tamil Nadu and Railways comfortably defended their title within the males’s and girls’s sections respectively within the 74th Nationwide basketball championship on the Sidsar Sports activities Advanced on Sunday.
Tamil Nadu males gained 80-56 in opposition to Punjab, after main 48-26 at half time. Equally, Railways was assertive in its 86-53 victory over Kerala within the girls’s last, after main 46-36 on the interval.
The ‘Most dear participant’ awards, with a Maruti WagonR automobile as prize, had been bagged by Pranav Prince of Tamil Nadu and Dharshini Thirunavukkarasu of Railways.
The champion groups acquired 5 lakh rupees every, and the runner-up, three lakh rupees. Railways males and Tamil Nadu girls gained the third place and picked up two lakh rupees every.
R Sreekala of Kerala and Kanwar Gurbaz Singh Sandhu had been offered Rs.50,000 every for his or her prowess in taking pictures three-pointers.
The outcomes:
Males (last): Tamil Nadu 80 (Anantharaj 17, Aravind Kumar 17, Muin Bek Hafeez 15) bt Punjab 56 (Amritpal Singh 20, Amjyot Singh 15).
Third place: Railways 71 (Sahaj Pratap Singh Sekhon 16, Santhosh Mani 14, Principal Singh 13, Tushal Singh 11, Papreet Singh 10) bt Karnataka 50 (Abhishek gowda 19, Pratyanshu Tomar 11).
Ladies (last): Railways 86 (Dharshini Thirunavukkarasu 16, Pushpa Senthil Kumar 14, Poonam Chaturvedi 13) bt Kerala 53 (R Sreekala 18, Susan Florentina 17, VJ Jayalakshmi 12).
Third place: Tamil Nadu 86 (Nitika amuthan 26, Krithika Sureshbabu 16, Harima Sundari 11, R Sruthy 10) bt delhi 64 (Garima Gosain 16, Namrata 12).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
TENNIS
Karman awarded wild card entry for ITF girls’s tennis match
Karman Kaur Thandi, returning to the skilled circuit after greater than a yr, has been awarded a wild card entry for the $40,000 ITF girls’s tennis match to be performed on the DLTA Advanced from Tuesday.
The 26-year-old Karman, who was ranked a profession finest 196 on the planet in 2018, had final performed the WTA match in Hong Kong in October 2023.
Vaishnavi Adkar, Riya Bhatia and Akanksha NItture had been the others to be given the wild playing cards for the principle occasion.
Solely Ankita Raina, Shrivalli Bhamidipaty and Vaidehi Chaudhari might get direct entry into the principle draw, wherein Darja Semenistaja of Latvia has been seeded No.1.
One other high participant, Pranjala Yadlapalli, returning to the circuit after lacking the entire of final yr, acquired crushed within the first spherical of the qualifying occasion by Misaki Matsuda of Japan.
5 different Indian gamers, Diva Bhatia, Shefali Arora, Lakshmi Gowda, Yashika Shokeen and Lakshmi Prabha additionally discovered it arduous in opposition to top quality gamers and did not win a set between them within the first spherical of the qualifying occasion.
The second and last qualifying spherical will likely be performed on Monday.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Grey clinches second successive title on Indian soil
Alastair Grey of Britain gained his second successive title on Indian soil as he beat Maxim Zhukov 6-3, 6-4 within the last of the $30,000 ITF males’s tennis match on the Arera Membership on Sunday.
Grey who had gained the title final week in Indore, has not dropped a set in 10 singles matches over the fortnight.
It was the eighth singles title within the professional circuit for the 26-year-old Briton who was ranked a career-best 237 in 2022.
The outcomes (last): Alastair Grey (GBR) bt Maxim Zhukov 6-3, 6-4.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
MOTORSPORTS
Ashad Pasha claims triple crown, maiden nationwide title for Pallavi Yadav
A number of Nationwide champion Ashad Pasha clocked the quickest time of the finals and likewise gained a triple crown within the Fmsci Indian Nationwide Autocross Championship 2024, organized by Madras Motor Sports activities Membership on the Madras Worldwide Circuit, right here on Sunday.
FMSCI Indian Nationwide Autocross Championship 2024 title winners.
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FMSCI Indian Nationwide Autocross Championship 2024 title winners.
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Pasha, the 31-year-old Chikkamagaluru driver, who is predicated in Muscat, added three extra Nationwide titles to his kitty. Ashad Pasha clocked 4min 05.41sec within the premier INAC1 Open Class C finals and later clinched the Class B titles. His win in Class C although is awaiting ratification following a protest.
In INAC3 inventory courses, Amey Desai (Mapusa, Goa), and Kushal Chaudhari (Kolkata) gained two titles every. Whereas Desai bagged Nationwide titles within the Class A and Class C, Chadhari took Class B and Class E honours.
Pallavi Shamrao Yadav, 43, from Kolhapur bagged her maiden Nationwide title profitable the Girls class. Final yr she certified from the West Zone at Goa however couldn’t attend the finals.
Raunak Jana gained INAC2 Class E whereas Nameer Pasha clinched the Beginner Class title. Sravan Kumar Kuttoor of Hyderabad claimed the 4WD Open crown
The outcomes (Provisional – finest laps):
INAC1 Open Class B: 1. Kiran Reddy (Bengaluru) (04mins, 17.28sec).
INAC1 Open Class C: 1. Ashad Pasha (Chikkamagaluru) (04:05.41); 2. Amandeep Singh (Delhi) (04:19.83); 3. Ashish Gupta (Chennai) (05:01.35).
INAC2 Class B: 1. Ashad Pasha (04:08.93).
INAC2 Class C: 1. Ashad Pasha (04:07.932); 2. Sunny Sharma (Faridabad) (04.14.89); 3. Raunak Jana (Kolkata) (04:16.62). Result’s provisional pending choice on a protest.
INAC2 Class E: 1. Raunak Jana (04:12.66); 2. Karan Chaudhary (Kolkata) (04:13.34); 3. Nameer Pasha (Chikkamagaluru) (04:17.83).
INAC3 Inventory Class A: 1. Amey Desai (Mapusa, Goa) (04:43.59); 2. Kartik Konchady (Mumbai) (04:43.63); 3. Karan Panikar (Navi Mumbai) (05:00.65).
INAC3 Inventory Class B: 1. Kushal Chaudhari (New Panvel) (04:35.76).
INAC3 Inventory Class C: 1. Amey Desai (04:32.18); 2. Sravan Kumar Kuttoor (Hyderabad) (04:44.63); 3. Pallavi Shamrao Yadav (05:50.75).
INAC3 Inventory Class E: 1. Kushal Chaudhari (04:28.56); 2. Areeb Rahman (Kolkata) (04:31.43); 3. Nilanjan Banerjee (Kolkata) (04:42.11).
Girls Open: 1. Pallavi Shamrao Yadav (Kolhapur) (05:57.36).
4WD Open: 1. Sravan Kumar Kuttoor (04:22.83); 2. Raunak Jana (04:31.32).
Beginner: 1. Nameer Pasha (04:30.95); 2. Ashish Gupta (05:48.66).
-Workforce Sportstar
ATHLETICS
Companies take residence males’s trophy, Railways win girls’s staff title in Nationwide Cross Nation
Companies’ Hukam and Ankita of Railways claimed the lads’s and girls’s 10km particular person titles on the 59th Nationwide Cross Nation Championships on Sunday.
Whereas the Companies gained the general staff championship within the males’s group, Railways walked away with the ladies’s trophy.
Efforts of Companies runners, together with that of Hukam (1st place), Ishwar Verma (2nd), Pramod Singh (4th) and Ravi Dass (fifth) ensured they stayed forward of their rivals to take residence the lads’s trophy.
Railways completed second whereas Rajasthan was third on the desk.
The ladies’s staff title went to Railways. Uttar Pradesh and the Police Sports activities Management Board had been second and third respectively.
The runners from Uttar Pradesh dominated the U-20 males’s race, profitable each particular person and staff titles. Maharashtra gained the ladies’s U-20 staff trophy.
In cross nation working, groups and people run races on open-air programs over pure terrain similar to grime or grass. The course might embody surfaces of grass and earth, move by woodlands and open nation, and embody hills, flat floor and generally gravel highway and minor obstacles.
Outcomes:
Males 10km: Particular person: 1. Hukam (Companies) 29:43.46, 2. Ishwar Verma (Companies) 29:43.89, 3. Bhavishya (Railways) 29:43.98.
Males’s 10km staff: 1. Companies, 2. Railways, 3. Rajasthan.
Ladies 10km: Particular person: 1. Ankita (Railways) 34:45.16, 2. Jyoti (Haryana) 34:46.85, 3. Shraddha Kathiriya (Railways) 34:49.07.
Ladies’s 10km staff: 1. Railways, 2. Uttar Pradesh, 3. Police Sports activities Management Board.
-PTI
KHO KHO
Stage set for Kho Kho World Cup
The Indira Gandhi Stadium on Sunday was abuzz with exercise because the 24 collaborating nations got here collectively to create a carnival environment within the build-up to the inaugural Kho Kho World Cup.
The Kho Kho Federation of India (KKFI) will hope that this match, which begins on Monday, acts because the catalyst for the normal tag sport to achieve in recognition past the subcontinent.
After the opening ceremony on Monday night, the primary sport of the match will see host India tackle Nepal within the males’s part. “Nepal will likely be a troublesome opponent. When India gained gold within the Asian Championship in 2023, we had confronted Nepal within the last,” India girls’s staff coach Sumit Bhatia mentioned.
There are 20 groups divided into 4 teams of 5 every within the males’s part. India is in Group A alongside Nepal, Peru, Brazil and Bhutan. Within the girls’s competitors, 19 groups are participating. Right here too, India is in Group A with Iran, Malaysia and South Korea for firm.
-Workforce Sportstar