GOLF
Korn Ferry Tour: India’s Rayhan Thomas finishes T-27
India’s Rayhan Thomas put collectively 4 under-par rounds and completed T-27 in his first begin as a member of the Korn Ferry Tour in the US.
The 25-year-old Dubai-born Indian, who turned professional final 12 months and registered a win on the Indian PGTI Tour, shot rounds of 68-68-66-69 to whole 9-under 271 at The Bahamas Golf Traditional at Atlantis Paradise Island.
Thomas had three birdies in opposition to two bogeys in his last spherical 69.
American Hank Lebioda earned his first Korn Ferry Tour title, beating S H Kim of South Korea with a birdie on the primary playoff gap at The Ocean Course within the 2025 Korn Ferry Tour season opener.
Lebioda, who was recognized with Crohn’s Illness as a university freshman in 2012, has at all times demonstrated a combating spirit in his skilled golf pursuits.
It was the 31-year-old Lebioda’s first Korn Ferry Tour title in his 62nd begin. Lebioda performed the PGA TOUR full-time from 2019 to 2023 earlier than dropping his card, and he’s returning to the Korn Ferry Tour, from which he first graduated in 2018.
Lebioda shot 66 within the last spherical for a four-round whole of 18-under 262 to beat a four-stroke deficit to 54-hole chief John VanDerLaan (76), who slipped to T-9.
Kim, who performed the final two seasons on the PGA TOUR, shot a final-round 63 to make up a seven-stroke deficit and earn his spot within the playoff.
The highest 20 on the Korn Ferry will earn a PGA Tour card for 2026. Until final 12 months, it was high 30 who earned the cardboard.
-PTI
TENNIS
ITF: Riya Bhatia lose to Miyazaki in pre-quarters
Riya Bhatia missed her probabilities to beat fourth seed Yuriko Lily Miyazaki of Japan within the pre-quarterfinals of the $40,000 ITF ladies’s tennis event on the DLTA Complicated on Thursday.
On a vibrant afternoon, Riya gave herself a variety of probabilities however the combating Miyazaki stayed within the hunt to drag via the climax with ease.
Yuriko Miyazaki overcame Riya Bhatia to achieve quarterfinals
of the ITF ladies’s tennis event in Delhi on Thursday.
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Kamesh Srinivasan
Yuriko Miyazaki overcame Riya Bhatia to achieve quarterfinals
of the ITF ladies’s tennis event in Delhi on Thursday.
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Kamesh Srinivasan
It was commendable that Riya might pull off the second set with an ace, after having squandered a 4-1 lead. Later, she did properly to march into the doubles semifinals in partnership with Vaidehi Chaudhari.
After having performed for 3 hours within the first spherical of singles, when she emerged the one Indian to enter the second spherical, it was praiseworthy of Riya that she was capable of maintain the bodily and psychological vitality to struggle laborious in singles and progress in doubles.
Ankita Raina additionally made the doubles semifinals in partnership with Naiktha Bains of Britain, because the pair beat the second seeds Dalila Jakupovic and Laura Pigossi 10-3 within the tremendous tie-break.
The outcomes:
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Darja Semenistaja (Lat) bt Ekaterina Maklakova 6-2, 6-0; Anastasia Tikhonova bt Naho Sato (Jpn) 7-6(6), 3-6, 6-2; Maia Kozyreva bt Priska Nugroho (Ina) 6-2, 6-3; Dalila Jakupovic (Slo) bt Alevtina Ibragimova 6-1, 6-0; Yuriko Miyazaki (GBR) bt Riya Bhatia 6-4, 4-6, 6-1; Laura Samson (Cze) bt Tina Smith (Aus) 6-4, 7-5; Panna Udvardy (Hun) bt Mei Yamaguchi (Jpn) 2-6, 7-5, 6-3.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Maria Kozyreva & Anastasia Tikhonova bt Alicia Barnett (GBR) & Prarthana Thombare 7-5, 6-3; Jessie Aney & Jessica Failla (USA) bt Darja Semenistaja (Lat) & Panna Udvardy (Hun) 6-4, 6-4; Riya Bhatia & Vaidehi Chaudhari bt Maria Ramirez (Mex) & Ekaterina Yashina 4-6, 6-3, [10-5]; Naiktha Bains (GBR) & Ankita Raina bt Dalila Jakupovic (Slo) & Laura Pigossi (Bra) 6-2, 3-6, [10-3].
– Crew Sportstar
BR Adtiyan memorial: Manish Suresh Kumar upsets Ramkumar
Manish Suresh Kumar, former Nationwide Champion, pulled off a shocking upset, defeating high seed Ramkumar within the BR Adityan memorial at SDAT Nungambakkam in Chennai.
Manish overcame a three-hour grueling contest to win 7-5 6-7(8) 6-4 and can now face Eric Vanshelboim within the quarterfinals.
Outcomes:
Principal Draw Singles Pre-Quarterfinals: WC- Manish Suresh Kumar Bt S1- Ramkumar Ramanathan 7-5 6-7(8) 6-4, S8- Eric Vanshelboim(UKR) Bt Uisung Park (KOR) 6-2 6-3, Q- Grigoriy Lomakin Bt S3- Karan Singh 3-6 6-4 7-5 Egor Agafonov Bt S7-Takuya Kumasaka (JPN) 6-4 6-3, S5- Yusuke TAKAHASHI Bt Ryuki Matsuda 3-6 6-4 6-2, S4- Stefanos Sakellaridis (GRE) Bt Aryan Shah 6-3 7-6(5),S6-Yuril Dzhavakian (UKR) Bt WC Siddhant Banthia 6-4 6-3, S2- Oliver Crawford (GBR) Bt Q- Chirag Duhan 6-0 7-6(6).
Males’s Doubles Quarterfinals: Ishaque Eqbal / Aryan Shah Bt S1- Egor Agafonov / Grigoriy Lomakin 3-6 6-0 11-9, Yuta Kawahashi / Ryuki Matsuda Bt S4- Siddhant Banthia / Vishnu Vardhan 6-4 6-4, Stefanos Sakellaridis (GRE) / Nitin Kumar Sinha Bt S D Prajwal Dev / Adil Kalyanpur 6-3 7-5, Chirag Duhan / Dev Javia Bt Ayush Sharma / Karan Singh 7-6(2) 6-4
– Crew Sportstar
ITF: Maaya beats qualifier in juniors event
Maaya Rajeshwaran bounced again from a sluggish begin to beat qualifier Antonina Sushkova of Ukraine 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 within the quarterfinals of the ITF junior tennis event on the CLTA Complicated on Thursday.
It was the eighth successive singles win for the 15-year-old Maaya who had gained the title final week in Delhi. Within the semifinals, Maaya will play Polina Kuharenko who had put out the second seed victoria Milovanova within the first spherical.
The outcomes (quarterfinals):
Below-18 boys: Donghyun Hwang (Kor) bt Emanuel Ivanisevic (Cro) 6-3, 7-5; Erasyl Bakhtiyar (Kaz) bt Alexey Shibaev 6-1, 6-3; Ruslan Kastsiukevich bt Artem Bogomolov 6-4, 2-6, 6-1; Roman Kharlamov bt Kerem Yilmaz (Tur) 7-5, 6-1.
Below-18 ladies: Daria Koreshkova bt Miku Kitakoka (Jpn) 6-2, 6-4; Masa Jankovic (Srb) bt Albina Kakenova (Kaz) 6-2, 6-4; Maaya Rajeshwaran bt Antonina Sushkova (Ukr) 2-6, 6-2, 6-4; Polina Kuharenko bt Yuka Naito (Jpn) 6-1, 7-5.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
FOOTBALL
One of many two promoted groups, Nita Soccer Academy pulled off a formidable 2-2 draw, after being down by two targets, in opposition to former champion Sethu FC within the Indian Ladies’s League on the Nehru Stadium in Chennai on Thursday.
Malavika (pink) scores for Sethu FC.
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Malavika (pink) scores for Sethu FC.
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The primary 20-odd minutes was a masterclass by Sethu on possession-based soccer. Malavika made fairly a number of good passes from the suitable, however all went unheeded. In actual fact, one in every of her crosses ricocheted after hitting the far put up.
Fittingly, the 21-year-old from Kerala scored twice in a matter of six minutes. Her first was a header from shut vary off a nook and the second was a magnificence—a blinder from round 20 yards—that beat the ‘keeper Sasmita Parida all finally ends up.
From there on started the decline of Sethu and the rise of Nita FA. Nita FA took management and attacked with regularity.
Jabamani Tudu (2) celebrates after scoring the equaliser.
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Jabamani Tudu (2) celebrates after scoring the equaliser.
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Quickly, Gifty Acheampong pulled one again, by changing a forceful header and the groups went for the break. The second session largely belonged to Nita and the customer got here near scoring fairly a number of targets. Fittingly, Jabamani Tudu tapped one residence from shut which may made NITA FA head coach Paromita sit completely happy.
The outcome:
Sethu FC 2 (Malavika 6, 12) drew with Nita FA 2 (Gifty Acheampong 27, Jabamani Tudu 74).
– Crew Sportstar