Indian sports activities wrap, February 16: Aditi Ashok shoots 75, slips to tied 53 in Saudi Girls Worldwide

GOLF

Aditi Ashok shoots 75, slips to tied 53 in Saudi Girls Worldwide

Aditi Ashok performed a disappointing spherical of 3-over 75 and slipped to tied-53rd on the Saudi Girls Worldwide in Riyadh on Sunday.

Aditi with rounds of 69-72-75 totalled even par 216 for 3 days. This was her first occasion of 2025 on the Girls European Tour.

It was a troublesome day with two birdies, three bogeys and a double bogey within the 75 on the Par-72 Riyadh Golf Membership.

The opposite three Indians, Pranavi Urs, Diksha Dagar and Tvesa Malik had missed the minimize earlier on.

– PTI

Jeev on tied-Nineteenth with another spherical remaining in Marbella Legends

Jeev Milkha Singh endured a troublesome day with 1-over 73 within the second spherical of the season-opening Marbella Legends.

The Indian ace, now in his third season on the Legends Tour, who had a 68 on the primary day, is now 3-under for 36 holes however slipped down from T-12 to T-19 with another day to go on the Aloha Golf Membership.

Simon Griffiths (65-68) reached 11-under and Colin Montgomerie (65-70) headed the chasing pack with 18 holes to play.

Jeev teed off from the primary and birdied the third however gave that shot away on the very subsequent gap.

He ran right into a tough patch with bogeys on the eighth, ninth and eleventh however nonetheless fought again with birdies on the fifteenth and sixteenth, which he had birdied a day earlier additionally.

Englishman Griffiths moved to the summit as he began on the again 9 and cruised to the flip in 32 strokes with birdies on the tenth, twelfth, seventeenth and 18th. He matched a pick-up on the fifth with solely his second dropped shot of the week on the sixth to signal for a 68.

Montgomerie began on the tenth and recovered from a bogey-bogey begin to put up a great spherical of 70 to succeed in 9-under.

He additionally dropped a shot on the 18th, however he had birdies on the thirteenth, fifteenth, 2nd, seventh and ninth.

The eight-time DP World Tour primary once more completed his day to a rapturous cheer from the fantastic galleries as he picked up a shot on his remaining gap for the second successive day.

Taking part in with Montgomerie over the primary two rounds, native favorite Miguel Angel Jimenez is three strokes off the lead at 8-under after a late surge stored his hopes of a very talked-about victory alive.

He’s joined at 8-under by Keith Horne and Lionel Alexandre.

– PTI

Late bogeys push Lahiri right down to Tied-seventh in Adelaide

Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri, who was six-under by his first 11 holes, carded a three-under 69 within the remaining spherical to complete tied seventh on the LIV Adelaide on Sunday, with late bogeys derailing his progress.

Lahiri regarded like a contender for his maiden title earlier than he was hit by 4 bogeys within the final seven holes, although he additionally had a birdie.

The Indian had rounds of 71-70-69 and totalled six-under.

Joaquin Niemann overcame a three-shot deficit to assert the title, carding the day’s solely bogey-free spherical with a 7-under 65 to complete at 13-under.

Abraham Ancer, who led the vast majority of the day earlier than struggling three bogeys on his remaining 5 holes, completed in a tie for second with Carlos Ortiz (70) at 10-under.

Two months in the past, Niemann received the PIF Saudi Worldwide and in addition the season-long Worldwide Collection championship.

Niemann received for the second time in his profession in Australia, having captured the Australian Open in 2023.

Ancer, additionally a former Australian Open champion, was nonetheless capable of have fun atop the Adelaide podium, with the Fireballs claiming the workforce title by six strokes over Jon Rahm’s Legion XIII, with Torque ending third.

Ancer will enter LIV Golf’s subsequent match in Hong Kong because the defending champion.

– PTI

TRIATHLON

Asia Triathlon Cup 2025: Di Basilico, Pratiwi win titles

SDAT Asia Triathlon Cup medallists at INS Adyar in Chennai on Sunday.
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Francesco Di Basilico of Italy and Indonesia’s Martina Ayu Pratiwi received the SDAT Triathlon Cup Triathlon within the Elite males’s and ladies’s class on the INS Adyar right here on Sunday.  

“It’s my first win within the worldwide degree. Glad to win right here. For me, swimming is all the time powerful. I used to be within the prime 7 in swimming, and halfway within the remaining race, I overtook the Japanese (Takuto Oshima) to win the championships,” stated the 20-year-old Italian. 

For Martina, too, this was her first win on the Worldwide degree. “It feels comfortable to be a first-time winner. For me, swimming was difficult, however the climate was not an issue as it’s the identical in my nation,” the 21-year-old stated.  

Sarungbam Athouba Meitei and Dolly Devidas Patil completed greatest among the many Indians in fifteenth and tenth locations within the males’s and ladies’s sections, respectively. 

– Ok. Keerthivasan

EQUESTRIAN

NEC Present Leaping 2024-25: Tejas Dhingra retains Nationwide Championship title

Tejas Dhingra on the Nationwide Equestrian Championship Present Jumpin 2024-25 occasion in Meerut.
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Tejas Dhingra of Beeya’s Driving Facility efficiently defended his Nationwide Championship title on the Nationwide Equestrian Championship (Present Leaping) 2024-25, held at Modi Equestrian Academy, Meerut, on Sunday.

Dhingra, the reigning champion, secured his victory with 16 factors within the championship tour, ending forward of joint runners-up Amar Sarin of Tarc Equestrian Centre and Ashray Butta of EGC Stables.

In the meantime, it was a second of double delight for Yashaan Zubin Khambatta of Tarc Equestrian Centre, who reigned victorious in each the Novice and Medium Excursions.

Sehaj Singh Virk and Abhishek Chopra shared second place within the Medium Tour, whereas Narayan Singh joined Yashaan on the rostrum for the Novice Tour, securing the runner-up place after Yashaan impressively claimed each the highest two spots.

In the meantime, within the younger horse championship, Modi Equestrian Stables rider Gaurav Lonkar triumphed on Aziza, scoring 8.0 factors. Abhishek Chopra took second place along with his horse Chicago, whereas Gurvinder, using Viduthi, secured third place for Group RVC Centre & Faculty.

– Group Sportstar

TENNIS

Pune Open ATP Challenger 2025: Ramkumar beats Ymer to succeed in remaining qualifying spherical

Unseeded Indian Ramkumar Ramanathan pulled off an upset win towards prime seed Elias Ymer of Sweden to enter the ultimate qualifying spherical of the Pune Open ATP Challenger on Sunday.

The 30-year-old Ramanathan took revenge of his Davis Cup loss from final 12 months towards the top-seeded Swede, profitable 5-7, 6-1, 6-4 within the match that lasted one hour and 52 minutes.

The 28-year-old Ymer performed stable tennis to wrap up the primary set however Ramanathan fought again along with his attacking serve-and-volley sport to win the second set.

The Chennai participant managed to interrupt Ymer’s serve within the fifth sport of the decider to win the match.

Ramanathan, at the moment ranked 403, served 9 aces within the match to maneuver into the ultimate spherical qualifying.

In different matches, sixth seeded Russian Ilia Simakin took one hour quarter-hour to get previous India No. 2 Mukund Sasikumar, profitable 6-4, 6-3 to additionally advance to the ultimate spherical qualifying.

Twelfth seeded Matthew Dellavedova of Australia proved too skilled for 16-year-old wildcard Arnav Vijay Paparkar, profitable 6-2, 6-3. Paparkar confirmed glimpses of his high quality however couldn’t get previous the skilled Australian.

Former winner of Tata Open Maharashtra, an ATP 250 occasion held on the identical venue up to now, World No. 35 Jiri Vesely proved sturdy for native wildcard Siddhant Banthia, profitable 6-2, 6-3.

Eleventh seeded South African Kris Van Wyk needed to toil laborious towards wildcard entrant Nitin Kumar Sinha earlier than finally profitable 7-5, 7-5, whereas fourth seeded Blake Ellis of Australia quelled a first-set problem earlier than accounting for an additional Indian wildcard Sidharth Rawat 7-5 ,6-2.

Within the different two upsets of the day, Russian Petr Bar Biryukov beat second seeded Oleksandr Ovcharenko of Ukraine 6-3, 7-6(6), whereas Japanese Hiroki Moriya ousted fifth seeded Jacopo Berrettini of Italy 7-5, 6-3.

– PTI

BASKETBALL

INBL Professional League: Punjab Warriors clinches comeback win towards Chennai Warmth

Punjab Warriors recovered from being down 59-64 on the finish of the third quarter to beat Chennai Warmth 76-70 within the INBL Professional basketball league on the Thyagaraj Indoor Stadium on Sunday.

Fairly remarkably, all of the six groups had been tied on six factors every, with three wins and three losses, after 18 matches within the race for the semifinals.

All of the groups have 4 extra matches, earlier than the knock-out stage on the finish of 30 league matches .

– Kamesh Srinivasan