SHOOTING
NRAI names 36-member crew for Junior World Cup in Could
Paris Olympian Raiza Dhillon will headline the 36-member Indian junior squad introduced by Nationwide Rifle Affiliation of India (NRAI) for the upcoming first Worldwide Taking pictures Sport Federation (ISSF) Junior World Cup Rifle/Pistol/Shotgun, scheduled in Suhl, Germany, from Could 19-27, 2025.
The squad will take part in 15 occasions together with three combined crew occasions.
Raiza will likely be a part of the 12-strong Shotgun squad and two stars from the Peru worlds, Mukesh Nelavali who gained 5 golds (and two bronze medals) and Divanshi, who gained a double gold together with a win within the ladies’s 25m pistol particular person occasion, will likely be again to hopefully do an encore.
Suhl, a conventional hub of the junior Taking pictures circuit, has been a launchpad to many Champions within the years passed by and the Indian juniors will likely be carefully watched with an eye fixed on Los Angeles 2028.
“We’ve got a house junior world cup developing in September and the juniors will likely be seeking to impress with an eye fixed on that as effectively. We’re assured of our future stars, they’re beneath the eagle eyes of skilled coaches and are very effectively supported by the Authorities. We count on a high end,” added Shri. Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo, President, NRAI.
India squad for ISSF Junior World Cup
Air rifle: Himanshu, Naraen Pranav, Priyanshu Kumar; Shambhavi Kshirsagar, Khyati Chaudhary, Mayuri Pawar.
50m rifle: Adriyan Karmakar, Rohit Kanyan, Manvendra Shekhawat; Mahit Sandhu, Anushka Thokur, Prachi Gaikwad.
Air pistol: Pushpender Singh, Chirag Sharma, Anshul; Sanskriti Bana, Urva Chaudhry, Rashmika Sahgal.
25m speedy fireplace pistol: Abhinav Choudhary, Mukesh Nelavalli, Sameer Ghulia.
25m sports activities pistol: Riya Thatte, Divanshi, Tejaswani.
Lure: Vinay Chandrawat, Zuhair Khan, Arjun; Bhavya Tripathi, Sabeera Haris, Shreshtha Sisodiya.
Skeet: Harmehar Lally, Atul Rajawat, Zorawar Bedi; Raiza Dhillon, Yashasvi Rathore, Vanshika Tiwari
– Staff Sportstar
TENNIS
ITF: Nitin Kumar beats fourth seed Dev Javia in pre-quarters
Nitin Kumar Sinha beat fourth seed Dev Javia 6-4 6-3 within the pre-quarterfinals of the $15,000 ITF males’s tennis match on the CLTA Advanced on Thursday.
Within the quarterfinals, Nitin will play Stefan Vujic of Australia who beat sixth seed Siddharth Vishwakarma for the lack of six video games.
Madhwin Kamath, Manish Sureshkumar, Ishaque Eqbal and Karan Singh had been the opposite Indian gamers to make the quarterfinals.
The outcomes:
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Jay Clarke (GBR) bt Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 6-2, 6-1; Madhwin Kamath bt Grigoriy Lomakin (Kaz) 6-4, 6-0; Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Dev Javia 6-4, 6-3; Stefan Vujic (Aus) bt Siddharth Vishwakarma 6-3, 6-3; Manish Sureshkumar bt Sidharth Rawat 6-4, 4-6, 6-3; Woobin Shin (Kor) bt Vulinet Tashi (Kos) 6-2, 7-5; Ishaque Eqbal bt Vishnu Vardhan 6-3, 6-2; Karan Singh bt Rohan Mehra 7-6(2), 3-6, 6-1.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Filiberto Fumagalli (Ita) & Aryan Lakshmanan bt Parth Aggarwal & Rohan Mehra 6-0, 3-0 (retired); Sai Karteek Reddy & Vishnu Vardhan bt Kabir Hans & Atharva Sharma 7-5, 6-2; Chirag Duhan & Dev Javia w.o. Karan Singh & Stefan Vujic (Aus); Prajwal Dev & Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Sidharth Rawat & Yash Yadav 7-6(2), 6-0.
– Staff Sportstar
ITF junior: Aarjun Pandit fights previous Prakaash Sarran in quarterfinals
Second seed Aarjun Pandit needed to struggle his well past Prakaash Sarran 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 within the quarterfinals of the ITF junior tennis match on the Tennis Undertaking, Baliyawas, on Thursday.
Within the semifinals, Aarjun will play Aashravya Mehra. The opposite semifinal will likely be between high seed Sehaj Singh Pawar and Vraj Gohil.
Within the ladies part, Aishwarya Jadhav, Harsha Oruganti, Aakruti Sonkusare and Diya Ramesh made the semifinals.
The outcomes (quarterfinals):
Below-18 boys: Sehaj Singh Pawar bt Gandharv Kothapalli 6-7(4), 6-4, 6-3; Vraj Gohil bt tanuush Ghildyal 6-3, 6-2; Aashravya Mehra bt Adhiraj Thakur 6-3, 6-2; Aarjun Pandit bt Prakaash Sarran 4-6, 6-1, 7-5.
Below-18 ladies: Aishwarya Jadhav bt Nainika Bendram 6-0, 6-0; Harsha Oruganti bt Anandita Upadhyay 6-3, 6-4; Aakruti Sonkusare bt Sohini Mohanty 6-2, 6-3; Diya Ramesh bt Jaya Kapoor 6-4, 6-0.
– Staff Sportstar
ITF: Ankita Raina-Priska pair beats Indonesia’s Dang-Yang in doubles quarters
Ankita Raina in partnership with Priska Nugroho of Indonesia beat the highest seeds Yiming Dang and Yidi Yang within the doubles quarterfinals of the $40,000 ITF ladies’s tennis match in Shenzhen, China, on Thursday.
Within the $30,000 ladies’s occasion in Thailand, second seed Shrivalli Bhamidipaty misplaced tamely within the singles pre-quarterfinals to wild card Anchisa Chanta, however made the doubles semifinals in partnership with Vaidehi Chaudhari.
The outcomes:
$40,000 ITF ladies, Shenzhen, China Doubles (quarterfinals): Priska Nugroho (Ina) & Ankita Raina bt Yiming Dang & Yidi Yang (Chn) 7-6(3), 6-1.
$30,000 ITF ladies, Nonthaburi, Thailand Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Anchisa Chanta (Tha) bt Shrivalli Bhamidipaty 6-1, 6-3.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Shrivalli Bhaidipaty & Vaidehi Chaudhari bt Daria Frayman (Cyp) & Sandugash Kenzhibayeva (Kaz) 6-2, 6-1.
– Staff Sportstar
GOLF
Vani claims third successive win regardless of two closing bogeys
Champion Vani Kapoor receives the cheque from Tusch Daroga of DLF within the Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour occasion in Gurugram on Thursday.
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Champion Vani Kapoor receives the cheque from Tusch Daroga of DLF within the Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour occasion in Gurugram on Thursday.
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Vani Kapoor was not at her finest in the long run, however her 1-over 73 within the third and last spherical was sufficient to fetch her the winner’s cheque of Rs. 2,00,000 with an total 1-over 217 within the sixth leg of the Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour on the DLF Golf and Nation Membership on Thursday.
It was the third title on the trot for Vani, and he or she matched the efforts of Vidhatri Urs in sweeping the title from the ninth to eleventh legs within the final version. Vani additionally jumped to the highest of the Order of Benefit, a place she had achieved in three successive years from 2014 to 2016.
Vani had 4 birdies, however needed to endure a double bogey and three bogeys. In reality, she completed with two successive bogeys.
Nonetheless, novice Anvvi Dahhiya who was difficult Vani competently, dropped a double on the 18th to present Vani, who had led by two photographs in a single day, the victory by a three-shot margin. Vani took her earnings to Rs. 8,54,000 up to now, pushing Sneha Sngh to second spot at Rs. 7,82,567.
The primary spherical chief Lavanya Jadon who had one of the best card of 2-under 70, shot a three-over 75 today to clinch the third place, one shot forward of Sneha Singh who had gained two titles earlier this season.
Beginner Keya Badugu shot one of the best card of the day, 1-under 71 and positioned sixth behind Gaurika Bishnoi.
The outcomes
1. Vani Kapoor (72, 72, 73) 217; 2. Anvvi Dahhiya (71, 75, 74) 220; 3. Lavanya Jadon (70, 77, 75) 222; 4. Sneha Singh (71, 75, 7) 223; 5. Gaurika Bishnoi (74, 76, 76) 226; 6. Keya Badugu (75, 81, 71) 227; 7T. Gauri Karhade (75, 79, 75), Amandeep Drall (74, 76, 79) 229; 9. Ridhima Dilawari (78, 75, 78) 231; 10. Anvitha Narender (77, 78, 77) 232; 11. Alysha Dutt (82, 76, 76) 234; 12. Jasmine Shekar (76, 79, 80) 235; 13. Durga Nittur (81, 77, 78) 236; 14T. Khushi Khanjiau (85, 77, 75), Kriti Chowhan (82, 77, 78) 237.
– Staff Sportstar
Kolkata Problem: Om Prakash Chouhan joint lead with Vidal after first spherical
Om Prakash Chouhan shot an excellent six-under 66 to be in joint lead with Spaniard Quim Vidal after the primary spherical of the $300,000 Kolkata Problem on the Royal Calcutta Golf Membership (RCGC) in Kolkata on Thursday.
Amongst different Indians, four-time DP World Tour winner S.S.P. Chawrasia, enjoying on his residence course, returned a 67 to be tied-third together with compatriot Dhruv Sheoran.
Syed Saqib Ahmed and Mohammed Azhar carded an an identical 69 to be joint-ninth as 5 Indians remained contained in the top-10.
Om Prakash Chouhan, a former winner who earned a spot on the DP World Tour in 2024 because of being the 2023 PGTI Order of Benefit winner, gathered eight birdies, together with two lengthy ones, and two bogeys.
Joshua Grenville-Wooden made a hole-in-one on the thirteenth throughout his spherical of 70 to be positioned tied-Twenty third.
The scores (first spherical):
66-Om Prakash Chouhan, Quim Vidal (Spn); 67-Lukas Nemecz (Aut), Dhruv Sheoran, S.S.P. Chawrasia; 68-Ilirian Zalli (Alb), Saan Huizing (Ned), Lars Van Meijel (Ned).
– Staff Sportstar
CRICKET
HCA to announce sub-committee to deal with considerations with Telangana Cricket Affiliation
The Hyderabad Cricket Affiliation (HCA) introduced that it’s going to appoint a sub-committee to know and tackle the considerations of the Telangana Cricket Affiliation (TCA). HCA’s Apex Council, in a press launch on Thursday, stated {that a} seven-member crew will likely be fashioned in compliance with the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) order dated 11.07.2021.
This comes after the Bombay Excessive Court docket directed the BCCI to resolve the problems between TCA and HCA earlier this week. “We don’t perceive the position of the BCCI in all this. You handed an order in July 2021 and at present we’re in March 2025, but no resolution is taken. Why can’t you make sure that your order is duly complied with? You need to be acutely aware about your order and guarantee it’s taken to its logical finish. You can also make them sit throughout the desk and resolve the dispute, ” a division bench of justices had remarked.
4 years in the past, BCCI denied TCA’s request to grow to be an affiliate member of the central cricket physique. As an alternative, it directed HCA to collaborate with TCA to make sure the expansion of cricket within the state of Telangana doesn’t get affected. Nonetheless, no motion was taken to comply with BCCI’s directive.
– Staff Sportstar
Para-Athletics
India tops medal tally in World Para Athletics GP, 3-time Paralympic champion Vanessa clinches gold
Three-time Paralympic champion lengthy jumper Vanessa Low of Australia lived as much as her high billing as she simply clinched gold in T61-64 class whereas India’s Paris Video games medallist Preethi Pal bagged a bronze in T35-38 class 200m race on the concluding day of the World Para Athletics Grand Prix right here on Thursday.
India completed on high of the medal tally with a complete haul of 134 — 45 gold, 40 silver, and 49 bronze. Round 150 Indians had competed within the Grand Prix whereas round 100 had been from different 19 nations.
Vanessa, one of many few high stars participating within the three-day occasion, cleared a distance of 4.96m in her third try, to face on the highest of the rostrum.
Zhanna Fekolina, a Impartial Paralympic Athlete, and India’s Bhavani Munniyandi took residence the silver and bronze respectively with efforts of 4.13m and three.51m on the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium right here.
-PTI