GOLF
Tough begin for Indian trio in Australian Girls’s Traditional
The Indian trio of rookie Avani Prashanth, Pranavi Urs and Diksha Dagar endured a troublesome day within the opening spherical of the 2025 Australian Girls’s Traditional in Coffs Harbour on Friday.
Prashanth, with 2-over 72 was the most effective positioned at tied fifty fifth, whereas Pranavi (73) and Diksha (74) have been additional behind in tied 79th and tied 88th. They have been additionally hit by a scarcity of any observe rounds at a course which took a beating due to a cyclone.
Avani, a a number of winner on the Hero Girls’s Professional Tour, whereas being an beginner, has now turned professional, and in her first occasion as a professional in Morocco, she was T-16. She had two bogeys and no birdies on the Par-70 course.
Pranavi, who missed the minimize in her first occasion of 2025 in Saudi Arabia, had two birdies towards 5 bogeys, whereas Diksha, who was the runner-up in Morocco, had only one birdie towards 5 bogeys in her 74.
– PTI
Lahiri tied twenty fifth as Johnson leads in Liv Singapore
India’s Anirban Lahiri was positioned tied twenty fifth after capturing 1-under 70 as American Dustin Johnson roared again to kind with a bogey-free 63 to guide LIV Golf Singapore by three pictures on the Sentosa Golf Membership on Friday.
Lahiri had 4 birdies towards three bogeys.
– PTI
Berry breaks course file to emerge joint chief in Kolkata Problem
Nineteen-year-old English golfer Joshua Berry fired a tremendous 62 to interrupt the course file and emerge because the joint chief with Om Prakash Chouhan with a complete of 10-under 134 after the second spherical of the $300,000 Kolkata Problem on the Royal Calcutta Golf Membership (RCGC) right here on Friday.
Berry’s error-free efficiency lifted him 53 spots from his in a single day 54th place. Chouhan’s four-under 68 noticed him make a late surge and retain his shared lead.
Dhruv Sheoran returned a 71 to be the second Indian within the top-10. He occupied the tied-eighth place at six-under 138. Native favorite S.S.P. Chawrasia was tied-Thirteenth at 139 after carding 72.
The scores (second spherical):
134-Om Prakash Chouhan (66, 68), Joshua Berry (Eng) (72, 62); 135-Andreas Halvorsen (Nor) (69, 66); 137-Lukas Nemecz (Aut) (67, 70), Max Steinlechner (Aut) (69, 68), Hayden Hopewell (Aus) (69, 68), Per Langfors (Swe) (70, 67).
– Y. B. Sarangi
TENNIS
Sriram Balaji in quarterfinals of Cap Cana Challenger
Sriram Balaji in partnership with Miguel Reyes-Varela of Mexico beat Tristan Boyer and Govind Nanda of USA 6-1, 6-3 within the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the $250,000 Challenger tennis event in Cap Cana, Dominican Republic.
The outcomes:
$250,000 Challenger, Cap Cana, Dominican Republic
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Santiago Gonzalez (Mex) & Lucas Miedler (Aut) bt Nicolas Barrientos (Col) & Rithvik Bollipalli 7-6(5), 6-3; Sriram Balaji & Miguel Reyes-Varela (Mex) bt Tristan Boyer & Govind Nanda (USA) 6-1, 6-3.
€91,250 Challenger, Cherbourg, France
Doubles (quarterfinals): Lukas Pokorny (Svk) & Giorgio Ricca (Ita) bt Vijay Sundar Prashanth & Szymon Walkkow (Pol) 6-4, 7-6(11).
$40,000 ITF girls, Shenzhen, China
Doubles (semifinals): Zongyu Li & Fang Ying Xun (Chn) bt Priska Nugroho (Ina) & Ankita Raina 7-5, 6-4.
$30,000 ITF girls, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Doubles (semifinals): Shrivalli Bhamidipaty & Vaidehi Chaudhari bt Thasaporn Naklo & Bunyawi Thamchaiwat (Tha) 5-7, 6-4, [10-5].
– Kamesh Srinivasan
Diya units ultimate date towards prime seed Aishwarya in ITF junior
Second seed Diya Ramesh overcame an detached begin to beat Aakruti Sonkusare 0-6, 6-3, 6-1 within the women semifinals of the ITF junior tennis event on the Tennis Undertaking, Baliyawas, on Friday.
Within the ultimate, Diya will problem the highest seed Aishwarya Jadhav.
Diya received the doubles title with Sohini Mohanty, beating Nainika Bendram and Aishwarya in straight units.
Within the boys occasion, the highest two seeds Sehaj Singh Pawar and Aarjun Pandit arrange a title conflict.
The outcomes:
Beneath-18 boys (semifinals): Sehaj Singh Pawar bt Vraj Gohil 2-6, 6-2, 6-1; Aarjun Pandit bt Aashravya Mehra 6-4, 6-3.
Doubles (ultimate): Aarav Chawla & Tanussh Ghildyal bt Gandharv Kothapalli & Aarjun Pandit 6-2, 6-2.
Beneath-18 women (semifinals): Aishwarya Jadhav bt Harsha Oruganti 6-2, 6-2; Diya Ramesh bt Aakruti Sonkusare 0-6, 6-3, 6-1.
Doubles (ultimate): Diya Ramesh & Sohini Mohanty bt Nainika Bendram & Aishwarya Jadhav 6-2, 6-4.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
Ishaque beats Karan to make semis in ITF tourney
Ishaque Eqbal survived six match factors to beat second seed Karan Singh 6-7(4), 7-6(8), 6-3 within the quarterfinals of the $15,000 ITF males’s tennis event on the CLTA Advanced on Friday.
In a battle of wits that lasted three hours, Karan served 14 aces. Nevertheless, it was Ishaque’s serving prowess that handed scrutiny as he wriggled out of the clutches of defeat whereas going through three match factors at 0-40 within the tenth sport of the second set.
Eqbal, who fired 11 aces himself, saved three extra match factors within the second set tie-break.
Within the decider, Ishaque broke Karan’s serve decisively within the fourth sport and held on to the benefit. Whereas Ishaquel transformed two of 9 break factors, Karan managed to win solely considered one of seven break factors.
Within the semifinals, Ishaque will play third seed Woobin Shin of Korea.
Nitin Kumar Sinha went down preventing to Stefan Vujic of Australia in one other battle of attrition in three hours and 43 minutes. The Aussie will play prime seed Jay Clarke within the semifinals.
The outcomes:
Singles (quarterfinals): Jay Clarke (GBR) bt Madhwin Kamath 7-5, 4-1 (retired); Stefan Vujic (Aus) bt Nitin Kumar Sinha 7-6(11), 6-7(2), 6-2; Woobin Shin (Kor) bt Manish Sureshkumar 7-5, 7-6(1); Ishaque Eqbal bt Karan Singh 6-7(4), 7-6(8), 6-3.
Doubles (semifinals): Filiberto Fumagalli 9Ita) & Aryan Lakshmanan bt Sai Karteek Reddy & Vishnu Vardhan 7-6(5), 0-6, [10-8]; Prajwal Dev & Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Chirag Duhan & Dev Javia 6-0, 4-1 (retired).
– Kamesh Srinivasan