Indian sports activities wrap, March 21: Pranati Nayak qualifies for vault last at FIG World Cup

GYMNASTICS

Pranati Nayak qualifies for vault last at FIG World Cup

Indian gymnast Pranati Nayak has certified for the Vault last after securing a 3rd place within the qualification spherical on the FIG Equipment World Cup in Antalya, Turkey.

The 29-year-old, who represented the nation on the Tokyo Olympics, got here up with an mixture rating of 13.317 within the vault qualification.

She completed behind the American duo of Jayla Dangle (13.783) and Claire Pease (13.584). The Vault last is scheduled on Saturday.

“Pranati did properly within the qualification and with higher execution, she is usually a medal prospect within the finals,” her coach Ashok Kumar Mishra instructed PTI.

Pranati had clinched the bronze medal within the girls’s vault occasion of the FIG Equipment World Cup in Cairo earlier than the Paris Olympics final 12 months.

She additionally gained vault bronze medals on the Asian Championships in 2019 (Ulaanbaatar) and 2022 (Doha).

– PTI

CARROM

Prashant, Keerthana triumph in Carrom Nationals

Prashant Extra and L Keerthana gained the lads’s and girls’s titles within the 52nd Nationwide carrom championship on the Harkishan Singh Surjeet Bhawan on Friday.

Former World champion Prashant proved too robust for Sandeep Dive as he raced to a 25-9, 10-25, 25-2 victory.

Keerthana of Tamil Nadu beat the World Cup champion, M Khazima of Petroleum Sports activities Promotion Board (PSPB) in an exhilarating trend within the girls’s last, with the rating of 16-20, 25-2, 14-12

L Keerthana and Prashant Extra
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The outcomes (last):

Males (last): Prashant Extra (RBI) BT Sandeep Dive (JISL) 25-9, 10-25, 25-2; Semifinals: Prashant bt Zaid Ahmad Farooquee 21-18, 23-10; Sandeep Dive bt Abhijit Tripankar 21-20, 7-25, 25-2.

Ladies (last): L Keerthana (TN) bt M Khazima (PSPB) 16-20, 25-2, 14-12; Semifinals: M Khazima bt tuba Sehar 12-10, 25-6; L Keerthana bt V Mithra 11-25, 23-10, 25-8.

GOLF

Khelo India Para Video games: Shanguman clinches gold in athletics

Ramesh Shanguman
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Ramesh Shanguman gave Tamil Nadu a flying begin within the monitor and discipline occasions by successful a gold medal within the males’s 800m T53/T54 occasion on day two of the Khelo India Para Video games on Friday.

A former basketball participant, Chennai’s Shanguman hails from a farming household in Tiruchirappalli. He misplaced his legs in a truck accident when he was eight.

Nonetheless, he didn’t let the setback maintain him again and took to sports activities. He began as a para basketball participant however then shifted to wheelchair racing.

“I’ve confronted a whole lot of struggles in my life. I want to realize one thing. On daily basis simply comes and goes. However I had the need to make a reputation for myself. I’ve to show myself,” Shanguman instructed SAI Media.

“I encourage myself on daily basis. Now my dad and mom are very completely happy. Within the first KIPG in 2023, I gained the bronze medal; this time I gained the gold medal. My household is an enormous help. With out them, I couldn’t have been a medallist.” Tamil Nadu has gained six of the 27 gold medals which have been determined to this point. Haryana and Maharashtra have been shut second with 4 gold every.

Within the para badminton competitors, Paris Paralympics gold winner Nitesh Kumar and Tokyo Paralympics gold medallist Krishna Nagar confirmed their dominance. Kumar made the finals in his class whereas Nagar entered the semifinals. Nithya Sre and Palal Kohli, the opposite prime names within the badminton competitors, additionally superior forward of their respective sections.

-PTI

TENNIS

Prajwal Dev, Aryan Shah enter semifinals of M15 Ahmedabad 2025 Tennis Match

Prajwal Dev beat third seed Woobin Shin of Korea 6-4, 6-2 within the quarterfinals of the ITF M15 Ahmedabad 2025 Tennis Match on the Gujarat College Tennis Academy on Friday.

The Korean had made it to the final week in Chandigarh and misplaced in three units to prime seed Jay Clarke of Britain.

Aryan Shah beat two-time nationwide champion Siddharth Vishwakarma in three units to arrange a semifinal towards Jay Clarke.

Prajwal will problem the second seed Alexandr Binda of Italy.

Prajwal additionally made the doubles last in partnership with Nitin Kumar Sinha. The duo will play Maan Kesharwani and Rishi Reddy within the last.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

Shanker Heisnam enters finals of ITF Juniors

Third seed Shanker Heisnam beat second seed Praneel Sharma 7-6(2), 7-6(6) within the semifinals of the ITF Junior Tennis event on the Shanti Academy in Dehradun on Friday.

Within the last, Shanker will play the highest seed Sehaj Singh Pawar who beat Gandharv Kothapalli in three units.

Praneel gained the doubles title in partnership with Yashwin Dahiya.

Within the ladies’ part, second seed Diya Ramesh overcame a sluggish begin to beat Diya Chaudhary in three units. She’s going to play Jaya Kapoor within the last.

Diya Ramesh gained the doubles title with Sohini Mohanty.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

Luan ITF girls’s event: Ankita Raina in doubles last

Ankita Raina, in partnership with Priska Nugroho of Indonesia, beat Jiaqi Wang and Chengyiyi Yuan of China 7-5, 7-5 within the doubles semifinals of the $60,000 ITF girls’s tennis event in Luan, China, on Friday.

Within the last, Ankita and Priska will play Kristina Dmitruk and Kira Pavlova.

-Workforce Sportstar

GOLF

Ford Ladies’s Open: Diksha Dagar on tied sixth; Pranavi, Avani share Nineteenth spot

Diksha Dagar added one other good spherical of 3-under 68 and moved to 7-under for a tied sixth spot after the second spherical of the Ford Ladies’s Open in Wollongong Golf Membership.

Diksha who was tied-fourth after the primary spherical, as Sara Kouskova (67-63) joined England’s Mimi Rhodes (68-62) to take the shared lead.

The leaders have been at 12-under and 5 forward of Diksha.

Pranavi Urs (71-68) and rookie Avani Prashanth (72-67) additionally made the lower and at 3-under for 36 holes they have been tied-Nineteenth.

Diksha opened with a birdie on the primary however dropped a shot on the fifth for the second day working.

She made up with a birdie on the seventh solely to drop a shot on Par-5 ninth for the second time in as many rounds.

Diksha as soon as once more made ample use of scoring on again with three birdies on the thirteenth, seventeenth and the 18th and no bogeys for a 68.

On a course the place the again 9 begins on the ninth, Pranavi made a birdie begin and added additional birdies on the 14th, sixteenth, and seventeenth.

There have been no extra birdies and she or he dropped a shot on the seventh for a 68.

Avani, who has gained professional titles on her residence Tour, the Hero Ladies’s Professional Golf Tour and the LETAS whereas being an beginner, opened birdie-birdie on the entrance 9 and had additional birdies on the ninth, tenth, thirteenth, Fifteenth and the sixteenth however closed with a bogey.

She earlier dropped photographs on the fourth and the fifth in her 67

-PTI

Delhi Problem: Lukas Nemecz jumps into joint lead with three others

Lukas Nemecz of Austria got here up with the perfect rating of eight-under 64 to leap into the joint lead with three others on the second day of the $300,000 Delhi Problem golf event on the Basic Golf and Nation Membership on Friday.

Quim Vidal, Robin Sciot-Siegrist and Jasper Sandborg have been the others within the lead with 11-under 133.

Kshitij Kaul was the best-placed Indian, at joint seventh with 4 others following rounds of 69 and 66.

Amardeep Malik made a hole-in-one on the fifth throughout his second spherical of 68, however missed the lower, together with his rating of one-under 143.

The lower fell at three-under 141, with 71 professionals moving into the third spherical, and 19 of them have been Indians.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

BASKETBALL

Madhya Pradesh relied on Son Kumar (26) and Rakesh Kumar Sharma’s (22) advantageous displaying to pip Maharashtra 84-79 and enter the lads’s quarterfinals within the Nationwide under-23 basketball championships on the Sarusajai Stadium, Guwahati, on Friday.

Other than Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Rajasthan, Kerala, Punjab and the winner of the match between Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal will function within the males’s quarterfinals.

Kerala, Chandigarh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Maharashtra and Karnataka have reached the last-eight stage within the girls’s part.

-Y. B. Sarangi

KABADDI

Yuva All Stars Championship: Vasco Vipers, Sonipat Spartans, Warriorz Okay.C., Yuva Yoddhas win on Day 16

Yuva All Stars Championship – Day 16.
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Warriorz Okay.C. and Vasco Vipers registered 10-point margin victories on Day 16 of the Yuva All Stars Championship 2025 on Friday.

In the meantime, Yuva Yoddhas thrashed the Junior Steelers, and the Sonipat Spartans got here from behind to beat Yuva Paltan on the Vandana Kataria Indoor Stadium in Haridwar.

-Workforce Sportstar

GOLF

Shubhankar tied-Fifteenth with 68 in Singapore

Shubhankar Sharma shot 4-under 68 with three birdies that noticed him ending on tied Fifteenth after the primary day of the weather-affected Porsche Singapore Basic on the DP World Tour right here.

On the Laguna Golf and Nation Membership, his lone blemish was a double bogey in the midst of the spherical on the ninth gap.

Sharma, who had a tough begin to the season, birdied the primary, fourth, eighth, tenth, twelfth and thirteenth and the double bogey got here on the ninth.

Veer Ahlawat had a tough day with 1-over 73 that had two birdies towards three bogeys. He was T-83 and can want a low spherical to make the lower.

Matthew Jordan produced a back-nine birdie blitz to signal for a gap 65 and share the lead with fellow Englishman Marcus Armitage.

– PTI