Indian sports activities wrap, March 24: Two-time champion SSP Chawrasia to participate in Hero Indian Open

GOLF

Two-time champion and four-time runner-up, SSP Chawrasia has been given a particular invitation by the title sponsor for the USD 2.25 million Hero Indian Open golf championship to be performed on the DLF Golf and Nation Membership from Thursday.

The 46-year-old Chawrasia has six worldwide titles, and two of them have been received on the DLF.

He might be one of many three previous champions returning to the match, other than Keita Nakajima of Japan and Marcel Siem of Germany.

Chawrasia received the championship again to again in 2016 and 2017. He had completed runner-up in 1999, 2006, 2013 and 2015.

File picture: SSP Chawrasia when he received the Hero Indian Open in 2017.
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The 138-strong area may have two champions from the final fortnight,Richard Mansell, the champion of Porsche Singapore Basic and Joshua Berry, the champion of Kolkata Problem.

Callum Hill, John Parry, Johannes Veerman and Ryggs Johnston would be the different champions of the present season, lending depth to the competitors.

So as to add to the colourful environment, the organisers have thrown the gates open for the golf fans.

– Kamesh Srinivasan

HOCKEY

Odisha beats Haryana, Mizoram defeats Madhya Pradesh in Nationwide Ladies’s Hockey League 2024-2025

Odisha defeated Haryana 2-0 in Pool A.
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On day 5 of the ultimate section of the Nationwide Ladies’s Hockey League 2024-2025, Odisha, Mizoram, Maharashtra and Jharkhand registered wins of their respective matches, on the Marang Gomke Jaipal Singh Astro Turf Hockey Stadium in Ranchi, Jharkhand.

Within the first match, Odisha defeated Haryana 2-0 in Pool A. Prativa Kindo (9’) and Shibani Lugun (59’) scored for his or her workforce to take the sport away from table-topper Haryana.

Within the different match, Mizoram defeated Madhya Pradesh 2-1. With this win, Mizoram is now within the third place within the pool standings whereas Hockey Madhya Pradesh slipped to fifth place.

Within the third match, Maharashtra defeated Bengal 4-2 to safe its first win within the match. Maharashtra is within the sixth place whereas Bengal is but to open its account within the pool standings.

Within the final match of the day, Jharkhand defeated Manipur Hockey 8-0. Jharkhand now holds the fourth place within the pool standings whereas Hockey is on the seventh place with one win within the match.

-Group Sportstar

BASKETBALL

Haryana, TN win U-23 Nationals

Haryana males and Tamil Nadu girls emerged because the champions within the inaugural Nationwide under-23 basketball championships on the Sarusajai Stadium, Guwahati, on Monday.

The Haryana males’s workforce receiving the winners’ trophy from Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on the Nationwide under-23 basketball championships in Guwahati on Monday.
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Captain B. Sahil contributed 29 factors to assist Haryana, main 47-28 on the interval, report a convincing 94-73 victory over Punjab within the males’s title conflict.

The Tamil Nadu girls’s workforce posing with the winners’ trophy on the Nationwide under-23 basketball championships in Guwahati on Monday.
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Within the girls’s remaining, Tamil Nadu, which trailed by a degree (29-28) on the midway stage, fought again within the third quarter by Harima Sundari, who scored 22 factors and 16 rebounds. Nitika A. (27) was the top-scorer for the profitable facet.

The champion groups obtained Rs. 3 lakh, the runners-up Rs. 2 lakh and the third-place finishers Rs. 1 lakh every.

– Y. B. Sarangi

TENNIS

Three Indians seeded in ITF tourney in Ahmedabad

Three Indian gamers Karan Singh, Aryan Shah and Dev Javia have been seeded within the $30,000 ITF males’s tennis match to be performed on the Altevol-Waske Tennis Academy from Tuesday.

Whereas the highest seed Jay Clarke of Britain might be searching for a hat-trick of titles, having received the final two tournaments in Chandigarh and Ahmedabad itself on the Gujarat College, Moerani Bouzige of Australia and Alexandr Binda of Italy have been seeded second and third respectively.

Karan and Aryan observe because the fourth and fifth seeds. Whereas Karan will face Manish Sureshkumar, Aryan, who had performed an excellent match within the semifinals in opposition to the eventual champion final week, is scheduled to face a qualifier within the first spherical.

Eighth seed Dev Javia will even get a qualifier within the first spherical, and figures in the identical prime quarter together with Chirag Duhan.

With the third and remaining qualifying spherical scheduled for Tuesday, most of the gamers may have one other day to organize, earlier than their first spherical.

The primary draw wild playing cards got to Digvijay Prattap Singh, Nitin Kumar Sinha, Samarth Sahita and Madhwin Kamath.

It must be one other week of vigorous motion, with the Indian gamers making an attempt to capitalise on the house benefit in opposition to robust opponents.

– Kamesh Srinivasan