Indian sports activities wrap, April 12: Pankaj Advani wins silver medal at WBL World Matchplay Billiards Championship

BILLIARDS

Pankaj Advani wins silver medal at WBL World Matchplay Billiards Championship

Pankaj Advani, India’s most adorned cueist, settled for a silver medal after a slim defeat in opposition to David Causier within the last of the WBL World Matchplay Billiards Championship in New Delhi.

In a best-of-15 contest, the place fortunes swung from one facet to a different, Advani began off with a 2-0 lead however his opponent clawed his means again within the summit conflict performed at Carlow, Eire.

Each the gamers fought intensely however the Briton clinched the decider to win the sport 8-7 (19-100, 0-100, 100-47, 100-52, 19-100, 100-0, 49-100, 100-3, 34-100, 4-100, 100-85, 31-100, 100-53, 100-43, 100-28).

Advani will now look to defend his IBSF World Billiards title, which he has been profitable since 2016, from Sunday right here.

The upcoming world championship shall be performed within the timed format during which huge breaks are anticipated from gamers from everywhere in the world.

-PTI

HOCKEY

Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Punjab and Uttar Pradesg via to Senior Males’s Hockey Championship semifinals

Madhya Pradesh, Manipur and Punjab gained their quarterfinal ties to progress forward within the fifteenth Hockey India Senior Males Nationwide Championship 2025 happening in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh.

Gamers in motion throughout the fifteenth Hockey India Senior Males Nationwide Championship 2025 in Jhansi.
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Within the first match of the day, after a 1-1 draw over 4 quarters, Madhya Pradesh emerged victorious over Maharashtra within the shootout.

Pratap Lakra (6’) transformed a penalty nook and opened the scoring for Madhya Pradesh early within the sport. Three minutes later, Maharashtra promptly replied courtesy of a subject aim from Aakib Rahim (9’). Madhya Pradesh goalkeeper Sanjay B made essential saves within the shootout to assist his facet win 4-2.

Manipur and Tamil Nadu performed out a goalless draw and battled it out within the shootout, which the previous gained 4-1.  Within the shootout, Manipur’s goalkeeper Ankit Malik was in unbelievable kind, making two essential saves.

Within the third match, Punjab defeated Haryana 3-2 to seal its spot within the semifinal. Punjab’s Araijeet Singh Hundal (15’) opened the scoring for Punjab earlier than scored Sanjay (32’) equalised for Haryana. However Punjab scored two targets in fast succession because of Jugraj Singh (33’) and Pardeep Singh (34’) to steal the lead. Kuldeep (56’) obtained one aim again within the dying minutes of the sport nonetheless, Punjab prevailed over the 4 quarters.

Within the final quarterfinal, Uttar Pradesh loved a 3-1 win over Karnataka. Though Rahul C. J (24’) scored the primary aim to take the lead within the second quarter for Karnataka, Uttar Pradesh’s Manish Yadav (45’), Pawan Rajbhar (52’) and Sharda Nand Tiwari (59’) helped seal the win.

-Workforce Sportstar

GOLF

Baisoya trumps Mane in playoff to clinch Indorama Ventures Open Golf Championship crown

Delhi’s Sachin Baisoya fired the day’s finest card of four-under 68 to script a basic come-from-behind victory on the Indorama Ventures Open Golf Championship in Ahmedabad, edging previous Pune’s Udayan Mane within the playoff on Saturday.

The 29-year-old Baisoya (68-71-70-68), who had earlier determined to not play this week’s occasion because of his father’s sick well being, started the ultimate day seven pictures behind the chief in tied fifth place.

Nonetheless, Baisoya was tied on the prime together with 34-year-old Mane (69-65-68-75) at a complete of 11-under 277 on the finish of the regulation 72 holes.

Mane, the in a single day chief by two pictures, returned a final spherical of 75 after dropping 5 strokes on the final six holes that additionally noticed Baisoya rise into rivalry.

Baisoya fared higher in negotiating the tough pin place on the playoff gap (Par-4 18th) as he made par with a two-putt whilst Mane conceded a bogey on the identical gap.

Baisoya, who has to this point gained each playoffs he has been part of, thus recorded his fourth skilled victory, pocketing the winner’s cheque of Rs 30 lakh which catapulted him from eleventh place to second within the PGTI Order of Advantage. His earnings for the season now learn Rs 44,65,650.

Khalin Joshi of Bengaluru carded a 74 on Saturday to complete third at 10-under 278. Faridabad’s Abhinav Lohan struck a fourth spherical of 72 to safe fourth place at nine-under 279.

Abhinav was a primary contender for the title when he joined Udayan within the lead on the back-nine in spherical 4. Nonetheless, a late bogey and double-bogey put him out of rivalry.

Native lad Varun Parikh (69) of Ahmedabad and Chandigarh’s Ajeetesh Sandhu (71) completed tied fifth at eight-under 280.

Mane, a winner of 12 titles and former PGTI Order of Advantage champion, was nicely on target to victory after making three birdies and a bogey over the primary 12 holes. Nonetheless, in a dramatic late twist, Mane conceded two double-bogeys and a bogey during the last six holes that took the match right into a playoff.

-PTI

Diksha Dagar, Pranavi Urs in tied-Twentieth place in SA Ladies’s Open

India’s Diksha Dagar performed a bogey-free 3-under 69 as she rose to top-20 after three rounds within the Investec SA Ladies’s Open golf event right here on Saturday. Additionally tied at T-20 is Pranavi Urs who shot a 73 on day three.

Diksha now has rounds of 72-71-69 and is 4-under, whereas Pranavi has playing cards of 72-67-73.

One other Indian, Avani Prashanth, who’s tied-Forty fourth, has 68-73-74 and is one-under, whereas Tvesa, the fourth Indian to make the reduce, has shot 70-71-76 to be one-over. She is at the moment tied-57th.

Two-time LET winner Diksha birdied the third, sixth and sixteenth and had no bogeys, whereas the multiple-time winner on the Hero Ladies’s Professional Tour, Pranavi, had one birdie in opposition to two bogeys. A day earlier, Pranavi had 5 birdies and no bogeys in a 67.

-PTI

TENNIS

India beats Singapore, to face Indonesia for ninth to twelfth place in Asia-Oceania WJT U-14 boys

India beat Singapore 3-0 within the play-off match for the minor placings within the Asia-Oceania WJT under-14 boys tennis championship in Kuching, Malaysia, on Saturday.

India will subsequent play Indonesia within the match for the ninth to twelfth place.

Korea, Japan, Kazakhstan and Hong Kong reached the semifinals and booked their berth within the World Group competitors to be performed later within the season.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

FOOTBALL

DSC Soccer 2025 Nationwide Finals: Mohun Bagan to face Punjab FC in summit conflict

Punjab FC beat Norwich Metropolis to safe a spot within the last.
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Mohun Bagan Tremendous Big will face defending champion Punjab FC within the last of the Dream Sports activities Championship Soccer 2025 Nationwide Finals after each groups secured spectacular victories of their respective last group matches in Goa on Saturday.

The Kolkata large grew to become the primary workforce to safe its place within the last of the continuing U-17 soccer event with a convincing 3-0 win over Dempo Sports activities Membership, whereas PFC overcame English facet Norwich Metropolis FC in an exhilarating 2-1 contest that went all the way down to the wire.

Punjab took an early lead when Vishal Yadav discovered the online within the twelfth minute. Norwich Metropolis responded within the twenty seventh minute via Khalil Steele, who equalized with a well-taken aim. With the groups battling laborious, PFC’s Lalgousem Tuboi grew to become the hero of the day, scoring a dramatic winner within the fourth minute of stoppage time (90+4’) to ship his workforce via to the ultimate.

Earlier within the day, Mohun Bagan continued its spectacular run within the event, dominating its match in opposition to Dempo from the opening whistle. Thangngaisang Haokip wasted no time making an influence, scoring within the very first minute to offer the Mariners an early benefit. Khaiminlal Khongsai prolonged the lead within the 61st minute earlier than Jetlee Singh added a 3rd simply seven minutes later.

The ultimate is scheduled to happen on the RAIA Soccer Floor on Tuesday, April 15.

-Workforce Sportstar