GOLF
Gill, Ghai, Baisoya share first-round lead at Calance Open
Pukhraj Singh Gill of Ludhiana was in joint lead with Tapendra Ghai and Honey Baisoya with a six-under 64 on the opening day of the Rs.1 crore Calance Open on the Qutab Golf Course on Tuesday.
After an early bogey, Pukhraj had seven birdies to go six-under on the par-70 course, which is internet hosting a PGTI occasion after 15 years.
“I had performed on this course as a junior. It has modified lots and poses extra challenges now. The fairways are slim and it’s a risk-reward course,” stated Pukhraj.
Honey had a bogey-free spherical whereas Tapendra had eight birdies and two bogeys.
Whereas Chandigarh-based 15-year-old Neil Jolly shot 68 to be the highest-placed newbie at tied twenty third, the champion of the final event Sachin Baisoya shot three-over 73 and was tied ninety fifth.
The main scores:
1 T. Pukhraj Singh Gill, Tapendra Ghai, Honey Baisoya (64); 4 T. Kapil Kumar, Shankar Das, Karandeep Kocchhar, Yuvraj Sandhu, Badal Hossain (65); 9 T. Ravi Kumar, Okay Prabagaran (66); 11 T. Shivendra Sisodia, Kartik Sharma, Varun Parikh, Dhruv Sheoran, Aniket Sawant, Abhinav Lohan, Akshay Neranjen, Arjun Prasad, Md. Solayeman, Gaurav Pratap Singh, Bikramjit Singh Sandhu, R Mari Muthu (67).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
ATHLETICS
Olympic champion Dalilah Muhammad named ambassador for TCS World 10K Bengaluru
Dalilah Muhammad, the 2016 Rio Olympics gold medallist in ladies’s 400m hurdles, has been named the Worldwide Occasion Ambassador for the seventeenth version of the TCS World 10K Bengaluru, scheduled to be held on April 27.
The American, thought of probably the greatest quarter-milers the game has seen, additionally secured the silver at Tokyo 2020, behind Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone. She was a part of the famed American 4x400m relay group – comprising the legendary Allyson Felix – that received gold in Tokyo.
The 35-year-old, who has a number of World Championship titles to her title, made historical past on the 2019 USA Out of doors Observe and Discipline Championships, breaking the 400m hurdles world file with a time of 52.20s, bettering Yuliya Pechonkina’s 52.34s set in 2003. Muhammad additional improved it to 52.16s on the World Championships in Doha later that yr.
-Group Sportstar
TENNIS
Aryan loses in first spherical of Ivory Coast $60,000 challenger
Fifth seed Ricardas Berankis of Lithuania beat Aryan Shah 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 within the first spherical of the $60,000 Challenger tennis event in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Tuesday.
The outcomes:
$60,000 Challenger, Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Singles (first spherical): Ricardas Berankis (Ltu) bt Aryan Shah 3-6, 6-2,
6-4; Michael Geerts (Bel) bt Adil Kalyanpur 6-1, 6-3.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
CHESS
FIDE Girls’s Grand Prix Pune: Divya Deshmukh, Zhu Jiner take early lead after second spherical
Divya Deshmukh and second seed Zhu Jiner of China took an early lead within the FIDE Girls’s Grand Prix Chess at Amanora-The Fern, Pune, on Tuesday.
The seventh-seeded Divya defeated fellow-Indian R. Vaishali, seeded sixth, within the second spherical. Zhu needed to wait longer for her victory towards Mongolia’s Mungutuul Batkhuyag.
Russia’s Polina Shuvalova, who drew with Nurgyul Salimova of Bulgaria, is in second place with 1.5 factors. High seed Koneru Humpy, who was held to a draw by Salome Milia of Georgia, is on one level.
Vaishali and D. Harika are on half-a-point. Seven rounds stay.
The outcomes (second spherical):
Salome Milia (Geo) 0.5 drew with Koneru Humpy 1; Divya Deshmukh 2 bt R. Vaishali 0.5; Polina Shuvalova (Rus) 1.5 drew with Nurgyul Salimova (Bul) 0.5; D. Harika 0.5 drew with Alina Kashlinskaya (Pol); Mungutuul Batkhuyag (Mng) 1 misplaced to Zhu Jiner (Chn) 2.
Third-round pairing: Zhu v Melia; Kashlinskaya v Batkhuyag; Salimova v Harika; Vaishali v Shuvalova; Humpy v Divya.
– Group Sportstar
MOTORSPORT
Rivaan Dev Preetham finishes P11 in second spherical of Champions of the Future Academy
Rivaan Dev Preetham completed P11 within the second spherical of the Champions of the Future Academy Programme.
The 11-year-old, the one Indian to have received a race within the historical past of FIA Motorsport Video games, logged a poor qualifying time attributable to a method that didn’t work.
He certified fifth amongst 37 rivals from around the globe and completed P5 within the second warmth. He went on to publish one other top-15 consequence, ending eleventh within the second remaining and garnering 22 factors.
Rivaan clocked a finest lap of 1 minute and 02.442 seconds.
-PTI