SQUASH
Tanvi Khanna, Anahat Singh in quarterfinals
Indian squash participant Tanvi Khanna brought about a significant upset, defeating prime seed N Ching Cheng of Hong Kong within the opening spherical of the World Championship Qualifying Occasion (Asia) in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.
Tanvi, ranked 134th on the earth defeated the Hong Kong participant, ranked 76th, 3-1 (11-7 11-8 8-11 12-10) to e book a spot within the quarterfinals .She is going to tackle Helen Tang of Hong Kong (World rank 97) within the last-eight.
In one other opening spherical match, main India participant Anahat Singh (No. 63) simply defeated Philippines’ lower-ranked Jemyca Aribado (No. 126) 3-0 (11-4 11-5 11-7). Anahat will tackle Japanese opponent Akari Midorikawa within the quarterfinals.
Second seeded Akanksha Salunkhe (No. 70) overcame Japan’s lower-ranked Risa Sugimoto 3-0 (11-4 11-3 11-8) to arrange a quarterfinal conflict towards sixth seed Wai Yhann Au Yeong of Singapore.
In males’s competitors, Veer Chotrani, ranked 63rd on the earth, defeated lower-ranked Malaysian rival Ong Sai Hung 3-0 (11-7 11-8 14-12) to enter the quarterfinal. He’ll meet one other Malaysian Mohammad Syafiq Kamal within the last-eight.
– PTI
GOLF
Tapendra takes four-shot lead in Calance Open
Tapendra Ghai shot the most effective rating of the third spherical, an eight-under 62, to take a four-shot lead at 17-under 193 within the Rs. 1 crore Calance Open on the Qutab Golf Course on Thursday.
The 29-year-old Tapendra had 9 birdies and a bogey on the 14th. It was an important restoration for Tapendra who had a joint lead within the first spherical with six-under 64, on the par-70 course.
Tapendra Ghai shot 8-under 62 within the third spherical to leap to a four-shot lead within the Calance Open golf in Delhi on Thursday.
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Tapendra Ghai shot 8-under 62 within the third spherical to leap to a four-shot lead within the Calance Open golf in Delhi on Thursday.
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“I began nicely with singles putts on the primary eight holes. I additionally managed to shut it out with birdies on the final three. I made much more putts than within the first spherical,” mentioned Tapendra, who had spent three years on the course as a junior earlier than it was re-designed.
Honey Baisoya, Pukhran Singh Gill and Yuvraj Sandhu have been joint second at 13-under 193, following scores of 65, 66 and 67 respectively within the third spherical.
The in a single day chief, Kshitij Naveed Kaul, who had shot a course document 10-under 60 within the second spherical, had a troublesome time, and returned a card of three-over 73 that put him joint tenth with Gaurav Pratap Singh. The latter shot equivalent 67 in all three rounds.
The main scores:
1. Tapendra Ghai (64, 67, 62) 193; 2T. Honey Baisoya (64, 68, 65), Pukhraj Singh Gill (64, 67, 66), Yuvraj Sandhu (65, 65, 67) 197; 5. Abhinav Lohan (67, 66, 65) 198; 6T. Aryaman Mohan (71, 65, 63), Dhruv Sheoran (67, 67, 65), Karandeep Kochhar (65, 64, 70) 199; 9. Manu Gandas (72, 65, 63) 200; 10T. Gaurav Pratap Singh (67, 67, 67), Kshitij Naveed Kaul (68, 60, 73) 201; 12T. Jamal Hossain (70, 68, 64), Badal Hossain (65, 69, 68), Angad Cheema (68, 65, 69), Varun Parikh (67, 65, 70), Shaurya Bhattacharya (72, 64, 66), Arjun Prasad (67, 68, 67) 202.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
TENNIS
Bopanna-Shelton knocked out of Bavarian Worldwide
The boys’s singles pair of Rohan Bopanna and Ben Shelton was overwhelmed 6-4, 7-5 within the doubles quarterfinals by Sander Gille and Jan Zielinski within the Bavarian Worldwide Tennis Championships in Munich, Germany, on Thursday.
The Indo-American pair collected 90 ATP factors and 20,720 euros.
The outcomes:
€2,500,000 ATP, Munich, Germany: Doubles (quarterfinals): Sander Gille (Bel) & Jan Zielinski (Pol) bt Rohan Bopanna & Ben Shelton (USA) 6-4, 7-5.
$200,000 Challenger, Busan, Korea: Doubles (quarterfinals): Rio Noguchi & Yuta Shimizu (Jpn) bt Ramkumar Ramanathan & Aoran Wang (Chn) 6-3, 7-5.
€181,250 Challenger, Oeiras, Portugal: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Francisco Cabral (Por) & LLucas Miedler (Aut) bt Anirudh Chandrasekar & David Hernandez (Esp) 6-3, 6-4.
$60,000 Challenger, Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Singles (first spherical): Florent Bax (Fra) bt Karan Singh 6-4, 6-4. Doubles (quarterfinals): Ricardas Berankis (Ltu) & Dominik Kellovsky (Cze) bt Aryan Shah & Parikshit Somani 6-4, 6-1; Pre-quarterfinals: Aleksandre Bakshi (Geo) & Prajwal Dev bt Abdoulaziz Bationo (CIV) & Younes Laaroussi (Mar) 6-3, 6-4; Aryan & Parikshit bt Juan Bianchi & Brandon Perez (Ven) 2-6, 7-5, [10-8]; Myko Kouame (CIV) & Benoit Paire (Fra) bt Sai Karteek Reddy & Adil Kalyanpur 7-6(8), 3-6, [10-3].
$60,000 ITF girls, Calvi, France: Singles (first spherical): Tessah Andrianjafitrimo (Fra) bt Riya Bhatia 7-5, 6-4. Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Riya Bhatia & Sada Nahimana (Bdi) bt Hanna Bougouffa (Fra) & Yoana Moneva (Bul) 6-0, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF girls, Antalya, Turkey: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Isabella Serban (Ita) bt Vaishnavi Adkar 6-3, 3-6, 6-3. Doubles (quarterfinals): Yuki Naito (Jpn) & Karolina Vlckova (Cze) bt Vaishnavi Adkar & Ilay Yoruk (Tur) 5-7, 6-3, [10-7].
$15,000 ITF girls, Monastir, Tunisia: Singles (first spherical): Milana Zhabrailova bt Zeel Desai 6-3, 7-5.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
MORE SPORTS
Junior sports activities minister Khadse inaugurates indoor kabaddi corridor at SAI Bengaluru
Minister of State for Sports activities Raksha Khadse on Thursday inaugurated the newly-constructed indoor kabaddi corridor on the Sports activities Authority of India (SAI) Bengaluru campus.
The minister was on a two-day go to to the SAI Centre to achieve first-hand insights into the implementation of presidency schemes on the grassroots stage.
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The minister was on a two-day go to to the SAI Centre to achieve first-hand insights into the implementation of presidency schemes on the grassroots stage.
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R. V. Moorthy/The Hindu
Khadse held intensive interactions with international coaches of assorted disciplines, together with Dragan (volleyball), Ronald (race strolling), Claudio (center and long-distance operating), and mentioned their coaching methodologies, worldwide finest practices, and the adaptability of their experience to Indian athletes.
She additionally held discussions with Indian coaches and former athletes like Sahana Kumari and Ashwini Akkunji and dash coach Harish.
The minister was on a two-day go to to the SAI Centre to achieve first-hand insights into the implementation of presidency schemes on the grassroots stage.
She additionally joined a dinner hosted for elite athletes, together with Olympians, Dronacharya and Dhyan Chand awardees and members of the senior girls’s hockey staff, athletics and para-athletics squads.
-PTI
CHESS
Zhu maintains sole lead after Spherical 4
China’s Zhu Jiner maintained her sole lead on the finish of the fourth spherical of the FIDE Ladies’s Grand Prix Ladies’s Chess at Amanora-The Fern, Pune, on Thursday.
The second seed defeated Alina Kashlinskaya of Poland to maneuver to three.5 factors.
Prime seed Koneru Humpy, who defeated Russian Polina Shuvalova, is within the joint second place with three factors, together with fellow-Indian Divya Deshmukh.
The win towards Salome Melia was the third in 4 video games for Divya, who had misplaced within the earlier spherical. In one other all-Indian affair, D. Harika and R. Vaishali performed out a draw, the one one of many day.
5 rounds stay.
The outcomes (fourth spherical):
Salome Melia (Geo) 1 misplaced to Divya Deshmukh 3; Polina Shuvalova (Rus) 2 misplaced to Koneru Humpy 3; D. Harika 2 drew with R. Vaishali 1.5; Mungtuul Batkhuyag (Mng) 2 misplaced to Nurgyul Salimova (Bul) 1.5; Zhu Jiner (Chn) 3.5 bt Alina Kashlinskaya (Pol) 0.5.
Fifth-round pairing: Kashlinskaya v Melia; Salimova v Zhu; Vaishali v Batkhuyag; Humpy v Harika; Divya v Shuvalova.
-P. Ok. Ajith Kumar
ATHLETICS
Indians add two bronze medals on third day of Asian U-18 Athletics C‘ship
India picked up a bronze medal every by way of discus thrower Lakshita Mahlawat and 100m hurdler Shourya Ambure on the third day of the Asian Beneath-18 Athletics Championship in Dammam, Saudi Arabia on Thursday.
Lakshita produced an effort of 41.30m to win the bronze in U-18 women’ discus throw occasion. China’s Ma Chenyi (53.81m) and Zhao Anqi (47.89m) took the gold and silver respectively.
Shourya added one other bronze in U-18 women’ 100m hurdles, clocking 13.80 seconds. China’s Bao Yinyin (13.71) and He Yihui (13.76) gained the gold and silver respectively.
On Wednesday, Nitin Gupta (boys 5000m race stroll), Tannu (women 400m) gained a silver medal every, whereas Nishchay (boys discus throw) and Aarti (women 100m) clinched bronze apiece.
– PTI