BOXING
Khushi, Tikam amongst Indian semifinalists in Asian U-15 & U-17 Boxing Championship
Khushi Chand and Tikam Singh have been among the many Indians boxers who reached the semifinals of the Asian U-15 & U-17 Championships in Amman, Jordan.
Khushi (46 kg), a bronze-medallist on the 2024 Asian College Boys & Women Boxing Championship in Abu Dhabi, compelled an early finish to her quarterfinal bout in opposition to Vietnam’s Nguyen Thi Hong Yen after out-boxing her.
Tikam (52 kg) obtained the higher of Palestine’s Othman Diab in his last-eight contest, which additionally ended early.
Within the males’s part, Ambekar Meetei (48 kg), Udham Singh (54 kg), and Rahul Gariya (57 kg) received by unanimous 5-0 selections, whereas Aman Dev (50 kg) edged previous Jordan’s Osamah Al-Khaldi 3-2 in a good bout.
Jiya (48 kg) defeated Vietnam’s Thi Ru Na Dinh for a 5-0 win whereas Jannat (54 kg) overpowered Ukraine’s Anhelina Rumiantseva 4-1.
The consequence:
Males’s U-17 (Quarterfinals): 44-46 kg: Dhruv Kharb (IND) misplaced to Mykhailo Sydorenko (UKR) – WP 0:5; 48 kg: Ambekar Meetei Lairenlakpam (IND) def. Tymofii Oleksiienko (UKR) – WP 5:0; 50 kg: Aman Dev (IND) def. Osamah Al-Khaldi (JOR) – WP 3:2; 52 kg: Tikam Singh (IND) def. Othman Diab (PLE) – RSC R2; 54 kg: Udham Singh Raghav (IND) def. Ryusei Kitamura (JPN) – WP 5:0; 57 kg: Rahul Gariya (IND) def. Mohammad Alarabati (PLE) – WP 5:0.
Girls’s U-17 (Quarterfinals): 44-46 kg: Khushi Chand (IND) def. Nguyen Thi Hong Yen (VIE) – RSC R2; 48 kg: Jiya (IND) def. Thi Ru Na Dinh (VIE) – WP 5:0; 52 kg: Samiksha Pradeep Singh (IND) misplaced to Runa Ito (JPN) – WP 1:4; 54 kg: Jannat (IND) def. Anhelina Rumiantseva (UKR) – WP 4:1; 57 kg: Radhamani Longjam (IND) misplaced to Indira Kydyrmoldaeva (KAZ) – WP 1:4.
-PTI
GOLF
Good begin for Sharma at Hainan Traditional
Indian golfer Shubhankar Sharma was off to a promising begin on the Hainan Traditional, returning a 3-under 69 to be positioned Tied-17 after the top of first spherical right here Friday.
Sharma, who missed the lower in Shanghai final week regardless of a robust day two, was 2-under via 14 holes earlier than play was suspended on Thursday. The Indian had two birdies and on Friday morning sunk in an eagle and a bogey for a card of 69 on the Blackstone Course in Mission Hills Resort Haikou in Hainan Island.
Haotong Li performed a spherical within the 60s for the 14th time in his final 19 rounds to catapult himself within the prime spot within the DP World Tour occasion alongside Kiradech Aphibarnrat and Kristoffer Reitan.
Li had seven birdies and one bogie to complete 6-under par for the day. He produced 4 birdies and a bogey on the entrance 9 for a rating of three-under and three birdies within the again 9 for a rating of three-under.
Aphibarnrat had eight birdies and two bogeys with three birdies and a bogey on each the back and front nines.
Reitan had 5 birdies, one bogey and one eagle for his 6-under whole.
There have been seven gamers who carded 5-under 67 within the first spherical.
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Late double bogey spoils Aditi’s card on weather-hit first day at Chevron
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok was one-over with two holes to play within the weather-hit first spherical of the Chevron Championship, one of many ladies’s Majors.
She at present sits at T-61.
Having began the primary spherical from the again 9 with a bogey on the tenth gap she saved it tidy earlier than managing the birdie on the sixteenth gap.
This was adopted by two extra birdies on her second 9 — on the third and the fourth holes.
Nonetheless, simply earlier than the suspension of play Aditi had a double bogey on the sixth and a bogey on the seventh to go from 2-under to 1-over in a matter of two holes.
Two time LPGA Tour winner Haeran Ryu and up to date Epson Tour graduate Yan Liu carded bogey free rounds of seven-under par to share lead on the finish of the primary day.
Yan Liu performed her profession greatest spherical simply final week when she hit a 63 on the JM Eagle LA Championship and Yan Liu hit seven birdies within the first spherical.
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Indian-American Theegala and Rai positioned tied thirteenth in Zurich Traditional
The Indian-American pair of Sahith Theegala and Aaron Rai shot nine-under and was positioned tied thirteenth after the primary day on the Zurich Traditional golf match in Avondale.
The pair was 5 photographs behind PGA Tour rookies, Isaiah Salinda and Kevin Velo, who totalled 14-under.
Masters champion Rory McIlroy, taking part in for the primary time since successful the Inexperienced Jacket, teamed up with Shane Lowry to shoot an 8-under 64 in 4-ball (best-ball).
Theegala and Rai shot nine-under.
One other Indian-American, Akshay Bhatia, who like Theegala, landed an Indian sponsor, Hero, forward of the Masters this month, performed with Carson Younger and so they totalled eight-under to be tied 18th.
Salinda and Velo opened with a tournament-record 58 within the TOUR’s solely workforce occasion. They have been 10-under for the entrance 9 with eight birdies and an eagle from Salinda on the Par-5 seventh. On the again 9 they have been four-under to whole 14-under.
Danish similar twins Nicolai and Rasmus Højgaard have been a shot again. The groups will play Foursomes (alternate shot) Friday, 4-ball Saturday and Foursomes Sunday.
A big gallery gathered on the tenth tee at TPC Louisiana earlier than 8 am native time to see McIlroy. Shaking off an early-week sickness, he supplied just a few highlights after a comparatively gradual begin.
Lowry carried the workforce early, birdieing three of the primary holes after their back-nine begin and including one other on the par-5 18th.
McIlroy’s first birdie got here on an almost 20-foot putt on No. 1, which he celebrated with a light-hearted fist pump. McIlroy adopted that with an eagle on the par-5 second gap, hitting a 6-iron from 204 yards to five toes to get to 8-under.
Collin Morikawa and Kurt Kitayama have been tied for third at 61 with the groups of Cam Davis/Adam Svensson, Paul Peterson/Thomas Rosenmueller and Kris Ventura/Antoine Rozner.
Adam Schenk had an albatross on the seventh, holing out from 231 yards. Schenk and Tyler Duncan shot 63.
Yannik and Jeremy Paul of Germany, the opposite similar twins – the third workforce with siblings – within the area, shot 67.
– PTI