GOLF
Diksha stays in Prime 10 of LET Order of Benefit after Korea Championships
Indian golfer Diksha Dagar continued to be within the Prime 10 of the Girls European Tour’s Order of Benefit, regardless of a tied 52nd place end on the Aramco Korea Championships right here.
The 24-year-old, who’s now in her sixth yr as knowledgeable, completed with a rating of six-over 222 on the New Korea Nation Membership.
Diksha has twice received on the Girls European Tour, and a number of instances on her dwelling Tour, the Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour.
Barring as soon as in 2020, Diksha has at all times been within the Prime-60 of the LET, with one of the best two finishes being 14th place in 2019, the yr she received her maiden LET title, and third place in 2023, the yr she had her second LET success.
After a modest 2024, when she was twenty ninth within the LET checklist, Diksha started in fashion with a runner-up end, shedding a play-off within the season-opener in Morocco. Of the eight occasions this season, one was cancelled in Australia, on account of climate, and Diksha has performed all others.
Apart from the second place at Lalla Meryem Cup in Morocco, Diksha was additionally T-Eleventh at NSW Open in Australia, T-8 in Joburg Open and T-9 in Girls’s South African Open.
Pranavi Urs has additionally managed to maintain her play at a superb stage. After being the highest Indian in her rookie season in 2024 at T-17 with 5 Prime-10s, she is thirty eighth this yr and proper behind her rookie Avani Prashanth, who has additionally given a superb account of herself in her first full season exterior India.
Different Indians on the LET have been Aditi Ashok, who performs totally on the LPGA however makes occasional appearances on LET and Tvesa Malik. Hitaashee Bakshi, Sneha Singh and Amandeep Drall have conditional standing with restricted begins accessible to them on the Tour.
The subsequent occasion for the Indian girls professionals would be the Dutch Girls Open, beginning Could 16, the place seven Indians will tee up because the Tour strikes to Europe.
-PTI
Zara Anand is high Indian after Day 1 at Queen Sirikit Cup
Zara Anand was the highest Indian at Tied-Twelfth after the primary spherical of the Queen Sirikit Cup on Tuesday.
Zara, one of the vital promising amateurs in India, shot 1-over 73 with three birdies towards 4 bogeys within the spherical. Two of these bogeys got here on the 14th and the 18th.
The opposite two Indians within the prestigious competitors are Heena Kang (76) at T-21 and Mannat Brar (77), who had an off day and was T-25.
Heena had two birdies, 4 bogeys and a double bogey, whereas Mannat had two birdies, 5 bogeys and a double bogey.
The Indians as a workforce have been mendacity Tied-seventh with the 2 high particular person scores giving them a complete of 5-over 149.
– PTI
SHOOTING
Dehradun to host nationwide choice trials 3 & 4 in Rifle/Pistol occasions subsequent month
The Nationwide Rifle Affiliation of India (NRAI) has introduced that the nationwide choice Trials 3 and 4 in Rifle and Pistol occasions for Group ‘A’ shooters, might be held from the twenty fourth to thirtieth of June, 2025, on the Trishul Taking pictures Vary, Maharana Pratap Sports activities Faculty, Raipur, Dehradun.
These trials will assist in shaping the Indian workforce for the sixteenth Asian Taking pictures Championships 2025 in Kazakhstan in August and ISSF World Cup in China and Egypt later within the yr.
As per the choice Standards, solely eligible shooters in Group “A” might be allowed to take part. The tials will cowl all Olympic Rifle and Pistol occasions and might be restricted to a choose group of top-ranked shooters.
This consists of 50 slots every for 10m Air Rifle (Males & Girls) and 10m Air Pistol (Males & Girls), 30 slots every for 50m Rifle 3 Positions (Males & Girls), 20 slots for 25m Fast Fireplace Pistol (Males), and 30 slots for 25m Sport Pistol (Girls).
Right here’s the schedule:
The primary day of the trials, on twenty fifth June will see the qualifying spherical and finals of 10 M Air Rifle Males, 25 M Pistol Girls an 50 M 3P Girls of T3 which might be adopted by the T4 qualifying and finals of the identical occasions the subsequent day.
The primary day of the trials, on twenty fifth June will see the qualifying spherical and finals of 10 M Air Rifle Males, 25 M Pistol Girls an 50 M 3P Girls of T3 which might be adopted by the T4 qualifying and finals of the identical occasions the subsequent day.
– Crew Sportstar
TENNIS
Bopanna-Pavlasek pair crashes out of Rome Masters
India’s Rohan Bopanna and his Czech associate Adam Pavlasek bowed out of the boys’s doubles occasion on the Rome Masters with a straight-set defeat towards the British workforce of Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski on Tuesday.
Bopanna and Pavlasek misplaced the pre-quarterfinal 3-6, 3-6 in a single hour and eight minutes.
With Bopanna’s defeat, India’s problem has ended within the elite clay-court event.
One other Indian within the fray, Yuki Bhambri had exited the ATP 1000 occasion with American associate Robert Galloway after shedding within the opening spherical 1-6, 2-6 to fourth seeds Marcel Granollers of Spain and Argentina’s Horacio Zeballos on Sunday.
-PTI
Om Patel beats Dev Nandasana in ITF Junior
Second seed Om Patel fought his well beyond Dev Nandasana 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 within the boys first spherical of the ITF junior tennis event on the Vijayant Khand Stadium courts on Tuesday.
The outcomes (first spherical):
Beneath-18 boys: Tanussh Ghildyal bt Om Verma 6-4, 7-5; Srikar Doni bt Rishi Yadav 6-1, 6-4; M Diganth bt Ayan Shetty 6-4, 6-2; Shivtej Shirfule bt Vivaan Bidasaria 6-2, 6-7(3), 6-4; Aaradhya Mhasde bt Tejas Ravi 6-0, 7-5; Om Patel bt Dev Nandasana 4-6, 6-1, 7-5.
Beneath-18 women: Saiyette Varadkar bt Dhatri Dave 6-4, 6-4; Angel Patel bt Miraya Agrawal 6-3, 6-3; Karthika Padmakumar bt Insiyah Mhowwala 6-0, 5-0 (retired); Sherry Sharma bt Manvi Rathi 6-2, 6-2; Ananya Jain bt Nandini Kansal 6-1, 6-2; Aaradhya Meena bt Sanmitha Lokesh 6-2, 6-4.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
Junior Billie Jean King Cup: Indian women beat Iran and Uzbekistan within the league section
Indian women beat Iran and Uzbekistan within the league section to make sure their qualification for the knock-out stage together with Australia from their group, within the Junior Billie Jean King Cup under-16 tennis event in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, on Tuesday.
India will play Australia within the final league match on Wednesday to resolve the group topper. In actual fact, all the opposite seeded groups, Japan, Chinese language Taipei, Korea, New Zealand, China and host Kazakhstan have additionally certified for the knock-out with two wins every from as many matches to date.
The highest 4 groups from the area will qualify for the World Group stage.
The outcomes (league):
India bt Iran 3-0 (Anandita Upadhyay bt Saba Kheyrmanesh 6-3, 6-2; Aahan bt Melina Abbaszadeh 6-0, 6-0; Parthsarthi Mundhe & Anandita bt Melina & Saba 6-1, 6-0).
India bt Uzbekistan 2-1 (Anandita Upadhyay bt Djeparova Veronika 6-1, 6-0; Aahan misplaced to Keira Kim 3-6, 6-3, 1-6; Aahan & Parthsarthi bt Emily Kim & Keira Kim 6-3, 3-6, [10-8]).
– Kamesh Srinivasan
CRICKET
Aryan Membership clinch Girls’s Membership League One-Day title
Aryan Membership defeated Mohun Bagan AC by 47 runs to emerge champion within the CAB Girls’s Membership Cricket League One-Day event on Tuesday.
Electing to bat after the match was diminished to 25 overs a facet, Aryan Membership posted 175/4 on the 22 Yards Sports activities Faculty Floor.
Tanushree Sarkar (76 off 50), Priyanka Bala (43 not out), Dyuti Paul (23) and Jhumia Khatun (18) impressed with the bat.
For Mohun Bagan, Diya Nandi bagged two wickets whereas Priti Mahata and Aradhya Kumari Tiwary claimed one wicket every.
Mohun Bagan have been dismissed for 128 in 25 overs. Ankita Chakraborty top-scored with 42 runs.
For Aryan Membership, Sritama Nandi (4/29), Jhumia (2/12) and Sinjini Sarkar (2/28) shared eight wickets.
-PTI