SHOOTING
Ganemat reclaims girls’s skeet prime spot after shining in third nationwide trials
Punjab’s Ganemat Sekhon reclaimed the ladies’s skeet prime spot in Indian rankings after the nationwide choice trials (T3) for the shotgun shooters, courtesy her prime rating of 116 in qualification on the M.P. State Academy Taking pictures ranges right here.
State-mate Abhay Singh Sekhon additionally climbed atop the boys’s skeet rankings along with his main qualification rating of 120 within the males’s T3 competitors.
Each athletes, nonetheless, completed an equivalent fourth within the finals, with Ganemat bowing out on the 40-shot mark of the 60-shot decider with 32 hits to her title. Abhay had 35 photographs.
Olympian Anantjeet Singh Naruka gained the boys’s occasion with an outstanding 58 within the last, leaving gifted Punjab teen Bhavtegh Gill (Q 119) manner behind in 53 for silver.
Fellow Olympian and joint world report holder Angad Bajwa was third with 45 hits on the 50-shot mark.
The ladies’s title was clinched by Rajasthan’s Darshna Rathore who shot 50 to depart two Olympians in her wake. Raiza Dhillon gained silver with 48 hits and settling for bronze was Maheshwari Chauhan with 40.
The entice T3 trials observe from Friday on the similar venue. The shotgun shooters are presently making ready for the fourth ISSF World Cup stage scheduled for Lonato, Italy, subsequent month.
– PTI
ARCHERY
Indian recurve groups lose bronze medal matches at World Cup Stage-3
Indian recurve males’s group and compound girls’s group missed out on podium finishes after shedding their respective bronze medal matches on the Archery World Cup Stage-3 in Antalya on Thursday.
The outcomes:
Crew:
Recurve: Males: India (B. Dhiraj, Atanu Das, Parth Salunkhe) acquired a bye (first spherical), bt Uzbekistan 6-0 (second spherical), bt Kazakhstan 6-2 (quarterfinal), misplaced to Korea 6-0 (semifinal), misplaced to France 5-1 (bronze medal match); Girls: India (Ankita Bhakat, Deepika Kumari, Simranjeet Kaur) acquired a bye (first spherical), bt Ukraine 6-2 (second spherical), misplaced to USA 5-1 (quarterfinal).
Compound: Males: India (Rishabh Yadav, Abhishek Verma, Ojas Deotale) misplaced to Chinese language Taipei 242-241 (first spherical); Girls: India (Madhura Dhamangaonkar, Chikitha Taniparthi, V. Jyothi Surekha) acquired a bye (first spherical), bt Nice Britain 240-236 (quarterfinal), misplaced to Korea 242-234 (semifinal), misplaced to USA 239-238 (bronze medal match).
– YB Sarangi
CRICKET
T20 Mumbai League: Siddharth Raut units up SoBo Mumbai Falcons’ resounding win
Shreyas Iyer took cost of the SoBo Mumbai Falcons after ending a profitable Indian Premier League. However the remainder of his teammates – led by Siddharth Raut’s new-ball exploits – ensured Shreyas wasn’t even required to bat because the Falcons registered their second consecutive victory within the T20 Mumbai league’s third version.
Raut’s sensational spell of 4/14 in his 4 overs meant that the Falcons restricted Prithvi Shaw-led North Mumbai Falcons to 132 for eight on the Dr. D.Y. Patil Sports activities Stadium on Thursday night.
And a dominant unbroken partnership of 130 runs off simply 64 balls between opener Ishan Mulchandani and promising Harsh Aghav helped the Falcons romp house with 9 wickets and a whopping 49 balls to spare.
The facile win catapulted the Falcons to the highest of the factors desk, with the massive margin of victory giving them a fillip when it comes to the Internet Run Charge.
Transient scores
North Mumbai Panthers 132/8 in 20 overs (Gaurav Jathar 34, Sourabh Singh 28*; Siddharth Raut 4/14, Nikhil Giri 2/35) misplaced to SoBo Mumbai Falcons 135/1 in 11.5 overs (Harsh Aghav 64*, Ishan Mulchandani 61*).
– Crew Sportstar
TENNIS
Shrivalli beats prime seed
Shrivalli Bhamidipaty beat prime seed Hanna Chang of USA 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 within the first spherical of the $60,000 ITF girls’s tennis event in Sumter, USA.
Shrivalli, who had earlier knocked out the second seeds in doubles in partnership with Katherine Sebov of Canada, was scheduled to play Julia Fliegner of USA within the pre-quarterfinals.
The outcomes:
€145,250 Challenger, Heilbronn, Germany
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Rodrigo Mendez (Mex) bt Sumit Nagal 7-5, 6-7(2), 6-0.
€181,250 Challenger, Birmingham, Britain
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Brnadon Holt (USA) & Tristan Schoolkate (Aus) bt Sergio Gornes (Esp) & Vijay Sundar Prashanth 7-6(15), 6-4.
€145,250 Challenger, Prostejov, Czech Republic
Doubles (quarterfinals): Daniel Cukierman (Isr) & Piotr Matuszewski (Pol) bt Anirudh Chandrasekar & Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-7(4), 7-5, [10-2]; Pre-quarterfinals: Alexander Merino (Per) & Christoph Negritu (Ger) bt Sriram Balaji & Miguel Reyes-Varela (Mex) 6-4, 2-6, [10-8].
$100,000 Challenger, Tyler, USA
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Hans Verdugo (Mex) & Joshua Sheehy (USA) bt Niki Poonacha & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 7-6(1), 4-6, [12-10].
$15,000 ITF males, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Fares Zakaria (Egy) bt Arjun Rathi 6-4, 6-3.
$60,000 ITF girls, Sumter, USA
Singles (first spherical): Shrivalli Bhamidipaty bt Hanna Chang (USA) 3-6, 6-3, 6-3.
$60,000 ITF girls, Caserta, Italy
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Ariana Geerlings (Esp) & Wakana Sonobe (Jpn) bt Prarthana Thombare & Anita Wagner (BIH) 6-1, 6-4.
$40,000 ITF girls, Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Iveta Dapkute (Ltu) bt Ankita Raina 1-6, 6-2, 7-5.
$30,000 ITF girls, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Singles (second spherical): Rachel Gailis (USA) bt Sahaja Yamalapalli 7-6(9), 6-2.
$15,000 ITF girls, Kayseri, Turkey
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Jasmine Conway (GBR) bt Tanisha Kashyap 4-6, 6-0, 7-6(5).
Doubles (quarterfinals): Jasmine Conway (GBR) & Meshkatolzahra Safi (Iri) bt Tanisha Kashyap & Adelina Lachinova (Lat) 6-4, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF girls, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Akanksha Nitture bt Soha Sadiq 4-6, 6-2, 6-1; Vaishnavi Adkar bt Nigina Abduraimova (Uzb) 6-2, 6-4.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Vaishnavi Adkar & Punnin Kovapitukted (Tha) bt Ingkar Dyussebay & Anastasiya Krymkova (Kaz) 6-2, 6-2.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
TABLE TENNIS
Kolkata ThunderBlades beats Dempo Goa Challengers in UTT Juniors
Ritvik Gupta and Swara Karmarkar guided Kolkata ThunderBlades to a 5-4 victory over Dempo Goa Challengers within the league stage of the Dream UTT Juniors desk tennis event on the EKA Area on Thursday.
The Kolkata group accomplished its league engagements with 26 factors, whereas Dempo Goa Challengers wound up with 27 factors. Each the groups ought to be making the semifinals, together with U Mumba and Jaipur Patriots who’ve 23 factors every to date, and have yet one more league match to play.
The outcomes (league):
PBG Pune Jaguars bt Dabang Delhi TTC 7-2 (Atharva Nawarange bt Akkash Rajavelu 11-7, 11-3, 11-5; Atharva & Tushti Sood bt Akash & Dhaani Jain 11-8, 10-11, 11-9; Tushtii bt Dhaani 11-7, 11-8, 6-11).
Kolkata ThunderBlades bt Dempo Goa Challengers 5-4 (Ritvik Gupta bt Sahil Rawat 11-3, 11-10, 3-11; Ritvik & Swara Karmarkar misplaced to Sahil & Aarya Redkar 10-11, 11-9, 10-11; Swara bt Aarya 11-5, 11-7, September 11).
– Kamesh Srinivasan
CHESS
Delhi GM Open gives prize purse of Rs 1.21 crore
The twenty first Delhi Worldwide Open Grandmasters Chess Event will likely be held from June 7-14 with participation of over 2,500 gamers from greater than 15 international locations and a prize purse of Rs 1.21 crore.
Organised by the Delhi Chess Affiliation (DCA), the event will characteristic 20 Grandmasters in motion throughout three rating-based sections.
Held below the aegis of the All India Chess Federation (AICF), the Delhi GM Open is Asia’s largest classical-format chess occasion.
Bharat Singh Chauhan, President, DCA, stated: “For 20 years, the Delhi GM Open has helped construct the inspiration of Indian chess. That is the place younger expertise will get examined, the place norms are earned, and the place future Grandmasters minimize their tooth.” This 12 months’s prize pool displays a big improve over final 12 months, with Rs 51 lakh allotted for Class A (open to rated gamers), and Rs 35 lakh every for Classes B and C (U-1900 and U-1700, respectively).
All classes will observe the FIDE Swiss System with 10 rounds per part.
– PTI
MOTORSPORT
Nation’s prime riders and groups congregate this weekend on the Madras Worldwide Circuit for an adrenaline-filled weekend of racing which is able to launch the primary spherical of the MRF MMSC FMSCI Indian Nationwide Motorbike Racing Championship 2025. The three-day occasion, commencing on Friday, will see 19 races with over 154 entries throughout all classes within the fray.
Within the Nationwide Championship, a lot of the main target will likely be on a pair of Petronas TVS Racing riders, Nationwide champion Sarthak Chavan (Pune) and his arch-rival Chiranth Vishwanath (Bengaluru), within the Professional-Inventory 301-400cc class.
By the way, Sarthak gained 9 of the ten races final season whereas Chiranth topped the opposite. They are going to resume their rivalry this weekend after having gained wealthy expertise from taking part and scoring podium finishes within the Asia Street Racing Championship.
– Crew Sportstar
GOLF
Novice Saanvi joins Vani in shared lead at eighth Leg of Hero WPGT
Native beginner Saanvi Somu, who has completed runner-up a number of occasions, put herself in joint pole place as soon as once more with a second straight one-under 69 within the eighth Leg of the Hero Girls’s Skilled Golf Tour on the Bangalore Golf Membership on Thursday.
Saanvi, who was runner-up within the opening leg this season at Golmuri in Jamshedpur, shares the lead with Vani Kapoor (67-71) at two-under 138 for 36 holes.
Gaurika Bishnoi, taking part in solely her fourth occasion this season, is sole third as she shot one-under 69 after a primary spherical par 70. She is one-under 139. Gaurika’s final win got here within the seventh leg of the 2024 season at Mysuru and he or she was runner-up within the fifth and sixth legs.
One other beginner Zara Anand (69-72) was tied fourth with Durga Nittur (68- 73) at 1-over 141, whereas Jasmine Shekar (73-69) and Seher Atwal (72-70) had been tied sixth at 2-over 142.
Three gamers Vidhatri Urs (73-70), Rhea Purvi (73-70) and Ananya Garg (70-73) had been tied eighth at 3-over 143, whereas three gamers Neha Tripathi (76-68), Khushi Khanijau (72-72) and Anvitha Narender (70-74) had been tied eleventh.
Final week’s winner Amandeep Drall (75-70) was Tied 14th with Agrima Manral and Disha Kavery.
The minimize fell at 10-over 150 and 26 gamers made the minimize.
– PTI