CHESS
Nikitenko joins Abhijeet in lead at Delhi GM Open with win over Paichadze
Grandmaster Mihail Nikitenko beat Grandmaster Luka Paichadze to affix Abhijeet Gupta within the lead with seven factors on the finish of the eighth spherical within the Delhi GM Open chess event on the Tivoli Gardens, Chhattarpur, on Thursday.
In an excellent battle, Nikitenko hooked a knight on the fifty fifth transfer and Paichadze promptly resigned.
In a single day sole chief Abhijeet drew with Manuel Petrosyan to achieve 6.5 factors, with two extra rounds to go within the Swiss League competitors.
Within the ninth spherical, Nikitenko will play black in opposition to Abhijeet. There have been 12 gamers with 6.5 factors and 16 gamers with six factors, which might result in a really energetic climax. On the second board, Mamikon Gharibyan will play prime seed SL Narayanan. Diptayan Ghosh will play Van Huy Nguyen.
The outcomes (eighth spherical):
Manuel Petrosyan 6.5 drew with Abhijeet Gupta 7; SL Narayanan 6.5 drew with Neelash Saha 6.5; Mihail NIkitenko 7 bt Luka Paichadze 6; Aronyak Ghosh 6.5 drew with Vitaly Sivuk 6.5; Diptayan Ghosh 6.5 bt Boris Savchenko 6; Aditya Samant 6.5 bt Saravana Krishnan 5.5; Mamikon Gharibyan 6.5 bt Abhishek Kelkar 5.5; Mikulas Manik 6 drew with Adarsh Sriram 6; Viresh Sharnarthi 6.5 bt Hari Madhavan 5.5; Amit Agrawal 5.5 misplaced to Aleksej Aleksandrov 6.5; EU Ahaz 5.5 misplaced to Van Huy Nguyen 6.5; Semetei Tegin 6 drew with Arnav Agrawal 6; S Nitin 6.5 bt Soham Roy 5.5; Alok Sinha 5 misplaced to Karthik Venkataraman 6; Deepan Chakkravarthy 6 bt Harshit Sahu 5; Alekhya Mukhopadhyay 5 misplaced to Harsh Suresh 6.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
TENNIS
Bopanna-Gille pair loses quarterfinals in Stuttgart
Rohan Bopanna in partnership with Saner Gille was overwhelmed 7-5, 6-4 within the doubles quarterfinals by Taylor Fritz and Jiri Lehecka within the €751,630 ATP tennis event in Stuttgart, Germany, on Thursday.
The Indo-Belgian pair collected 45 ATP factors and €6,930.
The outcomes:
€751,630 ATP, Stuttgart, Germany
Doubles (quarterfinals): Taylor Fritz (USA) & Jiri Lehecka (Cze) bt Rohan Bopanna & Sander Gille (Bel) 7-5, 6-4.
€181,250 Challenger, Ilkley, Britain
Doubels (quarterfinals): Hady Habib (Lbn) & Trey Hilderbrand (USA) bt Mikhail Kukushkin (Kaz) & Divij Sharan 5-7, 6-4, [10-8]; Diego Hidalgo (Eu) & Patrik Trhac (USA) bt Anirudh Chandrasekar & Ramkumar Ramanathan 7-5, 6-4; Pre-quarterfinals: Anirudh & Ramkumar bt Leandro Riedl (Sui) & Yosuke Watanuki (Jpn) 6-4, 6-4.
€145,250 Challenger, Lyon, France
Doubles (quarterfinals): Yu Hsiou Hsu (Tpe) & Kaichi Uchida (Jpn) bt Adil Kalyanpur & Parikshit Somani 6-2, 6-2; Pre-quarterfinals: Adil & Parikshit bt gEoff Blancaneaux & Jonathan Eysseric (Fra) 6-4, 7-5.
$30,000 ITF males, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Singles (first spherical): Aryan Shah bt William Hsieh (USA) 6-2, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF males, Nyiregyhaza, Hungary
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Neil Oberleitner (Aut) bt Rethin Pranav 6-2, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF males, Messina, Italy
Doubles (quarterfinals): Rocco Piatti (Mon) & Lorenzo Sciahbasi (Ita) bt Chinmaya Dev Chauhan & Alberto Morolli (Ita) 6-1, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF males, Vaasa, Finland
Singles (first spherical): Matthew Summers (GBR) bt Aryan Lakshmanan 6-1, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF males, Luan, China
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Siddharth Vishwakarma bt Yecong Mo (Chn) 6-3, 6-4; Takuya Kumasaka (Jpn) bt Sidharth Rawat 6-3, 6-2; S Mukund bt Yaojie Zeng (Chn) 6-3, 6-4.
Doubels (quarterfinals): Aoran Wang & Yukun Wang (Chn) bt Parth Aggarwal & Siddharth Vishwakarma 6-3, 6-3.
$40,000 ITF ladies, Guimaraes, Portugal
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Ankita Raina & Alice Robbe (Fra) bt Warona Mdlulwa & Wozuko Mdlulwa (RSA) 6-0, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Kayseri, Turkey
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Jasmine Conway (GBR) bt Tanisha Kashyap 6-3, 6-4.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Jasmine Conway (GBR) & Aysegul Mert (Tur) bt Tanisha Kashyap & Jamilah Snells (USA) 6-4, 2-6, [12-10].
$15,000 ITF ladies, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Zeel Desai bt Meriem Ezzedine (Tun) 6-1, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Akanksha Nitture bt Sandugash Kenzhibayeva (Kaz) 6-4, 6-2.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Punnin Kovapitukted (Tha) & Ksenia Laskutova bt Pooja Ingale & Jeong Moon (Kor) 6-2, 6-3; Akanksha Nitture & Soha Sadiq w.o. Varvara Panshina & Daria Shubina (Uzb).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
GOLF
Mannat Brar enters second spherical of matchplay at R&A Girls’s Novice
India’s Mannat Brar fired tremendous rounds of 73 and 71 to lie Tied-Sixteenth within the strokeplay phase of the distinguished 122nd Girls’s Novice Championship.
With the highest 64 of the 144 starters shifting into the matchplay phase, Mannat additionally made the grade.
Mannat, the All India newbie champion, is ranked 389th on the earth and lately teed up at professional occasions on the Girls European Tour’s Entry collection and in addition made the minimize in certainly one of them.
Final yr, she completed T-11 within the Hero Girls’s Indian Open, a Girls European Tour occasion. She was the highest Indian finisher regardless of being an newbie.
Mannat clashed with Uma Bergner of Germany and he or she trounced her 5&4 with 4 holes to spare to enter the final 16. She is going to meet Rebekah Gardner of Eire within the subsequent spherical. Rebekah had shot an analogous even par two spherical whole within the strokeplay phase.
Within the strokeplay, Mannat had 5 birdies, 4 bogeys and one double bogey within the first spherical, whereas on the second day she had 5 birdies and 4 bogeys.
Jasmine Koo (68-70) conjured a grandstand end at Nairn to prime the stroke play qualifying in The 122nd Girls’s Novice Championship.
– PTI
Diksha makes modest begin with even par spherical at Hulencourt
Diksha Dagar, one of many seven Indians on present on the Hulencourt Girls’s Open, started with a modest even par 72 within the first spherical of the occasion.
Diksha, who has been in tremendous kind this season and has been within the top-10 of the Girls European Tour’s Order of Benefit, had three birdies and three bogeys.
She began on the again 9 and bogeyed the 14th, however turned in one-under with birdies on the Sixteenth and the 18th.
A bogey on the second adopted by a birdie on the third meant she was nonetheless underneath par. A bogey on the seventh, which was her Sixteenth gap, noticed her end at even par.
– PTI