TENNIS
Bopanna stays solely Indian alive at ATP Boss Open; Bhambri, Balaji exit after shut defeats
Rohan Bopanna, in partnership with Sander Gille, beat Jakob Schnaitter and Mark Wallner 6-3, 5-7, [11-9] within the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the €751,630 ATP tennis match in Stuttgart, Germany, on Wednesday.
India’s primary doubles participant, Yuki Bhambri and his American accomplice, Robert Galloway, fought their hearts out earlier than dropping their opener.
In a match the place each units had been determined by tie-breakers, the Indo-American mixture misplaced 6-7(5) 6-7(5) to Santiago Gonzalez from Mexico and Austin Krajicek from the USA in a single hour and 34 minutes.
Balaji and his Mexican accomplice, Miguel Reyes-Varela, fought tooth and nail earlier than dropping 7-6(5), 3-6, 5-10 to the second-seeded French pair of Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul.
Within the $15,000 ITF males’s occasion in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, Rethin Pranav progressed to the second spherical in each singles and doubles.
(inputs from PTI)
-Group Sportstar
RESULTS
€751,630 ATP, Stuttgart, Germany Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Rohan Bopanna & Sander Gille (Bel) bt Jakob Schnaitter & Mark Wallner (Ger) 6-3, 5-7, [11-9]; Sadio Doumbia & Fabien Reboul (Fra) bt Sriram Balaji & Miguel Reyes-Varela (Mex) 6-7(5), 6-3, [10-5].
€706,850 ATP, ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Matthew Ebden & Jordan Thompson (Aus) bt Nicolas Barrientos (Col) & Rithvik Bollipalli 7-6(4), 6-3.
€181,250 Challenger, Ilkley, Britain Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Niki Poonacha & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt Blake Bayldon (Aus) & Reese Stalder (USA) 6-2, 6-4; Mikhail Kukushkin (Kaz) & Divij Sharan bt Nohannus Monday & David Stevenson (GBR) 6-3, 5-7, [10-8].
$30,000 ITF males, Villeneuve-Loubet, France Singles (first spherical): Kenny De Scheper (Fra) bt Manas Dhamne 7-5, 6-4.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Yanael Beranger (Fra) & Bercel Takacs (Hun) w.o. Manas Dhamne & Kasra Rahmani (Iri).
$15,000 ITF males, Nyiregyhaza, Hungary Singles (first spherical): Rethin Pranav bt Gabriele Noce (Ita) 6-2, 5-7, 7-6(9).
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Rethin Pranav & Milan Zavaczki (Hun) bt Kmel Halmos & Botond Kisantal (Hun) 2-6, 6-4, [10-7].
$15,000 ITF males, Kayseri, Turkey Singles (first spherical): Alp Hroz (Tur) bt Hitesh Chauhan 6-2, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF males, Messina, Italy Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Chinmaya Dev Chauhan & Alberto Morolli (Ita) bt Vito Dell-Elba & Fabio Varsalona (Ita) 6-3, 3-6, [10-8].
$15,000 ITF males, Luan, China Singles (first spherical): Siddharth Vishwakarma bt Chen Dong (Aus) 6-2, 6-1; Sidharth Rawat bt Hanyi Liu (Chn) 6-2, 6-4; S Mukund bt Yuquan Jin (Chn) 6-1, 6-4.
$100,000 ITF ladies, Biarritz, France Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Julie Belgraver & Tiantosoa Rajaonah (Fra) bt Valentini Grammatikopoulou (Gre) & Prarthana Thombare 6-2, 7-6(5).
$40,000 ITF ladies, Guimares, Portugal Singles (first spherical): Weronika Ewald (Pol) bt Ankita Raina 7-6(7), 4-6, 6-2.
$30,000 ITF ladies, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Singles (first spherical): Romina Ccuno (Per) bt Saumya Vig 4-6, 6-4, 6-3.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Hiroko Kuwata (Jpn) & Sahaja Yamalapalli bt Luiza Fullana (Bra) & Fernanda Labrana (Chi) 6-0, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Kayseri, Turkey Singles (first spherical): Tanisha Kashyap bt Elena Grekul (Ukr) 6-4, 7-6(5).
$15,000 ITF ladies, Monastir, Tunisia Singles (first spherical): Zeel Desai bt Noemi La Cagnina (Ita) 6-2, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Tashkent, Uzbekistan Singles (first spherical): Akanksha Nitture bt Nigina Alimova (Uzb) 7-5, 1-6, 6-3; Uladzislava Zverava bt Pooja Ingale 6-2, 6-2; Ksenia Laskutova bt Soha Sadiq 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-3.
-PTI
BADMINTON
Machaxi Raises $1.5M from Prakash Padukone, Rainmatter and Others to Increase AI-Primarily based Grassroots Badminton Coaching
Machaxi, a sports-tech firm targeted on grassroots teaching and digital sports activities infrastructure, has raised $1.5 million in a spherical led by Rainmatter, the funding initiative of Zerodha. The spherical additionally noticed participation from Indian badminton legend Prakash Padukone and current traders.
The funding will assist Machaxi scale its operations past Bengaluru into three new cities-Hyderabad, Pune, and Chennai—whereas additionally constructing a nationwide framework for AI-powered badminton teaching.
As a part of the enlargement, Machaxi is collaborating with the Padukone Faculty of Badminton to launch the “Machaxi x Padukone Faculty of Badminton” program. The initiative goals to ascertain over 1,000 teaching centres throughout India throughout the subsequent 4 years.
Prakash Padukone, Ace Indian Badminton participant, mentioned: “I’ve all the time believed that the way forward for Indian badminton lies in structured grassroots growth. Machaxi’s imaginative and prescient to scale teaching whereas sustaining high quality by AI is forward-thinking and impactful. I’m thrilled to accomplice with them in shaping the following technology of champions.”
CHESS
Abhijeet takes sole lead at Delhi GM Open with win over Gharibyan
Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta jumped into the only lead with 6.5 factors as he beat Grandmaster Mamikon Gharibyan within the seventh spherical of the Delhi GM Open chess match on the Tivoli Gardens, Chhattarpur, on Wednesday.
Following the Queen’s Gambit declined opening, Mamikon blundered a knight with an injudicious rook transfer on the forty first flip, and Abhijeet dealt with the benefit with scientific effectivity to drag by in 71 strikes.
The one half level that Abhijeet had dropped was with a draw in opposition to the highest seed SL Narayanan.
With three extra rounds to be performed within the 10-round Swiss league, there have been eight gamers, together with Narayanan, respiratory down the neck of Abhijeet. And that bunch included Worldwide Masters Neelash Saha and Aronyak Ghosh.
Within the eighth spherical, Abhijeet will play Grandmaster Manuel Petrosyan, whereas Narayanan will play Neelash. Mihail Nikitenko, Luka Paichadze, Vitaly Sivuk and Boris Savchenko had been the others with six factors.
There have been 17 gamers with 5.5 factors and with pretty much as good an opportunity as the highest gamers to alter the equations over the following three days, as competitors heads to the climax.
The outcomes (seventh spherical): Boris Savchenko 6 drew with SL Narayanan 6; Luka Paichadze 6 drew with Manuel Petrosyan 6; Abhijeet Gupta 6.5 bt Mamikon Gharibyan 5.5; Diptayan Ghosh 5.5 drew with Aleksej Aleksandrov 5.5; Vitaly sivuk 6 bt Alekhya Mukhpadhyay 5; Mihail Nikitenko 6 bt Alexei Fedorov 5; Duc Hoa Nguyen 5 misplaced to Aronyak Ghosh 6; Aditya Samant 5.5 drew with Semetei Tegin 5.5; Adak Bivor 5 misplaced to Neelash Saha 6; Viresh Sharnarthi 5.5 bt Levan Pantsulaia 4.5; KarthikVenkataraman 5 drew with Aarav Sinha 5; Adarsh Sriram 5.5 bt Manas Gaikwad 4.5; Tornike Sanikidze 4.5 misplaced to Amit Agrawal 5.5; Alok Sinha 5 drew with Deepan Chakkravarthy; Arsen Davtyan 4.5 misplaced to EU Ahaz 5.5; Harsh Suresh 5 drew with Dinesh Sharma 5.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
RUGBY
Tim Walsh backs Rugby Premier League to form India’s Olympic dream
Tim Walsh, head coach of the Mumbai Dreamers, expressed robust perception within the transformative energy of the GMR Rugby Premier League (RPL). The previous Australian player-turned-head coach, who led the Australian ladies’s rugby sevens workforce to a gold medal on the Rio Olympics in 2016, is assured that the match’s construction, professionalism, and potential will propel Indian rugby in direction of larger heights.
The GMR RPL is the primary of its type franchise match for Rugby Sevens’.
When requested concerning the Indian expertise in his squad, Walsh highlighted how effectively they’ve tailored to the workforce setting. “The Indian boys have fitted in terribly effectively. They’ve acquired some critical talent and expertise. Now, it’s our job now to unlock it,” he mentioned.
The Australian additionally underlined GMR RPL’s long-term worth for India’s Olympic ambitions, stating, “Hopefully the affect is exponential. The match has visionary leaders and backing from superb sponsors. All the pieces takes time, however with funding and professionalism, India has each likelihood to succeed in the Olympics.”
-Group Sportstar
BASKETBALL
Below-23 nationwide 3×3 basketball championship set to start on Could 12
The primary under-23 Nationwide 3×3 basketball championships is about to start on the Rajiv Gandhi indoor stadium in Kadavanthra, Kochi on Thursday.
Twenty-eight groups within the males’s part and 23 in ladies’s will likely be in motion within the three-day league-cum-knockout occasion organised by the Beginning 5 Sports activities Administration agency below the auspices of the Kerala Basketball Affiliation and the nationwide affiliation BFI.
A complete of 56 matches will likely be performed on the opening day, beginning at 8 a.m.
Groupings:
Males: Gr. A: Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Telangana. Gr. B: Punjab, Pondicherry, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh. Gr. C: Odisha, Tamil Nadu, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, J&Ok. Gr. D: Goa, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Mizoram. Gr. E: Bihar, Chandigarh, Assam, Chhattisgarh. Gr. F: Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Nagaland.
Ladies: Gr A: Goa, Punjab, Kerala. Gr. B: Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh. Gr. C: Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Assam. Gr. D: Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, West Bengal, Gujarat. Gr. E: Pondicherry, Jharkhand, Telangana, Delhi. Gr. F: Haryana, Bihar, J&Ok, Karnataka.
-Stan Rayan