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Rookie Avani positioned second at Hulencourt Girls’s Open
Avani Prashanth produced a wonderful spherical of 3-under 69 to observe up on her opening 4-under 68 to remain in second place on the Hulencourt Girls’s Open golf on the Girls European Tour.
The 18-year-old from Bengaluru now sits at seven below par, only one stroke behind the chief, Germany’s Helen Briem (68-68). The opposite Indians within the area to make the reduce have been Diksha Dagar (72-73) in T-Thirty eighth place and Tvesa Malik (76-70) in T-Fiftieth place.
The opposite Indians who took half have been Vani Kapoor (76-73), Sneha Singh (74-75), Amandeep Drall (74-76) and Hitaashee Bakshi (79-74), and all of them missed the reduce. Avani started her second spherical on the again 9 with a birdie on the tenth and picked up a second shot on the thirteenth gap. She then had a run of eight pars until the third of the entrance 9.
On the entrance 9 Avani dropped her first shot of the day on the fourth gap earlier than making birdie on the fifth, dropped one other shot on the sixth solely to tug it again with a birdie on the seventh gap. She closed her spherical with a birdie on the ninth gap for a 69.
Talwar makes reduce in Czech Republic
Indian golfer Saptak Talwar made the reduce on the Raiffeisenbank Golf Problem with a second-round rating of 1-under 70 at Golf Resort Kaskáda, retaining his marketing campaign alive for the weekend.
With rounds of 72 and 70, the 26-year-old sits at even-par 142 and is tied for sixtieth place. Talwar started the day on the entrance 9 with a birdie on his first gap.
He picked up one other shot on the fifth solely to drop one on the sixth earlier than closing the entrance 9 with a birdie. On the again 9 he made birdie on the eleventh gap and adopted that with a bogey on the twelfth.
He made his last birdie of the spherical on the fifteenth gap however misplaced pictures on the sixteenth and 18th holes to finish the day with 70. His mixed 36 spherical rating sits at even par with scores of 72 and 70.
The second day ended with a four-way tie for the lead between Spain’s Sebastian Garcia (65-67), England’s Joshua Berry (68-64), Welshman Stuart Manley (66-66) American Palmer Jackson (65-67). The leaders all have a 36-hole mixed rating of 10-under par.
Mannat loses narrowly after creating historical past by reaching pre-quarterfinals in Girls’s Beginner
Mannat Brar produced a fantastic efficiency on the 122nd Girls’s Beginner Championship earlier than shedding a slim match within the pre-quarter finals, the all-time effort by an Indian.
Mannat, who was third on the R&A Ladies a yr in the past, was sixteenth within the stroke-play competitors after which gained two matches to succeed in the final 16.
She beat Germany’s Uma Bergner 5 & 4 within the Spherical of 64 on the primary day of matchplay. Mannat went 5 up with 4 holes left to wrap up the match.
The subsequent day, Mannat performed two matches. First the Indian teenager got here from approach behind to beat Eire’s Rebekah Gardner on the twenty first gap.
Mannat staged an incredible comeback as she was 3-down with three holes to go. She gained the following three to get into further holes.
Each gamers parred the primary further gap and bogeyed it the following time. On the third try Mannat parred and Rebekah bogeyed, handing the match to the Indian.
Within the Spherical of 16, Mannat was once more trailing by three holes after 10 holes in opposition to Spain’s Paula Francisco.
Mannat gained the eleventh with a birdie, the thirteenth with a par and the fifteenth with a birdie to get to all sq..
The duo parred the sixteenth and the seventeenth to remain stage. Then Mannat misplaced narrowly on the 18th and exited.
Because of her overcome Brar, Francisco has arrange an all-Spanish quarter-final showdown in opposition to Paula Martin Sampedro. Francisco and Martin Sampedro each earned their last-eight locations the exhausting approach as they have been pushed the total distance.
The winner of this yr’s championship beneficial properties entry to the AIG Girls’s Open, Amundi Evian Championship, the US Girls’s Open, the Chevron Championship and, by custom, will earn an invite to compete on the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner.
-PTI
CHESS
Delhi GM Open 2025: Abhijeet Gupta wins fourth title
Indian Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta emerged because the undisputed champion of the twenty first Delhi Worldwide Open Grandmasters Chess Match (Delhi GM Open) 2025, scoring 8.5 factors out of 10 to clinch a report fourth title at Asia’s most prestigious open chess occasion.
Gupta, 36, delivered a flawless marketing campaign, remaining unbeaten throughout 10 rounds. His decisive Spherical 9 victory over Belarusian GM Mihail Nikitenko gave him the sting, and a final-round draw in opposition to IM Aronyak Ghosh secured the title outright within the match, which had a report prize pool of Rs. 1.21 crore.
Nikitenko (2520, Belarus) completed second with 8 factors, edging Indian GM Diptayan Ghosh (2573) on tiebreaks. Ghosh claimed third place, having impressed with sharp play and a key final-round win over GM Karthik Venkataraman. Regardless of additionally ending on 8 factors, IM Aronyak Ghosh and GM Aditya S Samant settled for fourth and fifth respectively on tiebreaks.
In the meantime, Class C—hosted at Tivoli Gardens, Chattarpur—featured 1,250 gamers and a complete prize pool of Rs. 35 lakhs. The winner of the part was Dinesh Kumar H from Tamil Nadu, who took house the Rs. 4,00,000 prime prize. He was adopted by Naitik Sethi (Rs. 3,00,000) and Sibi M (Rs. 2,00,000) in second and third place respectively.
– Group Sportstar