GOLF
Aditi lies seventh at midway mark in Evian Championship
Aditi Ashok stayed within the top-10 with a stable spherical of two-under 69 to be tied seventh at half manner mark at The Amundi Evian Championship at Aix-Les-Bains.
Aditi, who has by no means had a top-10 end in her earlier 34 Main begins, with rounds of 67-69 on the Par-71 Evian Resort Golf Membership now lies 4 pictures behind the chief, South Korea’s Somi Lee (67-65), who’s 10 below par.
Aditi began from the tenth and two birdies and one bogey on both aspect of the course. She birdied the eleventh, Seventeenth, second and the seventh and dropped pictures on the 14th and the sixth.
Aditi’s greatest exhibiting in a Main got here on the 2024 Evian, when she was Tied-Seventeenth. That is her nineteenth minimize in 35 Main begins, probably the most by any Indian golfer, male or feminine.
After 36 holes of motion at Evian Resort Golf Membership, 74 gamers made the minimize which fell at two-over par.
– PTI
SHOOTING
Neeru Dhanda finishes fourth
Neeru Dhanda was unfortunate to overlook a medal after a courageous effort in girls’s lure when she positioned fourth within the Shotgun World Cup in Lonato, Italy, on Saturday.
Neeru shot 115, and certified within the sixth place by beating Alessia Iezzi of Italy 2-1 within the shoot-off.
After 35 birds within the remaining, Neeru was tied within the second place with 30 together with the eventual silver and bronze medallists Silvana Stanco of Italy and Lada Denisova, however obtained eradicated owing to her sixth place in qualification. It was a really creditable effort in a robust discipline of 101 shooters.
Silvana had topped qualification and Denisova was fifth in qualification.
Preeti Rajak did effectively to shoot 25 within the fifth spherical and positioned eighth, lacking qualification by one level.
Within the males’s occasion, Zoravar Singh Sandhu shot 121, following 24 within the final spherical. With 5 shooters vying for the final two berths within the remaining with that rating, Zoravar misplaced early within the shoot-off.
Jaswinder Singh and Lakshay Sheoran shot an identical 116 and positioned 53rd and 59th respectively. Within the RPO part, Nationwide champion Shardul Vihan shot 116 and Yugan Muthukumaar 106.
The outcomes:
Lure: Ladies: 1. Laetisha Scanlan (Aus) 45 (120); 2. Silvana Stanco (Ita) 43 (121); 3. Lada Denisova (AIN) 34 (116); 4. Neeru Dhanda 30 (115); 8. Preeti Rajak 114; 76. Pragati Dubey 100; RPO: Aashima Ahlawat 114; Nilaa Rajaa Baalu 97.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
FUTSAL
AIFF Futsal Membership Championship to kick off on August 3 in Rudrapur
The AIFF Futsal Membership Championship can be held from August 3 to 18 on the Shri Manoj Sarkar Stadium in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand.
Seventeen golf equipment will compete for the trophy within the fourth version of the match.
The groups have been drawn into 4 teams — three with 4 groups and one with 5. The highest two groups from every group will qualify for the quarter-finals.
Uttarakhand aspect Corbett FC are the defending champions, having defeated Golazo FC 3-2 within the 2023-24 remaining in Vadodara.
They are going to goal to retain the title on house soil and turn out to be the primary membership to win the match greater than as soon as.
Delhi FC gained the inaugural version in 2021-22, adopted by Minerva Academy FC in 2022-23.
DRAW
Group A: Aphuyemi FC, Reallona FC, Triumph FC, Juggernaut FC, Minerva Academy FC
Group B: Bhawanipore FC, Thlangtiang Futsal Membership, Corbett FC, Golazo FC
Group C: Hazrat Nizamuddin Membership, Pondicherry United Soccer Academy, K3 Futsal Membership, Objective Hunterz FC
Group D: TOFA, Ambelim Sports activities Membership, Actual Malabar FC Kondotty, OGP Membership.
– PTI
TENNIS
Sumit Nagal loses semifinals in Italy
Qualifier Matej Dodig of Croatia stopped the high-quality run of Sumit Nagal with a 6-3, 6-4 victory within the semifinals of the €145,250 Challenger tennis match in Trieste, Italy, on Saturday.
Sumit had additionally made the minimize via the qualifying occasion and had crushed the highest seed Chun-Hsin Tseng of Chinese language Taipei within the third set tie-break of the primary spherical. Sumit collected 29 ATP factors, together with 4 for qualification, and €7,225.
The outcomes:
$200,000 WTA, Newport, USA Doubles (quarterfinals): Arianne Hartono (Ned) & Prarthana Thombare bt Petra Hule (Aus) & Gabriela Lee (Rou) 5-7, 6-3, [10-7].
$40,000 ITF girls, Corroios Seixal, Portugal Doubles (remaining): Eudice Chong (Hkg) & En Shuo Liang (Tpe) bt Riya Bhatia & Elena Micic (Aus) 6-1, 6-0; Semifinals: Chong & Liang bt Ankita Raina & Alice Robbe (Fra) 6-4, 5-7, [10-5]; Riya & Elena bt Sofia Costoulas (Bel) & Aline Korneeva 6-3, 7-6(2).
€145,250 Challenger, Trieste, Italy Singles (semifinals): Matej Dodig (Cro) bt Sumit Nagal 6-3, 6-4.
€145,250 Challenger, Iasi, Romania Doubles (semifinals): Cleeve Harper (Can) & Ryan Seggerman (USA) bt Siddhant Banthia & Alexander Donski (Bul) 3-6, 7-5, [10-8]; Szymon Kielan & Filip Pieczonka (Pol) bt Arjun Kadhe & Vijay Sundar Prashanth 2-6, 7-6(6), [10-7].
$200,000 Challenger, Newport, USA Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Niki Poonacha & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt Patric Maloney & Tyler Zink (USA) 7-5, 4-6, [10-7].
$30,000 ITF males, Dallas, USA Singles (quarterfinals): Dhakshineswar Suresh bt Leo Vithoontien (Jpn) 6-2, 6-3.
$30,000 ITF males, Bastia Lucciana, France Doubles (semifinals): Prajwal Dev & Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Adan Da Silva & Yanis Durand (Fra) 7-6(4), 6-1.
$15,000 ITF males, Hillcrest, South Africa Doubles (semifinals): Devin Badenhorst (RSA) & Luc Koenig (GBR) bt Aditya Balsekar & Daniil Sarksian (Arm) 6-2, 6-0.
$15,000 ITF males, Monastir, Tunisia Singles (semifinals): Karan Singh bt Joaquin Guilleme (NCA) 6-1, 6-3.
– Crew Sportstar
WRESTLING
Indian freestyle wrestlers win 5 medals on the Asian under-20 championships
Indian freestyle wrestlers gained 5 medals, together with two gold, on the Asian under-20 championships in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on Saturday. Ankush (57kg) and Amit (79kg) secured gold medals, whereas Ashwani (65kg) picked up a silver. Sourabh (70kg) and Vishal (97kg) managed bronze medals.
– Crew Sportstar