SQUASH
Anahat enters pre-quarters
India’s teen prodigy Anahat Singh entered the pre-quarterfinals on the World Junior Championships on Tuesday in Cairo after beating France’s Ines Guyot 3-0.
She’s going to meet Brazil’s Laura Souza Bezerra Da Silva on Wednesday for a spot within the quarterfinals.
Within the boys’ class, Arihant Okay S, Yusha Nafees, and Aryaveer Dewan entered the Spherical of 32, which might be performed later at present.
– Staff Sportstar
GOLF
Vani seeks extra success in tenth leg as Jasmine eyes one other win in Hero WPGT
Vani Kapoor, a four-time champion on the Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour this season, and final week’s winner Jasmine Shekar have been drawn collectively for the primary spherical of the tenth leg on the Zion Hills Golf County.
They’ll have the proficient Vidhatri Urs because the third participant within the group.
Thirty seven gamers, together with seven amateurs, will tee off within the occasion that carries a prize purse of Rs 16 lakh.
Different main skilled gamers within the subject are Ridhima Dilawari, Seher Atwal, Sneha Singh, Amandeep Drall and Neha Tripathi, who was runner-up to Jasmine within the final leg.
Vani leads the Order of Advantage with Amandeep Drall, Sneha Singh and Jasmine Shekar trailing behind her in that order.
– PTI
FOOTBALL
Iker Guarrotxena extends contract with FC Goa
FC Goa on Monday introduced that Spanish ahead Iker Guarrotxena has prolonged his contract with the Membership by a 12 months, preserving him with the Gaurs till the top of the 2025-26 season.
With 14 aim involvements for the membership final season, the very best for the membership. He first joined the membership within the 2022-23 and scored 13 objectives in his debut season.
His consistency on the pitch makes him a dependable presence for the workforce, having been referred to as “a whole participant, who’s each decisive and harmful” by Head Coach Manolo Marquez. The 2025-26 season might be his third for the membership.
ARCHERY
Parneet tops rankings
World championships workforce gold medal-winning archer Parneet Kaur topped the compound ladies’s particular person rankings within the qualification spherical on the World College Video games in Essen, Germany, on Tuesday.
Parneet, who scored 701 factors, was one of many two archers to attain greater than 700.
Madhura Dhamangaonkar was sixth with 687 factors, whereas Avneet Kaur was 22 nd with 673.
Within the recurve males’s division, Aryan Rana collected 640 factors to be at twenty ninth spot. Vishnu Chaudhary (627) and Mrinal Chauhan (622) managed forty second and forty seventh locations respectively.
– YB Sarangi
TENNIS
Sumit Nagal beats Jay Clarke Tampere Challenger Open first spherical
Alternate entrant Sumit Nagal beat high seed Jay Clarke of Britain 7-6(4), 6-1 within the first spherical of the €91,250 Challenger tennis event in Tampere, Finland.
Within the €596,035 ATP occasion on clay in Kitzbuhel, Austria, Sriram Balaji and Rithvik Bollipalli progressed into the quarterfinals with out taking part in a match. The primary spherical opponents of the Indian pair, the highest seeds Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz of Germany, withdrew with an damage.
The outcomes:
€91,250 Challenger, Tampere, Finland
Singles (first spherical): Sumit Nagal bt Jay Clarke (GBR) 7-6(4), 6-1.
€91,250 Challenger, Segovia, Spain
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Clement Chidekh (Fra) & Roy Stepanov (Isr) bt Robin Bertrand (Fra) & Adil Kalyanpur 6-4, 6-3.
$30,000 ITF ladies, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (first spherical): Vaidehee Chaudhari bt Julia Adams (USA) 6-4, 6-2.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Maaya Rajeshwaran, Rethin win greatest participant awards in TNTA annual day operate
Rethin Pranav and Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi had been the winners of the T.Okay. Ramanathan award for the very best participant of the 2024-25 season (₹30,000 every) within the Tamil Nadu Tennis Affiliation (TNTA) annual day operate on the Madras Cricket Membership (MCC) in Chennai on Tuesday.
Talking on the occasion, TNTA president Vijay Amritraj mentioned that there was vital curiosity among the many gamers to take part within the second version of the Chennai Open, a WTA 250 occasion, set to happen from Oct. 27 to Nov. 2.
“I believe will probably be an excellent (participant) subject as a result of the earlier week is in Tokyo in Japan (Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis – WTA 500). So, they are going to be on their means right here. There are two different tournaments (Jiangxi Open, Prudential Hong Kong Tennis Open) as properly in China on the similar time (because the Chennai Open). However once more, there was a variety of curiosity (among the many gamers) in coming to our personal metropolis,” he mentioned.
He added that there’s a plan to arrange video screens (for streaming the Chennai Open matches) throughout town to reinforce public engagement.
“We hope to have LED video screens throughout town, so that folks can really sit on the Marina Seashore or in T. Nagar or wherever and have snacks and watch the matches, which I believe might be an amazing enhance for our sport and create much more curiosity within the State,” he mentioned.
The award-winners
T.Okay. Ramanathan award (Greatest participant of the 2024-25 season): Rethin Pranav, Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi.
President award for probably the most promising teenager: Ishaan Sudharshan, Hemdev Mahesh, Deepthi Venkatesan, Diya Ravikumar Janaki
Justice P.S. Kailasam Memorial award for efficiency in junior Nationals: Boys: Singles: u-18: Winner: Kandhavel Mahalingam; Runner-up: Varun Verma.
Doubles: u-12: Runner-up: Ronnie Vijay Kumar
Ladies: Singles: u-18: Winner: Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi; Runner-up: Diya Ramesh.
Doubles: u-14: Runners-up: Deepshika Vinayagamurthy and A.S.R. Bawyasri; u-16: Runners-up: Sanmitha Harini Lokesh and Savitha Bhuvaneswaran; u-18: Doubles: Winner: Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi.
Efficiency in Nationwide c’ships: Males: Singles: Winner: Rethin Pranav.
Girls: Singles: Runner-up: Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi; Doubles: Runner-up: Sai Samhitha Chamarthi.
Efficiency in Nationwide Video games (Dehradun): Males: Manish Suresh Kumar (singles and doubles bronze, workforce gold); V.M. Ranjeet (workforce gold); Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam (doubles bronze, workforce gold); Lohith Aksha Bathrinath (combined doubles and workforce gold); Okay.S. Dheeraj (workforce gold)
Girls: Lakshmiprabha Arunkumar (combined doubles gold, workforce bronze); Janani Ramesh (workforce bronze); Mirudhula Palanivel (workforce bronze); Diya Ramesh (workforce bronze)
Efficiency in Deaf & Exhausting Listening to c’ship: Males: Prithvi Shekar (Australian Open singles champion and doubles runner-up).
Efficiency in Wheelchair Tennis Nationals: Karthik Karunakaran (singles winner, doubles runner-up); Mariappan Durai (doubles runner-up); Balachandar Subramanian (doubles winner).
Representing India: Davis Cup / Fed Cup / u-12, u-14, u-16 / Wheelchair: Ramkumar Ramanthan, Sriram Balaji; BNP Paribas World Cup Asia Qualifying: Karthik Karunakaran, Mariappan Durai, Okay. Sathasivam; Billie Jean King Cup u-14 & u-16: Diya Ramesh (Junior Billie Jean King Cup Asia Oceania Ultimate Qualifying, Kazakhstan).
Muthukrishnan Memorial award for many promising and performing participant (Boy): Varun Verma.
Nagamani Mahadevan award for many promising and performing participant (Woman): Diya Ramesh.
thirty second Sanmar TNTA Chennai Metropolis membership tennis league: Veterans (60+): Winner: MGC; Runner-up: Cosmopolitan Membership-A;
45+: Zone-A: Winner: MCC-A; Runner-up: Besant Nagar Membership-B; Zone-B: Winner: BNC-B; Runner-up: Nungambakkam Tennis Membership-A; Zone-C: Winner: Anna Nagar Membership; Runner-up: Madras Race Membership.
Common: Zone-A: Winner: MCC-A; Runner-up: NTC-C; Zone-B: Winner: GNC-A; Runner-up: Anna Nagar Okay Block-A; Zone-C: Winner: Presidency Membership-A; Runner-up: BNC-B; Zone-D: Winner: MCC-M; Runner-up: Gandhi Nagar Membership-C; Zone-E: Winner: Besant Nagar Membership-C; Runner-up: Madras Membership-B; Zone-F: Winner: Presidency Membership-B; Runner-up: YMCA Kilpauk.
sixteenth UCAL-TNTA Chennai inter-club league-cum-knockout c’ship: Winner: MCC; Runner-up: BNC
– Prasanna Venkatesan
World College Video games: Vaishnavi Adkar to change into second Indian to win a tennis medal after reaching semis
India is assured of a uncommon medal in tennis as Vaishnavi Adkar made it to the ladies’s singles semifinals whereas most of her compatriots throughout sports activities didn’t make a mark within the World College Video games in Berlin on Tuesday.
The 20-year-old Vaishnavi beat residence favorite Sina Herrmann 6-1, 6-4 in a dominant show within the ladies’s singles quarterfinals. She’s going to face Eszter Meri of Slovakia within the semifinals on Thursday.
She’s going to change into solely the second Indian to win a medal within the World College Video games, after Nandal Bal clinched a silver in males’s singles within the 1979 version in Mexico Metropolis.
Underneath the principles, two bronze medals are awarded in tennis competitors within the WUG.
– PTI