BADMINTON
Badminton Asia Junior Combined Workforce championships: India beats Sri Lanka in opening match
India kicked off its Badminton Asia Junior Combined Workforce championships marketing campaign in model because it thrashed Sri Lanka 110-69 in its Group D conflict in Indonesia on Friday.
The blended doubles mixture of Vishnu Kode and Reshika U started India’s march with a 11-5 win over Keneth Aruggoda and Isuri Attanayake within the relay level system the place a crew needed to bag 110 factors to win the match.
Sisters Gayatri and Mansa Rawat then prolonged India’s result in 22-14 towards Attanayake and Sithumi De Silva earlier than junior world no. 1 Tanvi Sharma stamped her class towards Sithuli Ranasinghe to make it 33-21 for India.
Not one India singles participant or pair misplaced any 11-point relay and by the point the match reached the half approach mark the winners had taken a 55-31 lead.
India will now face United Arab Emirates in its second group sport on Saturday earlier than taking up Hong Kong China on Sunday which might resolve who tops the group standings.
-Workforce Sportstar
BASKETBALL
FIBA Girls’s Asia Cup, Division B: India out of semifinals race
India girls’s basketball crew misplaced 76-93 to Thailand, ending its hopes of reaching the semifinals of the FIBA Girls’s Asia Cup (Division B) in Shenzhen, China, on Friday.
India will tackle Kazakhstan in a classification match for Fifth-Sixth place on Saturday.
-Workforce Sportstar
FOOTBALL
Punjab FC lengthen Leon Augustine’s contract till 2027
Punjab FC has introduced the extension of the contract of Leon Augustine forward of the upcoming season on Friday.
The versatile participant will stay within the membership till 2027. The 26-year-old initially signed for The Shers within the 2023-24 season and can proceed his journey with the membership after some spectacular performances final season, the place he performed in a number of positions throughout the sector for the membership.
After making solely 4 whole appearances in his first season on the membership, Leon made 20 appearances within the ISL final season enjoying 1020 minutes and scored as soon as towards Odisha FC.
– Workforce Sportstar
Shillong Lajong names Birendra Thapa as new head coach
Meghalaya’s Shillong Lajong FC on Friday has appointed former participant and long-time membership affiliate Birendra Thapa because the membership’s new head coach forward of the upcoming I-League season.
Popularly referred to as Coach Biru, Thapa brings with him almost twenty years of expertise, having been related to the membership since 2001 in a number of roles, together with participant, crew supervisor, and assistant coach.
Thapa performed for the membership from 2001 to 2009 and was a part of the historic squad that certified for the 2009-10 I-League season.
– PTI
TENNIS
Maaya strengthens Indian crew for Rod Laver Junior Problem
The Indian crew has been strengthened with the inclusion of Maaya Rajeshwaran for the IC Rod Laver Junior Problem tennis event to be performed in Barcelona, Spain, from July 26 to 30.
India had received the Asia-Oceania regional competitors in December final 12 months, beating host Singapore and Japan.
Sohini Mohanty was a part of that crew and will get changed by the 16-year-old Maaya, ranked No.55 among the many juniors on the planet.
Sohini had performed her half properly on the planet huge competitors in 2023, serving to India win the title in USA, and receiving the trophy from Rod Laver himself, together with Manas Dhamne, Rushil Khosla and Asmi Adkar.
Vikram Anand has been the captain of the crew and exuded confidence about India’s probabilities of defending the title in Spain. The event can be on clay in two venues, golf equipment which have a mixed energy of 56 clay courts.
“Maaya, Samarth Sahita and Aradhya Kshitij are already in Europe. I can be going together with Rishitha Basireddy,” stated Vikram.
The captain additionally recalled that Rushil attends Cornell College on a full scholarship and can be quickly joined by Nationwide males’s champion Rethin Pranav who was additionally a part of the IC crew up to now. He was happy with the skilled improvement of Manas within the males’s circuit.
The world huge problem in Barcelona will function Argentina, Italy, Mexico, South Africa and Spain other than India.
The six groups will play a spherical robin league. Every tie may have two boys singles, two ladies singles other than girls and boys doubles. In case of a 3-3 tie, there can be a blended doubles match.
Workforce with the utmost variety of wins will emerge the champion on the finish of the league.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
Neeraj Yashpaul wins AITA males’s tennis event title
Eighth seed Neeraj Yashpaul received the title within the Rs. 100,000 AITA males’s tennis event on the Harvest Academy, Jassowal.
Neeraj led 6-3, 3-0 when qualifier Caheer Warik retired within the remaining.
The outcomes:
Singles (remaining): Neeraj Yashpaul bt Caheer Warik 6-3, 3-0 (retired); Semifinals: Neeraj bt Aarjun Pandit 7-6(5), 6-2; Caheer bt Yash Yadav 6-3, 6-2.
Doubles (remaining): Paramveer Singh & Omkar Shinde bt Mayank Sharma & Jatin Nain 5-7, 7-5, [10-6].
– Kamesh Srinivasan
Mahika Khanna beats Tejasvi Dabas to safe HPCL Mittal AITA event
Mahika Khanna outplayed prime seed Tejasvi Dabas 6-2, 6-2 within the remaining of the HPCL Mittal Rs. 100,000 AITA girls’s tennis event on the CLTA Complicated on Friday.
It was a double crown for Mahika as she had earlier received the doubles title in partnership with Riya Sachdeva.
The outcomes (remaining):
Mahika Khanna bt Tejasvi Dabas 6-2, 6-2.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
Anirudh Chandrasekar in ATP doubles semifinals
Anirudh Chandrasekar in partnership with Reese Stalder of USA beat Manuel Sanchez and Bernard Tomic 7-5, 6-1 within the doubles quarterfinals of the $920,480 ATP tennis event in Los Cabos, Mexico.
The Indo-American pair was scheduled to play Blake Bayldon and Tristan Schoolkate of Australia within the semifinals.
RESULTS
$920,480 ATP, Los Cabos, Mexico
Doubles (quarterfinals): Anirudh Chandrasekar & Reese Stalder (USA) bt Manuel Sanchez (Mex) & Bernard Tomic (Aus) 7-5, 6-1.
€100,000 WTA, Porto, Portugal
Doubles (quarterfinals): Estelle Cascino & Carole Monnet (Fra) bt Riya Bhatia & Mariana Drazic (Cro) 6-2, 6-1.
€181,250 Challenger, San Marino
Doubles (quarterfinals): Siddhant Banthia & Alexander Donski (Bul) bt Inigo Cervantes & Daniel Rincon (Esp) 3-6, 6-3, [10-4].
€91,250 Challenger, Pozoblanco, Spain
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Aryan Shah bt Ryan Peniston (GBR) 6-3, 6-2.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Inaki Torre (Esp) & Solar Fajing (Chn) bt Robin Bertrand (Fra) & Adil Kalyanpur 6-2, 6-4.
$30,000 ITF males, Louisville, USA
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Vignesh Gogineni (USA) bt Dhakshineswar Suresh 7-6(2), 6-0.
$15,000 ITF males, Hillcrest, South Africa
Doubles (quarterfinals): Gerard Henning & Philip Henning (RSA) bt Ishaque Eqbal & Thando Longwe-Smit (RSA) 6-4, 7-5.
$15,000 ITF males, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Singles (quarterfinals): Thantub Suksumrarn (Tha) bt Sidharth Rawat 6-4, 7-5.
Doubles (semifinals): Jake Delaney (Aus) & Ryotaro Taguchi (Jpn) bt Sai Karteek Reddy & Tomohiro Masabayashi (Jpn) 3-6, 7-6(4), [10-5].
$60,000 ITF girls, Olomouc, Czechia
Doubles (semifinals): Rutuja Bhosale & Wushuang Zheng (Chn) bt Magdalena Smekalova (Cze) & Laura Svatikova (Svk) 2-6, 6-2, [10-8].
$15,000 ITF girls, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Singles (quarterfinals): Zeel Desai bt Qiu Yu Ye (Chn) 6-3, 6-0.
$15,000 ITF girls, Huamantla, Mexico
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Dalayna Hewitt & Dasha Ivanova (USA) bt Gala Arangio (Arg) & Diva Bhatia 6-2, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF girls, Hillcrest, South Africa
Doubles (quarterfinals): Akanksha Nitture & Soha Sadiq bt Polina Leykina & Paola Lopez (USA) 3-6, 6-3, [10-8].
-Kamesh Srinivasan
CUE SPORTS
Advani to guide India’s cost in World 6-Purple Snooker Championship
Three-time champion Pankaj Advani will lead a robust Indian contingent on the World 6-Purple Snooker Championship that begins right here on Saturday.
Advani, who bought a wildcard – together with Brijesh Damani and Aditya Mehta — into the occasion after main India to the Asian Workforce Snooker triumph final month in Colombo, will look to hold that type into the World bash.
India squad:
Males:
Kamal Chawla, Paras Gupta, Pushpender Singh, Malkeet Singh, Pankaj Advani, Brijesh Damani, Aditya Mehta.
Masters:
Manan Chandra, Vijay Nichani and Rushabh Jain.
Beneath-21:
Shahyan Razmi, Mayur Garg, Gadda Srikanth, Mayank Karthik, Aarav Sancheti, Bhavya Pipaliya, Jayad Aarav, Rahul Williams and Vaibhav Chadha.
– PTI
GOLF
Jasmine wins ninth leg of Hero WPGT
Jasmine Shekar carded a chic final-round 4-under 68, marked by a flawless again 9, to clinch the ninth leg of the Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour in Hosur on Friday.
Jasmine grew to become the fifth totally different winner this season as she totalled 9-under with two excellent rounds of 67-68 on the final two days.
Neha Tripathi, who led by three pictures going into the ultimate spherical, appeared on track to win her first title in two years until she ran right into a troubled stretch between the twelfth and the sixteenth as she dropped 4 pictures in 5 holes and misplaced by three to Jasmine, who performed in the identical remaining group. Neha was 6-under 210.
As Jasmine and Neha took the primary two locations, Ridhima Dilawari shot the day’s finest card of 5-under 67 and jumped to 3rd place at 4-under 212.
Seher Atwal (69) was fourth at 3-under 213 and there have been three gamers together with Vani Kapoor, who received 4 of the primary eight occasions, in tied fifth place.
Vani carded 70 and was tied fifth alongside Amandeep Drall (69) and Kriti Chowhan (72) at 2-under 214. Sneha Singh produced a 3rd straight spherical of even par 72 and was eighth, whereas Lavanya Jadon (70) was ninth.
Jahaanvie Walia (70), who had one of many two eagles on the ultimate day, was Tied-Tenth with the highest newbie Saanvi Somu (76).
Vani continues to guide the Hero Order of Advantage, whereas Amandeep is second and Sneha is third. Jasmine moved to the fourth place, Neha was fifth and Ridhima Dilawari was sixth.
– PTI