BASKETBALL
FIBA Ladies’s Asia Cup, Division B: India stays in rivalry for semifinal spot
India girls’s basketball staff beat Tahiti 78-55 in its last Group A match of the FIBA Ladies’s Asia Cup (Division B) in Shenzhen, China, on Wednesday.
Sreekala Rani (15 factors) and Sathya Krishnamurthi (11 factors) had been the highest scorers in India’s second win of the event.
India (5 factors) completed second behind Chinese language Taipei (six factors) in its group. Whereas Chinese language Taipei goes immediately into the semifinals, India will face third-placed staff from Group B on Friday for a spot within the last-four stage.
The competitors, which concludes on July 20, had eight groups divided equally into two teams with. Winner of the event is about to be promoted to Division A.
India has beforehand gained the Division B title in 2017 when it was additionally the host. Nonetheless, the staff missed out on taking part in in Division A in 2023 and goals to seek out its method again.
-Workforce Sportstar
CHESS
AICF to host 10 FIDE coach seminars in 2025
The All India Chess Federation (AICF) will conduct 10 FIDE coach seminars this 12 months and one in January 2026.
The coach seminars, aiming to empower the Indian chess coaches for coaching all ranges of rising abilities, will begin from Vijayawada in August and can cowl a number of Indian cities earlier than lastly culminating in Ranchi in January 2026.
“For the primary time ever, we’re witnessing a nationwide federation organising 10 FIDE Trainers’ Seminars in a single calendar 12 months — and remarkably, a proposal for the eleventh seminar has already been submitted for January,” mentioned Sami Khader, the chair of the TRG (FIDE trainers fee).
“This excellent initiative by the All India Chess Federation (AICF) is a testomony to their unwavering dedication to growing chess trainers and elevating the bar for coaching requirements throughout the area.
“The FIDE Trainers’ Fee (TRG) wish to emphasise that this isn’t solely a record-breaking achievement but additionally reflection of the robust, ongoing collaboration and mutual belief between AICF and TRG.”
AICF head of operations, A Okay Verma mentioned the initiative is part of producing educated coaches, who can present high quality teaching to budding chess gamers. “We’ve got been attempting to offer a number of coaching help to our coaches and provides them the most effective accessible coaching in order that they will use the data to coach college students of their respective academies, institutes, private teaching in addition to in faculties,” mentioned Verma.
“For the previous may of years, the AICF has been organising 5 such seminars and from 5 to 10 is an enormous leap ahead, we simply hope increasingly coaches be a part of to reap the advantages of this initiative.”
Verma additionally added that he hoped faculties may even take cognizance of the significance of getting correctly educated trainers/academics with a sound coaching certificates coming from the apex world physique.
Prime Indian coaches, FST and Dronacharya awardee R B Ramesh, head coach Indian staff N Srinath, head coach Indian girls staff Abhijit Kunte, GM Pravin Thipsay and GM Tejas Bakre have confirmed their participation as coaches for these seminars.
SCHEDULE
Vijayawada August 8–10; Madurai August 22–24; Kottayam September 12–14; Pune September 19–21; Jaipur September 26–28; Noida, November 14–16; Kolkata November 28–30; Guwahati December 5–7; Bengaluru December 19–21; Ahmedabad December 26–28; Ranchi Januaru 23–25.
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GOLF
Amandeep takes 2-shot lead regardless of late bogeys in ninth Leg of Hero WPGT
Amandeep Drall opened with a wonderful 3-under 69 to take a two-shot lead within the first spherical of the ninth Leg of the Ladies’s Professional Golf Tour in Hosur on Wednesday.
Amandeep dropped two late bogeys on the sixteenth and the seventeenth holes however regardless of that she had a helpful lead over seasoned Neha Tripathi and Seher Atwal, who carded 1-under 71 every on the Clover Greens.
5 different gamers Vidhatri Urs, Anaggha Venkatesh; Jasmine Shekar, Sneha Singh and Jahaanvie Walia shot even par 72 every to be Tied-fourth.
The Order of Advantage chief and four-time winner this season, Vani Kapoor, struggled to 3-over 75 with three birdies in opposition to 4 bogeys and a double bogey. She was mendacity T-16 and eight photographs behind her buddy Amandeep.
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TENNIS
Arjun and Prashanth advance to Swiss Open quarterfinals
The Indian pair of Arjun Kadhe and Vijay Sundar Prashanth on Wednesday moved to the quarterfinals of the Swiss Open with a straight-sets win however their compatriots N Sriram Balaji and Rithvik Bollipalli suffered a first-round exit from the ATP 250 occasion in Gstaad, Switzerland.
Kadhe and Prashanth acquired the higher of Nicolas Barrientos from Colombia and Miguel Rayes-Varela from Mexico 7-5, 6-3 within the opening spherical of the clay court docket event.
Nonetheless, the pair of Balaji and Bollipalli fell 6-4, 6-7(8), [10-7] to native wild card entrants Jakub Paul and Dominic Stricker in a hard-fought match.
In the meantime, competing within the ATP 250 exhausting court docket occasion in Los Cabos, the Indian pair of Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Niki Kalyan Poonacha went down 6-4, 6-3 to second seeds Rajeev Ram and Christian Harrison.
-PTI
Aryan Shah reaches quarterfinals of Pozoblanco Challenger
Qualifier Aryan Shah beat Eliakim Coulibaly of Ivory Coast 3-6, 6-1, 7-5 within the first spherical of the €91,250 Challenger tennis event in Pozoblanco, Spain, on Wednesday.
RESULTS
€91,250 Challenger, Pozoblanco, Spain
Singles (first spherical): Aryan Shah bt Eliakim Coulibaly (CIV) 3-6, 6-1, 7-5.
$30,000 ITF males, Castelo Branco, Portugal
Singles (first spherical): Seydina Andre (Sen) bt S Mukund 6-7(6), 6-4, 6-3; Manas Dhamne bt Goncallo Castro (Por) 6-1, 7-5.
$25,000 ITF males, Gandia, Spain
Singles (first spherical): Ignacio Parisca (Ven) bt Nitin Kumar Sinha 7-6(3), 7-5.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Adrien Burdet (Sui) & Yanaki Milev (Bul) bt Prajwal Dev & Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-4, 2-6, [10-6].
$15,000 ITF males, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Singles (first spherical): Hikaru Shiraishi (Jpn) bt Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 6-4, 6-2; Arnav Paparkar bt Sai Karteek Reddy 6-3, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Sai Karteek Reddy & Tomohiro Masabayashi (Jpn) bt Ali Habib (GBR) & Nikita Ianin 6-7(5), 6-3, [11-9].
$15,000 ITF males, Poprad, Slovakia
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Aryan Lakshmanan & Kristjan Tamm (Est) bt Xavier Jakubovic & Alex Lapsansky (Svk) 6-1, 6-1.
€100,000 WTA, Porto, Portugal
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Riya Bhatia & Mariana Drazic (Cro) bt Lizette Cabrera & Taylah Preston (Aus) 6-3, 6-4.
$60,000 ITF girls, Olomouc, Czechia
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Magdalena Smekalova (Cze) & Laura Svatikova (Svk) bt Klaudija Bubelyte (Ltu) & Sravya Shivani 7-6(3), 6-4.
$40,000 ITF girls, Nottingham, Britain
Singles (first spherical): Jamilah Snells (USA) bt Maaya Rajeshwaran 6-2, 6-3.
$30,000 ITF girls, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (first spherical): Vaidehee Chaudhari bt Chihiro Muramatsu (Jpn) 6-4, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF girls, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Singles (first spherical): Zeel Desai bt Maria Herazo (Col) 6-2, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF girls, Huamantla, Mexico
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Emily Sartz-Lunde (Nor) & Maria Sholokhova bt Shria Atturu (USA) & Saumya Vig 6-0, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF girls, Hillcrest, South Africa
Singles (first spherical): Akanksha Nitture bt Isabella Basson (RSA) 6-3, 6-1; Victoria Mulville (USA) bt Soha Sadiq 6-2, 6-4; Caterina Odorizzi (Ita) bt Smriti Bhasin 2-6, 6-3, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Akanksha Nitture & Soha Sadiq bt Ellie Blackford (GBR) & Andre Lukosiute (Ltu) 5-7, 6-3, [11-9].
-Kamesh Srinivasan
AITA Match: Aditi reaches semifinals
Aditi Tyagi beat her doubles companion and third seed Riya Sachdeva 6-4, 6-2 within the quarterfinals of the HPCL-Mittal Rs.100,000 AITA girls’s tennis event on the CLTA Advanced on Wednesday.
Within the semifinals, Aditi will problem Mahika Khanna who was equally authoritative in beating second seed Sohini Mohanty. The opposite semifinal will likely be between prime seed Tejasvi Dabas and Arushi Raval.
RESULTS
Singles (quarterfinals): Tejasvi Dabas bt Lakshmi Gowda 6-3, 6-3; Arushi Raval bt Jeetesh Kumari 6-2, 5-7, 6-0; Aditi Tyagi bt Riya Sachdeva 6-4, 6-2; Mahika Khanna bt Sohini Mohanty 6-4, 6-2.
Doubles (semifinals): Ruma Gaikaiwari & Priyanka Rodricks bt Divya Sharma & Tejasvi Dabas 7-6(4), 6-4; Riya Sachdeva & Mahika Khanna bt Sherry Sharma & Reet Arora 6-2, 6-4.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
MOTORSPORT
Salman Khan unveils Indian Supercross Racing League Season 2
Salman Khan is serving because the model ambassador for the Indian Supercross Racing League Season 2.
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Salman Khan is serving because the model ambassador for the Indian Supercross Racing League Season 2.
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
The second season of the Indian Supercross Racing League (ISRL) was unveiled on Wednesday, with Bollywood star Salman Khan serving because the model ambassador.
As a part of the mission to raise Supercross in India to a worldwide degree, Salman additionally launched the ‘ISRL Proving Grounds’ devoted to grassroots motorsport growth in India.
The power, to be constructed on a 7-acre website close to Pune, will function a number of purpose-built tracks, together with these for amateurs, children, motocross, supercross, ATVs, electrical bikes, path driving, and extra.
Talking on the occasion, Salman mentioned, “I’ve all the time been captivated with bikes and off-roading, once I noticed what ISRL is constructing bringing collectively world-class expertise, supporting home-grown athletes, and creating a complete ecosystem and life-style across the sport, I knew this was one thing I wished to be a part of, not simply as a face, however as a believer. This league is about pushing boundaries, and that’s one thing I join with deeply.”
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