Indian sports activities wrap, July 25: Tanvi Sharma, Vennala Kalagotla attain semifinals at Badminton Asia Junior Championships 2025

BADMINTON

Badminton Asia Junior Championships: Tanvi Sharma, Vennala Kalagotla advances to semifinals; verify medals

Kids Tanvi Sharma and Vennala Kalagotla confirmed two medals for India on the ongoing Badminton Asia Junior Championships in Solo, Indonesia, on Friday as they reached the ladies’s singles semifinals.

Kalagotla took down Thailand’s Janyaporn Meepanthong 21-18, 17-21, 21-17 in 58 minutes.

Later within the day, second-seeded Indian Tanvi Sharma, who not too long ago completed runner-up on the US Open Tremendous 300 match, beat fifth-seeded Indonesian Thalita Ramadhani Wiryawan 21-19, 21-14 in 35 minutes.

Within the semifinals, each Indians will face Chinese language opponents. Whereas Tanvi will play in opposition to eighth seed Yin Yi Qing, Vennala will likely be up in opposition to Si Ya Liu on Saturday.

– Workforce Sportstar

ARCHERY

Parneet, Dalal win combined compound gold; archers win three medals at World College Video games

India’s Parneet Kaur and Kushal Dalal held their nerves in an exciting end to beat South Korea’s Yerin Park and Seunghyun Park and clinch the combined compound archery gold medal on the World College Video games in Germany on Friday.

Earlier, the ladies’s compound group of Parneet, Avneet Kaur and Madhura Dhamangaonkar opened India’s account with a commanding 232-224 win over Nice Britain’s Chloe A’Bear, Hallie Boulton and Grace Chappell within the bronze medal match.

In the meantime, the lads’s compound group of Dalal, Sahil Jadhav and Hritik Sharma got here agonisingly near profitable gold medal, shedding by only one level to Turkey’s Bauhan Akcaoglu, Yunus Emre Arslan and Yakum Yildiz.

India stays in rivalry for extra medals, with Dalal and Jadhav set for an all-India conflict within the males’s particular person semifinals on Saturday. Parneet can also be eyeing a person podium end and can face South Korea’s S Kim in her semifinal bout.

– PTI

TENNIS

Bikramjeet wins AITA males’s match

Bikramjeet Singh Chawla beat Jatin Nain 6-3, 6-2 within the last of the Rs. 100,000 AITA males’s tennis match on the Harvest Academy in Jassowal.

Apart from dropping a set to qualifier Omkar Shinde within the pre-quarterfinals, it was a easy crusing for the seventh seed Bkkramjeet.

Omkar gained the doubles title in partnership with Paramveer Singh.

– Kamesh Srinivasan

Vaishnavi Adkar wins bronze medal in World College Video games

Vaishnavi Adkar went down preventing 6-2, 4-6, 4-6 in a three-hour duel within the ladies’s tennis semifinals to Eszter Meri of Slovakia within the World College Video games in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany.

It was a superb run by the 20-year-old Vaishnavi who had dropped solely 19 video games in all in profitable the sooner 4 rounds in a draw of 64. The trouble fetched her a uncommon tennis medal within the Video games.

Vaishnavi (in image) was near profitable one other medal within the combined doubles with Atharva Sharma however the duo bought crushed within the quarterfinals by the Japanese pair of Natsuki Yoshimoto and Jay Good friend.
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Actually, it was the one particular person medal to this point for the Indian contingent.

Vaishnavi was near profitable one other medal within the combined doubles with Atharva Sharma however the duo bought crushed within the quarterfinals by the Japanese pair of Natsuki Yoshimoto and Jay Good friend. Vaishnavi and Atharva had gained two rounds earlier with out dropping a set in opposition to groups from Colombia and USA.

India has gained 5 medals to this point together with one gold and one silver, however all the opposite 4 medals, aside from Vaishnavi’s tennis effort, had been group medals in archery and badminton.

– Kamesh Srinivasan

GOLF

Diksha makes a strong begin with 69, lies Seventeenth in Scotland

Diksha Dagar rallied on the again 9 with three birdies to compile a superb spherical of 3-under 69 on the primary day of the 2025 ISPS HANDA Girls’s Scottish Open at Dundonald Hyperlinks.

Diksha was tied-Seventeenth and the most effective among the many three Indians.

Diksha, who has been having an ideal season in 2025, however continues to be on the lookout for her first win, was three pictures behind Charlotte Laffar, who fired a gap spherical of 66 (-6).

The opposite two Indians within the area Pranavi Urs (75), who’s coming again after an extended harm lay-off and Tvesa Malik (77) had been manner behind. Pranavi was T-107 and Tvesa was T-126.

Diksha, beginning out on the entrance 9 shot birdied the fourth however gave that shot again on the sixth. She fought again on the again 9 with birdies on the twelfth, 14th and the sixteenth for a 69.

– PTI

Ridhima ends lengthy title drought by profitable tenth leg of WPGT

Ridhima Dilawari ended an extended title drought as she overcame a hard entrance 9 with a gentle again stretch to win the tenth leg of Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour by a useful four-shot margin in Kolar on Friday.

Ridhima totalled even par 216 with rounds of 72-70-74 whereas beginner Saanvi Somu, who completed runner-up, ended with a complete of 220 on the Zion Hills course.

Vani Kapoor rallied from her first spherical 79 with 70-72 on the final two days for a creditable third-place end in a season the place she has gained 4 instances.

Neha Tripathi dropped down the leaderboard with a 78 and he or she was tied fifth with Beginner Tanishka Prithvi (73), Gauri Karhade (75) and Heena Kang (75), all of whom had been 8-over 224.

Seher Atwal (77) and Amandeep Drall (79) had been tied ninth and rounded off the top-10.

Sneha Singh (72) was tied eleventh and final week’s winner, Jasmine Shekar (75) was T-14.

Vani with Rs. 14,43,667 maintains her huge lead on the high of the Order of Advantage, whereas Ridhima with Rs. 9,58,000 moved to the second place, edging Amandeep Drall with Rs. 9,52,967 into the third place.

– PTI

Atwal lies fifth in Senior Open; Jeev and Jyoti path

Arjun Atwal, who’s enjoying solely his second occasion on the Champions Tour PGA, shot an excellent 3-under 67 within the first spherical of the ISPS HANDA Senior Open, and was mendacity Tied-fifth after the primary spherical within the Main for the Senior.

India’s different two legends Jyoti Randhawa (70) was even par and T-Forty second, whereas Jeev Milkha Singh (71) was one-over and T-69. The highest-70 and ties will make the reduce.

Jeev, an everyday on the Legends Tour (Europe) additionally performs on the Japan Senior Tour whereas making an occasional look on the Asian Tour.

– PTI

TENNIS

Nagal progresses to semifinals of Tampere Open

Sumit Nagal breezed into the singles semifinal of the Tampere ATP Challenger occasion in Finland following a straight-sets win over Argentine qualifier Nicolas Kicker on Friday.

Nagal, ranked 306, pulled off a 6-4 6-3 win over Kicker, who’s ranked 361 within the singles ATP chart.

It was third assembly between the 2 gamers and Nagal now leads the head-to-head file 2-1. The final time they clashed was in 2022 when Kicker emerged winner within the Guayaquil pre-quarterfinals.

The 28-year-old Indian gained 67 factors to 51 of his rival.

Progressively getting again to kind, Nagal has now matched his greatest end of the season as he had ended a semifinalist on the Trieste Challenger in Italy.

Nagal has gained six Challenger singles titles from 10 finals.

In the meantime, competing on the Cranbrook Tennis Traditional in Bloomfield Hills within the USA, second-seeded Indian pair of Anirudh Chandrasekar and Ramkumar Ramanathan made a quarterfinal exit after shedding 6-4 4-6 7-10 to native wildcards Stefan Dostanic and Benjamin Kittay.

-PTI