GOLF
Aditi slips in last spherical to complete T-28, Australian Grace Kim wins Evian title
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok, who appeared good for a top-10 end all week, faltered on the ultimate day to card a disappointing two-over 73 to log out tied twenty eighth on the Amundi Evian Championship right here.
She ended with a complete of five-under 279 on Sunday. It was, nonetheless, Aditi’s second-best end on the Evian, a 12 months after ending tied seventeenth at this occasion.
Aditi opened with a string of 9 pars after which bogeyed 4 in a row, which derailed her hopes of a top-10 place after being tied twelfth in a single day. She managed a minor restoration with birdies on the seventeenth and the 18th, but it surely was too little, too late.
Australia’s Grace Kim claimed her maiden main title after defeating world quantity two Jeeno Thitikul in a dramatic playoff at Evian Resort Golf Membership.
This week, Aditi was the one Indian within the subject as Diksha Dagar narrowly missed out on making the minimize. She is going to, nonetheless, play on the AIG Girls’s Open later this month.
The Women European Tour will take per week’s break and can then head to Scotland for the ISPS HANDA Scottish Open, going down at Dundonald Hyperlinks from July 24 to 27.
-PTI
Indians miss the Open for first time since 2022
There will probably be no Indian golfers on the 2025 Open, which is a pity, since Shubhankar Sharma has accomplished properly on the final two Opens – he was T-8 at Royal Liverpool for the all-time end result by an Indian — and was T-19 final 12 months at Royal Troon.
Essentially the most appearances by an Indian on the Open is six by Anirban Lahiri and the perfect end is T-8 by Sharma in 2023.
Eight Indians have performed on the Open – Gaurav Ghei, Jyoti Randhawa, Jeev Milkha Singh, Arjun Atwal, Shiv Kapur, Gaganjeet Bhullar, Anirban Lahiri and Shubhankar Sharma.
Although Shubhankar is just not within the subject, he stays the one Indian to have performed the Open at Portrush, and his look got here again in 2019.
It was his second Open look the place he made the minimize and completed T-51. In all, Shubhankar has performed 4 Opens and made the minimize every time – essentially the most by an Indian.
The Indian connection There could also be no Indians, however no less than three gamers have an Indian connection.
Two are Indian People: Akshay Bhatia, now thirty eighth on the planet, and Sahith Theegala, forty sixth on the planet. The third is Indo-British Aaron Rai, who’s thirty fourth on the planet.
All three have gained on the PGA Tour. In 2024, they performed within the PGA Tour Championships, for which solely the High-30 certified.
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BASKETBALL
FIBA Girls’s Asia Cup, Division B: India suffers heavy loss in opposition to Chinese language Taipei
India girls’s basketball crew misplaced 39-83 to Chinese language Taipei in its second Group A match of the FIBA Girls’s Asia Cup (Division B) in Shenzhen, China, on Monday.
The competitors, which concludes on July 20, has eight groups divided equally into two teams with the winner of the match set to be promoted to Division A.
India has beforehand gained the Division B title in 2017 when it was additionally the host. Nonetheless, the crew missed out on enjoying in Division A in 2023 and goals to search out its method again.
India takes on Tahiti in its last pool match on Wednesday at 11AM IST.
-Crew Sportstar
HOCKEY
fifteenth India Sub Junior Girls Nationwide Championship 2025: Jharkhand beats Odisha to win title
Jharkhand defeated Odisha 1-0 to assert the fifteenth India Sub Junior Girls Nationwide Championship 2025 – Division ‘A’ title in Ranchi on Monday. Haryana secured bronze medal after beating Mizoram 3-3 (SO 5-4) within the third/4th place match.
The ultimate noticed each groups exhibiting sturdy defencive abilities earlier than Jirn Soy Munda (27’) netted the one purpose of the sport.
Within the bronze medal sport, Ok Vanlalpeki (9’) opened the purpose rely on the scoreboard for Mizoram however captain Bhavya (19’), Durga (27’) and Manjinder (30’) quickly took the lead for Haryana to push Mizoram on the backfoot.
Mizoram tried exhausting however was unable to transform the alternatives in opposition to the sturdy defence of Haryana till the final minute the place Laldinpuli (60’, 60’) heroics helped it finish the match with a draw.
Within the shoot-out, once more it was a neck-to-neck competitors between the groups. Bhavya, Manjinder, Neeshu, Radhika and Harshita scored for Haryana in all of the 5 probabilities that they obtained. However, Laldinpuli, Ok Vanlalpeki, C Lalruatsiami and Lalnunfeli solely may rating out of their 5 probabilities and fell brief in a carefully contested sport. Haryana goalkeeper Saina’s match-winning save within the shootout stood out to be distinction maker and helped her facet end on podium.
– Crew Sportstar
TENNIS
Prarthana loses doubles last
Fourth seeds Carmen Corley and Ivana Corley beat third seeds Arianne Hartono and Prarthana Thombare 7-6(4), 6-3 within the doubles last of the $200,000 WTA tennis match in Newport, USA, on Sunday.
The champion crew collected 125 WTA factors and $9,900. The Indo-Dutch crew obtained 81 factors and $5,766.