GOLF
High English golfer Fleetwood to compete in DP World India Championship
Olympic silver medallist Tommy Fleetwood of Britain confirmed his entry for the $4 million DP World India Championship to be performed on the Delhi Golf Course from October 16 to 19. He joins the profession Grand Slam champion Rory MicIlroy within the star solid.
Seven time winner on the DP World Tour, the 34-year-old Fleetwood, expressed his eagerness to return to Delhi and entertain the Indian followers.
“I can’t wait to get again to Delhi. It’s such a tremendous place _ the individuals, the meals. I’m aiming to play some good golf and entertain the Indian followers. I bear in mind the Delhi Golf Membership as a decent, difficult, strategic golf course. Gamers with al kinds of play can contend, so it ought to assist make for a really thrilling week,” mentioned Fleetwood.
The Chief Monetary Officer at DP World, Yuvraj Narayan, was delighted with the rising star energy of the occasion in Delhi.
“India is a key a part of our world enterprise and internet hosting a event of this scale displays our long-term dedication to the nation. With Rory McIlroy already confirmed, we’re happy to have Tommy Fleetwood becoming a member of the sector, including to a world class line-up,” mentioned Narayan.
The organisers additionally introduced the tickets occurring sale from Thursday, August 7, on-line, on bookmyshow.
-Crew Sportstar
Amardeep takes sole lead at Coal India Open
Picture of, Amardeep Malik, the chief after two rounds of the Coal India Open golf championship in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.
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Picture of, Amardeep Malik, the chief after two rounds of the Coal India Open golf championship in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.
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Amardeep Malik jumped into the only lead with a glowing 7-under 65 within the second spherical, as he put collectively a 10-under 134, within the Coal India Open championship providing Rs.1 crore prize cash, on the Kensville Golf and Nation Membership on Wednesday.
The hassle gave a two-stroke lead for the Noida-based Amardeep who got here up with a scorching fare, placing eight birdies, starting from 15 to 50 toes, aside from enduring the lone bogey on the fifth.
“I attempted to hit the most secure shot and located most fairways and greens. I additionally obtained fortunate on the powerful greens as I transformed a number of lengthy putts,” mentioned Amardeep who didn’t put together a lot for the resumption of the circuit, as he just lately grew to become a father.
Angad Cheema was two-stroke behind Amardeep, whereas the opposite in a single day leaders Karandeep Kochhar and Anshul Kabthiyal slipped to the tied fourth and tied sixth spots respectively.
The reduce was utilized at five-over 149, resulting in 53 professionals and one novice making it to the third spherical.
SCORES (after second spherical)
1. Amardeep Malik (69, 65) 134; 2. Angad Cheema (69, 67) 136; 3. Shaurya Bhattacharya (71, 66) 137; 4. Karandeep Kochhar (69, 70) 139; 5. Yuvraj Sandhu (70, 70) 140; 6T. Khalin Joshi (71, 70); Arjun Prasad (71, 70), Manoj s (70, 71) 141; 9T. Jamal Hossain (75, 67), Anshul Kabthiyal (69, 73); Mohd. Azhar (73, 69) 142; 12T. Rakshit Dahiya (72, 71), Ravi Kumar (70, 73), Abhinav Lohan (71, 72) 143.
-PTI
HOCKEY
Punjab, Jharkhand enter remaining of sub junior hockey nationals
Punjab and Jharkhand registered victories of their respective matches on Wednesday to arrange the summit conflict on the fifteenth Hockey India Sub Junior Males Nationwide Championship in Chennai.
Within the first semifinal of the day, Punjab defeated Uttar Pradesh 4-3. Sukhdev Singh (51st, 52nd) shone with a late brace, after Mandeep Singh (nineteenth) and Varinder Singh (twenty eighth) scored within the first half.
Harsh Pratap Singh (ninth), Ali Shahrukh (twenty first) and captain Ketan Kushwaha (twenty eighth) have been the scorers for Uttar Pradesh.
Within the different semifinal, Jharkhand defeated Madhya Pradesh 3-1. Although Love (twenty first) gave Madhya Pradesh the lead, Jharkhand bounced again with objectives from Soreng Sumray (twenty ninth), Ashish Tani Purti (forty fourth) and Jaysan Kandulna (56th) to maneuver into the ultimate.
Dropping semifinalists Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh will face one another within the third-place fixture on Thursday.
-PTI
KABADDI
PKL group Gujarat Giants and Indian Males’s Hockey Crew come collectively for particular crossover in Bengaluru
The Indian males’s hockey group and the Gujarat Giants PKL franchise had a particular interplay on the SAI centre in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
The Indian males’s hockey group and the Gujarat Giants PKL franchise had a particular interplay on the SAI centre in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
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As a part of their pre-season preparations for Professional Kabaddi League Season 12, Gujarat Giants had a particular interplay with the Indian Males’s Hockey Crew on the SAI Centre in Bengaluru.
Gujarat Giants gamers, Himanshu Jaglan, Rakesh, Parteek Dahiya, Nitin Panwar and V Ajith Kumar, together with the Head Coach Jaivir Sharma, Assistant Coach Varinder Singh Sandhu and Health Coach Abhishek Parihar, drew inspiration from the Indian Crew Hockey group and even tried their hand at hockey, whereas the hockey gamers skilled kabaddi drills in return.
Each groups are presently making ready for his or her upcoming challenges: the Indian Males’s Hockey Crew for its Australia tour and the Asia Cup, and the Gujarat Giants for the brand new PKL season.
– Crew Sportstar
TENNIS
Mahika Khanna books semifinals spot in Delhi AITA event
High seed Mahika Khanna recovered from a hesitant begin to outplay Jennifer Luikham 4-6, 6-0, 6-2 within the quarterfinals of the Rs.100,000 AITA ladies’s tennis event on the DLTA Complicated on Wednesday.
Within the semifinals, Mahika will play Riya Sachdeva. The opposite semifinal shall be between second seed Samriti Punyani and Jeetesh Kumari, who got here via contrasting matches within the quarterfinals towards Suryanshi Shekhawat and Shagun Kumari, respectively.
RESULTS
Mahika Khanna bt Jennifer Luikham 4-6, 6-0, 6-2; Riya Sachdeva bt Aditi Tyagi 6-1, 6-2; Jeetesh Kumari bt Shagun Kumari 6-0, 6-3; Samriti Punyani bt Suryanshi Shekhawat 6-1, 3-6, 4-3 (retired).
-Crew Sportstar
Riya Bhatia wins first spherical match at ITF event in Austria
Qualifier Riya Bhatia beat Arabella Koller 6-4, 6-2 within the first spherical of the $60,000 ITF ladies’s tennis event in Amstetten, Austria.
It was a double delight for Riya, as she made the doubles quarterfinals in partnership with Michaela Bayerlova of Czech Republic with a 12-10 victory within the tremendous tie-break.
RESULTS
€91,250 Challenger, Cordenons, Italy
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Zdenek Kolar (Cze) & Nino Serdarusic (Cro) bt Siddhant Banthia & Alexander Donski (Bul) 6-4, 3-6, [11-9].
€91,250 Challenger, Bonn, Germany
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Dmitry Popko & Denis Yevseyev (Kaz) bt Johannes Ingildsen (Den) & Vijay Sundar Prashanth 6-4, 6-4.
$30,000 ITF males, Bali, Indonesia
Singles (first spherical): Karan Singh bt Fortunate Kurniawan (Ina) 6-4, 6-2; Ajay Malik bt Tomas Perez (Esp) 5-7, 6-4, 6-4; S Mukund bt Kabir Hans 6-3, 7-5.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Francis Alcantara (Phi) & Christopher Rungkat (Ina) bt Kabir Hans & Maan Kesharwani 7-6(2), 6-4.
$30,000 ITF males, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (first spherical): Manas Dhamne bt Roan Jones (GBR) 6-4, 6-0.
$30,000 ITF males, Brazzaville, Congo
Singles (first spherical): Digvijay Pratap Singh bt Constantin Kouzmine (Fra) 6-4, 7-6(4); Seydina Andre (Sen) bt Aditya Balsekar 6-1, 6-4.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Chinmaya Dev Chauhan & Nishith Naveen bt Alexey Dubinin & Zachary Mintz (USA) 6-4, 6-2; Prakaash Sarran & Matas Vasiliauskas (Ltu) bt Isaac Bokungu & Guelord Kayombo (Cod) 6-1, 6-3; Kacper Szymkowiak & Jan Wygona (Pol) bt Matteo Covato (Ita) & Digvijay Pratap Singh 6-2, 7-6(4); Aditya Balsekar & Stephane Kamendje (Can) bt Moye Koffi (CIV) & Christopher Koummba (Gab) 6-0, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF males, Singapore
Singles (first spherical): Ali Habib (GBR) bt Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 6-4, 7-6(7).
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Shaheed Alam & Invoice Chan (Sgp) bt Parth Aggarwal & Felix Mischker (GBR) 6-4, 5-7, [10-8]; Abhinav Shanmugam & Manish Sureshkumar bt Ilya Ignatov (Uzb) & Markos Kalovelonis (Gre) 7-5, 6-3.
60,000 ITF ladies, Amstetten, Austria
Singles (first spherical): Riya Bhatia bt Arabella Koller (Aut) 6-4, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Michaela Bayerlova (Cze) & Riya Bhatia bt Liel Rothensteiner & Ava Schueller (Aut) 6-7(5), 6-3, [12-10].
$30,000 ITF ladies, Roehampton, Britain
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Yeonwoo Ku (Kor) & Ankita Raina bt Erica Brennan & Lydia Brennan (Irl) 6-1, 6-1; Naiktha Bains (GBR) & Rutuja Bhosale bt Lucia Casidy & Marelie Raath (GBR) 6-3, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Singapore
Singles (first spherical): Darja Suvirdjonkova (Srb) bt Smriti Bhasin 6-3, 6-1.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Smriti Bhasin & Sravya Shivani bt Tanisha Kantam & Emma Maan (Sgp) 6-0, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Astana, Kazakhstan
Singles (first spherical): Anjali Rathi bt Anna Sedysheva 7-6(5), 6-1.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Aglaya Fedorova & Daria Khomutsianskaya (Blr) bt Prathyusha Rachapudi & Anjali Rathi 6-4, 6-3.
-Crew Sportstar
SQUASH
Tanvi Khanna lone Indian in semifinals at HCL India Tour PSA Challenger
Fifth seed Tanvi Khanna knocked out the second seed Menna Walid of Egypt 11-8, 8-11, 11-7, 10-12, 11-6 within the ladies’s quarterfinals of the HCL India Tour PSA Challenger squash event on the Sawai Man Singh Stadium on Wednesday.
Tanvi, who received the battle of wits in 54 minutes, was the lone Indian to progress into the semifinals, and can play Goh Zhi Xuan of Malaysia.
RESULTS
Males: Yasin Shohdy (Egy) bt Naoki Hayashi (Jpn) 11-2, 11-6, 11-5; Seif Refaay (Egy) bt Darren Pragasam (Mas) 11-3, 5-11, 11-13, 11-2, 11-3; Ravindu Laksiri (Sri) bt Karim Aguib (Can) 11-4, 11-7, 7-11, 11-5; Mohamed Gohar (Egy) bt Lap Man Au (Hkg) 11-6, 8-11, 11-7, 11-6.
Girls: Nour Khafagy (Egy) bt Pooja Arthi 11-3, 11-3, 11-5; Akari Midorikawa (Jpn) bt Shameena Riaz 13-11, 11-6, 11-5; Goh Zhi Xuan (Mas) bt Anjali Semwal 11-3, 8-11, 11-5, 11-5; Tanvi Khanna bt Menna Walid (Egy) 11-8, 8-11, 11-7, 10-12, 11-6.
-Crew Sportstar
BOXING
4 boxers enter U22 Asian Boxing Championships finals
Neeraj, Ishan Kataria, Yatri Patel and Priya reached the finals on the U22 Asian Boxing Championships right here on Wednesday.
Neeraj relied on his velocity and counter-attacking abilities to defeat Kyeongho Bang of South Korea 5:0 within the males’s 75kg class to e-book a spot within the title showdown, whereas Ishan Kataria, in males’s 90+kg, dominated Chen Chen of China together with his large punches because the referee needed to cease the competition within the third spherical.
Yatri Patel in ladies’s 57kg then reached the ultimate through the use of a mixture of left-right punches to dominate Vietnam’s Thi Nhung Quand and win by a unanimous 5:0 verdict. Priya (ladies’s 60kg) additionally got here up with a dominating efficiency to overpower Uzbekistan’s Odinakhon Ismoilova to succeed in the ultimate.
The U19 and U22 Asian Boxing Championships, that are being held concurrently, offers India’s rising stars a platform to showcase their abilities towards a few of Asia’s hardest opponents.
-PTI