MOTORSPORT
Gaurav Gill to guide Indian problem at Sumatera Utara Rally
The three-time champion Gaurav Gill will spearhead India’s problem on the Sumatera Utara Rally, the third spherical of the FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship’s (APRC) Asia Cup part, right here from August 8 to 10.
Gill will begin as scorching favorite as a mix of Staff JK Tyre and Vamcy Merla Motorsports has fielded a five-car problem from India on the rally.
The qualifiers from Asia Cup and Pacific Cup will struggle for the APRC title within the last spherical in Japan later.
The marketing campaign marks India’s largest-ever factory-backed entry in APRC historical past with assist from Vamcy Merla and Lokesh Gowda, promoter of Indian Nationwide Autocross Championship.
The squad will thus look to make its mark within the 12-stage and 200.6 kilometres battle throughout jungle tracks and volcanic gravel.
-PTI
CHESS
Velammal Vidyalaya wins gold medal at World Faculties Staff Championship
Chennai’s Velammal Vidyalaya, the alma mater of the youngest reigning world champion D Gukesh and grandmaster R Praggnanandhaa, has added additional laurels to its cap by successful the gold medal on the World Faculties Staff Championship in Virginia, USA.
The Velammal Vidyalaya, positioned within the Mogappair neighbourhood, has been a drive behind the chess revolution in Chennai because it supplies knowledgeable coaching to a whole lot of budding chess gamers.
Velammal Vidyalaya, which has received the FIDE World College Groups Championship for 5 consecutive years previously, follows the ‘7 to 17 programme’ which was launched in colleges by former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa in 2013.
In the meantime, Kazakhstan’s Nationwide College of Physics and Arithmetic received the silver medal as that they had the identical variety of match factors as The Harker College from the USA, however “edged them out on tiebreaks”.
The Harker College completed third forward of Astana 2 RSPM.
Velammal Vidyalaya’s Pranav KP who performed reserve on board 5, together with Imangali Akhilbay (Kazakhstan NSPM) on board two and Edisa Berdibaeva (Kazakhstan NSPM) completed with good scores (eight out of eight).
In all, Velammal Vidyalaya completed their eight video games with 16 factors.
-PTI
ARCHERY
Verma, Madhura among the many prime
Abhishek Verma and Madhura Dhamangaonkar emerged as the highest Indian compound female and male archers respectively in particular person qualification rounds of the World Video games in Chengdu, China, on Thursday.
Verma shot 710 factors to take the fifth place amongst males, whereas Madhura collected 705 to be third amongst girls.
In combined staff, the one staff occasion within the World Video games, India claimed the highest spot with 1415 factors due to Verma and Madhura’s tremendous displaying.
In particular person rankings, Verma was adopted by Rishabh Yadav (tenth, 707) and Rakesh Kumar (nineteenth, 699).
Parneet Kaur, the opposite Indian lady in fray, was twelfth with 695 factors.
– Y. B. Sarangi
GOLF
Angad Cheema leads India Open
Angad Cheema shot a three-under 69 within the third spherical to guide the sector with an total 11-under 205 within the Rs.1 crore Coal India Open on the Kensville Golf and Nation Membership on Thursday.
A champion of the final PGTI occasion in April this 12 months, the 35-year-old Angad had a bogey on the tenth however adopted with 4 birdies, to achieve a one-shot lead over in a single day chief Amardeep Malik.
“I performed regular, and hit the greens in regulation. My putter was scorching on the back-nine that helped me sink loads of lengthy putts,” stated Angad who had gained appreciable expertise by competing within the qualifying occasion of The Open in United Kingdom.
Udayan Mane continued to be spectacular along with his second successive spherical of 66, a exceptional change of fortunes after a disheartening 78 within the first spherical.
One of many leaders within the first spherical, Karandeep Kochhar had a three-under 69 to be third on the leaderboard.
The scores (third spherical):
1. Angad Cheema (69, 67, 69) 205; 2. Amardeep Malik (69, 65, 72) 206; 3. Karandeep Kochhar (69, 70, 69)
208; 4T. Udayan Mane (78, 66, 66), Arjun Prasad (71, 70, 69) 210; 6T. Jamal Hossain (75, 67, 69), Yuvraj Sandhu (70, 70, 71); Shaurya Bhattacharya (71, 66, 74) 211; 9. Anshul Kabthiyal (69, 73, 71) 213; 10. Rakshit Dahiya (72, 71, 71) 214; 11T. Om Prakash Chauhan (70, 74, 71), Manoj S (70, 71, 74) 215; 13T. Varun Parikh (74, 70, 72), Chandarjeet Yadav (73, 71, 72), Abhinav Lohan (71, 72, 73), Mohd. Azhar (73, 69, 74) 216.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
TENNIS
Mahik to face Jeetesh Kumari in last at AITA match in New Delhi
Fourth seed Jeetesh Kumari beat second seed Samriti Punyani 6-2, 6-4 within the semifinals of the Rs.100,000 AITA girls’s tennis match on the DLTA Complicated on Thursday.
Within the last, Jeetesh will problem the highest seed Mahika Khanna who eased previous Riya Sachdeva for the lack of three video games.
Mahika additionally made the doubles last in partnership with Durganshi Kumar and the duo will play Jasmine Rawat and Jeetesh.
RESULTS
Singles: Mahika Khanna bt Riya Sachdeva 6-0, 6-3; Jeetesh Kumari bt Samriti Punyani 6-2, 6-4.
Doubles: Jasmine Rawat & Jeetesh Kumari bt Shagun Kumari & Shatakshi Choudhary 6-3, 6-2; Mahika Khanna & Durganshi Kumar bt Diya Desai & Bhumika Dahiya 6-3, 6-3.
-Staff Sportstar
SQUASH
Tanvi Khanna in title conflict at HCL Tour PSA Challenger
Tanvi Khanna sailed previous fourth seed Goh Zhi Xuan of Malaysia 11-8, 11-8, 11-4 to arrange a title conflict in opposition to prime seed Nour Khafagy of Egypt within the HCL Tour PSA Challenger squash match on the Sawai Man Singh Stadium on Thursday.
Within the males’s semifinals, Mohamed Gohar was at his combating greatest for over an hour to beat Ravindu Laksiri of Sri Lanka in 5 video games. He’ll problem the highest seed Yassin Shohdy within the last.
RESULTS
Males: Yassin Shohdy (Egy) bt Seif Refaay (Egy) 11-8, 11-7, 11-7; Mohamed Gohar (Egy) bt Ravindu Laksiri (Sri) 12-10, 11th of September, 11-7, 12-14, 11-6.
Girls: Nour Khafagy (Egy) bt Akari Midorikawa (Jpn) 11-6, 7-11, 11-8, 11-6; Tanvi Khanna bt Goh Zhi Xuan (Mas) 11-8, 11-8, 11-4.
-Staff Sportstar