SQUASH
Anahat finishes runner-up at NSW Squash Bega Open
Second seed Habiba Hani of Egypt beat prime seed Anahat Singh within the remaining of the $27,500 Bega Open PSA ladies’s squash event in Australia on Sunday.
The 20-year-old Habiba led Sept. 11, 11-5, 11-8, 10-4 when Anahat retired, unable to maintain her problem owing to an ankle harm.
Habiba Hani defeated Anahat Singh within the remaining of the NSW Squash Bega Open.
Habiba Hani defeated Anahat Singh within the remaining of the NSW Squash Bega Open.
The 17-year-old Anahat, who has 12 titles to her credit score within the PSA circuit, and is considered as one of many brightest expertise within the sport, received off to an excellent begin, however was not capable of match the athleticism and power of Habiba because the match progressed.
After profitable the primary set, Anahat misplaced 5 factors in a row in dropping the second recreation from 5-6. Within the third, from 8-8 Habiba received three factors in a row to nostril forward. Within the fourth recreation additionally, Habiba accelerated from 5-4 to 10-4 when Anahat selected to shake arms and finish the leisure that had spanned 28 minutes.
“It was fairly robust. I attempted to push via however couldn’t. I’ve yet one more week to get better earlier than the Nationwide championship. I’m trying ahead to it,” stated Anahat who’s the defending champion within the Nationals scheduled in Delhi from August 23.
“I felt good and was taking part in good,” stated the 20-year-old Habiba who was profitable her maiden PSA World collection title.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
TABLE TENNIS
Europe Smash: Yashaswini qualifies for foremost draw
Yashaswini Ghorpade certified for the primary draw on the Europe Smash in Malmo, Sweden, on Saturday.
Yashaswini defeated Serbia’s Izabela Lupulesku 3-1 (7-11, 11-8, 11-8, 11-6) within the remaining spherical of qualifiers. The Indian will tackle Chinese language World No. 5 Wang Yidi within the spherical of 64 on Sunday.
Elsewhere, Diya Chitale misplaced 0-3 (7-11, 3-11, Sept. 11) to Germany’s Annett Kaufmann iwhile Manush Shah went down 2-3 (11-7, 4-11, Sept. 11, 11-3, 7-11) to Luxembourg’s Luka Mladenovic within the remaining qualifying spherical.
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GOLF
Aditi Ashok shoots season greatest spherical of 65, rises to fifth in Portland
Aditi Ashok sunk in seven birdies to supply her greatest spherical of the season — a card of 65– that carried her into the top-5 after the third spherical of The Customary Portland Basic on the LPGA Tour.
Aditi, who had performed solely 12 occasions on the Tour earlier than this week, has had just one top-10 this season — a Tied-Ninth place at Riviera Maya Open at Mayakoba.
Beginning birdie-birdie on the primary two, she added three in a row from the sixth to the eighth. Then got here one other back-to-back birdie pair on the thirteenth and he 14th for a 7-under 65 after 69-70 on the primary two days.
Gurleen Kaur (65-68-70) at 13-under was fourth and Savannah Grewal (69-67-72) was 8-under and T-25.
Japan’s Akie Iwai of Japan eagled the fifth gap and picked birdies on different three par 5s at Columbia Edgewater, throughout a spherical of 8-under 64 to take a two-stroke lead.
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Veer Ahlawat tied-Twenty eighth at Danish Open
Veer Ahlawat performed a gradual third spherical of one-under 70 on a shifting day to succeed in tied-Twenty eighth on the Danish Golf Championship on the Fureso Golf Klub in Copenhagen.
It was an fascinating spherical as Ahlawat had 14 pars in a row from the beginning. He bogeyed the fifteenth however two pars later, Ahlawat completed the spherical with an eagle on the 18th for a one-under 71.
Earlier, Ahlawat had rounds of 73-68 and is now two-under for 3 rounds.
A superb end will see him get at the very least a top-30 end for the second week working on the DP World Tour.
In the meantime, Rasmus Hojgaard held the lead by one stroke heading into the ultimate spherical. Enjoying in the identical group as his closest rival Danish participant Marco Penge, Hojgaard shot two birdies and one bogey for a 3rd spherical rating of one-under 70.
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Rayhan Thomas slips to tied-45 at Boise Open
Rayhan Thomas carded 2-under 69 on the third day as he slipped all the way down to Tied 45 on the leaderboard on the Albertsons Boise Open on the Korn Ferry Tour.
The spherical included six birdies and 4 bogeys on the Hillcrest Nation Membership.
Thomas began his day with a bogey earlier than making consecutive birdies on the second and third holes. Thomas added birdies on the eighth, ninth, twelfth and sixteenth holes. Thomas with 65-70-69 is at 9 below par.
American Jeffrey Kang shot a 3rd spherical of 7-under 64 to maneuver into shared lead with Russel Knox of Scotland and Adrien Dumont de Chassart of Belgium. Knox carded 6-under 66 for the day whereas Adrien carded 3-under 68. All three leaders are 15 below par.
One stroke behind the leaders in fourth place is Richy Werenski.
Indian-American Julian Suri is Tied-Twentieth, whereas Sudarshan Yellamaraju missed the minimize.
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TENNIS
Fazal Meer and Shreyas transfer up in Unify ITF Junior Tennis Cup 2025
The Unify ITF Junior Tennis Cup 2025 received off to a sedate begin on the SDAT Tennis Stadium with 24 Boys singles qualifying first spherical being accomplished on Saturday. Rain affected the night session and the 24 Ladies qualifying had been rescheduled and accomplished on Sunday.
The outcomes:
Boys Singles Qualifying I Spherical (All India besides these talked about): Lethaeesh S Kombila [1] beat Sankalp Kumar Sahani Kumar 6-2, 6-3; Shreyas Narendran (USA) beat Niraanjan Singh 6(5)-7, 6-1, 10-6; Pradnyesh Shelke beat Avi Agarwal 6-3, 2-6, 10-6; Atharva Shukla [10] beat Rishi Yadav 7-5, 0-6, 10-8; Sharan Somasi [2] beat Sri Sai Satyaram Harivansh Mygapula 7-5, 3-6, 10-8; Saksham Bhansali beat Namit Bhatia 6-3, 6-0; Aarav Gupta beat Arnav Harishankar 7-6(5), 6-2; Fazal Ali Meer beat Mokshak Reddy Challa [8] 6-1 6-2; Tae Jun Heo [3] (Korea) beat Chandra Siddharth Kopparapu 6-3 6-3; Tejas Ravi beat Nived Ponnapa Konerira 4-6, 6-1, 10-5; Ashwin Kabilan beat Mohd Shees 6-3, 7-6(5); Kabir Parmar [7] beat Ishir Mehta Beat 2-6 1-6; Uday Kaul [4] beat Vaibhav Charotia 3-6 6-1 10-5; Viren Suryavanshi beat Navya Yadav 6-4, 6-1; Pranav Rajesh beat Nidesh Balaji Peramaiyan 3-6, 6-2, 10-4; Rohan Karthik Vunnam [12] beat Shardul Khawale 6-1, 6-4; Gowtham Shanmugasundaram [5] beat Arav Aravindh 0-6, 1-6; Ribhav Saroha beat Alastair Victor Joseph Arputharaj 6-0, 6-0; Arjun Manikandan beat Aazaan Assiz 7-5 6-4; Lakshay Madankumar (AUS) beat Daksh Mudunoori [11] 6-2 7-6(5); Parthiv Nallagundla beat Amrit Vats [6] 0-6, 6-3, 10-8; Abhinav Goud Putta (AUS) beat Bhavik Mittal 0-6 4-6; Siddharth Jeebu beat Nithibbarath Ks 6-4, 4-6, 11-9; Niyanth Badrinarayanan (USA) beat Atharva Sriramoju [9] 6-2 6-2
Ladies’ Singles Qualifying I Spherical: Yashitha Ereti beat Lanika Ramu 3-6, 6-3, 10-6; Anjhalle Meka beat Vaishnavi Singh 6-2 6-2; Janhavi Chougule [9] beat Mahaniya Subramanian beat 6-1, 6-0; Saanchi Dalal (USA) [2] beat Saanvi Ravikant Raju 6-2, 6-0; Ok A Aadira [3] beat P Sai Sanjana Reddy Polakala 6-2, 4-6, 10-3; Devanshee Prabhudesai [7] beat Preethi Premkumar (IND) 6-0, 6-0; Aishwarya Jadhav [1] beat Advita Gupta 6-2 5-0; Joshitha Santhanakrishnan beat Sanidhya Karanth 6-2, 6-3; Kasturi V G beat Keshmeya Vijayakumar 6-2, 6-0; Lavanya Tiwari beat Dhaanvi Dechamma Kanjithanda; Jemima Rebecca Christine John beat Isheeta Midha (walkover)Nalyaazhni Krishnaprabhu beat Vishmasri Thuraka 6-4, 6-3; Ilaiyanila Kannan beat Sarithra Entoori 6-4, 6-4; Tejaswi Manneni [5] beat Diya Harikrishnan 6-1, 6-1; Srinidhi Madhu (GBR) [10] beat Vaari Patankar 6-3, 1-6, 10-7; Diya Marichelvan beat Dhriti Sandra Bantupalli [4] 3-6, 6-2, 10-5; Tanushsri Maneni Sathesh beat Niyamika Balaji [11]; Samaira Kohli [6] beat Avyaktha Rayavarapu (USA); Devashree Mahadeshwar [12] beat Sahana Kamalakannan 6-0, 7-6(1); Suhani Bhasin beat Arunima Roy 7-6(4), 6-3; Pooja Nagaraj beat Aditi Khanpari (USA); Anamya Dubey beat Ayessha Bagla [8] (stroll over)
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Parthsarthi Arun Mundhe and Gandharv Gourav Kothapalli topped Champions
The Finals of the MCC-N.SANKAR Memorial Nationwide Junior U-18 Clay Court docket Tennis Championship 2025 noticed intense aggressive and clever tennis and the tennis loving spectators totally loved the night.
Within the Ladies’ remaining, fifth seed 15 12 months outdated Parthsarthi Arun Mundhe of Maharashtra displayed large maturity to out play unseeded 16-year-old Akansha Ghosh of West Bengal to win in two intensely fought units. Within the first set, Parthsarthi, taking part in fluently, ran away to 5-1 lead in a rush breaking her nervous opponent’s serve twice to shut out the set 6-1. Within the second set, Akansha stroked with extra confidence whereas Parthsarthi various her ways, slowed the sport and adopted up with robust groundstrokes and her double handed backhand was a deal with to look at. The gamers had been degree 5-5 when Akansha grew to become error susceptible and Maaya stored her cool to win the set 7-5 and develop into a deserving champion.
The Boys singles finals was a battle between agency strong groundstrokes of qualifier Rohith Hari Balaji of Tamil Nadu and the artful recreation of Gandharv Gourav Kothapalli of Karnataka. Each the gamers had a strong begin and degree 3-3 Gandharv broke Rohith within the eighth recreation to take a 5-3 lead and serve for the primary set. Nevertheless, Rohit broke him once more 5-4. Gandharv served properly within the tenth recreation and took the primary set 6-4. Within the second set Gandharv performed optimistic tennis to achieve a 5-2 lead and win the set 6-3 to be topped champions. The winners will get 200 AITA factors Runner Up 150 factors.
Promising participant awards got to Rohith Hari Balaji of Tamil Nadu and Akansha Ghosh of West Bengal.
The outcomes:
Boys’ Singles remaining: Gandharv Gourav Kothapalli (KA) beat Rohith Hari Balaji (TN) 6-4, 6-3.
Ladies’ Singles remaining: Parthsarthi Arun Mundhe (MH) beat Akansha Ghosh (WB) 6-1, 7-5.
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HOCKEY
Odisha, UP, Punjab start junior nationwide hockey championships with victories
Day 6 of the fifteenth Hockey India Junior Males Nationwide Championship featured two Division ‘B’ and 4 Division ‘A’ matches. Hockey Affiliation of Bihar and Hockey Bengal received their respective matches as Division ‘B’ got here to a conclusion. Hockey Chandigarh and Delhi have received Pool A and Pool B respectively and are promoted to Division ‘A’ for the subsequent 12 months whereas Hockey Himachal and Assam Hockey have been relegated to Division ‘C’. Hockey Affiliation of Odisha, Hockey Haryana, Uttar Pradesh Hockey and Hockey Punjab received their Division A matches of the day in Jalandhar, Punjab.
Within the first Division ‘B’ match of the day Hockey Affiliation of Bihar defeated Assam Hockey 4-3 in Pool B. Nandlal Shah (18’, 47’) scored a brace together with objectives from Md Alishan Ahmad (1’) and Ranjan Kumar (6’) for Hockey Affiliation of Bihar. Sadique Ahmed (6’), Ashish Kumar (26’) and Rohan Ekka (57’) had been the three scorers for Assam Hockey.
Within the final match of Division ‘B’, Hockey Bengal loved a cushty 4-1 win over Hockey Uttarakhand. Bijay Shaw (3’), Captain Prince Gabriyal Dhan (7’), Aman Kumar Thakur (36’) and Karan Shaw (37’) scored objectives for Hockey Bengal whereas Naveen Prasad (60’) scored a late and solely aim for Hockey Uttarakhand.
Within the first Division ‘A’ fixture of the day, Hockey Affiliation of Odisha received towards Hockey Karnataka in Pool D with a slender scoreline of 2-1. Nitesh Sharma (37’) scored the opening aim of the sport for Hockey Karnataka however Ritik Lakra (50’) and Aryan Xess (51’) scored back-to-back objectives within the remaining quarter to assist Hockey Affiliation of Odisha win three factors of their first match of the event.
Within the subsequent Division ‘A’ match, Hockey Haryana registered a dominant 5-0 victory over Manipur Hockey in Pool C. Sunil (15’), Chirag (27’), Navraj Singh (50’), Rahul (56’) and Ansh Kamboj (59’) had been the goalscorers for Hockey Haryana.
Within the subsequent fixture of the day, Uttar Pradesh Hockey defeated Hockey Jharkhand 2-0 in Pool B. Ujjwal Pal (26’) scored from a penalty nook within the second quarter adopted by a area aim from Satyam Pandey (32’) within the third quarter to seal the win for Uttar Pradesh Hockey.
Within the remaining Division ‘A’ match of the day, Hockey Punjab loved a slim 3-2 win over Hockey Madhya Pradesh in Pool A. Om Rajnesh Saini (3’), Lovenoor Singh (14’) and Japnit Singh (41’) scored objectives for Hockey Punjab. Mohd Anas (19’) and Sohil Ali (39’) scored the 2 objectives for Hockey Madhya Pradesh.