CHESS
Arvind Iyer emerges winner in All India Chess Masters Mumbai FIDE Classical
Arvind Iyer has been topped champion of the All India Chess Masters Mumbai FIDE Classical Match after ending with seven factors in eight rounds to edge out Darsh Shetty in a powerful competitors.
In truth, each Arvind and Darsh completed with seven factors every however the former received the championship on tremendous Buchholz tie-breaks.
Shetty completed because the runner-up place whereas the third place was claimed by Worldwide Grasp Vikramaditya Kulkarni, who collected 6.5 factors.
The winner obtained a money prize of Rs. 40,000.
In girls’s class, Lady Candidate Grasp Kriti Mayur Patel was adjudged because the Finest Participant, adopted by Reya Banker and Pradeepa Jayapal who secured second and third place respectively.
Vinod Chaturvedi completed first within the veteran’s class, adopted by Guru Prasad Patil and Ashok Govindrao Patil at second and third.
– PTI
ARCHERY
India wins group bronze at World Youth Archery Championships
Indian archers claimed the Beneath-18 recurve girls’s group bronze whereas staying in medal rivalry in 4 different group occasions, together with three finals, on the World youth Archery Championships in Winnipeg, Canada.
Essential outcomes (Workforce):
Recurve (U-18)
Males: India (Agastay Singh, Soham Kanase, Aditya Pawar) received a bye (1st spherical), bt France 6-0 (2nd spherical), bt Japan 5-3 (third spherical), misplaced to Chinese language Taipei 3-5 (semifinal), misplaced to Turkey 3-5 (bronze medal match)
Girls: India (Gatha Khadake, Jiana Kumar, Sharvari Shende) received a bye (1st spherical), bt Mexico 6-0 (2nd spherical), bt Japan 5-3 (third spherical), misplaced to Korea 2-6 (semifinal), bt USA 6-0 (bronze medal match)
Combined group: India (Gatha, Agastay) received a bye (1st spherical), bt France 5-3 (2nd spherical), bt Georgia 5-1 (third spherical), misplaced to Korea 0-6 (semifinal), to satisfy Chinese language Taipei in bronze medal match.
Compound (U-21)
Males: India (Mihir Apar, Kushal Dalal, Ganesh Mani Ratnam Thirumuru) received a bye (1st spherical), bt Israel 235-233 (2nd spherical), bt Korea 233-228 (semifinal), to satisfy Germany within the closing.
Compound (U-18)
Males: India (Mohit Dagar, Yogesh Joshi, Devansh Singh) received byes (1st spherical and semifinal), to satisfy USA within the closing
Girls: India (Surya Hamsini Madala, Prithika Pradeep, Varenya) bt Italy 225-215 (1st spherical), misplaced to Chinese language Taipei 224-227 (semifinal), misplaced to Mexico 210-221 (bronze medal match)
Combined group: India (Prithika, Dagar) received a bye (1st spherical), bt New Zealand 150-136 (2nd spherical), bt Spain 154-145 (semifinal), to satisfy USA within the closing.
– Y. B. Sarangi
INDIAN FOOTBALL
Chandigarh, Sikkim, Meghalaya shine in Subroto Cup
Kerala’s Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial Faculty, Thrissur, sealed a 2-0 win over Harish Pawar Greater Secondary Faculty, Nainital, whereas Chhattisgarh’s Mata Rukhmani Kanya Ashram registered a 3-0 victory over PM Shri Govt. Mahatma Gandhi Sr. Sec. Faculty, Andrott, Lakshadweep within the Subroto Cup Junior Women (Beneath-17) class on Friday.
Assam’s Betkuchi Excessive Faculty and Sri Lanka Faculty Soccer Affiliation, together with APS Noida and Bihar’s Upgraded Excessive Faculty, Bilaspur performed out goalless attracts.
West Bengal’s Nandajhar Adibashi Pashili Excessive Faculty continued their successful kind with a 2-0 conquer PM Shri KV Senior Faculty, Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.
Sikkim’s PM Shri Tashi Namgyal Sr. Sec. Faculty additionally impressed, defeating Delhi’s Bharti Public Faculty 3-0.
In the meantime, Rudrapur’s Amenity Public Faculty (CBSE) held Spring Discipline Hr. Sec. Faculty (NCC) to a 1-1 draw, and Nagaland’s Govt. Excessive Faculty, Meriema, shared factors with JNV Purulia, Mawphlang (NVS) after a 0-0 end result.
Maharashtra’s Krida Prabodhini, Pune additionally registered an enormous 20-0 victory towards Air Power Faculty, Chakeri.
– PTI
TENNIS
Diya Ramesh units up summit conflict date towards Parthsarathi
Second seed Diya Ramesh beat third seed Diya Chaudhary in straight units and can meet 14th seed Parthsarathi Arun Mundhe within the finals within the ITF Junior Tennis Cup 2025 at SDAT Tennis Stadium Nungambakkam.
Parthsarathi upset prime seed Aishwarya Jadhav in a detailed match. Yashwin Krishnakumar of United States upset prime seed Araadhya Kshitij will face Vraj Gohil within the finals
Boys’ Singles semifinals
Yashwin Krishnakumar (USA) bt S1 – Aradhya Kshitij 7-6(6) 6-2, S2 -Vraj Gohil bt S12 – Aran Selvaraasan (GBR) 5-7, 7-5, 6-2.
Women’ Singles semifinals
S14 – Parthsarthi Arun Mundhe bt S1 – Aishwarya Jadhav 7-5, 7-6(4), S2 – Diya Ramesh bt S3 – Diya Chaudhary 6-0, 6-1
Boys’ Doubles semifinals
S5 – Aradhya Kshitij/Nikhil Kurapati bt S1 -Vraj Gohil/Aditya Mor 6-3, 6-3, S6 – Shaurya Bharadwaj/Shivtej Shirufule bt Yashwin Krishnakumar(USA)/Nishith Rajesh(USA) 4-6, 6-3, 10-8.
Women’ Doubles semifinals
S1 – Aishwarya Jadhav/Snigdha Kanta bt Shaivi Gaurav Dalal/ Parthsarthi Arun Mundhe 6-4, 7-6(4), S4 – Savitha Bhuvaneswaran/Diya Ramesh bt Shreeniti Chaudhary/Harsha Karthika Oruganti 5-7, 6-3, 10-4.
– Workforce Sportstar
GOLF
Heena Kang wins maiden Professional title at eleventh Leg of WPGT
Heena Kang was going nice weapons with eight holes left however needed to quell a late cost from Lavanya Gupta to bag her maiden Professional title on the eleventh leg of the Girls’s Professional Golf Tour, right here Friday.
Heena, who was fifth on her professional debut final month, was chased onerous by beginner Lavanya on the Status Golfshire.
Lavanya, who began the ultimate day two pictures behind Heena, had fallen 5 pictures behind as she was 4-over by the flip. After which there was an excellent cost from Lavanya, who birdied the eleventh, 14th, and the sixteenth.
Needing yet one more birdie to drive a play-off, Lavanya completed par-par, the identical as Heena, who emerged a winner by one shot.
Heena and Lavanya started the day with a bogey, and the latter had a second bogey on the fourth. One gap later, Heena additionally bogeyed, and that meant she was nonetheless two forward of Lavanya.
A bogey for Lavanya on the eighth and a birdie for Heena on the ninth meant the latter was now 4 forward.
Issues modified quick on the again 9 as Lavanya fought onerous, however Heena held her personal and made no errors after the bogey on the eleventh, the place Lavanya had additionally given away a shot.
Ananya Garg, who was six behind the chief, Heena, in the beginning, had a tough begin, going three-over within the first 5 holes. But, she fought again with 4 birdies.
She birdied the seventh and the ninth and added two extra on the sixteenth and the seventeenth. She ended the day with the most effective card of the ultimate spherical with 1-under 71 and was in sole third.
Jasmine Shekar, enjoying within the chief group, struggled on the entrance 9 with a six-over stretch that included 4 bogeys and one double. She had two birdies and a bogey on the again 9 and carded 77 to complete fourth.
Neha Tripathi (73), beginner Riya Jadon (74), and Ananya Datar (75) have been tied fifth at 223, whereas beginner Mannat Brar, the co-leader after Day 1, and Agrima Manral, each with 76, have been tied eighth at 224. Ridhima Dilawari (74) rounded off the High-10.
Vani Kapoor stays on prime of the Hero Order of Advantage with Ridhima in second place. Jasmine, Neha, and Amandeep occupy the third to fifth locations.
-PTI
Printed on Aug 22, 2025