BADMINTON
Quick-rising shuttlers Tanvi Sharma and Unnati Hooda, together with boys’ doubles pair of Bhargav Ram Arigela and Viswa Tej Gobburu, will lead a 25-member Indian squad on the BWF World Junior Championships to be held in Guwahati from October 6 to 19.
The Indian contingent additionally options Asian Junior Championships bronze medallist Vennala Kalagotla and Rakshitha Sree, making it one of many strongest Indian line-ups for the marquee junior occasion.
The Suhandinata Cup (combined staff championships) will probably be performed from October 6 to 11, adopted by the person occasions from October 13 to 19 on the Nationwide Centre of Excellence.
“We’re very excited that India will probably be fielding one in every of its strongest contingents for the World Junior Championships on residence turf,” mentioned Badminton Affiliation of India Secretary Sanjay Mishra in a launch.
“Our squad boasts two World Junior No. 1s and some gamers who’ve already made their mark on the senior circuit, and I’m assured that we are going to see Indian gamers on the rostrum this time.”
India final hosted the match in 2008 when Saina Nehwal grew to become the primary Indian shuttler to win gold, whereas RMV Guru Sai Dutt bagged the bronze in boys’ singles. The nation has to date received 11 medals on the occasion, together with 4 silver and 6 bronze.
The ultimate squad was picked by way of a two-stage trial that featured Asian Junior Championships contributors, world junior top-20 gamers, BAI singles top-8, BAI doubles top-4 pairs and juniors contained in the BWF senior top-50. Tanvi and Vennala, each Asian Junior bronze medallists, earned direct choice.
Indian staff:
Boys’ Singles (U19): Rounak Chouhan, Gnana Dattu T.T., Lalthazuala H, Suryaksh Rawat
Women’ Singles (U19): Tanvi Sharma, Vennala Kalagotla, Unnati Hooda, Rakshitha Sree S.
Boys’ Doubles (U19): Sumith A.R./Bhavya Chhabra, Bhargav Ram Arigela/Viswa Tej Gobburu, Vishnu Kedhar Kode/Mithileish P. Krishnan
Women’ Doubles (U19): Vennala Kalagotla/Reshika U, Gayatri Rawat/Mansa Rawat, Aanya Bisht/Angel Punera
Blended Doubles (U19): Bhavya Chhabra/Vishakha Toppo, Lalramsanga C/Taarini Suri, Vishnu Kedhar Kode/Keerthy Manchala, Vansh Dev/Dianka Waldia.
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WRESTLING
World U-20 Championships: Sumit Malik wins silver medal in males’s 57kg freestyle occasion
Sumit Malik misplaced 5-8 to European under-20 bronze medallist Magomed Ozdamirov within the 57kg freestyle ultimate to take the silver medal on the World under-20 wrestling championships in Samokov, Bulgaria, on Tuesday.
Ladies wrestlers Tapasya (57kg) and Srishti (68kg) reached their respective finals to make sure two extra medals for India. Tapasya pinned Dolzhon Tsyngueva and France’s Romaissa El Kharroubi earlier than pipping Japanese Sowaka Uchida, the defending champion, 4-3 to safe a spot within the title conflict. Srishti gave authoritative performances to beat Brazil’s Eduarda Batista 10-0, Poland’s Dominika Pochowska ‘by fall’, Serbia’s Masa Perovic 10-0 and Germany’s Laura Koehler 7-3 on her approach to the ultimate.
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TENNIS
Dhakshineswar Suresh makes ATP fundamental draw
Dhakshineswar Suresh misplaced the primary draw first spherical 6-3, 6-3 to Mariano Navone of Argentina, after successful two rounds of qualifying occasion within the $798,335 ATP tennis match in Winston Salem, USA.
The massive serving Dhakshineswar who beat seeded Alejandro Tabilo and Aidan Mayo within the qualifying occasion, collected eight ATP factors for qualification and $4,260.
He has additionally acquired a wild card for doubles with Luca Pow and can problem the highest seeds Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski.
Within the Challenger in Sofia, Bulgaria, Sumit Nagal beat lucky-loser Filip Pieczonka of Poland 6-4, 6-3 within the first spherical.
RESULTS
$798,335 ATP, Winston Salem, USA
Singles (first spherical): Mariano Navone (Arg) bt Dhakshineswar Suresh 6-3, 6-3.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Romain Arneodo (Mon) & Rohan Bopanna bt Luciano Darderi (Ita) & Alexandre Muller (Fra) 6-1, 6-1.
€91,250 Challenger, Sofia, Bulgaria
Singles (first spherical): Sumit Nagal bt Filip Pieczonka (Pol) 6-4, 6-3; Marat Sharipov bt Aryan Shah 7-5, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF males, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Singles (first spherical): Ammar Alhogbani (KSA) bt Parth Aggarwal 7-6(3), 1-6, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): M Rifqi Fitriadi (Ina) & Junhyeon Lee (Kor) bt Atharva Sharma & Yuta Tomida (Jpn) 7-6(4), 6-4; Sai Karteek Reddy & Thantub Suksumrarn (Tha) bt Dmitry Bessonov & Jerko Brkic (Cro) 6-2, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF girls, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Singles (first spherical): Primmada Thongkum (Tha) bt Pooja Ingale 6-1, 6-1.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Pooja Ingale & Paola Lopez (USA) bt Papitchaya Isaro & Sorvisa Kulphisanrat (Tha) 6-2, 1-6, [10-8].
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GOLF
Ridhima, Jasmine and Neha amongst high starters in eleventh leg of WPGT
Ridhima Dilawari and Jasmine Shekar, winners of the final two occasions on the Hero Ladies’s Professional Golf Tour, will headline the sector alongside Vidhatri Urs and Neha Tripathi within the eleventh leg of the tour on the picturesque Status Golfshire right here from Wednesday.
The course is located on the foothills of the Nandi Hills.
A area of 29 professionals and 5 amateurs will tee off within the occasion which carries a handbag of Rs. 15 lakh.
In July, Ridhima received the tenth leg after being runner-up on two events this season. Earlier Jasmine received the ninth leg, edging previous Neha Tripathi. Vidhatri is but to style success this season.
Different distinguished gamers within the area embody Seher Atwal, Kriti Chowhan, Durga Nittur, Khushi Khanijau and Anvitha Narender.
The amateurs are led by Mannat Brar, who has been performing nicely this season.
Ridhima, who’s second on the Order of Advantage, and has Rs. 9,58,000 in winnings this yr, has an opportunity to change into solely the second participant to cross the Rs. 10 lakh mark after Vani Kapoor, who’s taking part in within the Hills Open in Sweden this week.
Ridhima is drawn with Jahaanvie Walia and newbie Mannat Brar within the first spherical, whereas Jasmine performs with Geetika Ahuja and newbie Riddhima Singh.
A lot of Indian gamers are taking part in on the Girls European Tour this week they usually embody regulars like Vani Kapoor, Amandeep Drall, Sneha Singh and Hitaashee Bakshi.
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Yuvraj Sandhu continues sizzling streak, leads after opening spherical
Chandigarh’s Yuvraj Sandhu, the Order of Advantage chief and final week’s winner in Mysuru, continued his sizzling streak together with his opening spherical effort of eight-under 63 that gave him the lead on the Rs 1 crore PGTI Gamers Championship in Hosur on Tuesday.
The occasion is being performed on the Clover Greens Golf Course & Resort.
The trio consisting of Nepal’s Subash Tamang, Delhi’s Shaurya Bhattacharya and Hyderabad’s Milind Soni shot scores of seven-under 64 on the Par-71 course to occupy tied second place.
Mohd Azhar of Hyderabad was positioned fifth at 65 whereas Bengaluru-based teenaged newbie Veer Ganapathy was positioned tied sixth at 66.
As PGTI made its debut at Clover Greens, many of the professionals have been taking part in their first ever aggressive spherical on the picturesque venue.
Sandhu, additionally making his first go to to Clover Greens, outperformed all of the others on day one in overcast, cool and intensely windy circumstances because the temperature hovered between 20 to 24 levels celsius.
Sandhu, a three-time winner this season on the PGTI, mastered the tree-lined slender fairways and the wind by producing three birdies on the back-nine after which including an eagle and 4 birdies at the price of a solitary bogey on the front-nine.
The 28-year-old Sandhu’s spherical was highlighted by a 20-feet eagle conversion on the second, a drive that discovered the Par-4 thirteenth inexperienced and two terrific up and downs, one from the hazard and one from the tough, for birdies.
Sandhu mentioned, “I’ve began actually having fun with taking part in in such gusty circumstances, I really feel I thrive in these conditions. Like I mentioned final week, I’ve developed my abilities of taking part in in these circumstances with all my expertise of taking part in in Asia.
“It’s additionally nice to steer in my very first spherical at a venue, similar to final week in Mysuru. Clover Greens is a brief monitor however it has plenty of challenges to supply courtesy its slender, tree-lined fairways and the pot bunkers.
“Happily, I performed the Professional-Am couple of days again with the proprietor of the course Mr. Austin Roach who gave me a great perception into the challenges posed by this course. That was very useful for me.” Subash Tamang, the 2023 All India Beginner champion, combined eight birdies with a bogey on day one. His correct strategy pictures left him six birdie putts inside a spread of 4 ft.
Shaurya Bhattacharya and Milind Soni, who have been each tied second together with Tamang, produced two eagles every throughout their rounds of 64.
Shaurya, a winner this yr, chipped-in for his eagle on the twelfth and got here up with a superb second shot from 190 yards to depart himself a tap-in for eagle on the second gap.
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