GOLF
Newbie Mannat and rookie Heena share lead in eleventh leg of WPGT
Newbie Mannat Brar and rookie professional Heena Kang shared the lead after the primary spherical of the eleventh leg of the Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour at Status Golfshire right here on Wednesday.
The duo shot even par 72 and led three others, Kriti Chowhan and amateurs Lavanya Gupta and Riya Jadon, by two pictures.
Whereas Heena had a share of the lead, three amateurs figured within the prime 5, none of whom have gained on the WPG Tour.
Heena, who completed tied fifth in her debut as a professional final month in Zion Hills, opened with a pair of bogeys. The previous India worldwide novice, Heena fought again nicely with birdies on the third, seventh and twelfth to get beneath par.
A closing bogey on the 18th noticed her end at 72.
Mannat birdied the fourth however gave that shot again on the very subsequent gap on the Par-5 fifth. Two bogeys on the eleventh and twelfth pushed her again to 2-over however she hit again with birdies on the fifteenth and the 18th for an excellent par spherical.
Kriti Chowhan and novice Lavanya had two birdies and 4 bogeys every, whereas one other novice Riya had three birdies towards three bogeys and one double bogey for her 74.
The shock of the day was Ridhima Dilawari, who gained the tenth leg. She struggled to a spherical of 82 whereas one other former winner, Seher Atwal shot 86.
Three gamers, Ananya Datar, Jasmine Shekar and Anahita Singh occupied the tied sixth place with playing cards of 3-over 75 every, whereas 5 gamers shared the ninth place. They have been Karishma Govind, Durga Nittur, Ananya Garg, Khushi Khanijau and Astha Madan, all of who shot 76 every.
-PTI
Yuvraj Sandhu extends result in two pictures on day two of PGTI Gamers
Chandigarh golfer Yuvraj Sandhu produced a second-round rating of four-under 67 to increase his result in two pictures on the PGTI Gamers Championship right here on Wednesday.
PGTI Order of Advantage chief and final week’s winner Sandhu (63-67), the in a single day chief by one shot, moved his whole to 12-under 130 on the midway stage.
Olympian and Pune golfer Udayan Mane (67-65) returned the day’s lowest rating of 65 to leapfrog eight spots to tied second place at 10-under 132 .
Nepal’s Subash Tamang (64-68) continued in tied second place after capturing a 68 in spherical two on the Clover Greens Golf Course & Resort close to Hosur in Tamil Nadu.
-PTI
TENNIS
Diya Ramesh, Nishith Rajesh storm into quarterfinals
Second seed Diya Ramesh beat thirteenth seed Shaivi Gaurav Dalal in straightforward match, whereas Vasundra Balajee outplayed seventh seed Haritha Shree Venkatesh in straight units to make the following spherical of the – ITF Junior Tennis Cup 2025 performed at SDAT Tennis Stadium Nungambakkam, Chennai.
Within the boys pre-quarterfinals, Nishith Rajesh of United States upset eleventh seed Vyom Shah.
Outcomes
Boys singles Pre-quarterfinals:
Aradhya Kshitij [1] beat Shaurya Bhardwaj [16] 6-4, 7-6(6); Aditya Mor[4] beat Om Verma 6-2, 6-1; Vraj Gohil[2] beat Mannan Ashok Agarwal 6-2, 6-0; Yashwin Krishnakumar(USA) beat Aum Hiren Thakkar[13] 6-2 6-1; Hruthik Katakam beat Rohith Hari Balaji Gobinath 4- 2 (Retd); Aran Selvaraasan (GBR) beat Pratyush Loganathan 6-3, 6-0; Ojas Mehlawat[8] beat Shivtej Shirfule[10] 6-2, 2-1; Nishith Rajesh(USA) beat Vyom Shah[11] 3-6, 6-2, 6-0.
Ladies singles Pre-quarterfinals
Snigdha Kanta [6] beat Meghana G D 6-0 6-3; Aishwarya Jadhav [1] beat Riya Sachdeva 6-4, 6- 1; Vasundra Balajee beat Haritha Shree Venkatesh [7] 6-2 , 7-5; Parthsarthi Arun Mundhe[14] beat Deepthi Venkatesan 6-3, 6-2; Diya Ramesh[2] beat Shaivi Gaurav Dalal [13] 6- 6-1; Diva Chaudhary [3] beat Angel Patel [16] 6-4 3-6 6-3.
Ladies singles 2nd spherical
Angel Patel [16] Beat Sai Ananya Varansi 6-2, 6-3; Diva Chaudhary [3] beat Devashree Mahadeshwar 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; Nainika Narender Reddy Bendram [5] beat Sree Syleswari Velmanikandan 6-2, 6-4.
Aleena Farid[10] beat Savitha Bhuvaneswaran 6-1, 7-6(6); Shaivi Gaurav Dalal[13] beat Akansha Ghosh 6-3 6-2; Diya Ramesh Ramesh beat Aditi Paturi(USA) 6-2, 6-2; Deepthi Venkatesan beat Janvi Asawa 3-6, 6-1 6-3; Parthsarthi Arun Mundhe [14] beat Sanmitha Harini Lokesh 6-2, 6-1; Meghana G D beat Harsha Karthika Oruganti [9] 6-4, 6-0; Snigdha Kanta [6] beat Reet Arora 6-3, 6-0; Aahan Aahan[11] beat Saanchi Dalal(USA) 6-3, 6-2.
– Staff Sportstar
Sumit Nagal knocked out in pre-quarterfinals of Sofia Challenger occasion
Sumit Nagal was overwhelmed 7-5, 1-6, 6-4 by Andrej Nedic within the pre-quarterfinals of the €91,250 Challenger tennis match in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Within the $798,335 ATP occasion in Winston Salem, USA, the towering Dhakshineswar Suresh got here up with one more glowing efficiency earlier than going 8-10 within the tremendous tie-break of the doubles quarterfinals in with Luca Pow, towards the highest seeds Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski.
The outcomes
$798,335 ATP, Winston Salem, USA
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Joe Salisbury & Neal Skupski (GBR) bt Luca Pow (GBR) & Dhakshineswar Suresh 3-6, 6-3, [10-8].
€91,250 Challenger, Sofia, Bulgaria
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Andrej Nedic (BIH) bt Sumit Nagal 7-5, 1-6, 6-4.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Arjun Kadhe & Denys Molchanov (Ukr) bt Ignacio Carou (Uru) & Murkel Dellien (Bol) 6-7(5), 6-1, [15-13]; Adil Kalyanpur & Parikshit Somani w.o. Alvaro Meza (European) & Lautaro Midon (Arg); Alexander Donski (Bul) & Milos Karol (Svk) bt Prajwal Dev & Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-2, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF males, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Singles (first spherical): Sidharth Rawat bt Noppadol Noikor (Tha) 6-1, 6-2; Siddharth Vishwakarma bt Ryo Minakata (Jpn) 6-4, 6-1; Michael Zhu (USA) bt S Mukund 5-4 (retired).
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Parth Aggarwal & Seokhyeon Chu (Kor) bt Credit score Chaiyarin & Noppadol Noikor (Tha) 6-3, 6-4.
$40,000 ITF girls, Bistrita, Romania
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Yu-Yun Li (Tpe) & Daria Lodikova bt Leonie Kung (Sui) & Vasanti Shinde 6-1, 6-4.
$30,000 ITF girls, Verbier, Switzerland
Singles (first spherical): Amarni Banks (GBR) bt Vaishnavi Adkar 6-4, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF girls, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (first spherical): Alena Kovackova (Cze) bt Aaddi Gupta 6-2, 6-2.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Jordyn Mcbride (USA) & Diana Mihail (Rou) bt Himadri Kashyap & Martyna Zaremba (Pol) 6-3, 6-0; Sreemanya Anugonda & Janani Ramesh bt Farah Heddar (Alg) & Lina Soussi (Tun) 6-4, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF girls, Ankara, Turkey
Singles (first spherical): Mandegar Farzami (Iri) bt Ashmitha
$15,000 ITF girls, Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
Singles (first spherical): Pimada 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].
$15,000 ITF girls, Logrono, Spain
Doubles (quarterfinals): Leire San Jose & Maria Garnica (Esp) bt Celina Camarda (Ita) & Harsshali Mandavkar 6-4, 6-3.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
WRESTLING
Reena, Priya qualify for finals at World U-20 Wrestling Championships
Two extra Indian girls entered their respective finals to make sure medals for the nation on the World U-20 Wrestling Championships in Samokov, Bulgaria, on Wednesday. Reena bought previous Mongolia’s Khaliun Byambasuren 11-6, Hungary’s Gerda Terek 8-2 and Romania’s Alexandra Voiculescu 11-1 to succeed in the 55kg last. Priya defeated Hungary’s Veronika Nuikos 10-0, Diana Titova 4-0 and Serbia’s Evelin Ujhelji 10-0 to safe a spot within the 76kg summit conflict.
-Staff Sportstar
HOCKEY
Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, and Punjab confirmed as last 4 in Juniors Males’s Nationals
The quarterfinals of the fifteenth Hockey India Junior Males Nationwide Championship noticed Hockey Haryana, Uttar Pradesh Hockey, Hockey Affiliation of Odisha and Hockey Punjab seal their spots for the semifinals in Jalandhar, Punjab.
Within the first quarterfinal of the day, Hockey Haryana defeated Hockey Karnataka in a detailed 3-2 match with Navraj Singh (6’), Sachin (22’) and Chirag (59’) scoring for Hockey Haryana whereas Nitesh Sharma (28’) and Sampan Ganapathy B.P (43’) scored for Hockey Karnataka.
Hockey Haryana defeated Hockey Karnataka 3-2 in a decent match.
Hockey Haryana defeated Hockey Karnataka 3-2 in a decent match.
After a rain-affected day, the second quarterfinal happened within the night with Uttar Pradesh Hockey taking up Hockey Madhya Pradesh and defeating them 2-1 to safe their place. Satyam Pandey (34’) and Akash Pal (47’) scored a objective every for Uttar Pradesh Hockey, whereas the lone objective for Hockey Madhya Pradesh was scored by Harsh Phalswal (59’) within the last minutes of the sport.
Within the third quarterfinal match, Hockey Affiliation of Odisha defeated Manipur Hockey 9-0 with Karan Lakra (54’, 59’) scoring two targets and Bilkan Oram (4’), Ritik Lakra (25’), Yojin Minz (27’), Nitesh Minz (28’), Harun Minz (29’), Abhisek Topno (39’) and Deepak Pradhan (47’) scoring a objective every.
The ultimate match of the day happened between Hockey Punjab and Hockey Jharkhand with the host cementing their place within the semifinal with a 4-1 win over Hockey Jharkhand. Japnit Singh (8’, 47’) scored two targets for Hockey Punjab, whereas captain Gursewak Singh (4’) and Jobanpreet Singh (57’) scored one objective every. The lone objective for Hockey Jharkhand was scored by Amrit Horo (59’).
Printed on Aug 20, 2025