Indian sports activities wrap, September 29: Indian junior ladies’s hockey crew data 1-0 win over Australia U-21

HOCKEY

The Indian junior ladies’s hockey crew recorded a 1-0 victory over the Australia U-21 aspect within the third match of the continuing Australia Tour on the Nationwide Hockey Centre, Canberra, on Monday.

After a tricky contest between the 2 sides within the first half, India lastly broke the impasse courtesy of a vital area aim by Kanika within the opening minutes of the third quarter to assert the win for her aspect.

India had misplaced two video games on the trot in opposition to the Australia U-21 aspect earlier, however with this win, the customer will likely be hoping to experience on the newfound momentum and bounce again within the remaining matches of this tour.

India will subsequent play two matches in opposition to Canberra Chill, a membership enjoying in Australia’s premier Hockey One League, on thirtieth September and 2nd October to conclude its Australia Tour.

-Group Sportstar

TENNIS

Bopanna-Yuzuki pair enters Japan Open remaining

The Indo-Japanese pair of Rohan Bopanna and Takeru Yuzuki beat the top-seeded American pair of Christian Harrison and Evan King 4-6, 6-3, [18-16] to achieve the Japan Open remaining in Tokyo on Monday.

Wildcards Bopanna and Yuzuki saved three match factors within the match tiebreak.

They’ll face the second-seeded Monegasque-French duo of Hugo Nys and Édouard Roger-Vasselin within the remaining of the ATP 500 occasion on Tuesday.

This would be the first remaining of the 2025 season for the 45-year-old Bopanna.

– Group Sportstar

Debasis Sahoo earns comeback win in first spherical of Fenesta Nationwide tennis championship

Debasis Sahoo performed more and more higher because the match progressed to beat fifth seed Parth Aggarwal within the males’s first spherical of the Fenesta Nationwide tennis championship on the DLTA Advanced on Monday.

It was a exceptional turn-around as Debasis, who trains with coach Todd Clark on the KIIT College in Bhubaneswar, recovered from being 2-5 to race away with the match.

Within the pre-quarterfinal, Debasis will problem the previous nationwide champion Manish Sureshkumar, who eased previous Amrutjay Mohanty for the lack of 4 video games.

Atharva Sharma fought his well beyond former finalist Suraj Prabodh within the third set tie-break.

Within the ladies’s part, prime seed Vaishnavi Adkar warmed up for the harder matches forward with a straight-set victory over Mirudhula Palanivel.

Jeetesh Kumari stayed sturdy after dropping the primary set to quell the problem from Chevika Reddy who retired halfway via the decider.

Fluent stroking left-hander Aditi Rawat needed to play at her finest to get previous Chandana Potugari in three units.

– Group Sportstar

GOLF

Hero Ladies’s Indian Open 2025 to kickstart on October 9

The Hero Ladies’s Indian Open 2025 is ready to return with a line-up of world-class golfers between October 9 and 12 on the DLF Golf & Nation Membership.

Recognised as a premier occasion on the Women European Tour (LET) since 2010, the match sees its prize purse boosted to USD $500,000.

India will likely be well-represented by its prime feminine golfers, together with LET winner Diksha Dagar, Pranavi Urs, Tvesa Malik, and Avani Prashanth. A robust group of rising native gamers from the Hero Ladies’s Professional Golf Tour (Hero WPGT) will even be part of them on this version.

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Yuvraj Sandhu finishes T-43 in Taiwan

Indian golfer Yuvraj Sandhu shot 2-over 74 to complete tied-Forty third on the Mercuries Taiwan Masters as nearly all of the gamers struggled on the ultimate day, and under-par rounds have been only a few.

The Taiwan Golf and Nation Membership has proved a problem all week as scoring has been troublesome. Sandhu made 4 birdies, three bogeys and one triple bogey in his remaining spherical of the week.

The Indian made an early bogey on the third gap and adopted it up instantly with a birdie on the fourth. He repeated the identical cycle on the ninth and tenth holes earlier than dropping three pictures on the twelfth gap.

Consecutive birdies on the fifteenth and sixteenth holes noticed him mount a short-lived resurgence, solely to finish the spherical with a bogey on the ultimate gap. He completed the week with a complete rating of 10 over par.

Rattanon Wannasrichan carded a remaining spherical of 1-over 73 to carry off all his challengers and win the Mercuries Taiwan Masters by one stroke. The Thai made three birdies and 4 bogeys within the remaining spherical to finish the week at 5 below par.

-PTI

CHESS

‘Arjun would have been good match’, American Gambits Head Coach Srinath and co-owner Prachura PP mirror on GCL Season 3 Draft

American Gambits Head Coach GM Srinath Narayanan and co-owner Prachura PP shared insights following the World Chess League Season 3 draft in Mumbai.

Having retained Icon participant Hikaru Nakamura and Famous person Ladies participant Bibisara Assaubayeva, American Gambits made key acquisitions on the draft, including Richard Rapport, Vladislav Artemiev, Teodora Injac, and prodigy Volodar Murzin to their squad.

The American Gambits crew in the course of the World Chess League Season 3 draft in Mumbai.
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The crew confronted a fierce bidding warfare with the Alaskan Knights for World No. 4 Arjun Erigaisi however narrowly missed out on securing his companies. 

Prachura mentioned, “I’ve a private reference to Arjun. Hikaru charges him very extremely, and we felt he would have been an ideal match alongside him.”

Srinath added, “Arjun was considered one of our prime preferences. Having him alongside Hikaru, our prime American participant, would have been a strong mixture. Nonetheless, we needed to stability this with the necessity to save factors for later phases of the draft.

– Group Sportstar

CRICKET

Minerva Academy triumps in Atray cricket match

Minerva Academy Cricket Membership defeated Railways by 24 runs within the remaining of the thirtieth All India JP Atray Memorial Cricket Event on Monday.

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Madhya Pradesh topped Ok. Thimmappiah Memorial match champion

Madhya Pradesh emerged Dr. (Capt.) Ok. Thimmappiah Memorial match champion, courtesy the slender 20-run first-innings lead it had secured over KSCA Secretary’s XI within the remaining, on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium right here on Monday.

The guests began the ultimate day’s play from 96 for 4, forward by 116 runs. They ultimately folded for 242, setting Secretary’s XI a 262 run goal at almost 5 runs an over.

The house aspect tried to perform an unlikely heist, however may solely attain so far as 168 for seven from 29 overs. Pacer Aryan Pandey was adjudged the participant of the match for his match haul of seven wickets (4/64 & 3/46) and 42 second-innings runs.

-Group Sportstar

POLO

Jaipur Polo wins Amar Singh Kanota Cup

Padmanabh Singh scored 4 objectives to information Jaipur Polo to a 7-4 victory over Mayfair Polo within the remaining of the Gen. Amar Singh Kanota Cup on the Rajasthan Polo Membership.

– Group Sportstar

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