TENNIS
Manish, Vaishanvi emerge champions at Fenesta Nationwide Tennis Championship
Manish Sureshkumar and Vaishnavi Adkar have been authoritative in rising as champions within the Fenesta Nationwide Tennis Championship on the DLTA Complicated on Saturday.
Manish beat fellow trainee of coach Sureshkumar Sonachalam from Chennai, qualifier Keerthivassan Suresh, 6-4, 6-2 for the boys’s title. It was a energetic match during which each gamers exhibited their repertoire from the again court docket with energetic strokes, although they each have been drained after the powerful passage to the ultimate.
“I’m very completely satisfied to win this second Nationwide title. Coming into the event, I had no expectations, as I used to be not pleased with my recreation. It isn’t in the identical degree that it was once. I used to be not taking part in that good initially. I gained perception after beating Nitin Kumar Sinha within the quarterfinals. This title offers me the arrogance to step into the worldwide occasions and play higher,” mentioned Manish, who was introduced the winner’s Cheque of Rs.300,000.
Like one other Tamil Nadu lad, Rethin Pranav, who had marched to the boys’s title after making the principle draw as a fortunate loser final 12 months, Keerthivassan threatened to strike it huge, however fell marginally quick, regardless of a courageous effort. He gained everybody’s admiration for packing such a energetic recreation in a wiry body. He pocketed Rs. 200,000 because the runner-up prize.
The prize cash was equal for the ladies’s champions and runners-up, as Vaishnavi beat her fellow Maharashtra teammate, Akanksha, with appreciable ease at 6-1, 6-2, regardless of dropping her serve twice.
“Until the final second, I used to be unsure of competing on this event owing to the knee damage. I’m completely satisfied to be the nationwide champion. It feels surreal,” mentioned Vaishnavi, whilst she congratulated and thanked the DCM Shriram Group for sustaining the occasion for greater than 30 years.
Within the junior boys’ closing, Tavish Pahwa recovered from being down 0-3 to take the primary set within the tie-break, earlier than Hruthik Katakam retired early within the second set.
Harshini Nagaraj performed a gradual recreation to beat the strongly-built Snigdha Kanta in three units for the ladies title.
London Video games medallist Yogeshwar Dutt was the chief visitor and introduced the trophies together with the Chairman and Managing Director of DCM Shriram, Ajay Shriram, the Davis Cup captain Rohit Rajpal, Enterprise Head of Fenesta, Saket Jain, together with Balram Singh and Anil Gupta.
The outcomes (finals):
Males: Manish Sureshkumar bt Keerthivassan Suresh 6-4, 6-2.
Doubles (closing): Nitin Kumar Sinha & Maan Kesharwani bt Manish Sureshkumar & Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 6-4, 3-6, [10-5].
Ladies: Vaishnavi Adkar bt Akanksha Nitture 6-1, 6-2.
Beneath-18 boys: Tavish Pahwa bt Hruthik Katakam 7-6(2), 1-0 (retired).
Beneath-18 women: Harshini Nagaraj bt Snigdha Kanta 6-1, 2-6, 6-4.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
GOLF
Bhullar stays on observe for Jakarta success
Indian golfer Gaganjeet Bhullar carded a one-under 69 to seize a share of the three-way lead with Wade Ormsby (67) of Australia and Scott Vincent (62) of Zimbabwe, going into the ultimate spherical of the Jakarta Worldwide Championship.
Bhullar, a five-time winner in Indonesia, was left to rue one expensive mistake on ninth gap, when he double bogeyed the outlet regardless of sitting on the center of the golf green after one other good drive.
– PTI
Sharma shoots par in second spherical after 68 in first
India’s Shubhankar Sharma shot an excellent par 72 on the second day at St Andrews and was 4-four below par after two rounds on the Alfred Dunhill Hyperlinks Championship. He was positioned tied 56th.
A robust third spherical on the Carnoustie Golf Hyperlinks may see him break his streak of missed cuts.
Sharma performed at Carnoustie in the course of the 147th Open Championship again in 2018 and completed the week at T-51.
– PTI
FOOTBALL
Veteran Delhi soccer administrator NK Bhatia useless
Delhi’s veteran soccer administrator NK Bhatia handed away after a chronic sickness.
Bhatia had been affected by age-related problems and was admitted to the intensive care unit of a metropolis hospital.
Bhatia, who was the vice-president of Soccer Delhi, has labored tirelessly for the betterment of the game within the nationwide capital and has held the submit of secretary of the erstwhile Delhi Soccer Affiliation (DSA), usually representing the physique within the nationwide federation conferences.
He has held varied positions within the standing committees of the All India Soccer Federation (AIFF).
– PTI
Printed on Oct 04, 2025