BASKETBALL
India loses to qatar in FIBA World Cup qualifiers
The Indian males’s basketball workforce succumbed to a 99-73 loss in opposition to Qatar of their FIBA World Cup 2027 qualifier match on the Lusail Multipurpose Corridor in Qatar on Saturday.
Brandon Goodwin led the scoring charts for the house facet with 23 factors, whereas Kanwar Gurbaz Singh Sandhu scored essentially the most with 15.
The end result leaves India on the backside of its group with three losses in three video games within the qualification event to this point. India will subsequent tackle Lebanon on March 3 in a match which can mark head coach Scott Flemming’s ultimate sport within the position.
-Group Sportstar
TENNIS
Vaidehee advances to W35 ultimate in Burnie
Vaidehee Chaudhari booked her spot within the ultimate of the W35 (USD 30,000) occasion in Burnie, Australia, on Saturday.
Fourth seed Vaidehee defeated seventh-seeded Japanese and World No. 533 Mio Mushika 6-2, 1-6, 6-2 in an hour and 46 minutes.
World No. 470 Vaidehee, who has received 4 titles on the ITF circuit, will probably be up in opposition to top-seeded Australian and World No. 275 Lizette Cabrera within the ultimate on Sunday.
On the W15 occasion in Gurugram, third seed Zeel Desai made it to the summit conflict after a 6-2, 6-2 victory over sixth-seeded Russian Ekaterina Yashina.
Within the ultimate, World No. 617 Zeel, eyeing her fifth ITF title, will tackle seventh-seeded Belarusian teenager Polina Kuharenko.
-Group Sportstar
MahaOpen ATP Challenger: Gill, Cina storm into singles ultimate
Felix Gill will tackle Federica Cina within the MahaOpen ATP Challenger 75 singles ultimate on the Shiv Chhatrapati Kreeda Sankul, Mhalunge Balewadi Tennis Stadium in Pune.
Gill, of Nice Britain, displayed grit and composure to beat eighth seed Edas Butvilas of Lithuania 6-4, 7-5 in a tightly contested encounter that lasted 1 hour and 44 minutes.
Sixth seed and former world quantity 4 junior, Cina, of Italy, outplayed Duje Ajdukovic of Croatia 7-5, 6-2 in 1 hour and quarter-hour.
Within the doubles ultimate, fourth seeded Jisung Nam of Korea and Patrik Niklas-Salminen of Finland upset second-seeded Indo-Thai pair of Pruchya Isaro and Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha to clinch the doubles title with a hard-fought 6-4, 6-7(1), 10-7 victory.
Outcomes:
Semifinals: singles
Felix Gill (Gbr) bt Edas Butvilas[8](Ltu) 6-4, 7-5 (1hour 44minutes)
Federico Cina [6](Ita) bt Duje Ajdukovic (Cro) 7-5, 6-2; (1hour 15minutes)
Doubles ultimate:
Jisung Nam (Kor) Patrik Niklas-Salminen [4](Fin) bt Pruchya Isaro (Tha) Niki Kaliyanda Poonacha [2](Ind)6 -4, 6-7(1), 10-7.
– Group Sportstar
FOOTBALL
India U-20 ladies lose 1-2 in opposition to Karlbergs BK
The India Underneath-20 ladies’s nationwide workforce misplaced 1-2 by the hands of Swedish membership Karlbergs BK on the Boson Nationwide Sports activities Centre in Lidingo, Sweden, on Saturday.
Neha had had put the India U-20s within the lead within the 56th minute, however Karlbergs equalised a few minutes later. They managed to take the lead within the 72nd minute, thereon.
Within the earlier sport, the workforce performed a 1-1 draw in opposition to Swedish membership Enskede IK Dam.
The Younger Tigresses will play their final pleasant in Sweden in opposition to Älvsjö AIK Fotboll on March 4.
– Group Sportstar
GOLF
Kochhar mendacity twenty third in New Zealand
India’s Karandeep Kochhar shot 70 within the third spherical and slipped to tied twenty third on the New Zealand Open offered by Millbrook Resort right here.
After rounds of 67-67 on the primary two days, he had a 1-under 70 with 5 birdies, two bogeys and a double bogey.
– PTI
Diksha shoots bogey free playing cards in second and third rounds in NSW Open
India’s prime star Diksha Dagar bounced again from a disappointing first spherical of 77 with 66-65 within the subsequent two rounds to rise to tied twenty sixth within the Ford Girls’s NSW Open right here.
Within the second spherical Diksha had 5 birdies and no bogey, and he or she stored the bogey-free run within the third spherical with six birdies. The six included 4 birdies in final 5 holes.
She is now 5-under and properly positioned for a cost on the ultimate day. Her second spherical 66 helped her make the minimize in 53rd place after which she moved as much as T-26 after three days.
The opposite Indians Hitaashee Bakshi (73-73), Pranavi Urs (74-74) and Avani Prashanth (80-72) missed the minimize.
– PTI
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