GOLF
Pranavi shoots 66 to pressure her means into High-10, Diksha additionally makes minimize
Pranavi Urs carded a bogey free 6-under 66 to position herself in High-10 after the second spherical of the Australian Girls’s Traditional. Pranavi, who shot even par 72 within the first spherical is now 6-under for 36 holes and is tied-seventh. She is the perfect of the 4 Indians enjoying this week.
Diksha Dagar (69-73) was T-22 whereas Avani Prashanth (77-72) and Hitaashee Bakshi (82-69) regardless of a 13-shot enchancment within the second spherical, missed the minimize.
Kelsey Bennett continued her stable begin to 2026 posting a spherical of 68 (-4) to maneuver one shot clear in her house state.
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Rajasthan Regals wins inaugural PGTI’s 72 The League title
Rajasthan Regals emerged champion on the inaugural PGTI’s 72 The League with a commanding 12-3 win over table-topper UP Prometheans on Friday.
After qualifying for the finale from the league stage because the second-placed staff, Regals bought its revenge over Prometheans for its crushing 4-10 loss in opposition to it within the fifth spherical of the league.
The successful staff obtained a shocking trophy and Rs. 1 cr as prize cash. The runner-up staff took house Rs 50 lakh.
Prometheans put collectively its two strongest gamers – unbeaten captain Shaurya Bhattacharya and Arjun Prasad – within the singles upfront.
Nonetheless, Regals demolished that plan with Jairaj Singh Sandhu, who beat Bhattacharya 4-3, and Akshay Sharma, who defeated Prasad 2-1.
With just one win required from the remaining three matches on the sphere, Regals sealed the deal when Aryaman Mohan and Yuvraj Singh beat Joshua Seale and Arjun Sharma on the 18th gap.
Younger Mohan had the honour of constructing the successful putt for his staff, when groups tied the ultimate gap.
Within the remaining fourball matches, Regals captain Ajeetesh Sandhu misplaced his first match of the match within the firm of Michele Ortolani, whereas Chikkarangappa S and Dhruv Sheoran accomplished the 12-3 margin with an inconsequential 2-1 win over Gaurav Pratap Singh and Pranav Mardikar.
“It’s been an unimaginable honour to guide this bunch of gamers. From the second of the public sale, I knew we had a whole lot of depth within the staff. Nonetheless, extra importantly, after we bought collectively for the primary time, everybody jelled with one another. The chemistry has been incredible,” Sandhu mentioned.
Charminar Champions gained the Plate Championship.
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Aditi in prime 10 in China after first spherical
Indian golfer Aditi Ashok opened her week on the Blue Bay LPGA with spherical of 4-under 68 to be positioned T-7, right here.
Ashok started her spherical on the again 9 and made a bogey on the thirteenth earlier than bouncing again with a birdie on the 14th.
She made birdie on the 18th as properly to shut the again 9 with a rating of 1 beneath. On the entrance 9 the 27 12 months previous made birdies on the third, sixth and eighth to shut the spherical with a rating of 4-under par.
The Blue Bay LPGA is Aditi’s first occasion of the 2026 season and a powerful consequence would assist her higher her seventy fifth place end on the CME rankings in 2025.
Chinese language gamers Mary Liu and Weiwei Zhang are within the lead together with Youmin Hwang of South Korea after the primary spherical. The three gamers shot rounds of 6-under 66.
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Lahiri Tied tenth in Hong Kong after second spherical
Anirban Lahiri (66-65) moved into the top-10 after the second spherical on the Liv Golf Hong Kong.
At 9-under for T-10 place, he was 5 behind Dean Burmester and Carlos Ortiz, who’re the co-leaders.
Hoping to chase them down was Thomas Detry, one of many seven gamers and a caddie stranded in Dubai.
They have been helped by Legion XIII Captain Jon Rahm who helped organize a personal flight from the area for seven gamers and a caddie. Detry was amongst them.
Detry, in his first season on LIV Golf, is now solo third after 36 holes at Hong Kong Golf Membership, capturing a second-round 7-under 63 to maneuver to 13 beneath, one shot behind Burmester and Ortiz.
Rahm, in the meantime, shot 62 and is now solo fourth at 12 beneath.
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Shubhankar Sharma off to a high-quality begin in South Africa
File – Shubhankar Sharma performs a shot throughout apply previous to the Joburg Open 2025.
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File – Shubhankar Sharma performs a shot throughout apply previous to the Joburg Open 2025.
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India’s Shubhankar Sharma shot 4-under par within the first spherical after play was suspended early at Joburg Open.
Sharma was 4-under by way of 14 holes and T12 when play was suspended on account of darkness.
He was two pictures behind the 5 first spherical co-leaders, Jayden Schaper, Nathan Kimsey, Max Steinlechner, Angel Ayora and Dan Bradbury, who carded 6-under 64 every.
Sharma started the day with a bogey earlier than making 4 birdies within the subsequent seven holes to be three beneath par after the entrance 9.
Sharma began the again 9 with a fifth birdie to position him at 4-under par. The birdies have been made on the third, fifth, sixth, eighth and tenth holes. He parred his final eight holes.
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TENNIS
Banthia-Donski duo reaches Kigali Challenger ultimate
India’s Siddhant Banthia and his Bulgarian accomplice Alexander Donski reached the ultimate of the ATP Challenger Tour in Kigali, Rwanda, on Friday.
The highest-seeded Indo-Bulgarian pair defeated Serbia’s Stefan Latinovic and Frenchman Luka Pavlovic 7-6(5), 6-4 to arrange the summit conflict with the British-Dutch pair of Jay Clarke and Max Houkes.
The Clarke-Houkes duo defeated the all-Indian pair of S D Prajwal Dev and Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-4, 6-3 within the second semifinal.
In Thionville, France, N. Sriram Balaji and Austria’s Neil Oberleitner, the highest seeds, misplaced 6-3, 7-5 to the third-seeded British-French pair of Joshua Paris and Luca Sanchez.
On the W35 occasion in Kalaburagi, Karnataka, Vaishnavi Adkar and Ankita Raina reached the semifinals with wins in straight units.
The outcomes:
ATP Challenger (CH 100) – Thionville, France
Doubles, Semifinals: [3] Joshua Paris (GBR)/Luca Sanchez (FRA) bt [1] N. Sriram Balaji/Neil Oberleitner (AUT) 6-3, 7-5
ATP Challenger (CH 75) – Kigali, Rwanda
Doubles, Semifinals: [1] Siddhant Banthia/Alexander Donski (BUL) bt Stefan Latinovic (SRB)/Luka Pavlovic (FRA) 7-6(5), 6-4; Jay Clarke (GBR)/Max Houkes (NED) bt S D Prajwal Dev/Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-4, 6-3
ITF W35 Kalaburagi
Singles, Quarterfinals: [3] Vaishnavi Adkar bt Elina Nepliy (RUS) 6-1, 6-3; [8] Ankita Raina bt Evgeniya Burdina (RUS) 6-0, 6-2
Doubles, Semifinals: [2] Vaishnavi Adkar/Ankita Raina bt Sonal Patil/Bela Tamhankar 7-6(5), 6-2; Akanksha Nitture/Soha Sadiq bt Sravya Shivani Chilakalapudi/Michika Ozeki (JPN) 6-7(5), 6-0, [10-5]
ITF W35 Launceston, Australia
Singles, Quarterfinal: Chengyiyi Yuan (CHN) bt [5] Vaidehee Chaudhari 6-1, 6-3
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Riaan, Thanush, Vaishnavi, Asees in finals at twentieth Ramesh Desai Nationals U-12s Tennis Event
Riaan Nandankar of Gujarat, BC Thanush of Karnataka, Vaishnavi Balajee of Tamil Nadu and Asees Brar of Punjab entered the finals of the Boys’ and the Ladies’ occasions on the twentieth Ramesh Desai Nationals U-12 Tennis Event which is being organised by MSLTA and performed at GA Ranade Tennis Centre, Mumbai.
Within the boys’ semifinals, Riaan outplayed Dhanush SM of Karnataka 6-2, 6-0, whereas Thanush stopped the successful run of unseeded Vishnu Pandey of Maharashtra 6-3, 3-6, 6-2.
Within the women’ semifinals, Vaishnavi registered a 6-3, 6-2 win over Aneeksha Gavinolla of Telangana, whereas Asees edged out Uttarakhand’s Meera Singh Chaudhary 6-4, 6-7(8), 7-5.
Within the boys’ doubles ultimate, Dhanush and PM Adhish of Tamil Nadu gained the title as they edged Riaan and Thanush 1-6, 6-3, [13-11].
Aneeksha and Vaishnavi bagged the women’ doubles title as they gained 2-6, 6-0, [10-5] in opposition to Uttar Pradesh’s Saundarya Jaiswal and Andhra Pradesh’s Peram Atharva.
The doubles winner and runner-up bought trophy and certificates. The prizes got away by former nationwide participant Chetan Desai, and Manoj Vaidya, CEO of MSLTA.
The outcomes:
Singles
Semifinal Spherical: Boys – [1] Riaan Nandankar (Guj) bt [4] Dhanush SM (Kar) 6-2, 6-0; [2] Thanush BC (Kar) bt Vishnu Pandey (Mah) 6-3, 3-6, 6-2
Ladies – Vaishanvi Balajee (TN) bt [4] Aneeksha Gavinolla (TS)6-3, 6-2; [2] Asees Brar (Pun) bt Meera Singh Chaudhary (UK) 6-4, 6-7(8), 7-5
Doubles
Semifinal Spherical: Boys – [1] Riaan Nandankar (Guj)/Thanush BC (Kar) bt [3] Atharv Narsinghani (WB)/Kabir Dahiya (Har) 6-1, 7-6(4); [2] Dhanush SM (Kar)/Adhish PM (TN) bt Aarush Khanna (Mah)/Aadvik Khanna (Mah) 6-4, 6-3
Last Spherical: [2] Dhanush SM(Kar)/Adhish PM (TN) bt [1] Riaan Nandankar(Guj)/Thanush BC(Kar) 1-6, 6-3, [13-11]
Semifinal Spherical: Ladies – Saundarya Jaiswal (UP)/Peram Atharva (AP) bt Vrrisa Chhatwani/Eshita Patil (Mah) 6-2, 2-6, [10-5]; Aneeksha Gavinolla (TS)/Vaishnavi Banerjee (TN) bt Priyangsi Chatterjee (WB)/Ruhi Singh (Kar) 6-4, 6-2
Last Spherical: Aneeksha Gavinolla (TS)/Vaishnavi Banerjee (TN) bt Saundarya Jaiswal (UP)/Peram Atharva (AP) 2-6, 6-0, [10-5]
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Revealed on Mar 06, 2026