GOLF
Aditi Ashok playing cards 69 to maneuver to T-36 in Los Angeles
India’s Aditi Ashok fought again with three birdies on the again 9 to maneuver as much as tied thirty sixth place with a third-round card of 3-under 69 on the JM Eagle Los Angeles Championship.
Aditi birdied the sixth however gave it again on the Par-5 seventh. On the again 9, she birdied the eleventh and added two extra features on the sixteenth and the 18th for a 69, after 70-72 on the primary two days.
Korea’s Sei Younger Kim led by two following a roller-coaster spherical of 71. She had 5 birdies on the entrance and ran up an eight-stroke lead with 5 holes left at El Caballero Nation Membership.
She then bogeyed 4 instances in a row the 14th to the seventeenth. Her late meltdown with 4 straight bogeys gave two-time occasion winner Hannah Inexperienced and others a foot within the door.
She salvaged an up-and-down from off the again of the 18th inexperienced to salvage a two-shot benefit.
Kim (71) is 15-under, whereas Inexperienced, the 2023 and 2024 champion at Wilshire Nation Membership, had a 67 to hitch Suvichaya Vinijchaitham (67), Jessica Porvasnik (68) and Ina Yoon (71) at 13 beneath. Former UCLA star Patty Tavatanakit was one other stroke again after a 67.
– PTI
Pranavi shoots 3-under to maneuver to Thirtieth place in Joburg
Pranavi Urs, the lone Indian within the weekend rounds, carded 3-under 70 to rise as much as the Thirtieth place on the Joburg Women Open on the Women European Tour.
After 70-74 on the primary two days, she had six birdies in opposition to three bogeys and reached 5-under for 54 holes and was positioned a good T-Thirtieth within the Euros 330,000 occasion.
The opposite Indian golfers, Diksha Dagar, Tvesa Malik, Avani Prashanth and Hitaashee Bakshi, missed the 36-hole reduce on the Par-73 course measuring 6710 yards.
Three French golfers, all previous winners on Women European Tour (LET), Camille Chevalier, Celine Herbin and Agathe Laisne went low on shifting day at Randpark Golf Membership. They are going to now play within the last group.
Chevalier and Herbin cleared the path on 16-under par after carding rounds of 67 (-6) and 68 (-5) respectively in South Africa.
– PTI
Mane eyes one other title
Recent from his maiden AM Inexperienced IGPL Trophy, Udayan Mane will eye one other title on the third leg of the African Swing, the AM Inexperienced IGPL Invitational Congo, teeing off on the par-73 Golf Membership de Lubumbashi on Monday.
Mane, who had completed tied third in Mauritius, secured a commanding seven-shot victory over seasoned Gaganjeet Bhullar on the iconic Royal Johannesburg Golf Membership’s West Course on Saturday.
Rounds of 65-64-67 for a 20-under whole, the very best on the AM Inexperienced IGPL season this 12 months gave him a giant fillip each when it comes to ending a title drought and enhance to his confidence.
“It’s been 1,578 days since my final skilled win, so this one carry actual which means for me personally,” Mane mentioned.
With a couple of AM Inexperienced IGPL gamers off to Singapore for the Worldwide Collection occasion, a few of Mane’s prime rivals like Bhullar, Sachin Baisoya, Karandeep Kochhar and Pukhraj Singh Gill might be skipping the Congo occasion.
Nonetheless, a number of the main contenders for this week will embody Mane, his Atri Mumbai teammate, Aman Raj, a a number of winner in 2025, Kapil Kumar, additionally a winner in 2025, younger weapons Veer Ganapathy and Raghav Chugh who’re on the lookout for their maiden win.
Newcomers Kanav Chauhan, Danish Verma can even be taking a look at good finishes to present themselves a push in early a part of the season.
Milind Soni, who was sixth in Mauritius and T-11 in Joburg will have a look at persevering with the shape, whereas Harshjeet Sethie, who like Soni is coached by Rahul Bajaj, confirmed some good type in Joburg.
The highest ladies professionals in motion this week are Ridhima Dilawari, Vidhatri Urs, Khushi Khanijau, Seher Atwal, Mannat Brar, Shagun Narain, Jahaanvie Walia and Anisha Agarwalla. As well as there might be Neha Tripathi.
– PTI
TENNIS
Balaji-Oberleitner pair wins Challenger title in Portugal
India’s N Sriram Balaji and his Austrian companion Neil Oberleitner received the doubles title on the ATP Challenger Tour occasion in Oeiras, Portugal, on Saturday.
The third-seeded Indo-Austrian duo beat Nicolas Barrientos of Colombia and Ariel Behar of Uruguay 6-7(7), 6-4, [11-9] within the last after saving a match level within the tremendous tiebreak. The pair gained 125 rating factors.
It’s the 18th profession title on the second-tier challenger tour for Balaji and fourth in 2026 with Oberleitner.
Vaidehee Chaudhari and Dutch participant Jasmijn Gimbrere completed as runner-up on the ladies’s USD 40,000 ITF occasion in Bujumbura, Burundi. The duo misplaced 4-6, 7-5, [10-5] to the American-Dutch pair of Julia Adams and Merel Hoedt.
On the junior circuit, teen sensation Maaya Rajeshwaran defeated Spain’s Paola Pinera Celorio 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 to clinch the J300 title in Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France, whereas Arnav Paparkar beat Japan’s Kanta Watanabe 6-1, 6-2 within the J200 last in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
– Group Sportstar
SQUASH
HCL Squash PSA Challenger Tour: Suraj Chand storms into males’s last
Suraj Kumar Chand brushed apart Hong Kong’s Wailok To 11-8, 11-7, 11-6 within the males’s semifinals of the HCL Squash PSA Challenger Tour on the Indian Squash Academy in Chennai on Sunday.
Second seed Chand, ranked 134 on this planet, will meet South Korean eighth seed Jeongmin Ryu in what would be the Indian’s fifth PSA Tour last.
OTHER RESULTS (SEMIFINALS)
Males: 8-Jeongmin Ryu (Kor) bt 4-Andes Ling (HK) 11-13, 11-9, 11-3, 13-11
Girls: 2-Harleein Tan (Mas) bt Salma Othman (Egy) 11-4, 11-9, 10-12, 11-7; 7-Rouqaia Othman (Egy) bt Sehveetrraa Kumar (Mas) 7-11, 11-7, 11-9, 7-11, 11-6.
– Group Sportstar
MOTORSPORT
Karna Kadur lands the spoils in South India Rally
Bengaluru ace Karna Kadur together with co-driver Kumar Ramaswamy (Coimbatore) of Arka Motorsports survived a turbo failure and surged to victory within the forty ninth South India Rally, organised by the Madras Motor Sports activities Membership, on the Madras Worldwide Circuit, in Chennai whilst his arch-rival Gaurav Gill retired with mechanical drawback.
The 37-year-old Kadur’s tempo by means of the weekend was actually as sizzling because the climate itself as he blitzed the mixed FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship powered by Vamcy Merla and the FMSCI Indian Nationwide Rally Championship grids whereas but once more showcasing his undoubted expertise.
Ending in second spot within the APRC was Hyderabad’s Jeet Jhabkah and co-driver Musa Sherif from Kasargod, whereas the Spanish husband-wife group of Edgar Vigo Lopez and Fatima Ameneiro Teijeiro accomplished the rostrum.
Provisional classification:
Asia-Pacific Rally Championship: 1. Karna Kadur/ Kumar Ramaswamy (Arka Motorsports) (01hr, 59mins, 55.5secs); 2. Jeet Jabhakh/ Musa Sherif (pvt.) (02:04:58.0); 3. Edgar Vigo Lopez/ Fatima Ameneiro Teijeiro (Spain) (02:05:47.8).
Indian Nationwide Rally Championship:
INRC General: 1. Karna Kadur / Kumar Ramaswamy (Arka Motorsports) (01:59:55.5); 2. Ritesh Guttedar / Suraj M (AART Motorsports) (02:04:27.4); 3. Arvind Dheerendra/ Shahid Salman (Duran Racing) (02:04:29.2).
INRC 2: 1. Ritesh Guttedar / Suraj M (AART Motorsports) (02:04:27.4); 2. Jeet Jabhakh / Musa Sherif (pvt.) (02:04:58.0); 3. Arjun Y Mavaji / Jeevarathinam J (Chettinad Sporting) (02:07:49.8).
INRC 3: 1. Arvind Dheerendra / Shahid Salman (Duran Racing) (02:04:29.2); 2. Chandan Manchegowda / Suraj Keshav Prasad (Arka Motorsports) (02:06:02.4); 3. Tarushi Vikram / Athreya Kousgi (Chettinad Sporting) (02:06:46.1).
INRC 3T: 1. Vishakh Balachandran / Chiranth Jain (Duran Racing) (02:05:43.6); 2. Anushriya Gulati / Karan Aukta (Arka Motorsports) (02:06:38.8); 3. Adith KC / Avinash CA (Arka Motorsports) (02:11:01.9).
Women: 1. Tarushi Vikram / Athreya Kousgi (Chettinad Sporting) (02:06:46.1); 2. Athira Murali / Arun Chakkalakkal (Duran Racing) (02:15:30.0); 3. Sonakshi Paranthaman / Dheeraj Salimath (Chettinad Sporting) (02:20:56.8).
Junior INRC: 1. Tarushi Vikram / Athreya Kousgi (Chettinad Sporting) (02:06:46.1); 2. Sonakshi Paranthaman/ Dheeraj Salimath (Chettinad Sporting) (02:20:56.8); 3. Hoshmand Elavia / Venu Ramesh Kumar (Pvt.) (02:50:41.3).
Masters Cup: 1. Pradeep Ravi / Thimmu Uddapanda (Arka Motorsports) (02:07:15.1); 2. Balakrishna Jayasimha / Arjun Dheerendra (Pvt.) (02:18:13.6).
Basic Cup: 1. Sreejesh MP/ Naushad KM (Pvt.) (02:38:28.7).
– Group Sportstar
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