TENNIS
Manas Dhamne makes maiden ATP Challenger last
India’s rising tennis expertise Manas Dhamne scripted a breakthrough run by storming into his maiden ATP Challenger last with a straight-sets win over France’s Antoine Ghibaudo in Shymkent, Kazakhstan on Saturday.
The 18-year-old Indian produced a composed and aggressive show to pip Ghibaudo 6-4, 6-3 within the semifinals of the clay court docket event.
After edging a decent opening set with a late break, he raised his stage within the second, dictating rallies from the baseline and shutting out the competition with out a lot hassle.
The victory marks a big milestone in Dhamne’s younger profession, making him one of many few Indian youngsters to succeed in an ATP Challenger last.
His run this week is predicted to offer a considerable enhance to his rating and confidence as he continues his transition from junior to skilled circuit.
He’s prone to break into the top-400 on Monday.
Dhamne will now goal to cap off his dream week with a title when he takes the court docket within the last towards Belgium’s Buvaysar Gadamauri on Sunday.
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GOLF
Yuvraj Sandhu in High-10 in Turkey, Sharma additionally makes minimize
India’s Yuvraj Sandhu performed a gentle spherical of 1-under 71 and was inside High-10 on the midway stage of the Turkish Airways Open on DP World Tour title in Belek.
Additionally making the minimize was Shubhankar Sharma, regardless of a nightmarish end as he dropped 5 photographs in a span of 5 holes between the thirteenth and the seventeenth with three bogeys and a double bogey.
He shot 3-over 75 and was now 1-over and Tied-57th. He had 4 birdies and two bogeys earlier than that and he’s now tied 57th, after sneaking contained in the minimize line, which fell at precisely 1-over.
Sandhu, enjoying his first season on the DP World Tour, birdied the fourth, eighth, eleventh and the 14th whereas dropping photographs on the seventh, thirteenth and seventeenth.
Gregorio De Leo will take a one-shot lead into the weekend because the Italian, enjoying within the morning, carded 5 birdies and only one bogey in his second spherical 68 to set the clubhouse goal at seven underneath at Nationwide Golf Membership.
The 26-year-old was briefly joined at that mark by afternoon starters Alejandro Del Rey and Jens Dantorp, however they each fell again right into a tie for second alongside Kazuma Kobori and Sam Bairstow on six underneath.
De Leo secured his first 36-hole lead on the DP World Tour and is now chasing a maiden win after regaining his enjoying privileges at Qualifying Faculty after a rookie marketing campaign which featured two top-five finishes.
First-round chief Mikael Lindberg sits at 5 underneath in solo sixth after a second spherical 73, whereas defending champion Martin Couvra was amongst these to make the minimize on the quantity at one over.
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BRIDGE
Formidables make successive semis in All India Bridge
Defending champions Formidables put up a dominant present to outplay Bangur Cement and storm into the semifinals of the All India Bridge Championship in Kolkata on Saturday.
Formidables will face Mavericks who fought arduous to beat Slammers in one other quarterfinal.
Staff Monica Jajoo additionally made the last-four beating Prime and can face Deepadhaar who ousted Weapons-N-Rose.
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OTHER SPORTS
Nationwide inventive gymnastics: Railways claims girls’s staff title
Railways claimed the ladies’s staff title within the Nationwide inventive gymnastics on the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on Saturday.
Maharashtra’s Anoushka Patil and Pahel Shah secured all-around senior and junior crowns respectively.
The outcomes:
Girls: Senior: Particular person: All-around: 1. Anoushka Patil (Mah) 45.200, 2. Eshitaa Rewale (Mah) 44.833, 3. Protistha Samanta (RSPB) 44.400; Staff: 1. Railways (Bidisha Gayen, Karishma, Pranati Nayak, Protistha Samanta, Ritu Das, Swastika Ganguly) 130.899, 2. West Bengal (Ashmi Debnath, Diya Biswas, Jinia Debnath, Oendila Golui, Sabana Khatun, Soumili Karar) 124, 3. Maharashtra (Anoushka Patil, Eshitaa Rewale, Riddhi Hattekar, Sara Rawool, Siddhi Hattekar) 123.166.
Junior: Particular person: All-around: 1. Pahel Shah (Mah) 41.366, 2. Paromita Bera (WB) 41.167, 3. Shreya Ghosh (WB) 40.667.
– Staff Sportstar
Printed on Could 02, 2026