TENNIS
India’s teenage sensation Manas Dhamne fell in need of a title end in his maiden ATP Challenger singles closing, happening to Belgium’s Buvaysar Gadamauri in a closely-fought summit conflict in Shymkent, Kazakhstan on Sunday.
The 18-year-old Dhamne put up a spirited struggle earlier than dropping 6-7(8), 4-6 in a contest that lasted over two hours and hinged on high quality margins.
Dhamne confirmed nerves of metal within the opening set, stretching his extra skilled opponent to a tie-break and even holding set factors earlier than Gadamauri edged forward 10-8.
The slim loss appeared to take some wind out of the Indian’s sails because the Belgian capitalised with a decisive break within the second set to seal the title.
Regardless of the defeat, it has been a breakthrough week for Dhamne, who is about to interrupt into the top-400 for the primary time, almost certainly attaining a career-high mark of 384 when the brand new rankings are issued on Monday.
-PTI
GOLF
Diksha Dagar in rivalry in Mauritius as Hitaashee, Tvesa additionally make reduce
Indian golfer Diksha Dagar performed a strong bogey-free 3-under 69 to maneuver into title rivalry on the MCB Women Traditional – Mauritius on the Women European Tour.
The 2-time winner on the LET, Diksha, shot 68 within the first spherical and moved to 7-under for 2 rounds. She is Tied-fourth and simply two behind the co-leaders, Denmark’s Smilla Tarning Soenderby, Germany’s Celina Sattelkau and South Africa’s Casandra Alexander. They had been all at a complete of nine-under-par.
Three of the 4 Indians within the area this week made the reduce. Becoming a member of Diksha for the ultimate spherical had been Hitaashee Bakshi (71-69) and Tvesa Malik (70-71). Hitaashee was T-19 and Tvesa was T-26. Vani Kapoor (78-77) missed the reduce.
Diksha, who was T-37 within the Girls’s South African Open final week, is seeking to peak in time for her Hero Girls’s Indian Open. She birdied the sixth, tenth and twelfth and dropped no bogeys.
Hitaashee had 5 birdies, together with three in a row from the third, but additionally dropped pictures on the twelfth and the thirteenth.
Tvesa Malik, taking part in by means of her membership on Sunshine Women Tour, had three birdies in opposition to two bogeys.
-PTI
GYMNASTICS
Eshitaa Rewale wins vault gold at Nationwide creative gymnastics championships
Eshitaa Rewale and Vaishnavi Vyas gained girls’s senior and junior vault gold medals, respectively, on the concluding day of the Nationwide creative gymnastics championships on the Kalinga Stadium in Bhubaneswar on Sunday.
Uttar Pradesh, which totalled 10 medals, together with six gold, topped the general medals tally as a consequence of its high quality efficiency within the males’s competitors.
The outcomes (Particular person equipment):
Girls | Senior:
Flooring train: 1. Karishma (RSPB) 11.60, 2. Ashmi Debnath (WB) 11.067, 3. Eshitaa Rewale (Mah) 10.433
Vault: 1. Eshitaa Rewale (Mah) 12.300, 2. Piyasa Kundu (RSPB-A) 12.117, Soumili Karar (WB) 12
Uneven bars: 1. Tannu (Odi) 11.100, 2. Diya Thakore (Guj) 10.533 (greater e-score), 3. Amani Dilshad (Ker) 10.533
Balancing beam: 1. Niranjana Punia (Har) 11.467, 2. Anoushka Patil (Mah) 11.300, 3. Priyanshi Bansal (Odi) 11.233;
Junior:
Flooring train: 1. Sreeparna Debnath (Tri) 11.000; 2. Shreyanshi Roy (Tri) 10.800, 3. Dhanishtha Ugalmugle (Mah) 10.500
Uneven bars: 1. Paromita Bera (WB) 9.733, 2. Abhidha Singh Dev (UP) 9.067, 3. Sakshi Dali (Mah) 8.833
Balancing beam: 1. Anusua Howlader (WB) 11.633, 2. Shreyanshi Roy (Tri) 11.300, 3. Shreya Ghosh (WB) 10.900
Vault: 1. Vaishnavi Vyas (Tel) 12.084, 2. Shreyanshi Roy (Tri) 11.783, 3. Tora Sani (WB) 11.684.
-Staff Sportstar
Printed on Could 03, 2026