TENNIS
Sureshkumar, Sinha arrange Fenesta Open semifinal; Vaidehee, Shruti eye ultimate conflict
Defending champion and high seed Manish Sureshkumar fought again from a 0-3 deficit within the deciding set to beat Parth Aggarwal in a marathon contest and arrange a semifinal towards his doubles companion Nitin Sinha on the thirty first Fenesta Open Nationwide Tennis Championship in New Delhi on Thursday.
Sureshkumar took almost three hours to prevail 6-1, 5-7, 7-5, he was joined within the final 4 by third seed Sinha, who defeated eighth seed Rohan Mehra 7-6 (7-5), 7-5 in two hours and 22 minutes. Sureshkumar and Sinha later mixed to achieve the lads’s doubles ultimate, beating Jagmeet Singh and Aggarwal in straight units.
Suraj Prabodh, who had earlier eradicated second seed Aditya Balsekar, continued his spectacular run with a 6-3, 6-4 win and can face sixth seed Maan Kesharwani within the different males’s singles semifinal.
Within the girls’s singles, high seed and two-time champion Vaidehee Chaudhari survived a second-set collapse earlier than defeating fifth seed Aditi Rawat 6-0, 1-6, 6-2 to achieve the final 4. Second seed Shruti Ahlawat stored alive the potential of a ultimate towards Chaudhari with a 6-4, 6-4 win over eighth seed Sohini Mohanty.
Ahlawat will meet unseeded Soha Sadiq, who superior after third seed Akanksha Nitture retired whereas trailing 0-3 within the first set due to an upper-limb spasm. There have been additionally upsets within the junior occasions, with seventh seed Aahan Aahan knocking out high seed Savitha Bhuvaneswaran 6-4, 6-2 within the women’ U-18 singles.
There have been additionally upsets within the junior occasions, with seventh seed Aahan Aahan knocking out high seed Savitha Bhuvaneswaran 6-4, 6-2 within the women’ U-18 singles. Riddhi Shinde additionally prompted an upset, defeating third seed Shreeniti Chowdhury 7-6 (7-3), 1-6, 6-2. Second seed Parthsarthi Mundhe and Harsha Oruganti additionally superior to the semifinals.
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GOLF
Shubhankar Sharma opens four-shot lead at Kapil Dev Invitational Tour Championship
Shubhankar Sharma fired a scintillating seven-under 65 to ascertain a four-shot lead after the second spherical of the Rs 2 crore Kapil Dev Invitational Tour Championship on the Jaypee Greens Golf & Spa Resort in Better Noida on Thursday.
The 30-year-old Chandigarh golfer (68-65), who started the day two strokes behind in a single day chief Shaurya Bhattacharya, made an eagle, seven birdies and two bogeys to achieve 11-under 133.
A two-time winner on the DP World Tour, Shubhankar returned to the winner’s circle on the Boulders Traditional on the DP World PGTI in April, ending an eight-year look forward to knowledgeable title.
Chandigarh’s Brashwarpal Singh (72-65) matched Shubhankar for the bottom rating of the day. His seven-under 65 featured eight birdies and a solitary bogey as he surged from tied eleventh in a single day to second place at seven-under 137.
In a single day chief Bhattacharya (66-72) of Delhi slipped to 3rd at six-under 138 after an even-par 72 containing three birdies and three bogeys. Bengaluru’s Khalin Joshi (72-67), a four-time winner on the DP World PGTI this season, climbed from tied eleventh to fourth at five-under 139.
Final season’s DP World PGTI Order of Advantage winner Yuvraj Sandhu (71-69) occupied fifth place at four-under 140. Present Race to DP World India Championship chief Saptak Talwar (75-72) climbed from tied thirty sixth to tied thirty first at three-over 147. The Professional-Am on Thursday was gained by the staff consisting {of professional} Shubhankar and newbie Rajeev Gupta. Their rating was 48 stableford factors.
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Samarth, Gaganjeet share lead at IGPL Hyderabad
Samarth Dwivedi and Gaganjeet Bhullar sit atop the tightly packed leaderboard after the second spherical of the Indian Golf Premier League – Hyderabad leg.
Samarth adopted his opening 66 with a five-under 65 to achieve nine-under 131, whereas Gaganjeet shot a stable 66 after his opening 65. The pair now have a one-shot cushion over Veer Ganapathy and Manav Shah, who each produced the day’s joint-best 61s to surge into competition at eight-under 132.
-Staff Sportstar
TABLE TENNIS
Ariv, Sakshya cruise to U-13 Nationwide Rating titles
West Bengal’s Ariv Dutta and Saksya Santosh of Karnataka notched up spectacular wins within the finals to clinch the Below-13 boys and under-13 women titles on the second Nationwide Rating Desk Tennis Championships in Panchkula on Thursday.
Ariv wanted lower than 25 minutes to wrap up the ultimate, beating Arunim 12-10, 11-8, 5-11, 11-5 in boys ultimate, whereas Saksya blanked Ishani Gogoi from Assam 11-7, 11-6, 11-7 within the women summit conflict on the Tau Devi Lal Indoor Corridor.
The U-11 boys ultimate went right down to the wire, with Uttar Pradesh’s Rajvardhan Tiwari rising champion after edging out West Bengal’s Debanshu Chakraborty 3-2.
Within the all-Haryana women ultimate, Phalgun Gupta outmanoeuvred statemate Mahi Kumar 3-1 to elevate the trophy. Ariv and Arunim booked their locations within the U-13 boys’ ultimate, with contrasting semifinal victories.
Ariv gained 3-0 over Raayan Borthakur of PSPBA, taking the opening recreation 11-3 earlier than getting stretched a bit within the subsequent two. Arunim, in the meantime, survived a gripping five-game battle towards Tamil Nadu’s H. Tanish, prevailing 3-2 in a match that stretched till the ultimate factors.
The U-13 women semifinals have been way more simple, although Pehel Gupta of UP made Ishani work arduous. Ishani recovered from a 2-1 deficit to defeat Pehel 11-8, 6-11, 8-11, 12-10, 11-6. Sakshya, however, secured a extra comfy passage within the ultimate, beating Assam’s Divija Paul 3-0.
The U-11 boys semifinals produced two convincing victories. Rajvardhan defeated Maharashtra’s Nakash Mahajan 3-0, whereas Debanshu was equally dominant towards West Bengal’s Arjun Sen, finishing an 11-0, 11-5, 12-10 victory to seal his place within the ultimate.
Within the U-11 women semifinals, Mahi defeated Haryana’s Shreeja Aggarwal 3-1, recovering after dropping the third recreation to shut out the competition in 4. Phalgun additionally superior after a hard-fought four-game encounter with Punjab’s Inaaya, successful September 11, 14-12, 11-5, 12-10.
Ariv and Arunim each progressed, however their routes to the semifinals have been very totally different. Ariv defeated Suchet Dharennavar 3-0, whereas Arunim additionally beat Rajdeep Biswas by the identical margin. Nevertheless, the latter contest was something however routine. Arunim needed to dig deep within the second recreation earlier than edging it 22-20 after a collection of deuces.
The contrasting quarterfinals arrange a U-13 boys semifinal line-up wherein Ariv and Arunim in the end emerged because the finalists.
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OTHER SPORTS
Harmanjot Singh, Lili Das to headline Indian Elite Subject at Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon
Harmanjot Singh and Lili Das will headline a 42-strong Indian elite discipline on the Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon scheduled to be held in New Delhi on October 18.
The Indian discipline for the twenty first version of the World Athletics Gold Label Street Race contains 22 males and 20 girls. The lads’s discipline might be led by Singh and Kiran Matre within the males’s class.
Matre, who completed second among the many Indian Elite males on the final version and set his half marathon private better of 1:04:57 in that race, will look to construct on that efficiency on house roads. He’s additionally a former winner of the Indian Elite race on the TCS World 10K Bengaluru (2024), the place he clocked a private better of 29:32.
The pair will face robust competitors from Dr Kartik Karkera, winner of the Indian Elite males’s race on the Tata Mumbai Marathon 2026 and second runner-up on the final version.
Additionally returning to the half marathon circuit after an extended hiatus is Prince Kumar of Uttar Pradesh, who gained the 5,000m and 10,000m titles on the 2025 Open Nationwide Athletics Championships and the 5,000m gold on the 2025 South Asian Athletics Championships.
Within the Girls’s Elite discipline, former VDHM Indian Elite champions Lili Das and Kavita Yadav will lead the cost. Lili Das gained the Indian Elite girls’s class in 2024, whereas Kavita Yadav emerged victorious among the many Indian girls in 2023.
The highest three finishers within the Indian Elite Males’s and Girls’s classes will obtain a prize cash of Rs 3,50,000, Rs 2,50,000 and Rs 1,50,000, respectively. A further Rs 1,00,000 incentive can also be up for grabs for setting a brand new Indian Elite report at VDHM.
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Revealed on Oct 08, 2026