TENNIS
Nitin Sinha stuns defending champion Sureshkumar to achieve Fenesta Open ultimate
Third seed Nitin Kumar Sinha surprised defending champion and high seed Manish Sureshkumar in a three-set thriller to achieve the boys’s singles ultimate of the thirty first Fenesta Open Nationwide Tennis Championship in Bengaluru on Friday.
Sinha prevailed 6-7(6-8) 6-3 6-1 after a three-hour battle in opposition to his common doubles companion, recovering from dropping the opening set to arrange a title conflict in opposition to sixth seed Maan Kesharwani.
Kesharwani booked hello place within the ultimate with a 6-3 7-5 win over unseeded Suraj Prabodh within the different semifinal.
Sinha and Sureshkumar later teamed as much as win the boys’s doubles title, beating Rohith Gobinath and Srikar Doni 6-3 6-2.
Within the girls’s singles, high seed and two-time former champion Vaidehee Chaudhari will face second seed Shruti Ahlawat within the ultimate after each registered snug straight-set wins.
Chaudhari defeated fourth seed Sonal Patil 6-3 6-1, whereas Ahlawat brushed apart Soha Sadiq 6-0 6-1.
Lakshmi Arunkumar and Samhitha Chamarthi claimed the ladies’s doubles title with a 5-7 6-1 10-5 victory over Aishwarya Jadhav and Aakruti Sonkusare.
Within the boys’ under-18 singles, fourth seed Om Ramesh Patel battled for 3 hours and 16 minutes to beat fifteenth seed Yashwin Dahiya 6-7(3-7) 6-1 7-5. Patel will meet tenth seed Ribhav Saroha within the ultimate after the latter defeated Srikar Doni 6-3 6-2.
High seeds Praneel Sharma and Aditya Mor received the boys’ under-18 doubles title with a 6-2 6-1 victory over third seeds Raghav Sarode and Om Ramesh Patel. Third seeds Sanmitha Harini and Savitha Bhuvaneswaran clinched the ladies’ under-18 doubles crown, beating fourth seeds Sree Syleswari Velmanikandan and Riddhi Shinde 6-4 7-5.
-PTI
CUE SPORTS
Commonwealth Cue Sports activities C’Ships 2026 Day 3: Dhvaj Haria, Anupama Ramachandran and Revanna Umadevi safe ultimate berths
Indian cueists Dhvaj Haria, Anupama Ramachandran and Revanna Umadevi secured locations within the finals on Day 3 of the Commonwealth Cue Sports activities Championships 2026 on the Veer Savarkar Sports activities Advanced in Ahmedabad. Whereas Haria superior to the Males’s Snooker ultimate, Ramachandran and Umadevi arrange an all-Indian ultimate in Ladies’s English Billiards. A number of different Indian gamers stay in rivalry, persevering with to battle it out on the tables because the Championships head into the medal matches on Saturday.
In Males’s Snooker, Dhvaj Haria produced a powerful efficiency to defeat Darren Morgan of Wales 3-1 within the quarter-finals earlier than overcoming fellow Indian Laxman Singh Rawat 3-1 within the semi-finals to e-book his place within the ultimate. Rawat had earlier progressed with a 3-0 victory over England’s Craig MacGillivray. Aditya Mehta additionally superior to the semi-finals after defeating England’s Ross Vallance 3-0 within the quarter-finals.
In Ladies’s Snooker, Ishika Shah defeated fellow Indian Snenthra Babu 3-0 within the quarter-finals, whereas Shruthi Lakshminarayanan recorded a 3-0 win over Canada’s Simone Lloyd. Keerthana Pandian additionally progressed with a 3-0 victory over England’s Gillian Hayes. Shah’s marketing campaign got here to an finish within the semi-finals after she went down 0-3 to England’s Rebecca Kenna.
India continued its robust displaying in English Billiards, with Anupama Ramachandran and Revanna Umadevi advancing to the Ladies’s ultimate. Ramachandran defeated England’s Mhairi Roberta Mackay 1-0, whereas Umadevi secured a 1-0 victory over Australia’s Julie Watson to arrange an all-Indian ultimate.
In Males’s Heyball, Paras Gupta registered a 9-3 victory over Scotland’s Craig Brown within the second spherical, whereas Uzair Khan defeated Malaysia’s Tan Zhong Wei 7-4 to advance. Shivam Arora, nonetheless, went down 2-9 to South Africa’s Jason Theron. In one other second-round encounter, Malaysia’s Mohd Hassan defeated South Africa’s Kurshan Moodley 9-2.
In Males’s 10-Ball Pool, Divya Sharma continued his marketing campaign with a 9-6 victory over fellow Indian Kushal Chandrashekar within the second spherical. Earlier, Sharma had edged previous Canada’s Darcy McGinley 9-8. Lalrina Renthlei additionally recorded a 9-3 victory over Kelly Yambi earlier than dropping 5-7 to England’s Mark Foster within the following spherical.
In Ladies’s Blackball, Gianna Rego went down 1-5 to England’s Emma Cunningham within the second spherical. Cunningham subsequently superior to the ultimate after defeating South Africa’s Prudence Nkosi 5-1, whereas Spain’s Naiga Rukia secured her place within the ultimate with a 5-2 victory over Australia’s Kolbe Poole.
With the Championships approaching its conclusion, consideration now turns to Saturday’s medal matches, the place Haria, Ramachandran and Umadevi will look to transform their ultimate berths into Commonwealth titles. Different Indian cueists may even proceed their campaigns, aiming so as to add to the nation’s medal tally because the four-day competitors reaches its climax in Ahmedabad.
-Staff Sportstar
CRICKET
Delhi Capitals Faculty Cup returns with 38 groups
The JSW-GMR co-owned Delhi Capitals introduced the second version of the DC Faculty Cup, returning after a massively profitable inaugural version in 2025 that established the event as one of the vital thrilling and immersive faculty cricket experiences for younger cricketers throughout Delhi-NCR.
Constructing on the overwhelming response from colleges and gamers final 12 months, the event returns on October 9 with a considerably expanded subject of 38 groups – 32 boys’ and 6 ladies’ groups and 66 matches throughout 4 venues, bringing the Delhi Capitals expertise to extra younger cricketers throughout the area.
The event has grown from 20 groups in 2025 to 38 groups in 2026, with an expanded league and knockout format culminating within the Remaining in early November. With 4 grounds this 12 months, the DC Faculty Cup will function at a bigger scale whereas sustaining consistency in matchday execution and presentation.
All colleges will play in numerous colored kits, and the event’s latter levels will characteristic dwell commentators, music and extra, additional elevating the expertise for taking part gamers and colleges.
The primary version additionally demonstrated the event’s potential as a pathway for rising expertise, with two gamers occurring to be chosen for Season 3 of the Delhi Premier League. This 12 months, the DC Faculty Cup will construct on that with the introduction of the DC Future XI, recognising standout performers from throughout the competitors. Ten younger gamers may even get a chance to expertise a Delhi Capitals coaching session.
Talking in regards to the second version, Mr. Sunil Gupta, CEO, Delhi Capitals, mentioned, “The primary version of the DC Faculty Cup confirmed us how a lot expertise and enthusiasm exists amongst younger cricketers in Delhi-NCR, and the response made it clear that there was an urge for food for an even bigger platform. This 12 months, we wished to make the event larger, but in addition make the expertise extra particular for each youngster who takes half. For a lot of of them, cricket is one thing they develop up watching, speaking about and dreaming about, and we need to convey that world a bit nearer to them.
“Whether or not it’s sporting particular kits, competing in a correct event or getting a glimpse of what it’s wish to be round an expert group, we need to give younger gamers experiences they’ll keep in mind. The 2 gamers from final season’s Faculty Cup who went on to the Delhi Premier League present what these alternatives can result in, and we hope to create many extra such moments by this 12 months’s version,” he added.
As a part of the event expertise, the Captain’s Meet has already introduced collectively captains from the taking part colleges, with every receiving their official designed DC Faculty Cup enjoying equipment forward of the competitors. With matches unfold throughout 4 venues, the event will characteristic structured match operations, medical assist, devoted participant and group areas, dwell commentary, matchday branding, participant recognition, content material and images, creating an expert sporting surroundings for taking part colleges.
The second version of the DC Faculty Cup represents the following step within the franchise’s dedication to high school cricket and grassroots expertise improvement in Delhi-NCR, constructing on the success of its inaugural version to create what goals to be the area’s most participating and memorable faculty cricket expertise.
-Staff Sportstar
RUGBY
New Zealand U-20 sides to go to India for sequence
New Zealand U-20 Boys & Women group can be visiting India from twenty second to twenty eighth October to play a rugby sequence with Indian U-20 groups on the Rajgir Sports activities Advanced, Rajgir.
The visiting squads – Tama Toa, the boys’s group, and Hine Toa, the ladies’s group – comprise 24 younger Māori gamers chosen from throughout New Zealand and can be supported by a six-member administration group. The programme will embody joint coaching classes, squad-based match actions and cultural and neighborhood engagements alongside the Indian U-20 squads, culminating on 27 October, with 4 aggressive Sevens matches.
The programme will characteristic a males’s match between India and New Zealand, adopted by the ladies’s match and two combined matches bringing gamers from each groups collectively.
-Staff Sportstar
MOTORSPORT
Saishiva Sankaran, Ishaan Madesh impress in MRF Components 2000 class
Saishiva (in white automotive) has received 5 races on the trot throughout two rounds earlier than yielding floor to Ishaan who bought into his stride with a superb win after lacking the primary spherical.
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Saishiva (in white automotive) has received 5 races on the trot throughout two rounds earlier than yielding floor to Ishaan who bought into his stride with a superb win after lacking the primary spherical.
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The MRF Indian Nationwide Racing Problem 4W is quick proving to be a nursery of younger expertise and this can be highlighted but once more within the third spherical which can be held on the Madras Worldwide Circuit on October 10-11 with 41 entries in fray and a schedule of 9 races.
Within the two rounds this season, youngsters from throughout the nation have blossomed forth. A few of them, like Pune’s Saishiva Sankaran (18) and Ishaan Madesh (17) from Bengaluru have enhanced their repute as budding racers with pleasing performances within the MRF Components 2000 class.
Saishiva has received 5 races on the trot throughout two rounds earlier than yielding floor to Ishaan who bought into his stride with a superb win after lacking the primary spherical. The 2 can be locked in one other tussle marked by shut and clear racing.
On the different finish of the spectrum, freshers like Visakhapatnam’s Bhuvan Bonu (16) and Gyan Satish (16) from Chennai, have emerged as front-runners within the MRF Components 1600 class. Bhuvan has notched 4 wins in six outings, with Gyan Satish topping the opposite two.
Likewise, the opposite single-seater class, the Components LGB 1300, has greater than its share of sweet sixteen expertise, spearheaded by 16-year-old Sri Lankan Kaveen Diyyan Rajapaksa, winner of 4 of the six races in Junior part. His compatriot, Aadam Junaid topped one race as did Bengaluru’s Shatveer Shetty who at 15 is among the many youngest contributors. Nellore’s Viswas Vijayaraj, the lead driver for DTS Racing group which has dominated the Open class, has been in imperious type, successful all six races, be it from pole place or mid-grid (reverse grid).
The touring and saloon automotive classes, boasting of grids full of expertise, have witnessed aggressive racing. The contests are anticipated to be a lot tighter with the leaders seeking to consolidate their positions on the factors desk and placing a long way from the chasing pack.
Chairman of the Occasion Vicky Chandhok, whereas welcoming the opponents to the third spherical, mentioned: “It augurs effectively for the longer term that an rising variety of kids have taken to the game and showcasing their expertise. These younger weapons are very aggressive and fearless, thus resulting in thrilling races the place the result is in suspense till the chequered flag.”
– Staff Sportstar
GOLF
Gaganjeet completed the event with an combination rating of 14-under-par 196, beating his nearest rival Karandeep Kochhar 6-under 64 by three strokes.
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Gaganjeet completed the event with an combination rating of 14-under-par 196, beating his nearest rival Karandeep Kochhar 6-under 64 by three strokes.
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IGPL: Gaganjeet prevails underneath stress to emerge victorious
On a day when these round him faltered underneath the ultimate day stress, Gaganjeet Bhullar opened and ended the spherical with bogeys, however in between holed seven birdies for a five-under-par 65 in his ultimate loop to emerge victorious on the Hyderabad leg of the Indian Golf Premier League.
Gaganjeet completed the event with an combination rating of 14-under-par 196, beating his nearest rival Karandeep Kochhar 6-under 64 by three strokes. Kochhar aggregated 11-under, as did C. Muniyappa (66). Gaganjeet’s efforts additionally helped Chennai Lions GC take the group title forward at 26-under and two photographs forward of Vizag Dolphins at 24-under.
-Anirudh Velamuri
BMW Golf Cup 2026 India winners set to characterize the nation on the World Remaining
BMW Group India on Friday introduced the winners of the sixteenth version of the BMW Golf Cup 2026 ultimate, held at DLF Golf and Nation Membership, Gurugram. Anish Bhujle – Class A and Vikas Mahajan – Class B emerged victorious of their respective handicap classes and can characterize India on the BMW Golf Cup World Remaining scheduled to be held in South Africa in March 2027.
The nationwide ultimate introduced collectively 40 main novice golfers who certified by regional tournaments held at spectacular golf programs throughout Chennai, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Delhi, Vadodara, Jaipur, Bengaluru, Lucknow, Patna, Kolkata and Gurugram. This season attracted 2,300 contributors, the finalist competed for nationwide honours and the chance to characterize India on the pinnacle of the BMW Golf Cup.
01 Picture (L-R) Winners of BMW Golf Cup 2026 Anish Bhujle – Class A and Vikas Mahajan – Class B
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01 Picture (L-R) Winners of BMW Golf Cup 2026 Anish Bhujle – Class A and Vikas Mahajan – Class B
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On the ultimate, Anish Bhujle from Mumbai claimed the title in Class A for handicaps upto 12, whereas Vikas Mahajan from Muradabad received the Class B for handicaps 13-28. The 2 champions will type Staff India on the BMW Golf Cup World Remaining, competing in opposition to main novice golfers from taking part nations.
BMW Golf Cup, one of many world’s largest novice golf event sequence can hint its roots again 1 / 4 of a century to a British-based initiative that ran by itself for 5 years earlier than going worldwide. The event began because the BMW Invitation Match in UK. It has now developed into a worldwide sequence with 1,000 qualifying tournaments involving 100,000 gamers in as much as 40 nations. The very best gamers from every nation qualify for the spotlight, the BMW Golf Cup World Remaining, the place the person titles are contested in three classes.
The BMW Golf Cup 2026 has two classes, A (for handicaps as much as 12) and B (for handicaps 13 – 28). The winners of the person handicap classes qualify for the Nationwide Remaining. The winners in every of the 2 handicap classes within the Nationwide Remaining qualify to participate within the World Remaining of BMW Golf Cup.
-Staff Sportstar
Printed on Oct 09, 2026