GOLF
Amandeep drops late triple as Khushi takes lead in third leg of Hero WPGT
Khushi Khanijau, taking part in within the opening group, birdied her ultimate gap to seize the only real lead after first spherical of the third leg of 2024 Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour on the Tollygunge Membership right here on Wednesday.
Enjoying within the first group with Riya Yadav (76), Khushi had three birdies on the eighth, tenth and a ultimate one on the 18th. She dropped photographs on the fifth and twelfth for a spherical of 69, the one underneath par card of the day.
The seasoned Amandeep Drall, taking part in in one of many later teams, was 4-under with two holes left when she had a disastrous triple bogey on Par-4 seventeenth and added a bogey on 18th to fall to even par 70. She is positioned second.
4 gamers, together with Hitaashee Bakshi, runner-up within the final two occasions, had been tied for third at 1-over 71 every. The opposite three are Seher Atwal, Jasmine Shekhar and Gauri Karhade.
Beginner Anaahat Bindra (73), who was additionally underneath par after 15, completed bogey-bogey-double bogey for 73 and was seventh.
Karishma Govind and Ananya Garg shot 74 every whereas three gamers Jyotsana Singh, Ananya Datar and Ridhima Dilawari had been tied for tenth place with rounds of 75 every.
Whereas Khushi has received as soon as beforehand on the Hero WPG Tour on the Royal Calcutta Golf Membership, Amandeep is attempting to work her method again into kind earlier than she embarks on worldwide Excursions.
Hitaashee had a birdie begin however bogeyed the subsequent three holes, earlier than recovering with two birdies in opposition to one dropped shot within the remaining 14 holes.
Seher Atwal made a sensible restoration after being 4-over by means of 12 holes. She birdied thrice to get to 1-over 71.
– PTI
Avani to spearhead Indian problem at Girls’s Asia-Pacific
The eloquent Avani Prashanth shall be accompanied by 5 different Indians because the area’s most interesting younger golfers prepare for the sixth Girls’s Beginner Asia-Pacific Championship.
This week the occasion returns to the Siam Nation Membership, which hosted the event two years in the past. As many as 22 international locations shall be represented by 90 golfers.
In addition to Avani, India shall be represented by Vidhatri Urs, Mannat Brar, Heena Kang, Keerthana Rajeev Nair and Saanvi Somu.
Somewhat over a dozen of the 90 golfers are on this planet’s Prime-100, and they’ll rub shoulders with gamers who’re from international locations in numerous levels of improvement of the sport.
Avani mentioned, “This event is a bookmark occasion for all of us in our calendars. It offers us publicity to play in opposition to one of the best in Asia, so that’s positively one huge benefit.
“And simply what the APGC does for all of us we’re all so grateful for. And never solely will we get to play with one of the best, but in addition make lifelong relationships that can develop into helpful if you begin taking part in on the LPGA or LET collectively.
“And I feel when you win I feel it’s nice as a result of that provides you a head begin as a younger novice and what it is best to and shouldn’t do.” Defending champion, Eila Galitsky of Thailand, added, “So simply what Avani mentioned. It’s nice publicity, and the chance to simply make friendships from world wide, round Asia, and the chance to get to play majors and compete with the highest execs on this planet is actually wonderful.” Whereas Avani is seeking to make her fourth, and probably, her final shot at WAAP, Galitsky is banking on a change in fortunes on the Siam Nation Membership.
If the 17-year-old Galitsky, the winner on the Singapore Island Nation Membership final yr, wins once more, she is going to develop into the primary participant to defend her WAAP title and in addition the primary two-time winner of the area’s premier novice occasion for girls.
In 2022, Galitsky struggled together with her putter on the Siam Nation Membership’s Waterside Course and was tied thirty fifth.
Avani, at forty second, is 2 locations behind Galitsky within the World Beginner Golf Rating.
Avani and Galitsky, who’ve solid a friendship going again to the time they had been Beneath-10, have competed usually in opposition to every. In six earlier clashes world wide, they’re tied 3-3 as their private rating.
-PTI
ATHLETICS
Double gold for Manju Rani
Worldwide Manju Rani, who received the 20km gold on the opening day, received the ladies’s 10km gold on the second day of the race strolling’s Indian Open in Chandigarh on Wednesday.
The 24-year-old from Punjab, who clocked 45:20.00s, had paired with Ram Babu to win the 35km blended relay crew bronze on the Hangzhou Asian Video games final yr.
“My focus would be the blended relay occasion this yr and I hope to signify India on the Olympics,” mentioned Manju after her victory.
The Athletics Federation of India had included the senior 10km stroll within the programme by choose potential athletes for this April’s World Athletics race stroll crew championships in Antalya, Turkey. The highest 22 groups from Turkey will routinely qualify for the Paris Olympics. The ultimate choice for Turkey shall be accomplished in March.
Within the males’s 10km, Punjab’s Sahil outclassed skilled athletes to say gold in 39:25s. He had completed fifth within the 20km on Tuesday.
Goa’s Vijay Omkar Vishwakaram received the lads’s 35 km race stroll whereas the ladies’s 35km gold went to Bandana Patel of Uttar Pradesh.
The outcomes:
Males, 20km: 1. Sahil (Pun) 39:25.00s, 2. Paramjeet Singh Bisht (Utk) 39:36.00, 3. Vikash Singh (Del) 39:47.00.
35km: 1. Vijay Omkar Vishwakaram (Goa) 2:39:19, 2. Sagar Satish Chandra (Guj) 2:44:22.00, 3. Devender Singh (Har) 2:44:58.00.
Girls: 10km: 1. Manju Rani (Pun) 45:20.00, 2. Payal (Utk) 46:04.00, 3. Mokavi Muthurathinam (TN) 46:10.00.
35km: 1. Bandana Patel (UP) 3:11:06.00, 2. Pooja Kumari (Punjab) 3:17:51.00, 3. Komal (Haryana) 3:23:06.00.
-Stan Rayan
TENNIS
ITF girls’s tennis: Rina Saigo beats Shrivalli Bhamidipaty
Shrivalli Bhamidipaty missed set factors in each the units and received crushed 7-6(8), 7-6(2) by Rina Saigo of Japan within the first spherical of the $40,000 ITF girls’s tennis event on the Indore Tennis Membership on Wednesday.
Shrivalli did effectively to combat again from being down 4-5 within the first set to pressure the tie-break, however missed a set level at 6-5.
Within the second set, Shrivalli led 5-3 and missed a set level on her serve within the tenth sport, earlier than the Japanese pulled by means of 7-2 within the eventual tie-break.
Sahaja Yamalapalli received off to a flying begin, successful the primary set 6-1, however couldn’t cease the seventh seed Dejana Radanovic of Serbia from dictating phrases thereafter. The Serb led 4-1 within the second set and 5-0 within the third, in racing to victory.
Qualifier Vaidehi Chaudhari additionally led 5-4 within the first set earlier than dropping 5-7, and 3-2 within the second earlier than being crushed 6-3, by Saki Imamura of Japan.
With Vaishnavi Adkar and Zeel Desai additionally bowing out within the first spherical, not one of the eight Indian gamers had been left to combat within the pre-quarterfinals.
The outcomes (first spherical):
Darja Semenistaja (Lat) bt Vaishnavi Adkar 6-2, 6-0; Saki Imamura bt Vaidehi Chaudhari 7-5, 6-3; Carole Monnet (Fra) bt Zeel Desai 6-4, 6-3; Naiktha Bains (GBR) bt Lena Papadakis (Ger) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; Naho Sato (Jpn) bt Rutuja Bhosale 7-6(2), 6-4; Dejana Radanovic (Srb) bt Sahaja Yamalapalli 1-6, 6-2, 6-1; Anca Alexia Todoni (Rou) bt Mana Kawamura (Jpn) 6-0, 6-3; Rina Saigo (Jpn) bt Shrivalli Bhamidipaty 7-6(8), 7-6(2); Alexandra Eala (Phi) bt Zhibek Kulambayeva (Kaz) 6-3, 6-4; Eri Shimizu (Jpn) bt Fanni Stollar (Hun) 7-5, 5-7, 6-1; Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) bt Sapfo Sakellaridi (Gre) 6-7(7), 6-1, 6-4; Polina Kudermetova bt Jessie Aney (USA) 6-2, 6-3.
ITF girls: Vasanti-Yvonne win in doubles pre-quarters
Vasanti Shinde in partnership with Yvonne Cavalle-Reimers of Spain beat Nefisa Berberovic and Elena Milovanovic 1-6, 6-4, [10-6] within the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the $40,000 ITF girls’s tennis event in Porto, Portugal.
The outcomes:
$40,000 ITF girls, Porto, Portugal Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Yvonne Cavalle-Reimers (Esp) & Vasanti Shinde bt Nefisa Berberovic (BIH) & Elena Milovanovic (Srb) 1-6, 6-4, [10-6].
$25,000 ITF males, Hammamet, Tunisia Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Maxence Bertimon (Fra) & Yannick Penkner (Aut) bt Dhananjay Singh & Neeraj Yashpaul 6-0, 3-6, [10-6].
– Group Sportstar
KHELO INDIA
Maharashtra baggage championship for the fourth time
Maharashtra bagged the general championships for the fourth time in six editions with 57 gold, 48 silver and 53 bronze for a complete of 158 medals within the sixth Khelo India Youth Video games right here on Wednesday.
Tamil Nadu ended with its best-ever medal haul of the Video games, bagging a complete of 98 medals, together with 38 gold, 21 silver and 39 bronze to complete second.
Haryana completed third with 35 gold, 22 silver and 46 bronze.
Tamil Nadu’s Maaya Rajeswaran and R. S. Rethin Pranav bagged the boys’ and women’ tennis singles titles.
The outcomes:
Soccer: Boys: (ultimate): Meghalaya bt Punjab 2-0.
Swimming:
Boys: 200m butterfly: 1. S. Dhanush (Kar) 2:05.69s; 2. Yug Chelani (Raj); 3. Deva Neelam (AP); 50m freestyle: 1. Rishabh Das (Mah) 24.22s; 2. Heer Pitroda (Guj); 3. Fortunate Ali Khan (Raj); 50m breaststroke: 1. Vidith Shankar (Kar) 29.51s; 2. Rana Pratap (Jha); 3. Kevin Jinu (Ker); 4×100 freestyle relay: 1. Maharashtra 3:35.15s; 2. Karnataka; 3. West Bengal.
Ladies: 200m butterfly: 1. Vritti Agarwal (TS) 2:22.89s; 2. Rithika Mahesh Bangalore (Kar); 3. Nirmayee Ambet (Mah); 50m freestyle: 1. Alefiya Saleh Dhansura (Mah) 27.07s; 2. Vihita Lognath (Kar); 3. Jahnabi Kashyap (Asm); 50m breaststroke: 1. P. Preshetha (TN) 34.91s; 2. Hiba Chougle (Mah); 3. M. U. Joyshree (TN); 1500m freestyle: 1. Vritti Agarwal (TS) 17:59.51s; 2. Aditi Mulay (Kar); 3. Sri Charani Tumu (Kar).
Desk Tennis: (finals): Boys: Singles: Ankur Bhattacharjee (WB) bt Priyanuj Bhattacharya (Asm) 11-6, 15-13, 11-7, 7-11, 7-11, 11-7; Doubles: Divyansh Srivastava & Sarth Mishra (UP) bt Ankur Bhattacharjee & Bodhisatwa Chaudhary (WB) 11-4, 12-10, 4-11, 7-11, 11-9.
Tennis: (finals):
Boys: Singles: R. S. Rethin Pranav (TN) bt Cahir Warik (Mah) 6-2, 3-0 (retd.); Ladies: Maaya Rajeswaran (TN) bt Laxmi Siri Dandu (TS) 6-1, 6-3.
– Group Sportstar