Indian sports activities wrap, February 11: Pankaj Advani wins Indian Snooker Championship

CUE SPORT

Pankaj Advani claims Indian Snooker Championship

India’s most achieved participant, Pankaj Advani, secured his thirty sixth general nationwide title and tenth males’s snooker crown on the Yashwant Membership, in a commanding show of talent and willpower.

The ONGC worker overcame an early setback to defeat Brijesh Damani in a remaining the place Damani managed to take the opening body, the one one he would declare all through the match.

The match serves as the one choice occasion for the Asian and World Championships.

Advani’s efficiency was marked by consistency and precision. After falling behind by a body, he maintained his composure and managed the desk, leaving little room for error. Within the remaining body, Advani delivered a powerful 84 break, sealing the body, match and championship.

“Since that is the one occasion that determines the representatives of the nation for worldwide tournaments, the stakes have been excessive,” Advani stated.

The excessive strain match proved to be a full-circle second for Advani.

Within the group stage, he had suffered his solely lack of the competitors by the hands of Damani, the place he managed to win just one body. The rivalry took an ironic flip within the remaining when the tables have been turned and Advani emerged victorious, dropping only one body within the match.

A vital turning level on this 91st version of the Nationwide Championships got here through the spherical of 48.

Regardless of being 4-2 down – a state of affairs that just about noticed him exit the occasion – the multiple-time world champion mounted an unforgettable comeback by successful the match 5-4. This resilient show not solely saved his match bid but additionally set the stage for the success that adopted.

“There was an excellent feeling about this gold when the spherical of 48 match noticed me bounce again from nearly being out of the competitors. Then I knew this pivotal second needed to imply one thing large awaits. Completely satisfied to have earned the possibility to once more symbolize India in each billiards and snooker,” Advani stated.

With the Asian Snooker Championship scheduled to start from February 15, each Advani and Damani now face the chance to play for the tricolour on the worldwide stage.

– PTI

TENNIS

Nationwide Video games tennis: Ishaque, Vaidehi triumph

Providers’ Ishaque Eqbal capped a fantastic run and gained the tennis males’s singles title within the Nationwide Video games on the Parade Floor Stadium on Tuesday.

The unseeded 27-year-old from Kolkata jolted Gujarat’s top-seeded Javia V. Dev 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5) within the remaining. Gujarat’s Vaidehi Chaudhari took the ladies’s title with a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Maharashtra’s second seed Vaishnavi Adkar to complete with a double. Vaidehi had gained the ladies’s doubles title with Zeel Desai earlier.

After dropping the primary set within the males’s remaining, Ishaque was down 1-3 within the subsequent however he didn’t surrender.

“After that, I performed a very good recreation on my returns, that’s what modified the momentum and I began believing in myself. That’s once I actually bought pumped up,” stated Ishaque who had crushed the second and third seeds earlier.

The outcomes (tennis, finals):

Males, singles: Ishaque Eqbal (Ser) bt Dev Javia(Guj) 3-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5). Doubles: Prajwal Dev & Niki Ok. Poonacha (Kar) bt Ishaque Eqbal & Faisal Qamat (Ser) 6-3, 6-1.

Ladies, singles: Vaidehi Chaudhari (Guj) bt Vaishnavi Adkar (Mah) 6-4, 6-4. Doubles: Vaidehi Chaudhari & Zeel Desai (Guj) bt Pooja Ingale & Akansha Nitture (Mah) 6-3, 6-2.

Blended doubles: Lohith Aksha Bathrinath & L. Arunkumar (TN) bt Niki Ok. Poonacha & Soha Sadiq (Kar) 6-4, 6-1.

-Stan Rayan

GOLF

TATA Metal PGTI Gamers Championship 2025: Rahil, Yuvraj and Arjun Sharma share lead

Golfer Rahil Gangjee in motion on the opening day of the TATA Metal PGTI Gamers Championship on the Tollygunge Membership in Kolkata on Tuesday.
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Rahil Gangjee, Yuvraj Sandhu and Arjun Sharma fired an an identical seven-under 63 to share the lead after the primary spherical of the season-opening Skilled Golf Tour of India, the TATA Metal PGTI Gamers Championship, on the Tollygunge Membership course right here on Tuesday.

A shot adrift, S.S.P. Chawrasia was joint fourth with Karandeep Kochhar and Ankur Chadha.

Defending champion Manu Gandas shot a 69 to be tied-45 ^th.

S. Chikkarangappa made a hole-in-one on the sixth gap throughout his spherical of an even-par 70. He was positioned tied-65 ^th.

-Y.B. Sarangi

BASKETBALL

INBL Professional League: Stallions edge previous Dribblers in further time

Gujarat Stallions pulled collectively as a cohesive unit in scoring a 95-90 victory over Delhi Dribblers in ten minutes of additional time after the groups have been locked 83-83 on the finish of the fourth quarter within the INBL Professional basketball league on the Thyagaraj Indoor Stadium on Tuesday.

It was the second victory in 4 matches for the Stallions who led 41-37 at halftime. Trendon Hankerson top-scored for the winner with 26 factors. Alexander Mudronja, Lachlan Barker and Pratyanshu Tomar did the majority of scoring for the Dribblers.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

EQUESTRIAN

Nationwide Equestrian Championship 2025 kicks off in Meerut

A glimpse from the primary day of the The Nationwide Equestrian Championship (NEC) Showjumping 2025.
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The Nationwide Equestrian Championship (NEC) Showjumping 2025 has formally commenced at present on the prestigious Modi Equestrian Academy in Modi Puram, Meerut.

With over 250 entries competing throughout 5 various classes—together with the Preliminary Tour, Novice Tour, Younger Horse Championships, Medium Tour, and the Championship Tour, the place the winner will likely be topped the Nationwide Champion for the 2024-25 season.

The championship options prime riders, together with Asian Video games contributors Sehaj Singh Virk, Tejas Dhingra, Kirat Singh Nagra, Ashray Butta, and Yashaan Zubin Khambatta, including to the competitors’s status.

15-year-old M Krishna Sahithi, who is about to compete within the Medium Tour. Her inclusion marks a notable second, as she will likely be competing shoulder-to-shoulder with seasoned professionals.

– Group Sportstar

GYMNASTICS

Maharashtra guidelines the roost in gymnastics, wins 5 gold medals

Powerhouse Maharashtra picked up 5 gold and two silver medals to rule the roost in gymnastics on the fourth day of competitions on the thirty eighth Nationwide Video games in Dehradun on Tuesday.

From acrobatic to trampoline occasions, Maharashtra gymnasts showcased distinctive talent, outshining their rivals from different states.

In acrobatic gymnastics girls’s group (senior), Maharashtra claimed the gold with a rating of 61.730, whereas West Bengal (51.540) secured silver and Karnataka (42.750) took residence the bronze.

Equally, within the males’s group (Senior), Maharashtra gained gold with 64.650 factors, adopted by Kerala (61.210) with silver and Karnataka (53.740) bronze.

In acrobatic combined pair (senior), Maharashtra’s Riddhi Sachin Jaiswal and Shubham Sunil Sarkate secured the gold with 52.250 factors, whereas Kerala (47.720) and Karnataka (46.830) earned silver and bronze respectively.

Maharashtra’s Nixhita Suresh and Rutuja Dattatraya clinched gold within the girls’s pair (senior) with 51.250 factors. West Bengal (44.700) secured silver, whereas Kerala (43.500) gained bronze.

The fifth gold for Maharashtra got here within the males’s trampoline occasion, Maharashtra’s Ayush Sanjay Mule clinched the gold with 48.740 factors, whereas Kerala’s Manu Murali (46.150) gained silver and Uttarakhand’s Udit Chauhan (45.070) claimed bronze.

Within the males’s pair (senior) occasion, Karnataka’s Akkala Kumar and Qutubuddin Sheikh emerged victorious with 62.050 factors, whereas Maharashtra (61.020) and Haryana (59.840) gained silver and bronze respectively.

The trampoline girls’s class noticed Andhra Pradesh’s Sheikh Yasin successful the gold with 39.790 factors.

Maharashtra’s Chaitrali Rakhmaji (39.280) and Gujarat’s Preeti Maheshbhai (37.800) bagged the silver and bronze respectively.

PTI