SQUASH
Velavan loses in German Open squash quarters
Nationwide squash champion Velavan Senthilkumar went right down to Malaysian fourth seed Eain Yow Ng 11-7, 11-6, 11-4 within the males’s quarterfinals of the German Open, a USD 50,000 PSA World Tour Bronze occasion, in Hamburg on Friday.
“It’s at all times been a detailed affair (between us). For some motive, each time he upsets a couple of gamers to get to me,” Yow Ng advised the official PSA web site of the Indian world No 59.
“It’s getting harder each time, however I additionally know my strengths, I do know I can cling in there, play the large factors higher, and I feel it confirmed within the first and second video games. I’m simply pleased to get by in three at present,” added the Malaysian world No 22, who has received all their three conferences in PSA occasions.
– Crew Sportstar
TENNIS
Doubles champions Chia Yi Tsao and Ankita Raina within the ITF ladies’s tennis event in Japan on Saturday.
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Doubles champions Chia Yi Tsao and Ankita Raina within the ITF ladies’s tennis event in Japan on Saturday.
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ITF ladies’s tennis event: Ankita-Chia duo defeats Madeleine-Eudice in doubles last
Anita Raina in partnership with Chia Yi Tsao of Taiwan beat Madeleine Brooks and Eudice Wong Chong 6-4, 6-4 within the doubles last of the $40,000 ITF ladies’s tennis event in Kashiwa, Japan, on Saturday.
It was the twenty ninth doubles title within the skilled circuit for the 31-year-old Ankita. She has 11 singles titles to her credit score.
Within the €651,865 ATP event in Marrakech, Morocco, Yuki Bhambri in partnership with Albano Olivetti of France was overwhelmed 7-5, 3-6, [10-7] within the doubles semifinals by second seeds Alexander Erler and Lucas Miedler. Yuki and companion collected €9,600 and 90 ATP factors.
Sriram Balaji and Andre Begemann additionally misplaced the doubles semifinals in Houston, USA, to fourth seeds Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson 10-3 within the tremendous tie-break, and picked up $10,970 and 90 factors.
The outcomes:
€651, 865 ATP, Marrakech, Morocco
Doubles (semifinals): Alexander Erler & Lucas Miedler (Aut) bt Yuki Bhambri & Albano Olivetti (Fra) 7-5, 3-6, [10-7].
$742,350 ATP, Houston, USA
Doubles (semifinals): Max Purcell & Jordan Thompson (Aus) bt Sriram Balaji & Andre Begemann (Ger) 6-7(5), 6-2, [10-3].
$40,000 ITF ladies, Kashiwa, Japan
Doubles (last): Ankita Raina & Chia Yi Tsao (Tpe) bt Madeleine Brooks (GBR) & Eudice Wong Chong (Hkg) 6-4, 6-4.
$25,000 ITF ladies, Bujumbura, Burundi
Doubles (semifinals): Weronika Falkowska (Pol) & Stephanie Visscher (Ned) bt Riya Bhatia & Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) 2-6, 6-3, [10-8].
-Kamesh Srinivasan
HOCKEY
Hockey India organises specialised teaching program for former gamers
Hockey India has launched a brand new initiative aimed toward bringing uniformity and consistency in teaching and former India drag-flickers and goalkeepers Rupinder Pal Singh, VR Raghunath, Adrian D’Souza and, Bharat Chetri had been among the many first ones to obtain the coaching.
The programme, aimed toward standardising teaching methodologies throughout the nation and nurturing the following era of hockey expertise, was executed by Excessive Efficiency Director Herman Kruis on the SAI centre in Bengaluru lately.
Yogita Bali, Helen Mary, Dipika Murty, Akash Chikte, PT Rao, and eminent former India drag-flickers Gurjinder Singh, and Jaspreet Kaur additionally attended this system.
The goal is to streamline teaching approaches, enabling athletes throughout the nation, particularly on the grassroots stage, to be taught the identical fundamentals and abilities, thereby fostering uniformity in coaching requirements.
“By equipping former hockey icons with superior teaching strategies, we’re empowering them to form the way forward for Indian hockey. This collaborative effort is not going to solely elevate the standard of teaching but additionally improve the prospects of our younger athletes,” mentioned Kruis in a HI launch.
-PTI
GOLF
Pranavi lies Twentieth as Australian Girls’s Basic decreased to 36 holes
Pranavi Urs was tied-Twentieth after her first spherical within the weather-hit Australian Girls’s Basic on the Bonville Golf Resort.
With the primary day nearly totally worn out resulting from inclement climate, the occasion has been decreased to 36 holes and the primary spherical is but to be accomplished.
Nicole Broch Estrup sits on the prime of the leaderboard after play was suspended. The Dane shot 6-under 66 and shared the lead with Chinese language Taipei’s Pei-Ying Tsai and Australian Jess Whitling.
Seven teams had not completed their first spherical, which was accomplished on Saturday morning.
-PTI
Tvesa Malik maintains momentum, lies T-Seventh in South Africa
Indian golfer Tvesa Malik continued her momentum in South Africa as she was positioned Tied-Seventh after the second spherical of the Absa Girls Invitational on the Sunshine Girls Tour in Kempton Park.
Tvesa, who received her first-ever worldwide title in South Africa in February, had rounds of 72-72 and is even par for 36 holes on the Serengeti Estates, the place the situations had been robust with gusting wind and testing pin positions.
The opposite Indian within the subject, Ridhima Dilawari, a winner on the home Tour, additionally made the minimize after rounds of 74-73 and was T-Nineteenth.
Tvesa, who had three birdies and three bogeys within the first spherical, was trying superb on a windy second day on Friday. She had three birdies in opposition to one bogey in her first six holes after ranging from the tenth. She dropped photographs on seventeenth and 18th and had two birdies in opposition to one bogey on her second 9.
Total Tvesa had 5 birdies in opposition to as many bogeys on day two.
-PTI