SWIMMING
Delhi State Championship
Titiksha Rawat emerged one of the best swimmer within the under-17 women part, as she asserted her dominance by sweeping 5 particular person gold medals in freestyle, from 100 metres to 1,500 metres, within the 58th Delhi State swimming championship on the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Pool.
Superior and Veronika Kaila have been one of the best swimmers within the under-14 and under-11 women sections, respectively.
Within the under-17 boys part, the honour of one of the best swimmer was shared by Bhagya Gahlot and Prateek Singh.
Veer Chawla and Ketan Verma emerged one of the best within the under-14 and under-11 boys occasions, respectively.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
FOOTBALL
Indian Tremendous League outfit FC Goa introduced on Wednesday that Raynier Fernandes could be plying his commerce with Odisha FC within the upcoming 2024-25 season after the midfielder accomplished a mortgage transfer to the Juggernauts.
– Group Sportstar
Hardik Bhatt returns to Mumbai Metropolis FC
Mumbai Metropolis FC are blissful to verify the signing of defender Hardik Bhatt on a one-year contract till the top of the 2024-25 season. The 27-year-old returns to the Islanders after a mortgage stint earlier, within the second half of the 2022-23 season.
Born and raised in Mumbai, Hardik is a flexible right-footed full-back. He started his skilled profession with ARA FC in Ahmedabad in 2019. Since then, he has performed for Bengaluru United, Hyderya Sports activities, and Rajasthan United earlier than becoming a member of Mumbai Metropolis FC in January 2023. Hardik made 4 appearances for the Islanders through the 2022-23 season, representing the membership in each the Indian Tremendous League and the Tremendous Cup. He was additionally a part of the squad that gained the ISL League Winners’ Defend in 2023.
After the top of the 2022-23 season, he returned to Rajasthan United, the place he performed 14 video games within the I-League final 2023-24 season, offering two assists and serving to the group keep within the league.
General, Hardik has performed 47 video games throughout home tournaments in India, scoring 2 objectives and registering 2 assists. He now goals to contribute to Mumbai Metropolis’s targets within the upcoming season.
– Group Sportstar
TENNIS
Nagal-Drzewiecki pair bows out of Nordea Open
Olympic certain Indian tennis participant Sumit Nagal and his Polish companion Karol Drzewiecki made a primary spherical exit after struggling straight-set loss within the Nordea Open right here.
The Indo-Polish pair suffered a 3-6, 4-6 defeat within the palms of the French duo of Alexandre Muller and Luca Van Assche in a 59-minute spherical of 16 contest on Tuesday.
The 26-year-old nonetheless remains to be alive within the singles occasion. Nagal, who’s now positioned 68th within the ATP singles chart, subsequent faces world quantity 36 Mariano Navone from Argentina.
In the meantime, veteran Rohan Bopanna and N Sriram Balaji’s males’s doubles first spherical match in opposition to the German duo of Jakob Schnaitter and Mark Wallner on the Hamburg Open in Hamburg, Germany has been postponed to Thursday.
Bopanna and Balaji can even be pairing up for the Paris Olympics later this month.
In the identical occasion, Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan and Vijay Sundar Prashanth gained their second spherical qualifying match to advance to the principle draw.
The Indian pair got here from behind to defeat the Spanish mix of Sergio Martos Gornes and Jaume Munar 4-6 6-2 10-8 on Tuesday.
They may tackle the native duo and second seeds Tim Putz and Kevin Krawietz within the spherical of 16.
– PTI
Ankita Raina makes progress in ITF Nottingham match
Ankita Raina progressed each in singles and doubles within the $40,000 ITF ladies’s tennis match in Nottingham, Britain.
Ankita beat Cadence Brace of Canada 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 within the first spherical of singles. Later, she partnered Viktoria Hruncakova of Slovakia and overcame an detached begin to beat Brooke Black and Sophie Drakeford-Lewis of Britain 0-6, 7-5, [10-3] within the doubles pre-quarterfinals.
– Group Sportstar
The outcomes:
€651,865 ATP, Bastad, Sweden
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Alexandre Muller & Luca Van Assche (Fra) bt Karol Drzewiecki (Pol) & Sumit Nagal 6-3, 6-4.
€651,865 ATP, Gstaad, Switzerland
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Yuki Bhambri & Albano Olivetti (Fra) bt Boris Arias ( Federico Zeballos (Bol) 6-4, 6-4.
$742,350 ATP, Newport, USA
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Luke Saville & Aleksandar Vukic (Aus) bt Rithvik Choudhary & Niki Poonacha 6-1, 6-4.
$25,000 ITF males, Tianjin, China
Singles (first spherical): Aliaksandr Liaonenka bt S Mukund 1-1 (retired).
$15,000 ITF males, Slovenska Bistrica, Slovenia
Singles (first spherical): Sebastian Dominko (Slo) bt Manas Dhamne 6-3, 6-0; Jan Kupcic (Slo) bt Yuvan Nandal 6-2, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF males, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
Singles (first spherical): Dhakshineswar Suresh bt Anthony Susanto (Ina) 6-3, 7-6(10); Vishnu Vardhan bt Matteo Lavizzari (Sui) 6-2, 7-6(5).
$60,000 ITF ladies, Porto, Portugal
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Karola Bejenaru (Rou) & Riya Bhatia bt Zoziya Kardava (Geo) & Anastasiya Poplavska (Ukr) 7-6(2), 7-6(9).
$60,000 ITF ladies, Evansville, USA
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Anna Frey & Elizabeth Ionescu (USA) bt Shrivalli Bhamidipaty & Tian Fangran (Chn) 7-6(4), 6-4; Hiroko Kuwata (Jpn) & Sahaja Yamalapalli bt Sara Daavettila (USA) & Maria Kononova 6-4, 4-6, [10-7].
$40,000 ITF ladies, Nottingham, Britain
Singles (first spherical): Ankita Raina bt Cadence Brace (Can) 6-4, 4-6, 7-5.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Viktoria Hruncakova (Svk) & Ankita Raina bt Brooke Black & Sophie Drakeford-Lewis (GBR) 0-6, 7-5, [10-3].
$15,000 ITF males, Casablanca, Morocco
Singles (first spherical): Vaishnavi Adkar bt Zineb El Mouttaki (Mar) 6-0, 6-0.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
Singles (first spherical): Ayumi Kshiishi (Jpn) bt Humera Baharmus 6-0, 6-3; Shihomi Leong (Mas) bt Abhaya Vemuri 6-3, 6-1; Vanshita Pathania bt Abhilasha Bista (Nep) 1-6, 6-1, 6-3; Akanksha Nitture bt Tanuchaporn Yongmod (Tha) 6-4, 6-0.
$15,000 ITF males, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Tanisha Kashyap bt Milana Maslenkova (Uzb) 6-7(5), 7-6(3), 6-2.
HOCKEY
Roshni scores hat-trick as Hockey Jharkhand wins within the 2nd Hockey India Junior Males & Ladies East Zone Championship
Hockey Jharkhand thrashed Assam Hockey 13-0 within the ladies’s class with the younger Roshni Aind (twenty fourth, thirty second, thirty third) scoring a hat-trick within the 2nd Hockey India Junior Males & Ladies East Zone Championship on Wednesday.
The opposite objective scorers for the winners on the Netaji Subhas Japanese Centre have been captain Rajni Kerketta (11, 27), Barwa Purnima (31, 46), Mundu Sukarmani (46, 56), Parwati Topno (21), Pinki Kumari (29), Hemrom Leoni (43) and Aupriya Soreng (59).
Hockey Affiliation of Odisha too scored a lopsided 11-0 win in opposition to Hockey Bihar with Kachhap Rimjhim (20, 21, 31, 36) scoring 4 objectives. Najiya Khatun (8, 34), Marandi Rajina (38), Khushi Kumari (44), Sugandha Sonam (49, 50), and Kumari Sharda (57) too have been on course.
Hockey Bengal defeated Manipur Hockey 8-3 with Laltlanchhungi (4, 39, 49, 56), Shanti Horo (6, 33), and Lalpeksangi (23, 24) on course.
For Manipur Hockey, Tanu Shorensangbam (26), Devi Mutum Priya (41) and Devi Laishram Ritu (48) scored the comfort objectives
– PTI
GOLF
Shubhankar, a number of Indian-origin gamers to vie for 152nd Open at Royal Troon
Shubhankar Sharma would be the solely Indian passport holder teeing off on the 152nd Open Championship in Royal Troon, Scotland on Thursday at the same time as a number of Indian-origin gamers, together with Akshay Bhatia, would intention to carry aloft the Claret Jug on the oldest Main over the weekend.
Final 12 months Sharma completed tied-eighth at Royal Liverpool for the all-time end by an Indian on the British Open. Other than Sharma, the opposite Indian contact at Liverpool was Sahith Theegala, who missed the lower.
Nonetheless, this time round, there’s a sturdy Indian flavour within the area, together with Theegala, one of the vital thrilling younger stars, Bhatia, the left-hander who defied the favored norm of taking part in school earlier than turning professional, and Aaron Rai, whose behavior of carrying gloves on each palms, turns head within the {golfing} world.
The trio of Theegala, Bhatia and Rai, all have Indian blood in them, although the primary two signify the US and the third is now an Englishman.
– PTI