TENNIS
Ankita Raina loses pre-quarterfinals
Ankita Raina was crushed 6-1, 6-4 by Mariam Bolkvadze of Georgia within the pre-quarterfinals of the $60,000 ITF girls’s tennis match in Guinaraes, Portugal, on Thursday.
Within the €148,625 Challenger in Perugia, Italy, Sriram Balaji in partnership with Andre Begemann sailed into the doubles quarterfinals.
THE RESULTS
€148,625 Challenger, Nottingham, Britain
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Rithvik Bollipalli & Niki Poonacha bt Jacob Fearnley & Cameron Norrie (GBR) 7-6(1), 6-4; Charles Broom & Ben Jones (GBR) bt Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan & Vijay Sundar Prashanth 3-6, 6-3, [10-7].
€148,625 Challenger, Perugia, Italy
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Sriram Balaji & Andre Begemann (Ger) bt Jesper De Jong & Ryan Nijboer (Ned) 7-6(5), 6-3.
$25,000 ITF males, Wichita, USA
Singles (first spherical): Quinn Vandecasteele (uSA) bt Ramkumar Ramanathan 7-5, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF males, Koszalin, Poland
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Pawel Juszczak (Pol) bt Manas Dhamne 7-6(5), 3-6, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF males, Hong Kong
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): SD Prajwal Dev bt Daisuke Sumizawa (Jpn) 6-3, 6-4.
Doubles (quarterfinals): SD Prajwal Dev & Adil Kalyanpur bt Daniil Golubev & Evgenii Tiurnev 6-1, 6-4; Ajeet Rai (Nzl) & Rishi Reddy bt Ryotaro Taguchi & Ryoto Tanuma 6-1, 6-7(6), [11-9].
$15,000 ITF males, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Manish Sureshkumar bt Amr Elsayed (Egy) 6-2, 6-2; First spherical: Manish bt Paul Ender (Aut) 6-1, 6-2; Paulo Santos (Bra) bt Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 7-6(2), 6-3.
$60,000 ITF girls, Guimaraes, Portugal
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Mariam Bolkvadze (Geo) bt Ankita Raina 6-1, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF girls, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Singles (first spherical): Christasha McNeil bt Saumya Vig 6-1, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF girls, San Diego, USA
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Anna Campana & Carolyn Campana (USA) bt Teja Tirunelveli & Brandy Walker (USA) 6-4, 4-6, [10-7].
– Kamesh Srinivasan
CRICKET
Bengal Professional T20: Kolkata pips Howrah
Ananya Halder and Ariktha Manna picked up three wickets apiece as Lux Shyam Kolkata Tigers pipped Adamas Howrah Warriors by three runs within the Bengal Professional T20 Girls’s League on the Jadavpur College floor in Kolkata on Thursday.
THE SCORES
At Eden Gardens: Males
Servotech Siliguri Strikers 113 in 19.1 overs (Vikas Singh 31, Akash Deep 30, Nitin Verma 3/21) misplaced to Murshidabad Kings 118/3 in 17.5 overs (Sudip Gharami 48 n.o., Shuvam Dey 37, Akash Deep 3/19); Lux Shyam Kolkata Tigers 125/8 in 20 overs (Avilin Ghosh 42, Sujit Yadav 3/17) bt Adamas Howrah Warriors 54/5 in 10.3 overs (by 16 runs, D/L technique).
At Jadavpur College floor: Girls
Lux Shyam Kolkata Tigers 125/3 in 20 overs (Mita Paul 57 n.o., Mamata Kisku 53 n.o.) bt Adamas Howrah Warriors 122/9 in 20 overs (Ananya Halder 3/23, Ariktha Manna 3/26); Rashmi Medinipur Wizards 111/7 in 20 overs (Ankita BArman 36, Shreya Karar 3/22) misplaced to Sobisco Smashers Malda 112/6 in 18.5 overs (Piyali Ghosh 40 n.o.).
– Crew Sportstar
SHOOTING
Bhowneesh Mendiratta makes the ultimate
Olympic quota winner Bhowneesh Mendiratta got here up with a commendable fare, and scored 123 out of 125 as he certified in fashion for the lads’s entice last within the shotgun World Cup in Lonato, Italy, on Thursday.
Bhowneesh had a sequence of 25, 24, 25, 25 and 24. Prithviraj Tondaiman (119) and Vivaan Kapoor (113) positioned seventeenth and sixty fifth, respectively.
Within the RPO part, Asian Video games silver medallist Lakshay Sheoran shot 118 and Jaswinder Singh 107.
In girls’s entice, Manisha Keer, Shreyasi Singh and Olympic quota winner Rajeshwari Kumari shot an identical complete of 107 and positioned forty first, forty fourth and forty fifth, respectively.
Within the RPO part, KIrti Gupta shot 110, and Rajkuwar Ingle 89.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
SQUASH
Indian males to face Pakistan in quarterfinals of Asian Crew Championships
The Indian males’s crew progressed to the quarterfinals of the Asian Crew Squash championship following a 3-0 win over Mongolia on Thursday.
Japan has already certified for the last-eight stage from Pool D.
Former champion India will meet Pakistan within the quarterfinals on Friday.
In the meantime, the Indian girls’s crew beat Chinese language Taipei 3-0 however misplaced to Malaysia by an an identical margin and can meet South Korea in a must-win last Group A league match for a semifinal spot.
THE RESULTS
MEN
India bt Mongolia 3-0 (Suraj Kumar Chand bt Yesun Otgonchaimeg 11-3, 11-5, 11-1; Om Semwal bt Brian Bolor Bayarmaa 11-2, 11-3, 11-2; Rahul Baitha bt Amartuvshin Mandakhbayar 11-4, 11-5, 11-8).
WOMEN
India bt Chinese language Taipei 3-0 (Pooja Arthi R bt Wu Yi Chun 11-4, 11-1, 11-3; Sunita Patel bt Wang Yuan 11-6, 11-8, 11-9; Rathika Suthanthira Seelan bt Lee Yi Hsuan 11-7, 11-6, 11-5).
Malaysia bt India 3-0 (Aifa Azman bt Pooja Arthi 11-3, 11-5, 11-4; Aira Azman bt Janet Vidhi 11-1, 11-3, 11-1; Sivasangari Subramaniam bt Rathika Seelan 11-4, 11-5, 11-8).
– PTI
GOLF
India’s Pukhraj Singh Gills leads after first spherical in Vietnam
Indian golfer Pukhraj Singh Gill claimed a two-shot lead after carding an eight-under 64 within the delayed first spherical of the Nam A Financial institution Vietnam Masters on the Asian Improvement Tour.
The USD 85,000 occasion is being performed on the Royal Lengthy An Golf and Villas, a 27-hole course designed by Sir Nick Faldo on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh metropolis.
As many as seven Indians are enjoying within the three-day occasion with a area of 142 gamers.
Pukhraj was among the many gamers who needed to come again within the morning to complete his first spherical. Play was stopped early within the first spherical as a result of risk of lightening.
The 27-year-old Indian golfer started on the back-nine and opened birdie-birdie earlier than including yet one more on the 14th. An eagle on the 18th for the long-hitter noticed him flip in five-under.
On the second 9, he birdied thrice for a bogey free 64 and a two-shot lead over Thailand’s Tanapat Pichaikool (66).
Among the many different Indians, Akshay Sharma (69) was Tied-Ninth, Sunhit Bishnoi (70) was Tied-18th, Arjun Prasad and Saptak Talwar with 71 every had been Tied-Thirty third, and Khalin Joshi (72) and Aman Raj (72) had been Tied-Forty sixth.
Veteran Rahil Gangjee (74) was Tied-77th.
– PTI
Diksha to steer sturdy Indian problem in Italian Open golf
Skilled Diksha Dagar will look to depart behind a uncommon missed minimize, when she leads a robust five-member Indian contingent on the 2024 Girls Italian Open beginning tomorrow.
The Indian star, who’s headed to the Olympic Video games in Paris, is simply outdoors the Prime-10 on the Girls Order of Advantage, the place she was third final yr.
Diksha is without doubt one of the 5 Indians within the area this week, with rookie Pranavi Urs, skilled Tvesa Malik, Vani Kapoor and Ridhima Dilawari additionally teeing up on the Golf Nazionale, which is internet hosting the occasion for the primary time.
FILE PHOTO: Diksha Dagar will lead a robust five-member Indian contingent on the 2024 Girls Italian Open.
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FILE PHOTO: Diksha Dagar will lead a robust five-member Indian contingent on the 2024 Girls Italian Open.
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Diksha had 9 Prime-10s final yr together with a win within the Czech Girls Open and a 3rd place end on the Hero Girls’s Indian Open.
This yr she has had two Prime-10 finishes, together with a 3rd place at Joburg Open.
She is going to tee off within the afternoon session, as will Tvesa, who this yr achieved her first worldwide win on the Sunshine Tour in South Africa, and had her first Prime-10 on the LET since 2021.
In 2021, Tvesa had 5 tops, together with T-10 on the Italian Open. Additionally teeing off within the afternoon can be Ridhima, whereas Pranavi and Vani will play within the morning session.
Whereas Diksha is presently eleventh on the LET Order of Advantage, Pranavi, with three Prime-10s this season, is thirteenth. Her finest got here in her final begin, the Dormy Open in Helsingborg, the place completed tied third, after being in lead for some time.
– PTI