GOLF
Hulencourt Girls’s Open: Rookie Avani positioned second in Belgium
Indian rookie Avani Prashanth equalled her finest begin of the season with a 4-under 68l that gave her a stable tied second place after the primary spherical of the Hulencourt Girls’s Open.
Enjoying in one of many late teams within the afternoon, Avani had seven birdies towards three bogeys in an action-packed spherical.
Australia’s Kelsey Bennett topped the leaderboard after day one with a gap spherical of 67 (-5). Avani shared the second place with Germany’s Helen Briem as they carded 68 every.
Avani is likely one of the seven Indians in motion this week on the Women European Tour.
The seasoned Diksha Dagar started with a modest even par 72 within the first spherical of the occasion and was T-22 when the spherical ended.
Amandeep Drall, who lately picked a win on her dwelling Tour, the Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour, is taking part in her first LET occasion this season, and Sneha Singh is that includes in her second occasion. The duo shot 2-over 74 every and had been T-58th.
Tvesa Malik carded 76 as did Vani Kapoor, a four-time winner at dwelling on WPGT, and each had been T-89 whereas Hitaashee Bakshi struggled to 79 and was T-A hundred and twenty fifth.
Avani started on the primary and picked two early birdies on the second and the third. Then she had two bogeys on the fifth and the seventh with one birdie in between. A birdie on the ninth meant she turned in 2-under 34.
A par on the tenth was adopted by three birdies in a row from the eleventh to the thirteenth and a bogey on the 14th. 4 pars over the past 4 holes meant she completed at 4-under for the day.
“I feel it was an excellent day from begin to end,” mentioned Avani.
“The putter was actually scorching all day. I really like fast greens so that is positively considered one of my favorite golf programs to this point. I used to be studying putts completely and I’ve been working fairly a bit on my placing the final two days, so I’m glad all of it got here collectively.” At simply 18-years-old, Prashanth is feeling good about her opening spherical.
“I’m feeling fairly good about it and I’m simply glad that I lastly bought the nice first day that I wished. Issues are off to an excellent begin and let’s see how the week goes.
“I feel the sport plan was just about the identical as final week, regardless of being very totally different programs. I simply needed to work on getting my pace in management, however apart from that, it’s been the identical,” continued {the teenager}.
Diksha, who has been in nice kind this season and has been within the High-10 of the Women European Tour’s Order of Advantage, had three birdies and as many bogeys in her spherical.
She began on the again 9 and bogeyed the 14th, however turned in one-under with birdies on the sixteenth and the 18th. A bogey on the second adopted by a birdie on the third meant she was nonetheless underneath par. A bogey on the seventh, which was her sixteenth gap, noticed her end at even par.
– PTI
Bhatia, Rai wrestle together with Scheffler; injured Theegala skips US Open
World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler shot 3-over 73, his highest ever rating within the US Open, as he trailed shock chief, J.J. Spaun (66) by seven pictures whereas Indian-origin golfers struggled within the US Open on the Oakmont Nation Membership.
Indian-American Sahith Theegala, who has had a really disappointing season, pulled out earlier than the occasion due to a ‘neck damage’ that’s taking extra time than anticipated to heal.
One other Indian-American, Akshay Bhatia, had a tough time together with his 76 with seven bogeys and one solitary birdie.
Indo-British Aaron Rai (72) was T-33 with three birdies towards 5 bogeys.
– PTI
Saptak Talwar tied 78th in Czech Republic
Indian golfer Saptak Talwar carded a one-over 72 to be positioned tied 78th after the opening day of Raiffeisenbank Golf Problem.
Talwar is eight pictures off the lead and has to select up the tempo if he hopes to make reduce.
Talwar started his spherical on the again 9 and had bogeys on the thirteenth and seventeenth holes.
On the entrance 9, he was in a position to get better a shot on the fourth gap to achieve again some floor.
Jovan Rebula of South Africa, a nephew to 4 time Main winner Ernie Els, leads after the primary spherical by one stroke.
Jackson Palmer of USA and Sebastian Garcia of Spain are positioned tied second after taking part in a spherical of six-under 66.
– PTI
Umed Kumar clinches PGTI NEXGEN title
Champion Umed Kumar within the PGTI NEXGEN golf match in SAS Nagar on Friday.
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Champion Umed Kumar within the PGTI NEXGEN golf match in SAS Nagar on Friday.
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Umed Kumar scored a gentle one-over 63 within the third and ultimate spherical to cinch the title with a par 190 within the PGTI NEXGEN golf match on the Forest Hill Golf and Nation Membership on Friday.
The 24-year-old Umed was two pictures behind the lead on the finish of the second spherical to finally emerge champion with a three-shot margin over in a single day chief Mari Muthu.
The champion gained Rs.2,54,300.
“I’m delighted to have gained my first match as knowledgeable. It’s a huge confidence booster,” mentioned Umed.
The scores
1. Umed Kumar (61, 66, 63) 190; 2. Mair Muthu (61, 64, 68) 193; 3. Irfan Ali Mollah (64, 68, 63) 195; 4T. Bruesh Kumar (65, 66, 65); Bipin Mukhiya (68, 63, 65); Chandrajeet Yadav (71, 61, 64) 196.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Saptak Talwar lies tied 78 in Czech Republic
Indian golfer Saptak Talwar carded a one-over 72 to be positioned tied 78th after the opening day of Raiffeisenbank Golf Problem right here.
Talwar is eight pictures off the lead and has to select up the tempo if he hopes to make the reduce.
Talwar started his spherical on the again 9 and had bogeys on the thirteenth and seventeenth holes.
On the entrance 9, he was in a position to get better a shot on the fourth gap to achieve again some floor.
Jovan Rebula of South Africa, a nephew to four-time Main winner Ernie Els, leads after the primary spherical by one stroke.
Jackson Palmer of the USA and Sebastian Garcia of Spain are positioned tied second after taking part in a spherical of six-under 66.
-PTI
CHESS
Abhijeet Gupta beats Mihail Nikitenko to take sole lead at Delhi GM Open chess match
Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta scored a spectacular victory over Grandmaster Mihail Nikitenko to remain in sole lead on the finish of the ninth and penultimate spherical with eight factors within the twenty first Delhi GM Open chess match on the Tivoli Gardens, Chhattarpur, on Friday.
Abhijeet got here up with a flurry of sacrifices, together with a contemporary minted queen, to gentle up the top recreation, forcing the joint chief to resign after 48 strikes.
Worldwide Grasp Aronyak Ghosh of the Railways was up by three pawns within the endgame towards Viresh Sharnarthi to safe full factors. With 7.5 factors, Aronyak was in joint second place with Grandmaster Aditya Samant.
Aronyak will problem Abjijeet Gupta within the tenth and final spherical of the match on Saturday.
Aditya rallied his forces properly with the black to have a rook and three minor items towards two rooks of Grandmaster Aleksej Aleksandrov.
Aditya will play high seed SL Narayanan within the ultimate spherical. There have been 13 gamers with seven factors, together with Narayanan, who cut up factors towards Grandmaster Mamikon Gharibyan.
The outcomes (ninth spherical):
Abhijeet Gupta 8 bt Mihail Nikitenko 7; Mamikon Gharibyan 7 drew with SL Narayanan 7; Van Huy Nguyen 7 drew with Diptayan Ghosh 7; Neelash Saha 7 drew with Manuel Petrosyan 7; Vitaly Sivuk 7 drew with S Nitin 7; Aronyak Ghosh 7.5 bt Viresh Sharnarthi 6.5; Aleksej Aleksandrov 6.5 misplaced to Aditya Samant 7.5; Karthik Venkataraman 7 bt Shahil Dey 6; Manish Cristiano 6 misplaced to Luka Paichadze 7; Adarsh Sriram 7 bt Samyak Dharewa 6; Boris Savchenko 6 misplaced to Semetei Tegin 7; David Gochelashvili 7 drew with Deepan Chakkravarthy 6.5; Harsh Suresh 6.5 drew with MIkulas Manik 6.5; Paras Bhoir 6.5 drew with Uurtsaikh Agibileg 6.5; Duc Hoa Nguyen 7 bt Arnav Agrawal 6; Raset Zlatdinov 5.5 misplaced to Levan Pantsulaia 6.5.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
KHO KHO
Final Kho Kho Season 3 to begin from November 29, introduced by KKFI President
The announcement was made by president Sudhanshu Mitta.
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The announcement was made by president Sudhanshu Mitta.
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In a significant growth for the globalisation of Kho Kho, the Kho Kho Federation of India (KKFI) introduced that for the primary time, worldwide gamers will probably be eligible for inclusion within the Final Kho Kho (UKK) gamers’ public sale for the upcoming third season.
The announcement was made by KKFI president Sudhanshu Mittal throughout a press convention held at Shree Guru Gobind Singh Tercentenary (SGT) College on Friday (June 13). He additionally confirmed that the third season of Final Kho Kho will begin on November 29, 2025.
The press convention was held within the esteemed presence of Gaurav Gautam, Minister of State for Youth Empowerment & Entrepreneurship (IC), Sports activities (IC), Legislation & Legislative (Connected), Authorities of Haryana who appreciated the efforts completed by KKFI for selling Kho Kho on a worldwide stage and enhance the state of sports activities growth in Haryana.
Different members who attended had been Dr. Hemant Verma, vice chancellor, SGT College, Amrit Singh Chawla, Member, Governing Physique, SGT College, and Jawahar Singh Yadav, President, Haryana Kho Kho Federation, who promised that Kho Kho will probably be promoted extensively in Haryana and extra Kho Kho gamers will probably be promised extra services and job alternatives.
The announcement got here alongside the Superior Degree III A Coaching Programme for Coaches and Technical Officers, which is at the moment underway on the SGT College campus.
Moreover, the Kho Kho Federation of India and SGT College have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen the dedication to growing instructional and scientific sources for all indigenous sports activities, together with Kho Kho.
-Staff Sportstar
ESPORTS
S8UL indicators three of India’s Asian Video games contributors to compete in League of Legends
S8UL Esports formally introduced its entry into League of Legends (LOL) by signing considered one of South Asia’s main rosters.
The group options captain Akshaj Shenoy (Kat Bot), Aakash Shandilya (Infi), Ahmed Shahid (Nero), and Mihir Ranjan (Angelslotus) from India, together with Mehrab Uddin Ahmed (RTO) from Bangladesh and Tharuka Fernando (KratoZ) from Sri Lanka. The core roster has already established itself as a dominant pressure in South Asia.
In a milestone achievement, Akshaj, Aakash, and Mihir represented India in LOL on the Asian Video games 2022 in Hangzhou, the place esports debuted as an official medal occasion. After topping the regional qualifiers, they superior to the quarterfinals and secured a commendable fifth-place end, competing towards one of the best groups in Asia.
In 2024, underneath the banner of Temple of Kings, the roster gained main titles, together with the Skyesports WD Black Cup 1 & 2, Professional League, and the SMG South Asia Cup 1, 2, and three, along with TEC’s July and August Opens. In 2025, they continued their successful streak with 4 match victories underneath Asterisk. The group now joins S8UL with a confirmed file of success.
The group is ready to compete in Legends Ascend 2025, India’s first publisher-driven newbie LOL match. With a complete prize pool of INR 10 lakhs, the match will culminate on August 3, and its champion will earn a coveted spot within the LOL Championship Pacific (LCP) Wildcard Playoffs, which is the gateway to LCP’s promotion and relegation match.
With this, S8UL strengthens its aggressive roster portfolio, now fielding top-tier lineups throughout 12 premier esports titles. These embody Apex Legends, Battlegrounds Cellular India, Name of Responsibility: Warzone, Chess, EAFC 25, Deadly Fury, Cellular Legends: Bang Bang, Pokémon UNITE, StarCraft II, Tekken 8, VALORANT, and now League of Legends.
As the primary and solely Indian organisation set to compete on the upcoming Esports World Cup in Riyadh, S8UL continues to construct on its legacy of pioneering international illustration for Indian esports.
-Staff Sportstar
TENNIS
Sahaja beats Thasa in third spherical of Santo Domingo ITF ladies’s match
Sahaja Yamalapalli beat Thasa Pedretti of Brazil 6-4, 6-3 within the third spherical of the $30,000 ITF ladies’s tennis match in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
A doubles champion final week, Sahaja, nevertheless, misplaced the doubles quarterfinals with Hiroko Kuwata of Japan.
Siddharth Vishwakarma and S Mukund made the singles semifinals of the $15,000 males’s occasion in Luan, China.
The outcomes:
€181,250 Challenger, Ilkley, Britain
Doubles (quarterfinals): Charles Broom & Ben Jones (GBR) bt Niki Poonacha & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 6-4, 6-4.
$30,000 ITF males, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Tristan Mccormick (USA) bt Aryan Shah 7-6(4), 6-3.
$15,000 ITF males, Nyiregyhaza, Hungary
Doubles (quarterfinals): Aleksandr Braynin & Georgii Kravchenko (Ukr) bt Rethin Pranav & Milan Zavaczki (Hun) 6-4, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF males, Luan, China
Singles (quarterfinals): Siddharth Vishwakarma bt Evan Zhu (USA) 6-3, 2-6, 6-4. S Mukund bt Tsung-Hao Huang (Tpe) 6-3, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF males, Vaasa, Finland
Doubles (quarterfinals): Andrea Fiorentini & Gabriele Vulpitta (Ita) bt Aryan Lakshmanan & Michael Zhu (USA) 6-4, 6-4.
$30,000 ITF ladies, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Sahaja Yamalapalli bt Thaisa Pedretti (Bra) 6-4, 6-3; Second spherical: Sahaja bt Ema Burgic (BIH) 6-3, 2-6, 7-6(4).
Doubles (quarterfinals): Esther Adeshina (GBR) & Sofia Dominguez (Ven) bt Hiroko Kuwata (Jpn) & Sahaja Yamalapalli 6-0, 4-6, [10-5].
$15,000 ITF ladies, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (quarterfinals): Sofia Rojas (USA) bt Zeel Desai 6-1, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Singles (quarterfinals): Yujin Ahn (Kor) bt Akanksha Nitture 7-6(2), 4-6, 6-3.
Doubles (semifinals): Daria Khomutsianskaya & Daria Zelinskaya bt Akanksha NItture & Soha Sadiq 6-3, 6-3.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
BASKETBALL
U-23 Nationwide 3×3 basketball c’ships: TN, Kerala and Karnataka enter males’s quarterfinals
Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh entered the boys’s quarterfinals of the primary under-23 Nationwide 3×3 basketball championships on the Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium right here on Friday.
The host Kerala males brushed apart Andhra Pradesh 19-6 to high Group ‘B’ whereas TN beat Odisha 21-17 in Group ‘C’.
Within the ladies’s part, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka had been among the many groups to maneuver to the quarterfinals.
Choose outcomes (league)
Males: WB bt Uttarakhand 20-7, Telangana beat Jharkhand 21-9; Punjab bt Puducherry 21-17; TN bt Odisha 21-17.
Girls: UP bt AP 21-7; TN bt Gujarat 21-5; Telangana bt Jharkhand 17-4; Delhi bt Puducherry 21-6; Karnataka bt J&Okay 20-8.
-Stan Rayan
MOTORSPORT
Muskaan Jubbal scripts historical past with Podium end at Asian Auto Gymkhana Championship 2025
In a landmark second for Indian motorsport, Muskaan Jubbal, an alumna of Shiv Nadar Faculty, Faridabad, has scripted historical past on the Asian Auto Gymkhana Championship (AAGC) 2025, turning into the first-ever feminine driver from India to safe a podium end within the Feminine Solo class.
Held on Might 31 and June 1, 2025, on the Sokol Race Observe in Almaty, Kazakhstan, the occasion was organised underneath the FIA Sport Grant Programme and hosted by FAMS Kyrgyzstan in affiliation with AMFK Kazakhstan.
Representing India underneath the banner of FMSCI, Muskaan made a sensational debut on the worldwide Gymkhana stage, attaining third place in feminine solo (making her the primary Indian feminine podium finisher in AAGC historical past on this class) and third place in blended doubles (alongside seasoned racer Vidit Jain) and Youngest Driver on the occasion, throughout all taking part nations. Regardless of this being her worldwide and Gymkhana debut, she delivered two podium finishes and stood out because the youngest competitor within the championship.
The championship noticed participation from eight nations — India, Taiwan, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Hong Kong, and Singapore — underneath the FIA umbrella.
Trying forward, the Indian group is gearing up for the subsequent spherical of the Asian Auto Gymkhana Championship, scheduled to happen in Sri Lanka this September. With momentum on its facet and a strong mixture of expertise and rising expertise, Staff India is poised to make an excellent deeper affect on the Asian motorsport scene.
-Staff Sportstar