Indian sports activities wrap, June 14: Avani takes sole lead at Hulencourt Girls’s Open

GOLF

Rookie Avani takes sole lead second at Hulencourt Girls’s Open

Teen star Avani Prashanth, who was second for the primary two days, added a third-round card of 3-under 69 to take sole lead on the Hulencourt Girls’s Open right here.

The 18-year-old Avani, who’s taking part in her first season as a professional, goes into the ultimate spherical as a sole chief for the primary time in her profession.

Taking part in in her first season on the LET, Avani, who as an novice has top-10 finishes in Hero Girls’s Indian Open and Magical Kenyan Open in 2023, has had 4 top-20 finishes this season.

After rounds of 68-69-69, she is 10-under regardless of a closing bogey on the 18th and holds a one-shot lead over French golfer, Nastasia Nadaud (67), and Welsh professional, Darcey Harry (68), who’re each at 9-under.

– PTI

Talwar makes minimize in Czech Republic

Indian golfer Saptak Talwar made the minimize on the Raiffeisenbank Golf Problem with a second-round rating of 1-under 70 at Golf Resort Kaskáda, conserving his marketing campaign alive for the weekend.

With rounds of 72 and 70, the 26-year-old sits at even-par 142 and is tied for sixtieth place. Talwar started the day on the entrance 9 with a birdie on his first gap.

He picked up one other shot on the fifth solely to drop one on the sixth earlier than closing the entrance 9 with a birdie. On the again 9 he made birdie on the eleventh gap and adopted that with a bogey on the twelfth.

He made his closing birdie of the spherical on the fifteenth gap however misplaced pictures on the sixteenth and 18th holes to finish the day with 70. His mixed 36 spherical rating sits at even par with scores of 72 and 70.

The second day ended with a four-way tie for the lead between Spain’s Sebastian Garcia (65-67), England’s Joshua Berry (68-64), Welshman Stuart Manley (66-66) American Palmer Jackson (65-67). The leaders all have a 36-hole mixed rating of 10-under par.

– PTI

Mannat loses narrowly after creating historical past by reaching pre-quarterfinals in Girls’s Novice

Mannat Brar produced an amazing efficiency on the 122nd Girls’s Novice Championship earlier than dropping a slim match within the pre-quarter finals, the all-time effort by an Indian.

Mannat, who was third on the R&A Women a yr in the past, was sixteenth within the stroke-play competitors after which gained two matches to succeed in the final 16.

She beat Germany’s Uma Bergner 5 & 4 within the Spherical of 64 on the primary day of matchplay. Mannat went 5 up with 4 holes left to wrap up the match.

The subsequent day, Mannat performed two matches. First the Indian teenager got here from means behind to beat Eire’s Rebekah Gardner on the twenty first gap.

Mannat staged an incredible comeback as she was 3-down with three holes to go. She gained the subsequent three to get into further holes.

Each gamers parred the primary further gap and bogeyed it the subsequent time. On the third try Mannat parred and Rebekah bogeyed, handing the match to the Indian.

Within the Spherical of 16, Mannat was once more trailing by three holes after 10 holes in opposition to Spain’s Paula Francisco.

Mannat gained the eleventh with a birdie, the thirteenth with a par and the fifteenth with a birdie to get to all sq..

The duo parred the sixteenth and the seventeenth to remain stage. Then Mannat misplaced narrowly on the 18th and exited.

Because of her overcome Brar, Francisco has arrange an all-Spanish quarter-final showdown in opposition to Paula Martin Sampedro. Francisco and Martin Sampedro each earned their last-eight locations the laborious means as they had been pushed the complete distance.

The winner of this yr’s championship positive aspects entry to the AIG Girls’s Open, Amundi Evian Championship, the US Girls’s Open, the Chevron Championship and, by custom, will earn an invite to compete on the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Novice.

-PTI

CHESS

Delhi GM Open 2025: Abhijeet Gupta wins fourth title

Indian Grandmaster Abhijeet Gupta emerged because the undisputed champion of the twenty first Delhi Worldwide Open Grandmasters Chess Match (Delhi GM Open) 2025, scoring 8.5 factors out of 10 to clinch a report fourth title at Asia’s most prestigious open chess occasion, and take dwelling Rs. 7,00,000 as prize cash.

Gupta, 36, delivered a flawless marketing campaign, remaining unbeaten throughout 10 rounds. His decisive Spherical 9 victory over Belarusian GM Mihail Nikitenko gave him the sting, and a final-round draw in opposition to IM Aronyak Ghosh secured the title outright within the event, which had a report prize pool of Rs. 1.21 crore.

Nikitenko (2520, Belarus) completed second with 8 factors, edging Indian GM Diptayan Ghosh (2573) on tiebreaks. Ghosh claimed third place, having impressed with sharp play and a key final-round win over GM Karthik Venkataraman. Regardless of additionally ending on 8 factors, IM Aronyak Ghosh and GM Aditya S Samant settled for fourth and fifth respectively on tiebreaks.

In the meantime, Class C—hosted at Tivoli Gardens, Chattarpur—featured 1,250 gamers and a complete prize pool of Rs. 35 lakhs. The winner of the part was Dinesh Kumar H from Tamil Nadu, who took dwelling the Rs. 4,00,000 prime prize. He was adopted by Naitik Sethi (Rs. 3,00,000) and Sibi M (Rs. 2,00,000) in second and third place respectively.

– Crew Sportstar

TENNIS

Ankita Raina makes doubles closing in Portugal

Ankita Raina, in partnership with Alice Robbe of France, made the doubles closing with a 7-5, 7-6(7) victory over the second seeds Gabriella Da Silva and Elena Micic of Australia within the $40,000 ITF girls’s tennis event in Guimaraes, Portugal.

Within the closing, the Indo-French pair will play the Japanese third seeds Hiromi Abe and Kanako Morisaki.

– Kamesh Srinivasan

CRICKET

India’s first blended incapacity cricket group to play IT20 collection in England

India’s first blended incapacity cricket group is about to take part in a Combined Incapacity IT20 Sequence in England from June 21 to July 3.

Underneath Captain Ravindra Gopinath Sante, the group will tour England to play in a seven-match collection. The spotlight of the tour is a sport on the legendary Lord’s – a primary for India’s males’s blended incapacity cricket group, with one other match on July 1 in Bristol.

– PTI

BASKETBALL

UP males, Kerala girls triumph

Uttar Pradesh males and Kerala girls emerged champions within the first Nationwide under-23 3×3 basketball championships on the Regional Sports activities Centre in Kochi on Sunday.

UP, powered by the three internationals in its ranks, staved off a late problem from Kerala 21-14 within the males’s closing. Kerala had it straightforward within the girls’s trophy-decider, ending with a 19-11 verdict over Karnataka.

Kushal Singh, who performed within the 3×3 Asia Cup in Singapore in March, was UP’s hero, scoring 11 factors. That gave UP an excellent lead. The closest host Kerala got here was 14-17 with one and half minutes left however UP broke away to win comfortably.

The ladies’s closing, although one-sided, was a wise group affair with Akshaya Philip, Chinnu Koshy and Ann Mary Zachariah glowing. “They (Karnataka) are good outdoors shooters so we targeted extra on defence,” mentioned Akshaya, the Kerala captain.

The profitable groups acquired a money prize of Rs 3 lakh.

– Stan Rayan