MOTORSPORT
JK Tyre TSD occasion for ladies to be flagged off on August 20 in Kolkata
The JK Tyre Ladies Power Drive 2023 – a navigational TSD (Time, Speed, Distance) occasion – was introduced in Kolkata on Friday.
The occasion, to be held on August 20, might be organised below the aegis of FMSCI (Federation of Motor Sport Clubs of India).
Over 40 all-women groups will take part within the occasion.
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Over 40 all-women groups will take part within the occasion.
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
A TSD rally exams the driving force’s and navigator’s expertise of sustaining the fitting velocity and timing whereas following a delegated route utilizing a tulip. TSD rallies aren’t solely about velocity, as timing and technique play a key position in reaching the perfect outcomes.
Over 40 all-women groups will take part within the occasion, which might be flagged off from Hotel Westin.
“Embracing the thrilling world of motorsport, we at JK Tyre are steadfastly committed to propelling women into the fast lane of this dynamic realm. Over the years, our journey in Motorsport has been marked by a relentless pursuit of providing opportunities and igniting the racing spirit among women, who now makes almost half of the population of our nation. As we accelerate ahead, we’re remain resolute in our mission to drive gender equality within every thrilling twist and turn of the track. For our upcoming JK Tyre Ladies Power Drive in Kolkata, we intend to give each participant a memorable experience,” Sanjay Sharma, Head-Motorsport, JK Tyre, mentioned.
– Team Sportstar
TENNIS
Havisha to face Manshi in U-16 ladies ultimate
Havisha Chaudhary beat prime seed Vennela Reddy 6-3, 6-3 within the under-16 ladies semifinals of the AITA National collection junior tennis match on the Joygaon Academy on Friday.
In the ultimate, Havisha will face Manshi Singh. The boys ultimate might be between Vishvajeet Sanas and Aaditya Sansanval.
THE RESULTS
Under-16 boys (semifinals)
Vishvajeet Sanas bt Prateek Sheoran 6-4, 2-6, 6-3; Aaditya Sansanval bt Uttam Karthik 7-6(3), 6-3.
Doubles (ultimate)
Anuj Tashildar & Paramveer Singh bt Aditya Acharya & Kanishk Kathuria 6-4, 7-6(1).
Under-16 ladies (semifinals)
Havisha Chaudhary bt Venela Reddy 6-3, 6-3; Manshi Singh bt Anandita Upadhyay 6-2 (conceded).
Doubles (ultimate)
Ridhima Singh & Avika Yadav bt Hirva Rangnani & Rishita Bokka 6-4, 7-6(5).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Bopanna/Ebden out of Cincinnati Masters
The fourth seeds Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden have been overwhelmed 7-6(4), 2-6, [10-7] by Americans Christopher Eubanks and Ben Shelton within the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the $7,665,215 ATP Masters tennis match in Cincinnati, USA.
While the Indo-Aussie pair had a bye within the first spherical, Eubanks and Shelton had overwhelmed Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen of Belgium of their first spherical.
Bopanna and Ebden collected 90 ATP factors and $28,310.
THE RESULTS
$7,665,215 ATP, Cincinnati, USA
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Christopher Eubanks & Ben Shelton (USA) bt Rohan Bopanna & Matthew Ebden (Aus) 7-6(4), 2-6, [10-7].
€118,000 Challenger, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Poland
Doubles (semifinals): Anirudh Chandrasekar & Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Luke Johnson (GBR) & Skander Mansouri (Tun) 7-6(2), 6-2; Quarterfinals: Divij Sharan & Igor Zelenay (Svk) bt Ariell Behar (Uru) & Adam Pavlasek (Cze) 7-6(1), 3-6, [10-4]; Anirudh & Vijay bt Akira Santillan (Aus) & Rubin Statham (Nzl) 7-5, 6-2.
$25,000 ITF males, Tainan, Chinese Taipei
Doubles (semifinals): Sai Karteek Reddy & Tsung-Hao Huang (Tpe) bt Makoto Ochi & Takeru Yuzuki (Jpn) 2-6, 6-3, [10-8].
$25,000 ITF males, Jakarta, Indonesia
Singles (quarterfinals): Leo Borg (Swe) bt SD Prajwal Dev 6-2, 6-4.
Doubles (semifinals): Palaphoom Kovapitukted (Tha) & Manish Sureshkumar bt Siddhant Banthia & Sora Fukuda (Jpn) 7-6(3), 6-2.
$25,000 ITF ladies, Bistrita, Romania
Doubles (semifinals): Linda Sevcikova (Cze) & Ilay Yoruk (Tur) bt Sharmada Balu & Vasanti Shinde 6-7(5), 6-4, [10-8].
– Kamesh Srinivasan
GOLF
Lahiri finest amongst Indians at Newcastle
Fresh from his second-place end on the Liv Series occasion in Bedminster, ace Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri carded a hat-trick of birdies on the back-nine to be positioned tied sixteenth, the perfect amongst his compatriots, on the International Series England at Close House close to Newcastle on Friday.
Lahiri was at one-under 70 that included a hat-trick of birdies from 14th to the sixteenth, as Thailand’s Sarit Suwannarut fired a gap spherical of five-under-par 66 to take the lead in situations that have been chilly and wintry.
There are as many as 15 Indians within the area and the subsequent finest Indian after Lahiri, was Ajeetesh Sandhu (71) at T-40.
The remainder of the Indian contingent had a troublesome time with Rashid Khan (73) mendacity at T-71, veterans Jeev Milkha Singh and Jyoti Randhawa taking pictures 74, as did Khalin Joshi to be positioned T-86th and in peril of lacking the minimize.
Further down have been SSP Chawrasia and Shiv Kapur with 75 every and have been T-103rd, S Chikkarangappa, Gaganjeet Bhullar and Kartik Sharma carded 76 every to be T-114 and Rahil Gangjee and Karandeep Kochhar scored 77 every to be T-128th.
Honey Baisoya (78) was T-138, as was Veer Ahlawat and Viraj Madappa (79) at T-148th spot.
Lahiri’s card had 5 birdies towards an early double on second and two different bogeys.
Thailand’s Sarit fired six birdies and one bogey in chilly situations on the Colt Course to complete the day in entrance of American Jason Kokrak and Jaewoong Eom from Korea, who carded 67s every.
– PTI
Solid begin for Manu Gandas and Diksha Dagar in World Invitational
Indian golfer Diksha Dagar within the ladies’s part and Manu Gandas within the males’s class have been off to superb begins within the first spherical of the ISPS HANDA World Invitational Presented by AVIV Clinics.
The left-handed Diksha shot 1-under 71 to be tied-Thirteenth on a crowded leaderboard, whereas Gandas carded a superb 5-under 67 and was tied second with three others.
The occasion is tri-sanctioned by the DP World Tour (DPWT), Ladies European Tour (LET) and LPGA Tour, with the lads’s and girls’s tournaments being performed on the identical course on the similar time and having equal prize funds of $1.5m.
Dan Brown took benefit of beneficial climate situations to put up a gap seven-under-par spherical of 64 at Castlerock Golf Club to steer the sector.
In the ladies’s part, 4 gamers — Switzerland’s Kim Metraux, England’s Gabriella Cowley, Sweden’s Ellinor Sudow and Australia’s Karis Davidson — fired rounds of 69 (-4) to be out within the entrance.
– PTI
CHESS
Praggnanandhaa to characteristic in Tata Stell Chess India occasion
FIDE World Cup semifinalist R. Praggnanandhaa might be one of many main Indian names within the fifth version of Tata Steel Chess India (TSCI) occasion to be held on the National Library right here from August 31 to September 9.
Besides, Gukesh D, Vidit Gujrathi and Arjun Erigaisi, the opposite Indians who made it to the quarterfinals of the FIDE World Cup in Baku just lately, will even be seen in motion.
Current ladies’s world champion Ju Wenjun will make her debut within the occasion.
Both open and girls’s classes may have equal prize cash ($41,500). Competitions might be held in speedy and blitz format.
PARTICIPANTS
Open: Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France, World blitz champion 2021), Alexander Grischuk (Russia), Teymour Radjabov (Azerbaijan, FIDE World Cup Winner 2019), Nodirbek Abdusattorov (Uzbekistan, World speedy champion 2021), Vincent Keymer (Germany, runner-up in World speedy championship), Vidit Gujrathi, Arjun Erigaisi, Gukesh D, R. Praggnanandhaa and Pentala Harikrishna
Women: Ju Wenjun (China, World ladies’s champion), Tingjie Lei (China, runner-up in World championships), Nino Batsiashvili (Georgia), Anna Ushenina (Ukraine, winner of TSCI speedy 2022), Irina Krush (USA), Koneru Humpy, Harika Dronavalli, R. Vaishali, Savitha Shri, Vantika Agarwal.
– Y.B. Sarangi
ARCHERY
Disappointing day for India at Archery World Cup in Paris
India’s recurve and compound archers exited earlier than reaching the medal rounds within the Archery World Cup Stage-4 in Paris on Friday.
Meanwhile, 4 compound archers, World champion Aditi Swami, V. Jyothi Surekha, Prathamesh Jawkar and Abhishek Verma certified for the World Cup Finals to be held in Hermosillo, Mexico, on September 9 and 10.
THE RESULTS
Recurve: Individual: Men: B. Dhiraj bt Imadeddine Bakri (Alg) 6-2, bt Alex Wise (Gbr) 7-1, bt Romain Fichet (Fra) 6-5 (10-9), misplaced to Baptiste Addis (Fra) 4-6 in pre-QF; Atanu Das bt Elian Van Steen (Bel) 6-0, bt Konrad Kupczak (Pol) 6-2, misplaced to Jean-Charles Valladont (Fra) 1-7; Tushar Shelke misplaced to Peter Boukouvalas (Aus) 2-6; Mrinal Chauhan misplaced to Florian Faber (Sui) 3-7; Women: Bhajan Kaur obtained a bye, bt Fatma Marasli (Tur) 6-2, misplaced to Tomomi Sugimoto (Jpn) 2-6; Simranjeet Kaur bt Robin Selley 6-2, misplaced to Fleur van de Ven (Ned) 2-6; Ankita Bhakat bt Beatrice Miklos (Rou) 6-0, bt Gaby Schloesser (Ned) 6-5 (shoot-off: 10-9), misplaced to Misun Choi (Kor) 5-6 (shoot-off: 9-9*, Choi shot nearer to centre); Prachi Singh misplaced to Aida Roman (Mex) 4-6; Mixed staff: India (Bhajan Kaur, B. Dhiraj) obtained a bye, bt Japan 5-3, misplaced to Mexico 1-5 in QF.
Compound: Mixed staff: India (V.Jyothi Surekha, Ojas Deotale) obtained a bye, bt El Salvador 158-156, misplaced to Netherlands 158-158 (20-20*) in QF.
– Y.B. Sarangi
SQUASH
Sanchit Vaid by way of to semifinals of under-17 Delhi State squash championship
Sanchit Vaid fought his well beyond Suhaan Jauhar 11-6, 6-11, 12-10 within the under-17 boys quarterfinals of the Delhi State squash championship on the Delhi Gymkhana Club courts on Friday.]
In the lads’s pre-quarterfinals, Dharmender Wenwal pipped Prateek Challia 11-5, 7-11, 11-8.
RESULTS
Men (pre-quarterfinals): Ashray Oohri bt Vidur Parashar 11-4, 11-7; Arjun Minocha bt Ashish Puri 11-9, 12-10; Karata Dasmahipatra bt Prabhot Chandhok 11-0, 11-2; Harshit Jain bt Rahul Batra 11-8, 12-10; Dharmender Wenwal bt Prateek Challia 11-5 7-11, 11-8; Mohd. Qurban bt Gitesh Talwar 11-0, 11-1; Aryan Bajaj bt Udit Pat Singhania 14-12, 15-13; Junaid Muzaffar Thoker bt Arihant Jain 11-8, 11-3.
Under-17 boys (quarterfinals): Ishkaran Singh bt Harish Khan 11-3, 11-4; Sanchit Vaid bt Suhaan Jauhar 11-6, 6-11, 12-10; Shaurya Gautam bt vansh Khurana 11-2, 11-3; Sahir Sethi bt Kabir Sahni 11-7, 11-6.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
HOCKEY
Hockey India names 40 gamers for ladies’s nationwide sub-junior teaching camp
Hockey India on Friday introduced a 40-member ladies’s Sub-Junior group a nationwide teaching camp. The camp will start on twenty first August 2023 on the Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium in Rourkela.
The gamers have been picked on the idea of their latest performances within the Hockey India Sub-Junior National Championships. The camp might be adopted by worldwide matches in Europe.
India worldwide Rani Rampal will herald the younger group of gamers.
– Team Sportstar
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com