TENNIS
Madrid Masters: Bopanna-Ebden pair by way of to pre-quarterfinals
Rohan Bopanna and his Australian accomplice Matthew Ebden reached pre-quarterfinals of the Madrid Masters, an ATP1000 occasion, on Thursday.
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The seventh-seeded Indo-Australian pair gained 6-3, 7-6(4) in opposition to Spain’s Roberto Bautista Agut and Briton Daniel Evans in an hour and 18 minutes.
Bopanna and Ebden, who’ve gained Qatar Open and Indian Wells Masters this season, subsequent face both Spanish-Finnish pair of Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Emil Ruusuvuori or the German-Brazilian duo of Alexander Zverev and Marcelo Melo.
– Team Sportstar
ATP Rome Challenger: Nagal reaches quarterfinals
Sumit Nagal progressed to the quarterfinals of the ATP Challenger Tour occasion in Rome on Thursday.
Nagal defeated native wildcard Fausto Tabacco 6-3, 6-0 in an hour and 22 minutes within the spherical of 16.
The Indian will subsequent face Max Houkes of the Netherlands.
RESULTS
ATP Rome Challenger
Singles, Second Round: [Q] Sumit Nagal bt [WC] Fausto Tabacco 6-3, 6-0
ITF W60 Charlottesville
Doubles, First Round: [4] Prarthana Thombare/Jessy Rompies (INA) bt [WC] Melodie Collard (CAN)/Julia Adams (USA) 7-6(3), 6-3
ITF W40 Calvi
Doubles, First Round: [1] Ankita Raina/Estelle Cascino (FRA) bt Lesley Pattinama Kerkhove (NED)/Amandine Hesse (FRA) 7-6(3), 5-7, [10-6]
ITF M25 Jakarta
Singles, Second Round: [4] Digvijay Pratap Singh bt Koki Matsuda (JPN) 6-2, 6-3
ITF W25 Nottingham
Singles, Second Round: [8] Rutuja Bhosale bt [Q] Danielle Daley (GBR) 6-1, 6-0
– Team Sportstar
AITA girls’s match: Kashish, Sonal arrange summit conflict
Third seed Kashish Bhatia outplayed second seed Sahira Singh 6-1, 6-2 within the semifinals of the Rs.100,000 AITA girls’s tennis match on the Joygaon Academy in Jhajjar on Thursday.
In the ultimate, Kashish will play Sonal Patil who beat Vanshika Choudhary for the lack of 4 video games.
Kashish made the doubles closing with Samriti Punyani and can play Sonal Patil and Chandana Potugari.
Results (semifinals)
Singles: Sonal Patil bt Vanshika Choudhary 6-2, 6-2; Kashish Bhatia bt Sahira Singh 6-1, 6-2
Doubles: Sonal Patil & Chandana Potugari bt Medhavi Singh & Shireen Ahamed 6-4, 6-2; Kashish Bhatia & Samriti Punyani bt Aditi Rawat & Ishi Maheshwari 6-0, 6-2
– Team Sportstar
GOLF
Korea Championship: Sharma slips with double bogey on final gap
Indian golfer Shubhankar Sharma was cruising alongside nicely until he hit a double bogey on the final gap to slide to tied thirty first after the primary spherical on the Korea Championship in Incheon on Thursday.
Placed at three-under by way of 17 holes on a good chief board, Sharma began on the tenth and double bogeyed the ninth for a day’s card of 1-under 71.
From being contained in the Top-10 he dropped to tied thirty first.
Meanwhile, Manu Gandas got here again from a hopeless state of affairs with two birdies within the final 4 holes for a card of 2-over 74 that left him in tied 91st place and he can have numerous work to do to make the lower.
Sharma appeared good for many a part of the day as he teed off from the tenth and picked early birdies on twelfth and 14th to be 2-under by way of 5 holes. He dropped a shot on Par-5 third, which was disappointing, however birdies on fourth and seventh holes noticed him get to 3-under earlier than the double bogey on Par-4 ninth.
After a fantastic begin to the season with a seventh place in Abu Dhabi, Sharma has missed 4 cuts in final 5 begins and is eager to get his rhythm again.
Gandas bogeyed second, sixth, thirteenth and 14th however birdies on Par-5s on the fifteenth and the 18th saved his hopes alive.
Antoine Rozner equalled his lowest profession 18-hole rating as he started with a bogey-free spherical of 63 to open up a commanding four-shot lead.
The Frenchman began from the tenth tee within the morning and fired six birdies on his entrance 9 earlier than choosing up three extra pictures after the flip to get to 9 below par.
– PTI
AITA tremendous sequence juniors: Pandit beats second-seed Rian to achieve closing
Aarjun Pandit fought his well beyond his doubles accomplice and second seed, Rian Sharma, 7-6(4), 6-7(7), 6-1 within the under-18 boys semifinals of the Rajesh Patel memorial AITA Super sequence junior tennis match on the Tennis Vidyalaya on Thursday.
In the ultimate, Aarjun will play high seed Deepam Malik who beat Mayank Sharma in straight units.
Aarjun and Rian gained the doubles title, beating Ayush Sharma and Arjun Abhyankar for the lack of 5 video games.
The consequence
Under-18 boys (semifinals): Deepam Malik bt Mayank Sharma 6-2, 6-4; Aarjun Pandit bt Rian Sharma 7-6(4), 6-7(7), 6-1.
Doubles (closing): Aarjun Pandit & Rian Ssharma bt Ayush Sharma & Arjun Abhyankar 6-3, 6-2.
Under-18 ladies (semifinals): Tamanna Takoria bt Divya Sharma 6-0, 6-0; Presha Shanthamoor bt Neelakshi Lather 6-0, 6-1.
– Team Sportstar
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com