Here are all the foremost updates, scores and outcomes of Indians from the world of sports activities on Monday, March 11.
GOLF
Diksha registers second straight Top-10 end, Pranavi T-17
Indian golfer Diksha Dagar registered her second straight Top-10 end with a gradual 1-under 71 on the third and last day of the Aramco Team Series.
Diksha, who shot 69-70 within the first two rounds, completed 6-under 210 and was Tied-sixth.
Fellow Indian, Pranavi Urs, taking part in her first season on the Ladies European Tour, additionally had an honest end after an excellent par 72 on the ultimate day. At 3-under for 54 holes, Pranavi completed T-17.
It has been a very good begin for the 2 Indians, who’re each a number of winners on their dwelling tour, the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour.
Diksha was T-9 at Morocco after being T-19 in Kenya, whereas Pranavi, the No. 1 golfer in India in 2022, was T-5 in Morocco.
Pranavi is now 14th on the LET Order of Merit and Diksha is seventeenth.
Diksha had combined emotions as she stated, “It wasn’t easy but on some few holes I had good shots. Because of the wind I struggled a bit but I made some great up and downs and it was alright. I’m happy with that. But on some of the birdie holes, I made a few silly mistakes which could have been easily birdie.”
Pranavi was pleased together with her first Aramco Team Series occasion.
“It was my first-ever team series so I absolutely loved playing with Bronte (Law) and Sophia (Popov). I think the first hour was pretty good, it was a bit of a roller coaster but overall I think I’ve been playing pretty and it was good to keep the momentum going from Morocco. I think I did fairly well.”
– PTI
Amandeep prepared for all challengers in sixth leg of WPGT
Amandeep Drall will likely be among the many favourites to win the sixth leg of the Women’s Pro Golf Tour, which will get underway on the DLF Golf and Country Club in Gurugram this week.
With 46 gamers, will probably be the very best ever on the WPGT, and the prize purse will likely be a whopping Rs 25 lakhs. The gamers will likely be taking part in over 4 rounds and 72 holes.
Amandeep will likely be challenged by Vani Kapoor, Hitaashee Bakshi and Sneha Singh. While Vani featured in Singapore final week, Hitaashe leads the WPGT Order of Merit, whereas Sneha is the one a number of winner this season.
The area additionally consists of the promising novice Vidhatri Urs, who has additionally gained on the Pro Tour this season.
One of the attention-grabbing options this week is that all the three-member Indian Golf Union’s group for the Queen Sirikit Cup, Vidhatri, Zara Anand and Heena Kang are within the area.
It has been a closely-contested season to this point with 4 completely different winners within the final 5 occasions. All of them are within the area this week.
Among the others in search of their first win of 2024 will likely be Gaurika Bishnoi, who was second to Amandeep final week, together with Ridhima Dilawari, Neha Tripathi, Seher Atwal and Khushi Khanijau. A complete of seven amateurs will likely be taking part in on the sector.
– PTI
TENNIS
Indian Wells: Bopanna-Ebden crash out in first spherical
Top seeds Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden have been edged out 7-6(1), 4-6, [10-8] within the doubles first spherical by Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen of Belgium within the $12,418,990 ATP Masters tennis event in Indian Wells, USA.
The Indo-Aussie pair collected $18,640 and there was no ATP level for first spherical.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
Leading Indian gamers eye success at $25,000 ITF males’s event
After the wholesome spell of 4 Challengers in latest weeks, main Indian gamers Ramkumar Ramanathan, S Mukund, Siddharth Vishwakarma, Sidharth Rawat, Manish Sureshkumar and Nitin Kumar Sinha will try to capitalise on the $25,000 ITF males’s event to be performed on the DLTA Complex in New Delhi from Tuesday.
The proven fact that the younger Manas Dhamne, who’s coaching on the Piatti Centre in Italy, has been introduced into the fold with a wild card augurs nicely for his progress. It additionally offers an opportunity for the tennis fraternity within the nation to gauge his progress.
Manas will open towards sixth seed Florent Bax of France, who had made the ultimate at this venue some months in the past.
Mukund was sensible in Pune in the course of the Challenger earlier than he needed to give a walkover within the quarterfinals owing to an upset abdomen. He will open towards Karan Singh who’s equally hungry to exhibit his robust sport.
Ramkumar Ramanathan has been tuning himself properly on the venue in the course of the PSPB event final week and ought to be prepared to say his huge sport. He begins towards Thanapet Chanta of Thailand.
Manish Sureshkumar will likely be up towards second seed Khumoyun Sultanov of Uzbekistan.
Apart from these gamers, will probably be attention-grabbing to see the efficiency of gamers like Chirag Duhan, Vishnu Vardhan, and Dev Javia amongst others who’ve reached the third and last qualifying spherical.
The tall and wiry Chirag additionally did fairly nicely in the course of the PSPB event and will likely be eager to point out his progress as he has been coaching on the Patrick Mouratoglou Centre in France for some months, other than competing within the worldwide circuit, particularly in Tunisia.
Well, the seasoned Evgeny Donskoy who has a victory over Roger Federer, is the highest seed and had gained the event the final time he had performed on the venue. It will likely be attention-grabbing to see how nicely wild card entrant Shivank Bhatnagar performs towards Donskoy, ranked 267 in the mean time.
Overall, one other thrilling week of tennis in retailer.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
The seedings:
1. Evgeny Donskoy, 2. Khumoyun Sultanov (Uzb), 3. Ramkumar Ramanathan, 4. S Mukund, 5. Nam Hoang Ly (Vie), 6. Florent Bax (Fra), 7. Siddharth Vishwakarma, 8. Sidharth Rawat.
ITF: Shrivalli faces high seed Irina Maria in opener
National champion Shrivalli Bhamidipaty will open towards high seed Irina Maria Bara of Romania within the $25,000 ITF ladies’s tennis event to be performed on the Indore Tennis Cllub from Tuesday.
After the latest spell of top of the range tennis, will probably be one other likelihood for Shrivalli to make a mark.
Third seed Ankita Raina, who opted to avail a wild card entry, will begin towards Ya-Husan Llee of Chinese Taipei, and finds herself within the second quarter together with seventh seed Polina Iatcenko.
Another participant who has been catching consideration in latest occasions, Sahaja Yamalapalli will play Zeel Desai. Asian Games combined doubles gold medallist Rutuja Bhosale, fairly robust in singles, will likely be up towards fourth seed Mananchaya Sawangkaew of Thailand.
Riya Bhatia will play sixth seed Sohyun Park of Korea. The champion of the final event in Nagpur, Dalila Jakupovic has been seeded second and can await a qualifier.
Saumya Vig, Soha Sadiq, Humera Baharmus, Maaya Rajeshwaran, Akanksha Nitture, Vaishnavi Adkar and Suhitha Maruri have made the third and last qualifying spherical. Some of them will make the primary draw and strengthen the Indian problem.
The seedings:
1. Irina Maria Bara (Rou), 2. Dalila Jakupovic (Slo), 3. Ankita Raina, 4. Mananchaya Sawangkaew (Tha), 5. Justina Mikulskyte (Ltu), 6. Sohyun Park (Kor), 7. Polina Iatcenko, 8. Diana Marcinkevica.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com