TENNIS
Three Indians in quarters on the ITF males’s tennis event in Lucknow
Siddharth Vishwakarma blanked Arthur Weber of France to march into the quarterfinals of the $25,000 ITF males’s tennis event on the Ekaana Sports Complex on Thursday.
In the quarterfinals, Siddharth will play high seed Nam Hoang Ly of Vietnam.
Karan Singh and Mukund Sasikumar additionally made the quarterfinals. Karan will problem the champion of the final event Evgeny Donskoy whereas Mukund will likely be up in opposition to the second seed Oliver Crawford.
RESULTS
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Nam Hoang Ly (Vie) bt Blake Ellis (Aus) 6-2, 3-6, 6-3; Siddharth Vishwakarma bt Arthur Weber (Fra) 6-0, 6-0; Vladyslav Orlov (Ukr) bt Boris Butulija (Srb) 6-2, 6-2; Eric Vanshelboim (Ukr) bt Yusuke Takahashi 3-6, 6-2, 6-2; Karan Singh bt Palaphoom Kovapitukted (Tha) 4-6, 6-4, 6-2; Evgeny Donskoy (Rus) bt Manish Sureshkumar 6-2, 7-5; Mukund Sasikumar bt Rishab Agarwal 6-2, 7-6(3); Oliver Crawford (USA) bt Sidharth Rawat 6-1, 6-2.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Rithvik Bollipalli & Niki Poonacha bt Niitn Kumar Sinha & Arthur Weber (Fra) 7-6(6), 6-2; Blake Ellis (Aus) & Shuichi Sekiguchi (Jpn) bt Ishaque Eqbal & Karan Singh 6-2, 6-7(3), [10-6]; Parikshit Somani & Manish Sureshkumar bt Francis Casey Alcantara (Phi) & Pruchya Isaro (Tha) 6-3, 6-7(6), [13-11]; SD Prajwal Dev & Sai Karteek Reddy bt Grigoriy Lomakin (Kaz) & Vishnu Vardhan 2-6, 6-2, [10-7].
-Kamesh Srinivasan
India loses to Kazakhstan in Asia Oceania World Juniors
Kazakhstan beat second seed India 2-0 within the quarterfinals of the Asia Oceania World Junior under-14 tennis event in Kuching, Malaysia, on Thursday.
After the simple loss within the first singles, Maaya Rajeshwaran performed sturdy to make a struggle of it, however Yerkezhan Zhanatayeva was higher ready and geared up to win the tie for Kazakhstan.
India will subsequent play Thailand within the positional play-off match.
Results (quarterfinals): Kazakhstan bt India 2-0 (Eva Korysheva bt Harithashree Venkatesh 6-1, 6-1; Yerkezhan Zhanatayeva bt Maaya Rajeshwaran 6-4, 6-7(3), 6-2.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Results from ITF junior tennis event in Bhilai
Kandhavel Mahalingam beat high seed Pratyaksh 6-1, 6-3 within the boys quarterfinals of the ITF junior tennis event on the Bhilai Steel sports activities complicated on Thursday.
RESULTS
Boys: Kandhavel Mahalingam bt Pratyaksh 6-1, 6-3; Victor Mohanram (Esp) bt Skandha Prasanna Rao 6-0, 2-6, 6-4; Vihaan Reddy bt Vatsal Manikantan 6-1, 6-1; Daksh Kukreti bt Smit Patel 6-3, 6-0.
Girls: Aishwarya Jadhav bt Riya Sachdeva 6-0, 3-0 (retired); Amodini Naik bt Suhani Gaur 6-4, 6-3; Prisha Shinde bt Devanshee Prabhudesai 6-3, 6-1; Nemha Sarah Kispotta bt Saumya Ronde 6-4, 5-7, 6-2.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
KHO KHO
India males’s and girls’s groups win gold in Asian Championships
India’s ladies’s staff with the winners trophy on the Asian Championships.
| Photo Credit: Special Arrangement
The Indian males’s and girls’s groups clinched the titles on the 4th Asian Kho Kho Championships that concluded at Tamulpur, Assam on Thursday.
In the finals, the Indian males defeated Nepal by 6 factors and an inning whereas the Indian ladies outwitted their Nepal opponents by 33 factors and an inning.
In males’s and girls’s classes, the third place was shared by Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, respectively
-Team Sportstar.
HOCKEY
Asian Hockey Federation awards Hockey India with Best Organiser Award for FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023
Hockey India on Thursday was awarded with the Best Organiser Award by the Asian Hockey Federation (AHF) for its exemplary execution of the FIH Odisha Hockey Men’s World Cup 2023 Bhubaneswar-Rourkela because the host nation.
The award was obtained by Hockey India Secretary General Bhola Nath Singh in the course of the AHF Congress held in Mungyeong, Korea.
-Team Sportstar
GOLF
Aman Raj and Dharma lead Indian cost at Challenge Tour
Aman Raj, who two weeks in the past received on the home Tata Steel PGTI Tour, received off to a fast begin on the Duncan Taylor Black Bull Challenge with a card of 5-under 67.
He was tied third alongside fellow Indian M Dharma, because the European Challenge Tour returned to India after a spot of 10 years.
Aman Raj and Dharma had been 4 pictures behind the Spaniard Manuel Elvira, who shot an unbelievable course record-setting 9-under 63.
Welshman Oliver Farr carded a bogey free 8-under 64 to be second on the KGA Course.
Aman Raj and Dharma had been in a bunch of 9 gamers at tied third. The seven gamers apart from the Indian duo, embody four-time DP World Tour winner Matteo Manassero, Englishmen Steven Brown and Ashley Chesters, Swedes Joel Sjoholm and Henric Sturehed, Italian Stefano Mazzoli and Germany’s Velten Meyer.
The Indian contingent, taking a look at attainable pathways into the DP World Tour and past, had a positive begin with 5 extra Indians on the crowded tied-Twelfth place. The 5 had been rookie professional Aryan Roopa Anand, Angad Cheema, Sunhit Bishnoi, Aadil Bedi and R Marimuthu, who all scored 4-under 68 every.
The course performed effectively as 86 golfers shot below par and one other 28 performed even par.
Aman Raj, ranging from the again 9, bogeyed his first and tenth holes. He made no extra errors as he picked six birdies on the thirteenth, sixteenth, first, third, fifth and eighth holes. His compatriot, Dharma, had seven birdies in opposition to two bogeys.
Elvira, who already has two top-10 finishes on the Challenge Tour this season — each in South Africa –, started with 4 birdies on the again 9 as he teed off from the 1oth.
His lone blemish was a bogey on Par-4 seventeenth as he turned in a 3-under. On the again 9, he birdied six instances and had no bogeys.
“It feels amazing,” stated Elvira. “I wasn’t thinking about the course record, but I just wanted to make that final putt to reach 10-under par. Unfortunately, it didn’t go in but I’m really happy with my round today.” Oliver Farr, a three-time winner on the Challenge Tour, had six birdies on the entrance 9 and two extra on the again 9.
Local lad Aryan Roopa Anand, a former All India Amateur champion who turned professional this 12 months, had 4 birdies on the entrance 9 and only one on the again 9 and closed with eight pars for his 68.
-PTI
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com