MOTORSPORTS
TVS Racing creates a brand new prime velocity document within the first spherical of 2023 TVS Asia One Make Championship
With a 40-year heritage of racing, TVS Racing, the flagbearer of One Make Championship in India rung within the 2 nd version of TVS Asia One Make Championship 2023 in an exciting method by breaking its final 12 months data on the Chang International Circuit, Thailand.
Further solidifying its place as India’s main racing workforce within the two-wheeler motorsports enviornment, TVS Racing created a brand new prime velocity document of 215.9 km/hr within the first spherical of the worldwide championship that occurs on the aspect strains of ARRC.
Speaking on this momentous event, Mr Vimal Sumbly, Head Business – Premium, TVS Motor Company, stated, “We and our customers are extremely proud of the record-breaking performance by TVS Racing at the 2023 TVS Asia One Make Championship. This is a testament to the hard work and dedication of the team, and their pursuit of excellence in all aspects of motorsports.”
-Team Sportstar
TENNIS
Asia Oceania World juniors: Honk Kong beats India
The Indian boys fought valiantly however Hong Kong asserted itself with a 3-0 victory within the final league match of Group-C within the Asia-Oceania World junior under-14 tennis match in Kuching, Malaysia, on Wednesday.
Having solely crushed New Zealand within the league, India positioned third behind Hong Kong and Chinese Taipei, which certified for the quarterfinals.
Korea, Japan, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Pakistan and Australia have been the opposite groups to make it to the knock-out stage.
India will play Iran within the first play-off match to determine the decrease placings from the ninth spot.
Results (league):
Hong Kong bt India 3-0 (Fu Wang Choi bt Prakaash Sarran 6-2, 6-0; Sin Hang Tam bt Shivtej Shirfule 6-0, 6-7(2), 6-3; Fun Wang Choi & Selwyn Wong bt Prakaash & Shivtej 4-6, 6-4, [14-12]).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Top seed Karthik Karunakaran ousted at National Wheelchair Championship
Balachandar Subramanian beat prime seed Karthik Karunakaran 4-6, 7-6(4), [10-5] within the semifinals of the National wheelchair tennis championship on the Indore Tennis Club on Wednesday.
In the ultimate, Subramanian will play his doubles accomplice and second seed Shekar Veerasswamy who eased previous Sathasivam Kannupayan for the lack of two video games.
In the doubles closing, Subramanian and Veeraswamy will play the highest seeds Mariappan Durai and Karunakaran.
In the ladies’s part, prime seed KP Shilpa gained her third and final league match in opposition to Sheranthi Thomas 9-1 to emerge the champion within the four-player area. She had earlier crushed Prathima Rao and Nalina Kumari, with equal ease.
RESULTS:
Men: Balachandar Subramanian bt Karthik Karunakaran 4-6, 7-6(4), [10-5]; Shekar Veeraswamy bt Sathasivam Kannupayan 6-1, 6-1.
Doubles: Mariappan Durai & Karthik Karunakaran bt H Madhusudan & Indrajeet Pandey 6-1, 6-4; B Subramanian & Shekar Veeraswamy bt M Gabriel & SSureshkumar 6-1, 7-5.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
India’s SD Prajwal Dev advances to pre-quarterfinals of Mysuru Open
FILE PHOTO: S.D. Prajwal Dev of Karnataka in motion.
| Photo Credit: PERIASAMY M
India’s SD Prajwal Dev made his manner into the singles pre-quarterfinals of the ITF Mysuru Open with a 6-4 7-5 win over compatriot S Abhinav Sanjeev on the Mysore Tennis Club on Wednesday.
Prajwal was scheduled to satisfy skilled Indian participant Ramkumar Ramanathan, who was seeded fifth right here, however the latter needed to withdraw from the match owing to an damage.
Prajwal, the 26-year-old Mysuru participant, will face his countryman Vishnu Vardhan within the Round of 16.
The USD 25,000 occasion is being hosted by the Karnataka State Lawn Tennis Association (KSLTA).
But the largest shock of the day got here when unseeded Briton George Loffhagen, a world quantity 182, shocked top-seeded Nam Hoang Ly of Vietnam 6-3 6-4.
However, the second-seeded Oliver Crawford of the USA and Oriov Vladyslav of Ukraine had higher fortunes on the day, advancing to the pre-quarterfinals.
Crawford had little bother in vanquishing Manish Ganesh, a wildcard entrant from India, with a 6-1 6-3 victory. But Vladyslav confronted a stiff problem from India’s Niki Poonacha earlier than rising a 4-6 6-2 6-3 victor.
Eighth-seeded Australian Ellis Blake too booked a berth within the pre-quarterfinals after his Indian opponent Siddharth Vishwakarma, a qualifier, withdrew from the match whereas main 2-0 within the first set.
Fourth-seeded Mukund Sasikumar took to court docket late within the night in opposition to Serbia’s Boris Butulija. But the skies opened as much as interrupt the match when the Indian participant was main 2-1 within the first set. The match will resume on Thursday.
-PTI
Arjun Kadhe reaches doubles quarterfinals in Lille Challenger
Arjun Kadhe and Igor Zelenay of Slovakia beat the fourth seeds Andrew Harris and John-Patrick Smith of Australia 6-3, 3-6, [10-3] within the doubles quarterfinals of the €118,000 Challenger tennis match in Lille, France, on Wednesday.
RESULTS
€145,000 Challenger, Sanremo, Italy
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Roman Jebavy & Adam Pavlasek (Cze) bt Sriram Balaji & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 6-3, 6-3.
€118,000 Challenger, Lille, France
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Arjun Kadhe & Igor Zelenay (Svk) bt Andrew Harris & John-Patrick Smith (Aus) 6-3, 3-6, [10-3].
€73,000 Challenger, Girona, Spain
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Yuki Bhambri & Saketh Myneni bt Zvonimir Babic (Cro) & Piotr Matuszewski (Pol) 6-3, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF males, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (first spherical): Alexandre Reco (Fra) bt Manas Dhamne 6-2, 7-5.
$25,000 ITF girls, Jakarta, Indonesia
Singles (first spherical): Hanyu Guo (Chn) bt Sahaja Yamalapalli 6-0, 6-3; Ankita Raina bt Peangtarn Plepuech (Tha) 6-0, 6-2; Rutuja Bhosale bt Haruna Arakawa (Jpn) 6-2, 6-2.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
SHOOTING
Shotgun World Cup: India finishes sixteenth in blended skeet occasion
Areeba Khan and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa shot a mixed rating of 131 and positioned sixteenth in blended skeet within the shotgun World Cup in Larnaca, Cyprus, on Wednesday.
The different Indian workforce of Raiza Dhillon and Man Singh had a complete of 125 and positioned twenty second amongst 32 groups.
Nadine Messerschmidt and Sven Korte of Germany, who needed to win a shoot-off in opposition to the formidable workforce of Kimberly Rhode and Dustan Taylor to make the gold medal match, went on to beat the qualification toppers from Cyprus Anastasia Eleftheriou and Petros Englezoudis 6-4 for the gold.
RESULT
Mixed skeet: 1. Germany (Nadine Messerschmidt, Sven Korte) 6 (137); 2. Cyprus (Anastasia Eleftheriou, Petros Englezoudis) 4 (140); 3. Chile (Francisca Chadid, Hector Barrahona) 6 (136); 4. USA (Kimberly Rhode, Dustan Taylor) 2 (137)3; 16. India (Areeba Khan, Angad Vir Singh Bajwa) 131; 22. India-2 (Raiza Dhillon, Man Singh) 125.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
ATHLETICS
Kochi to host first marathon with prize cash
The Federal Bank Kochi Marathon, town’s first 42.195km run with a prize-money, might be held on May 1. Apart from the principle occasion, there might be a half marathon, a 10-km occasion and a 3km inexperienced run which hopes to draw schools, housing societies, establishments and ladies’s teams in huge numbers.
The marathons held earlier within the metropolis didn’t have any prize-money however the Kochi Marathon, which has Federal Bank as its title sponsor and which might be organised by CleoSportz, will carry a complete prize fund of Rs 10 lakh. The organisers hope to rope in among the nationwide stars for the occasion.
Kerala High Court Judge Devan Ramachandran launched the marathon’s brand and Kochi Metro Rail Limited’s MD Loknath Behera was offered the primary bib of the occasion by Kochi City Police Commissioner Ok. Sethuraman.
Olympians Gopi Thonakal and O.P. Jaisha, additionally the nationwide document holder within the girls’s marathon, Federal Bank Group President and CFO Venkatraman Venkateswaran and Coast Guard DIG N. Ravi have been amongst those that spoke.
Organised in affiliation with Kerala Police, the marathon might be flagged off from the Maharaja’s Stadium and can run by means of a ravishing course.
-Stan Rayan
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com