TENNIS
Second seed Kashish Bhatia beat Sejal Bhutada 7-6(6), 6-0 within the quarterfinals of the Rs.100,000 AITA girls’s tennis match on the Joygaon Academy on Wednesday.
Sejal had crushed Kashish within the ultimate of the final match on the identical venue. Kashish will play Kavya Khirwar within the semifinals and the opposite semifinal can be between high seed Sahira Singh and Lakshmi Prabha.
The outcomes (quarterfinals):
Singles:Sahira Singh bt Shefali Arora 6-4, 6-4; Lakshmi Prabha bt Vanshika Choudhary 6-3, 6-3; Kavya Khirwar w.o. Rachita Talwar; Kashish Bhatia bt Sejal Bhutada 7-6(6), 6-0.
Doubles: Ishwari Matere & Kashish Bhatia bt Likhitha Landa & Eva Sahj 6-0, 6-1; Tanusshri Pandey & Kavya Khirwar bt Divya Bhardwaj & Sahira Singh 6-2, 6-3; Prathiba Narayan & Arthi Muniyan bt Omna Yadav & Sreenidhi Amireddy 7-6(5), 4-6, [12-10]; Gauri Mangaonkar & Diya Malik bt Mirudhulla Palanivel & Lakshmi Prabha 6-7(6), 6-2, [10-5].
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Ankita Raina missed two match factors and acquired crushed 6-2, 5-7, 7-6(8) by the second seed Jule Niemeier of Germany within the pre-quarterfinals of the $100,000 ITF girls’s tennis match in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday.
In the $80,000 Challenger in Istanbul, Turkey, Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan, seeded No.1 with John-Patrick Smith of Australia beat Marius Copil and Victor Cornea of Romania 7-6(13), 7-6(8) within the doubles pre-quarterfinals.
The outcomes
$130,000 Challenger, Shanghai, China
Singles (first spherical): Antoine Bellier (Sui) bt Arjun Kadhe 6-4, 7-5.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Markos Kalovelonis & Stefanos Sakellaridiss (Gre) bt Rithvik Bollipalli & Arjun Kadhe 2-3 (retired).
€118,000 Challenger, Tullln, Austria
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Maximilian Marterer & Daniel Masur (Ger) bt Anirudh Chandrasekar & Vijay Sundar Prashanth 6-4, 6-3.
$80,000 Challenger, Istanbul, Turkey
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan & John-Patrick Smith (Aus) bt Marius Copil & Victor Cornea (Rou) 7-6(13), 7-6(8); Altug Celikbilek & Cem Ilkel (Tur) bt Niki Poonacha & Divij Sharan 6-7(1), 7-5, [10-7].
$25,000 ITF males, Kigali, Rwanda
Singles (first spherical): Atharva Sharma bt Ernest Habiyambere (Rwa) 6-3, 6-1; Rishab Agarwal bt Moritz Schroeter (Ger) 6-1, 6-7(5), 7-5; Yash Yadav bt Darrshan Suresh (Mas) 7-5, 7-6(3); Oliver Cfawford (USA) bt Arjun Mahadevan 6-0, 6-1; SD Prajwal Dev bt Hakizumwami Junior (Rwa) 6-3, 6-0; Ishaque Eqbal bt Julian DeSousa (Ned) 7-6(2), 7-6(11); Sai Karteek Reddy bt Rishi Reddy 6-3, 7-6(4); Raghav Jaisinghani bt Anurag Agarwal 6-1, 7-6(3); Mattias Southcombe (GBR) bt Kabir Hans 6-2, 6-3; Dylan Salton (RSA) bt Siddhant Banthia 6-2, 4-3 (retired).
$15,000 ITF males, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
Singles (first spherical): Siddharth Rawat bt Natthasith Kunsuwan (Tha) 6-2, 6-0.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Mitsuki Leong (Mas) & Faisal Qamar bt Michael Mathayomchand & Tanakorn Srirat (Tha) 7-6(4), 6-3; Rob Reynolds & James Watt (Nzl) bt Congsup Congcar (Tha) & Siddharth Vishwakarma 6-2, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF males, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (first spherical): Alexis Gautier (Fra) bt Chirag Duhan 3-6, 6-1, 6-0.
$100,000 ITF girls, Tokyo, Japan
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Jule Niemeier (Ger) bt Ankita Raina 6-2, 5-7, 7-6(8).
$25,000 ITF girls, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
Singles (first spherical): Park Sohyun (Kor) bt Zeel Desai 6-2, 6-2; Liu Fangzhou (Chn) bt Shrivalli Bhamidipaty 6-4, 7-6(6).
$15,000 ITF girls, Shenzhen, China
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Fang An Lin (Tpe) & Yuan Chengyiyi (Chn) bt Sohan Sadiq & Sun Yingqun (Chn) 6-4, 6-1.
$15,000 ITF girls, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (first spherical): Aruzhan Ssagandikova (Kaz) bt Aaddi Gupta 6-3, 6-1.
GOLF
Diksha goals for an additional large end, eyes Order of Merit
India’s Diksha Dagar will intention to take care of her consistency on the Big Green Egg Open right here whereas standing an opportunity to rise to the highest of the Race to Costa Del Sol standings, additionally the Order of Merit for Ladies European Tour.
In order to do this, Diksha must win as France’s Celine Boutier and Spain’s Ana Pelaez Trivino — ranked first and second respectively — are lacking the occasion.
Diksha, who gained the Czech Ladies Open in June, has completed in top-10 within the final two begins — on the ISPS Handa Invitational and the Women’s Irish Open — which got here on high of the most effective Major consequence by an Indian in Women’s Open.
There are nonetheless six occasions left on this season and one among them is at Diksha’s residence, the Women’s Indian Open in October, which supplies her an important likelihood to make a touch for the highest honours within the Order of Merit.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com