GOLF
Amateur Avani greatest Indian at Thirty fifth place in Singapore Ladies Masters
Amateur golfer Avani Prashanth, who acquired a particular sponsor’s invite, was the perfect Indian after the opening day’s play on the Trust Singapore Ladies Masters, regardless of a nightmarish begin.
Avani, the one beginner among the many three Indians within the 129-player area, acquired an invitation within the USD 100,000 China LPGA occasion on her previous document on the US Kids Golf Tour, the Singapore phase of which can be hosted by the Laguna National Resort.
Starting from the again 9 of the Masters course on the Laguna National, which in latest months have hosted the DP World Tour and the Ladies European Tour, Avani had three bogeys in her first holes on the tenth, twelfth and 14th.
Avani, the world’s 78th ranked beginner, then birdied the eleventh, however at 2-over after 5, she appeared in a good spot. She fought again properly with some regular golf and managed to maintain the harm down with no additional bogeys over the following 13 holes and had one birdie on her final gap, the ninth.
She closed with 1-over 73 and was Tied-Thirty fifth to be the perfect among the many three Indians.
Avani began on the tenth with three bogeys within the first 5 holes towards only one birdie.
“Things just did not work out at the start, but I am happy at the way I held up after that start,” mentioned Avani.
Pranavi Urs had a birdie on the third and was 1-under by six when she hit a horrible stretch with 4 bogeys in 5 holes from the seventh to the eleventh. She parred the final seven holes to card 75 and maintain herself within the hunt for the minimize. She was Tied-Sixtieth, the minimize off to make the ultimate spherical.
Seher Atwal additionally had a tricky time across the flip with two doubles on ninth and eleventh. She had three different bogeys towards simply two birdies in her spherical of 5-over 77 and was T-90.
– PTI
TENNIS
Sahira to face Kashish in AITA ladies’s event ultimate
Top seed Sahira Singh blanked her doubles companion Himaanshika Singh within the semifinals of the Rs. 100,000 AITA ladies’s tennis event on the Joygaon Academy on Thursday.
The 16-year-old Sahira, who has dropped 14 video games in 4 rounds in all thus far, will face second seed Kashish Bhatia within the ultimate.
Kashish has been extra authoritative in her passage to the ultimate, dropping solely eight video games in all, together with two within the semifinal towards Gauri Mangaonkar.
THE RESULTS (SEMIFINALS)
Sahira Singh bt Himaanshika Singh 6-0, 6-0; Kashish Bhatia bt Gauri Mangaonkar 6-1, 6-1.
– Kamesh Srinivasan