GOLF
Pranavi Urs finishes T-Thirteenth, secures full card to hitch Aditi and Diksha on LET
Indian golfer Pranavi Urs earned a full card on the Ladies European Tour for 2024 as she completed Tied-Thirty first on the Final Stage of the Qualifying School golf event right here.
Parnavi performed a robust entrance 9 after which survived some tense moments on the again to card a closing spherical of 3-under 70 on the Par-73 Al Maaden Golf Marrakech to complete with a complete of 12-under 351.
Pranavi will be part of compatriots Diksha Dagar and Aditi Ashok, who’re already full members of the Tour.
Russia’s Nataliya Guseva produced a closing spherical of 4-under 69 to win the by 4 photographs. Guseva totalled 23-under-par.
The Top-20 and ties secured Category 12 membership for 2024 and there have been 22 gamers getting the standing. Thirty gamers completed between twenty first and fiftieth and ties to clinch Category 16 membership.
India had a complete of 12 gamers within the closing stage however Pranavi alone managed a full card. Vani Kapoor (73-70-70-76-72) at 2-under for the 90 holes, completed T-45 and earned a standing in Category 16.
Neha Tripathi (75-67-72-73-76) was T-55 and Amandeep Drall (75-70-70-75-76) completed T-65 and the duo earned standing in Category 19.
The eight gamers, who missed the reduce have been Ridhima Dilawari (74-72-72-77) at T-88, Avani Prashanth (76-71-72-77) and Tvesa Malik (74-70-77-75) at T-92, Jasmine Shekar (75-74-75-75) at T-112, Sneha Singh (83-72-76-76) at T-144, Seher Atwal (77-73-78-81) at 146, Ananya Datar (80-79-76-79) at 148 and Durga Nittur (80-81-76-83) at 150.
Pranavi began the ultimate day at T-Eleventh and her birdies on third, fourth, sixth, eighth and ninth holes noticed her flip in 5-under as she rose near Top-5. She then dropped photographs on the twelfth and 14th and ended the day with 4 pars and a spherical of 70.
Vani had 4 birdies and three bogeys and was T-45, whereas Neha had three birdies and 6 bogeys and did not make the Top-50.
As Guseva topped the Q-School, South Africa’s Cara Gorlei completed in second place on the leaderboard on 19-under-par after taking pictures a spherical of 71.
Thailand’s Aunchisa Utama completed in third place on 18-under-par having carded a spherical of 3-under 70 on the ultimate day at Al Maaden.
-PTI
BOXING
Punjab’s Anjali beats Rajasthan’s Chandan in nationwide girls’s boxing championship
Anjali of Punjab beat Chandan Choudhary of Rajasthan on factors 5-0 within the mild heavyweight first-round bout of the National girls’s boxing championship on the Gautam Buddha University right here on Thursday.
The outcomes (first spherical)
Light fly: Neelam bt P Tanuja on pts; Malika Mor bt Poonam Bisht on pts.; Th Yaisana Chanu bt Saraswrti Boro on pts.
Fly: Jyoti bt Poonam on pts; Rinku bt Manisha on pts.
Bantam: Sandhya Rani bt AC Varsha on pts; Arshi Khanam bt Ramy Guduru RSC.
Feather: Sonia Lather bt Mahi Lama on pts.; Sangeeta Khokhar bt Komal Dhami on pts.
Light: PS Girija bt Falgunee Vora RSC; Menka Devi bt AparnaChiluveru RSC.
Light welter: Meghana Myllipilli bt Manisha Das RSC; Nisha Gurjar bt Swastika Dham on pts.
Welter: Sanju bt Ranjana Rajbhar RSC; Alena Thounaouam Devi bt Okay Anusmaya RSC.
Light center: Shretima Thakur bt Monika on pts.
Middle: KA Indraja bt Guna Nidhi RSC.
Light heavy: Lalfakmawi rAlte bt Babita Basera on pts.; Anjali bt Chandan Choudhary on pts.
Heavy: Himanshi Antil bt N Deeksha RSC.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
TENNIS
Sahaja enters pre-quarterfinals of the $25,000 ITF girls’s tennis event
Sahaja Yamalapalli sailed previous Madhurima Sawant 6-3, 6-0 within the pre-quarterfinals of the $25,000 ITF girls’s tennis event on the MSLTA Centre on Thursday.
In the quarterfinals, seventh seed Sahaja will play Hiromi Abe of Japan who ousted the highest seed Maria Timofeeva in three units.
Sahaja additionally made the doubles semifinals with Vaishnavi Adkar.
Vaidehi Chaudhari was the opposite Indian participant to progress in singles, and arrange a quarterfinal in opposition to second seed Ekaterina Makarova.
The champion of the current occasion in Bengaluru, Shrivalli Bhamidipaty was overwhelmed 6-3, 6-4 by Makarova. Fifth seed Rutuja Bhosale went down within the third set tie-break in opposition to Daria Kudashova.
The outcomes:
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Hiromi Abe (Jpn) bt Maria Timofeeva 2-6, 6-3, 6-4; Sahaja Yamalapalli bt Madhurima Sawant 6-3, 6-0; Saki Imamura (Jpn) bt Vicky Van De Peer (Bel) 6-3, 3-6, 6-1; Daria Kudashova bt Rutuja Bhosale 4-6, 6-4, 7-6(1); Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) bt Ekaterina Kazionova 6-3, 7-6(5); Sapfo Sakellaridi (Gre) bt Vaishnavi Adkar 6-3, 6-0; Vaidehi Chaudhari bt Weronika Baszak (Pol) 6-2, 2-0 (retired); Ekaterina Makarova bt Shrivalli Bhamidipaty 6-3, 6-4.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Funa Kozaki & Misaki Matsuda (Jpn) bt Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) & Sapfo Sakellaridi (Gre) 5-7, 6-4, [12-10]; Ekaterina Kazionova & Ekaterina Yashina bt Zeel Desai & Pranjala Yadlapalli 0-6, 6-2, [10-6]; Hiromi Abe & Saki Imamura (Jpn) bt Humera Baharmus & Olivia Bergler (Pol) 6-4, 6-2; Vaishnavi Adkar & Sahaja Yamalapalli bt Shrivalli Bhamidipaty & Vaidehi Chaudhari 7-5, 6-3.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
AITA girls’s event: Chandana Potugari beats high seed Tanushri Pandey
Chandana Potugari beat high seed Tanushri Pandey 6-4, 6-2 within the semifinals of the Rs.100,000 AITA girls’s tennis event on the Joygaon Academy on Thursday.
In the ultimate, Chanadana who had gained the event final week on the identical venue, will play second seed Samaira Malik.
The outcomes (semifinals):
Chandana Potugari bt Tanushri Pandey 6-4, 6-2; Samaira Malik bt Pavithra Reddy 4-1 (conceded).
– Kamesh Srinivasan
SHOOTING
National choice trials: Abhay Singh Sekhon beats qualification topper Mairaj Ahmad Khan within the males’s skeet closing
Abhay Singh Sekhon gained the shoot-off 20-19 in opposition to Mairaj Ahmad Khan within the skeet closing of the National taking pictures trials in Bhopal on Thursday.
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Abhay Singh Sekhon gained the shoot-off 20-19 in opposition to Mairaj Ahmad Khan within the skeet closing of the National taking pictures trials in Bhopal on Thursday.
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Abhay Singh Sekhon beat qualification topper and World Cup gold medallist Mairaj Ahmad Khan 20-19 after being tied on 59 within the males’s skeet closing within the National choice trials on the Madhya Pradesh Academy in Bhopal on Thursday.
Mairaj had shot 122 in qualification together with Mohd. Sheeraz Sheikh, who finally positioned fifth. Man Singh positioned third forward of Asian Games silver medalist Anantjeet Singh Naruka (121).
Munek Battula was the opposite shooter to make the ultimate. Olympian Angad Vir Singh Bajwa shot 117 and positioned ninth, whereas Gurjoat Singh slipped to the twenty first spot with 114.
In girls’s skeet, Parinaaz Dhaliwal pipped Areeba Khan 53-52, pushing World Cup medallist Ganemat Sekhon to the third spot. Qualification topper Raiza Dhillon (119) was fourth, whereas Zahra Mufaddal Desawala and Vanshika Tiwari completed fifth and sixth respectively.
Olympic quota winner Anish Bhanwala was in high kind in 25-metre fast hearth pistol profitable the ultimate 31-25 over Sameer Ghulia on the Karni Singh Range in Tughlakabad. Anish had topped qualification with 592, 12 factors forward of the subsequent greatest.
Asian Games gold medallist Sift Kaur Samra was equally on high of her recreation as she gained the ladies’s rifle 3-position occasion with a 2.4 level margin over Priya, after topping qualification with 593.
Paarth Makhija topped males’s air rifle by 0.4 level over Olympian Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar.
The outcomes:
Air rifle: Men: 1. Paarth Makhija 251.3 (631.0); 2. Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar 250.9 (630.4); 3. Sandeep Singh 229.7 (630.3).
25m fast hearth pistol: Men: 1. Anish Bhanwala 31 (592); 2. Sameer Ghulia 26 (580); 3. Abhinav Choudhary 22 (579).
50m rifle 3-position: Women: 1. Sift Kaur Samra 462.0 (593); 2. Priya 459.6 (590); 3. Bhakti Bhaskar Khamkar 447.7 (590).
Skeet: Men: 1. Abhay Singh Sekhon 59(20) 119; 2. Mairaj Ahmad Khan 59(19) 122; 3. Man Singh 46 (119).
Women: 1. Parinaaz Dhaliwal 53 (115); 2. Areeba Khan 52 (118); 3. Ganemat Sekhon 42 (117).
– Kamesh Srinivasan
Sohini Kumari wins ITF Masters tennis event
The former nationwide girls’s tennis champion Sohini Kumari gained the over-35 singles title within the ITF Masters tennis event on the Tennis Project in Baliawas on Thursday.
Sohini, who had stop the skilled tennis circuit in 1995 after competing within the FedCup. She had drifted into squash, ending runner-up in nationwide championships twice and representing the nation. She was persuaded by her mates to get again into the tennis circuit.
Sohini was rapidly in her stride in her first event within the Masters circuit, profitable the 4 matches within the league in opposition to Nazneen Rahman, Nikunj Kamal, Pinky Sharma and Vijayta Singh, dropping 10 video games in all, in eight units.
“I had started playing at the Gymkhana Club with all my buddies. So, just thought of entering the tournament for fun”, mentioned Sohini, who did get pleasure from enjoying all of the youthful gamers as there was no occasion in her age group.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
ITF girls’s tennis event outcomes
Ashmitha Easwaramurthi in partnership with Hou Yanan of China was overwhelmed 6-4, 6-1 by third seeds Chiraz Bechri and Milana Zhabrailova within the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the $15,000 ITF girls’s tennis event in Monastir, Tunisia.
The outcomes:
$15,000 ITF girls, Monastir, Tunisia Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Chiraz Bechri (Tun) & Milana Zhabrailova bt Ashmitha Easwaramurthi & Hou Yanan (Chn) 6-4, 6-1.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
CHESS
Kiyana, Harsh win gold in Asian Youth Chess Championships
Two Indian children, Kiyana Parihar (U-8 Girls) and Harsh Suresh (U-16 open) gained gold medals within the twenty fifth Asian Youth Chess Championships (Classical), held at Al Ain Convention Centre in UAE.
Kiyana had additionally bagged the silver medal within the Asian U-8 Girls fast chess championship held final week.
Three Indians, AS Sharvaanica (U-8 Girls), Aarit Kapil (U-8 Open) and G Tejaswini (U-18 Girls), gained silver medals of their respective classical championships, whereas Aadya Ranganath gained a bronze within the U-10 women class.
AS Sharvaanica, who had bagged two gold medals earlier within the twenty fifth Asian Youth competition in U-8 Girls fast and U-8 women blitz classes, grew to become the one participant to win medals in all three (blitz, classical and fast) classes.
The Soviet gamers, who performed beneath the FIDE flag, reigned supreme by profitable 4 gold, 4 silver and two bronze medals whereas China bagged two gold, one silver and one bronze medals.
India had bagged 9 medals, together with 4 gold (Bhagyashree Patil U-18 women, Sapariya Ghosh U-14 women, A S Sharvaanica U-8 women and Muhammad Shyan Ibrahim U-8 Open), within the Asian Youth Rapid Chess Championships held December 13.
The Asian Blitz Chess Championships held on December 17 noticed three Indian women — V C Nivedita (U-12 women), Pratitee Bordoloi (U-10 women) and A S Sharvaanica — win the gold medals for the nation.
-PTI