GOLF
Pranavi Urs fires 4-under 68 to occupy tied fifth place in LET remaining stage
India’s Pranavi Urs maintained the momentum as she carded a sprightly 4-under 68 within the second spherical for a tied fifth place on the Ladies European Tour’s Final Qualifier on Monday.
Urs had additionally scored a 68 within the first spherical Al Maaden course and the Mysuru lady is now standing at 9-under after her effort on the Royal Golf De Marrakech course.
Singapore’s Shannon Tan additionally fired a spherical of 68 to share the fifth place with Urs.
She is three pictures behind Mexican Fernanda Lira who produced a spherical of 71 and leads the sector at 12-under-par.
Lira had shot a ladies’s course document of 62 on day one.
The gamers are taking part in two rounds every on the Par-72 course at Royal Golf Marrakech and Par-73 at Al Maaden course.
As Urs shot a bogey free 68 with two birdies on both aspect of the RGM format, among the different Indians additionally confirmed some enchancment.
Neha Tripathi, who had a 3-over 75 at RGM improved to 6-under 67 at Al Maaden.
She is now 3-under at Tied-25.
Vani Kapoor (73-70) is now tied 37, Tvesa Malik (74-70) is tied 51, Amandeep Drall (75-70) is tied 63, Ridhima Dilawari (74-72) is tied 77, Avani Prashanth (76-71) is tied 85, Jasmine Shekar (75-74) is tied 105, Seher Atwal (77-74) is tied 119, Sneha Singh (83-72) is tied 141, Ananya Datar (80-79) is tied 148 and Durga Nittur (80-81) is tied 150.
After 4 rounds, the highest 65 and ties will play the ultimate spherical.
The prime 20 and ties get a full card for 2024 and people ending from twenty first to fiftieth ties will get fewer begins.
Starting from the tenth, Urs birdied the 14th and the sixteenth after which added birdies on the primary and second to be 4-under by means of 11 holes.
But she was not in a position to convert any extra of the probabilities and parred the remainder for a 68.
-PTI
TENNIS
$25,000 ITF ladies’s event seeds
The $25,000 ITF ladies’s tennis event on the MSLTA Centre right here could be one other alternative for the Indian gamers to get higher with some high quality opposition and improve their standing on the WTA rating record.
The champion of the Bengaluru occasion, and the semifinalist thereafter in Ahmedabad, nationwide champion Shrivalli Bhamidipaty will open in opposition to Misaki Matsuda of Japan.
The 22-year-old Shrivalli might not be seeded but, however has reached a career-best rank of 506. With former Davis Cupper and captain of the Billie Jean King Cup group, Vishal Uppal, strengthening her assist group, Shrivalli is taking part in with renewed confidence, matching her potential as a big-game participant with the serve and forehand as explosive instruments.
The 139th ranked Maria Timofeeva who had an excellent outing within the Tennis Premier League in Pune will begin as the highest seed and can face qualifier Humera Baharmus within the first spherical.
Ekaterina Makarova, Sapfo Sakellaridi and Ayano Shimizu are the others within the prime 4 seeds, with Diana Marcinkevica because the sixth seed. Rutuja Bhosale, Sahaja Yamalapalli and Vaidehi Chaudhari are the one Indians who may get seeded.
Vaidehi meets the finalist of the Bengaluru occasion, Zeel Desai within the fist spherical. Only 14 Indians determine in the primary draw of 32, together with 4 wild playing cards and 4 qualifiers, which ought to present a touch in regards to the high quality of the sector.
It needs to be one other fruitful week for Indian ladies’s tennis.
The seedings:
1. Maria Timofeeva, 2. Ekaterina Makarova, 3. Sapfo Sakellaridi (Gre), 4. Ayano Shimizu (Jpn), 5. Rutuja Bhosale, 6. Diana Marcinkevica (Lat), 7. Sahaja Yamalapalli, 8. Vaidehi Chaudhari.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
Adil loses doubles within the ITF males’s tennis event
Adil Kalyanpur in partnership with Preston Brown of the USA was crushed 6-2, 6-4 by Reece Falck and George Stoupe of New Zealand within the $15,000 ITF males’s tennis event in Papamoa, New Zealand, on Monday.
In singles, Adil has drawn second seed Keegan Smith of USA within the first spherical.
The outcomes:
$15,000 ITF males, Papamoa, New Zealand Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Reece Falck & George Stoupe (Nzl) bt Preston Brown (USA) & Adil Kalyanpur 6-2, 6-4.
– Kamesh Srinivasan