GOLF
The Dream Valley Vooty Masters golf championship can be held on the Vooty Golf County in Vikarabad close to right here from February 21 to 24 with a complete prize cash of Rs 1 crore, in keeping with Mr. Uttam Singh Mundy, CEO, PGTI.
The Pro-Am occasion can be staged on February 25.
The main Indian professionals within the subject are defending champion Manu Gandas, Aman Raj, Karan Pratap Singh, Rahil Gangjee, Udayan Mane, Sachin Baisoya and Khalin Joshi, to call a couple of.
The outstanding international names competing are Sri Lankans N Thangaraja and Okay Prabagaran, Bangladeshis Jamal Hossain and Badal Hossain, Andorra’s Kevin Esteve Rigaill and Nepal’s Sukra Bahadur Rai in addition to rookies together with PGTI Qualifying School winner Matias Dominguez of Chile, Nepal’s Subash Tamang, Italy’s Michele Ortolani, Czechia’s Stepan Danek, American Dominic Piccirillo and Germany’s Wenzel Krzenck.
The native gamers within the subject are Mohd Azhar and Rahul Malik of the Vooty Golf County and amateurs Vilok Gadwal and Suraj Joshi from neighbouring Hyderabad.
Mr. Santhosh Reddy Kancharla, CMD of Dream Valley Group, stated they had been thrilled to as soon as once more collaborate with PGTI.
“Our partnership brings forth a promising future of tournaments. Best wishes to all the talented participants gearing up for Vooty Masters 2024,” he stated.
“This edition promises an exhilarating battle between the players and the Challenging course. With esteemed professionals and renowned golfers set to compete, we anticipate an extraordinary event. Our past collaborations with PGTI have been rewarding, and we eagerly anticipate a continued partnership for future tournaments,” stated Mr. Prithvi Reddy Kancharla, CEO of Dream Valley Group.”
V. V. SUBRAHMANYAM
RACKETLON
Siddharth Nandal wins nationwide racketlon title for third time
An Income Tax officer by occupation and a racket sports activities aficionado in his time away from the high-pressure job, Siddharth Nandal clinched the singles in addition to the doubles title of the All India Open Championship of Racketlon, a mix sport which requires mastery of 4 disciplines.
The Mumbai-based officer defeated Vikramaditya Chaufla from Udaipur within the singles ultimate to emerge winner with a scoreline of 20-22, 21-16, 21-8, 7-2 within the occasion held right here from February 16-18. This was his third nationwide title.
In the doubles ultimate, the 33-year-old partnered with Nikhil Mansukhani from Mumbai to win 21-6, 21-7, 2-21, 12-3 in opposition to the pair of Kunal Singh and Vaibhav Chauhan.
The competitors was organised by the Wellington Catholic Gymkhana and featured greater than 150 individuals.
Racketlon is a mix sport by which gamers must compete for one set of 21 factors in all 4 racket video games – desk tennis, badminton, squash and tennis.
Nandal received two gold and one silver medals within the Racketlon World Championships in 2019 and 2022 in Germany and Austria respectively. He stated the game is witnessing progress by wanting on the individuals this yr.
Both Nandal and Chaufla have represented India on the World Racketlon Championship a number of instances.
Chaufla, a former badminton participant, has additionally represented India within the World University Badminton Championships.
In the ultimate of the 55 plus singles class, Krishna Kotak bought the higher of Sugato Thakur 21-9, 15-21, 11-21, 21-16. In the doubles of the identical class, Kotak teamed up with Merwyn Fernandes, a member of the gold-winning hockey workforce on the 1980 Olympics, to win the title.
Varun Motasha defeated Aayush Bhansali 21-14, 21-11, 6-21, 21-7 within the B class ultimate.
-PTI
Khelo India University Games
Swimmers give Jain University headstart
Swimmer Shubhrant Patra clinched the lads’s 200m butterfly particular person gold with a dominating efficiency after which returned to assist Jain University declare the 4x100m freestyle relay crown within the Khelo India University Games right here on Tuesday.
Kalyani Saxena of Sarvajanik University, Surat and Danush S of Saveetha Institute of Medical and Technical Sciences additionally received a gold every on the second day of swimming competitions on the Dr Zakir Hussain Aquatic Complex.
With 32 gold medals determined in two days of competitors, Jain University topped the standings with 4 gold, one silver and two bronze medals whereas Utkal University is second, thanks to 3 gold from swimmer Pratyasa Ray. She additionally claimed the yellow metallic in girls’s 200m backstroke on Tuesday.
Patra, who’s initially from Odisha however now trains and research in Bengaluru, bagged the 200m butterfly gold with a timing of two:06.94s, ending over half a second forward of Chandigarh University’s Harsh Saroha. Shubham Dhaygude of Savitribai Phule University clinched the bronze with a timing of two:11.18s.
He then returned to the pool for the 4x100m freestyle relay, swimming the third leg, as he teamed up with Xavier Dsouza, Dhyan Balakrishna and Sambhavv R to bag the gold with a time of three:37.76s.
Anna University (3:39.35s) and University of Kerala (3:41.65s) bagged the silver and bronze respectively.
Earlier, Kalyani Saxena and Danush S clinched the ladies’s 400m medley and males’s 50m breaststroke gold medals respectively.
On Monday, Kalyani had received the ladies’s 200m breaststroke gold whereas Dhanush topped the lads’s 200m breaststroke race.
Elsewhere, within the basketball competitors, University of Madras will tackle Jain University within the girls’s ultimate.
In the semifinal, the workforce from Tamil Nadu hammered Guru Nanak Dev University 105-48, whereas Jain University bought the higher of Hindustan Institute of Technology and Science 85-61.
In the lads’s class, Panjab University upset defending champions Jain University 89-87 to succeed in the ultimate, the place they’ll face University of Madras, who bought the higher of University of Rajasthan 79-76.
In weightlifting competitors, being held in Itanagar, KIIT’s Sneha received the gold in 55kg class with a complete raise of 172kg with Punjabi University’s Ramandeep (165kg) and Kurukshetra University’s Shalu (159kg) taking residence silver and bronze medals respectively.
-PTI
Tennis
Ankita and Prarthana lose in Dubai
Wild card entrants Ankita Raina and Prarthana Thombare missed their probabilities and bought overwhelmed 4-6, 6-3, [17-15] within the doubles first spherical of the $3,211,715 WTA tennis event in Dubai.
The Indian pair bought 10 WTA factors and $9,100 for the trouble in a draw of 32. Ankita had misplaced within the first spherical of singles qualifying occasion to Viktoriya Tomova of Bulgaria.
Results
$3,211,715 WTA, Dubai, UAE Doubles (first spherical): Shuko Aoyama (Jpn) & Aleksandra Krunic (Srb) bt Ankita Raina & Prarthana Thombare 4-6, 6-3, [17-15].
-Kamesh Srinivasan