TENNIS
$25,000 ITF girls’s tennis: Bhamidipaty beats Mikulskyte in quarters
Shrivalli Bhamidipaty blasted her well beyond the fifth seed Justina Mikulskyte of Lithuania 6-0, 6-0 in 49 minutes within the quarterfinals of the $25,000 ITF girls’s tennis match on the Indore Tennis Club on Friday.
Quite at residence on the short courts the place she had educated in previous with coach Sajid Lodi, the 22-year-old Shrivalli smashed her well beyond Justina, who had received the title in Gurugram a fortnight earlier.
Shrivalli began hesitantly with two double faults within the first sport however not often put a foot mistaken thereafter. She conceded solely 19 factors to the 28-year-old Justina, ranked 249 on the planet.
In the semifinals, Shrivalli will play Polina Iatcenko, who pipped third seed Ankita Raina in a troublesome encounter. Ankita fought again from being down 3-5 and saved two match factors earlier than the Russian nosed forward within the eventual tie-break for a 6-3, 7-6(4) victory.
The different semifinal shall be between Dalila Jakupovic and Mananchaya Sawangkaew, who have been equally emphatic in thriving on the situations.
Shrivalli later made the doubles closing with Vaidehi Chaudhari, beating the opposite Indian pair of Sahaja Yamalapalli and Zeel Desai in an entertaining contest.
The Indian pair will face Ya-Hsuan Lee and Sohyun Park, who recovered from a gradual begin to outplay second seeds Jacqueline Cabaj Awad and Diana Marcinkevica 10-1 within the tremendous tie-break.
The outcomes
Singles (quarterfinals): Shrivalli Bhamidipaty bt Justina Mikulskyte (Ltu) 6-0, 6-0; Polina Iatcenko bt Ankita Raina 6-3, 7-6(4); Mananchaya Sawangkaew (Tha) bt Jacqueline Cabaj Awad (Swe) 6-1, 6-2; Dalila Jakupovic (Slo) bt Thasaporn Naklo (Tha) 6-0, 6-0.
Doubles (semifinals): Shrivalli Bhamidipaty & Vaidehi Chaudhari bt Zeel Desai & Sahaja Yamalapalli 6-1, 7-6(7); Ya-Hsuan Lee (Tpe) & Sohyun Park (Kor) bt Jacqueline Cabaj Awad (Swe) & Diana Marcinkevica (Lat) 4-6, 6-0, [10-1].
-Kamesh Srinivasan
$25,000 ITF males’s tennis: Karan beats Wishaya in quarterfinals
Karan Singh continued his effective run and beat Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul of Thailand 6-1, 6-4 within the quarterfinals of the $25,000 ITF males’s tennis match on the DLTA Complex on Friday.
The 20-year-old Karan will problem the highest seed and former world No.75, Evgeny Donskoy within the semifinals.
Ramkumar Ramanathan was equally comfy in getting previous seventh seed Siddharth Vishwakarma in straight units. It was the second win for Ramkumar over the wiry Vishwakarma in as many conferences.
In the semifinal, Ramkumar will play fifth seed Nam Hoang Ly of Vietnam, who beat Manish Sureshkumar in straight units.
In doubles, prime seeds Parikshit Somani and Manish Sureshkumar arrange a title conflict towards one other Indian pair, third seeds Siddhant Banthia and Vishnu Vardhan.
The outcomes
Singles (quarterfinals): Evgeny Donskoy bt Florent Bax (Fra) 6-2, 4-1 (retired); Karan Singh bt Wishaya Trongcharoenchaikul (Tha) 6-1, 6-4; Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Siddharth Vishwakarma 6-4, 6-2; Nam Hoang Ly (Vie) bt Manish Sureshkumar 6-4, 6-4.
Doubles (semifinals): Parikshit Somani & Manish Sureshkumar bt Kazuma Kawachi (Jpn) & Woobin Shin 9Kor) 6-0, 6-3; Siddhant Banthia & Vishnu Vardhan bt Ramkumar Ramanathan & Khumoyun Sultanov (Uzb) 6-2, 6-4.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
ITF Masters tennis match: Vaidik Munshaw, Monica Menon win over-30 titles
Vaidik Munshaw beat Kshitij Kamal 4-6, 6-2, [10-8] within the closing of the over-30 occasion within the ITF Masters tennis match on the Joygaon Academy.
In the ladies’s over-30 occasion, Monica Menon outplayed Jyoti for the lack of one sport within the closing.
The outcomes (finals):
Mens:
Over-30: Vaidik Munshaw bt Kshitij Kamal 4-6, 6-2, [10-8];
Over-35: Mishal Javia bt Hafiz Beg 6-2, 6-0;
Over-40: Aditya Khanna bt Raj Kumar 1-6, 6-3, [10-3];
Over-45: Rohan Bhasin bt Swarandeep Singh Dhodi 6-2, 6-4.
Women:
Over-30: Monica Menon bt Jyoti 6-0, 6-1;
Over-40: Rani Kaur Marwa bt Pinky Sharma 6-0, 6-4;
Over-45: Neelam Chopra bt Sonal Vohra 6-2, 6-2.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
€74,825 Challenger tennis: Bollipalli, Poonacha crushed in doubles quarterfinals
Rithvik Bollipalli and Niki Poonacha have been crushed 7-6(5), 2-6, [10-8] by alternate entrants Franco Agamenone and Santiago Taverna within the doubles quarterfinals of the €74,825 Challenger tennis match in Szekesfehervar, Hungary.
The Indian pair received €880 and 16 ATP factors.
The outcomes
€74,825 Challenger, Szekesfehervar, Hungary Doubles (quarterfinals): Franco Agamenone (Ita) & Santiago Taverna (Arg) bt Rithvik Bollipalli & Niki Poonacha 7-6(5), 2-6, [10-8].
$25,000 ITF girls, Solarino, Italy Doubles (quarterfinals): Magali Kempen (Bel) & Yu-Yun Li (Tpe) bt Kathleen Kanev (Ger) & Vasanti Shinde 7-5, 6-2.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
SHOOTING
National shotgun choice trials: World Cup gold medallist Mairaj wins skeet closing
World Cup gold medallist Mairaj Ahmad Khan beat Asian Games silver medallist and Olympic quota winner Anantjeet Singh Naruka 56-54 within the closing of skeet within the fourth National shotgun choice trials on the Madhya Pradesh Academy on Friday.
Mohd. Sheeraz Sheikh positioned third forward of Harmehar Singh Lally, qualification topper Kuldeep Sanyashi (120) and Bhavtegh Singh Gill.
Olympian and world file holder, Angad Vir Singh Bajwa shot 115 and missed the ultimate by two factors following a under par rating of 20 within the fifth spherical.
In girls’s skeet, Maheshwari Chauhan beat World Cup medallist Ganemat Sekhon 56-48 for the highest spot. Shivani Raikwar positioned third and was adopted by Darshna Rathore, Areeba Khan and Olympic quota winner Raiza Dhillon.
The outcomes
Skeet: Men: 1. Mairaj Ahmad Khan 56 (116); 2. Anantjeet Singh Naruka 54 (117); 3. Mohd. Sheeraz sheikh 43 (118).
Women: 1. Maheshwari Chauhan 56 (114); 2. Ganemat Sekhon 48 (115); 3. Shivani Raikwar 41 (113).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
HOCKEY
Senior Women National Championship:Deepika strikes 5 at hand Haryana massive win over Assam
Deepika slammed 5 targets as Hockey Haryana thrashed Assam Hockey 15-0 within the Senior Women National Championship right here on Friday.
Deepika (2nd, fortieth, forty second, forty ninth, 56th minutes) led the present within the opening match of the day as she shone brightly for Hockey Haryana.
Known for her prowess from set items, Deepika transformed two penalty corners in addition to scoring three area targets on the Major Dhyanchand Hockey Stadium Nehrunager in Pimpri.
Sharmila Devi (2nd, thirty fifth), Mahima Choudhary (fifteenth, forty seventh), Udita (thirty second from PC, thirty sixth from PC) too sparkled scoring a brace every, whereas Neha Goyal (eighth), Navneet Kaur (twenty sixth), Ekta Kaushik (forty fourth), Jyoti (fiftieth) have been the opposite objective getters in Hockey Haryana’s emphatic win.
Udita too was in her aspect from penalty-corners as she scored each her targets from set items.
By advantage of its maiden win, Hockey Haryana are actually atop Pool D with three factors. Puducherry Hockey is the opposite crew within the pool.
In a Pool E match, Dipti Lakra (fifth, twelfth minutes), Dipi Monika Toppo (tenth, 51st minutes) and Aten Topno (twelfth, thirty fourth) struck twice every at hand Hockey Association of Odisha an emphatic 9-1 win over Goans Hockey.
Besides, Jiwan Kishori Toppo (twenty ninth), Nitu Lakra (57th) and Anupa Barla (Sixtieth) additionally registered their names within the scoresheet for Hockey Association of Odisha.
Geeta Rathod scored the comfort objective for Goans Hockey within the forty seventh minute from a area strike.
Hockey Association of Odisha additionally registered its first win within the match and is on prime of its pool. Hockey Chandigarh is the opposite facet in Pool E.
Heavyweights Hockey Punjab slammed Hockey Rajasthan 11-2 in a Pool F match.
Sarabdeep Kaur (fifteenth, thirty ninth, 56th) slammed a hat-trick, whereas Taranpreet Kaur (1st, forty second) and Kirandeep Kaur (18th, forty fifth) scored a brace every for Punjab in its dominating present.
MOTORSPORTS
forty seventh MMSC South India Rally: Dean Mascaremhas, co-driver Karumbaiah prime time sheets in first spherical
Mangaluru’s Dean Mascarenhas and co-driver Konganda Karumbaiah from Ammati, Kodagu, got here up with a surprising drive to prime the time sheets within the forty seventh MMSC South India Rally, the primary spherical of the Blueband fmsci Indian National Rally Championship 2024, which noticed the 51 opponents doing two loops of the 1.55 Kms Super Special Stage on the Madras International Circuit on Friday.
While 30-year-old Mascarenhas (DB Motorsports) did the star flip in his Volkswagen Polo to emerge because the provisional chief, Bengaluru’s Karna Kadur, combining with veteran co-driver Musa Sherif (Kasargod) for the primary time, led the sphere within the AVT Gold Cup FIA APRC Asia Cup, however was solely sixth quickest within the mixed standings.
Further down the grid, Delhi’s Maninder Singh Prince (co-driver Arjun Dheerendra, Bengaluru) of SNAP Racing, topped within the INRC 2 class whereas Bengaluru’s Arjun Rajiv (co-driver Vinay Padmashali, Mysuru) took a slender chief in INRC 3 and Junior INRC and Anushriya Gulati raced to a cushty lead within the Women INRC classes.
Mangaluru’s Dean Mascarenhas (left) and co-driver Konganda Karumbaiah from Ammati, Kodagu, are the Overall leaders in INRC.
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Mangaluru’s Dean Mascarenhas (left) and co-driver Konganda Karumbaiah from Ammati, Kodagu, are the Overall leaders in INRC.
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Meanwhile, the Bengaluru pair of Pragathi Gowda and co-driver Trisha Alonkar, sponsored by SIDVIN and MRF Tyres, in an All-Wheel Drive Subaru Impreza for the primary time, struggled a bit and was positioned third within the Asia Cup, behind Kadur and Wadia.
Mascarenhas stated: “I am driving the same car as last season, which was a bit of up-and-down for me. But today, the car was great, and we had no issues with it. Happy to finish the day as the Overall leader, though I am aware it’s still early days and plenty more Stages to negotiate over the next two days.”
The early leaders after Friday’s shootout when two vehicles raced on parallel tracks, face an acid check over the following two days when the opponents head out to Special Stages in AAVISA and Kelam beside the Track.
Unaudited classification (after Section-1, Leg-1):
FIA APRC-Asia Rally Cup: 1. Karna Kadur (Bengaluru) / Musa Sherif (Kasargod) (Arka Motorsports) (02mins, 56.8secs); 2. Harkrishan Wadia (Delhi) / Kunal Kashyap (Himachal) (Arka Motorsports) (02:57.7); 3. Pragathi Gowda / Trisha Alonkar (Both Bengaluru) (Pvt.) (02:58.7).
Blueband Fmsci Indian National Rally Championship:
Overall: Dean Mascarenhas (Mangaluru) / Gagan Karumbaiah (Kodagu) (DB Motorsports) (02:53.8); Maninder Singh Prince (Delhi) / Arjun Dheerendra (Bengaluru) (SNAP Racing) (02:55.3); Younus Ilyas (Kollam) / Chandramouli M (Bengaluru) (SNAP Racing) (02:55.7).
INRC 2: Maninder Singh Prince / Arjun Dheerendra (02:55.3); Philippos Matthai (Delhi) / PV Srinivasa Murthy (Bengaluru) (Arka Motorsports) (02:55.7); 3. Aditya Thakur / Virender Kashyap (each Himachal) (Chettinad Sporting) (02:56.5).
INRC 3: Arjun Rajiv (Bengaluru) / Vinay Padmashali (Mysuru) (Chettinad Sporting) (02:58.6); 2. Sheshank Jamwal (Himachal) / Aseem Sharma (Chandigarh) (Arka Motorsports) (02:58.8); 2. Vishak Balachandran (Thiruvananthapuram) / Anil Abbas (Ernakulam) (Chettinad Sporting) (02:59.3).
Junior INRC: 1. Arjun Rajiv (Bengaluru) / Vinay Padmashali (Mysuru) (02:58.6); 2. Arnav Pratap Singh (Delhi) / Rohit N (Bengaluru) (SNAP Racing) (02:59.8); 3. Nikhil J (Bengaluru) / Raghuram Saminathan (Coimbatore) (Pvt.) (03:04.3);
Women INRC: 1. Anushriya Gulati (Dehradun) / Karan Aukta (Arka Motorsports) (03:06.0); 2. Tarushi Vikram / Sheraz Ahmed (each Chikkamagaluru) (Pvt.) (03:21.9); 3. Harshita Raj Gowda (Bengaluru) / Vignesh Mahalingam (Coimbatore) (Pvt.) (03:27.1);
Fmsci Challenge – Gypsy: 1. Dr Akarsh Sundar (Chikkamagaluru) / Ravikumar Reddy (Bengaluru) (Pvt.) (03:15.4); 2. Sanjay Agarwal / Dheeraj Manae (each Bengaluru) (Pvt.) (03:16.9); 3. Jayanth Somanathan / R Rajashekar (Pvt.) (03:18.8);
-Team Sportstar
GOLF
Tvesa Malik picks up top-10 end in Cape Town
Tvesa Malik logged one other effective outcome with a top-10 end on the Standard Bank Ladies Open as she completed T-9 within the 54-hole occasion on Friday.
Tvesa, the winner of a title on the Sunshine Ladies Tour, shot rounds of 73, 71 and 76.
South African Gabrielle Venter shot 4-under 70 on the ultimate day to win the title at 9-under, pushing in a single day chief Kylie Henry (74) and France’s Emie Peronnin (70) to tied-second spot.
Tvesa, who had under-par rounds on the primary two days and was mendacity tied fourth, had only one birdie towards three bogeys in her 2-over 76 on the Par-74 Royal Cape Golf Course.
Tvesa was tied for ninth alongside Kiera Floyd of South Africa and Germany’s Carolin Kaufmann.
Tvesa, a a number of winner and an Order of Merit topper on the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour, parred the primary six holes after which dropped two pictures on the seventh and ninth. A birdie on the eleventh was some compensation however she gave that away on the seventeenth.
Verena Gimmy of Germany and Spain’s Harang Lee have been tied for fourth, whereas Florentyna Parker was fifth. Arian Klotz and Vanessa Knecht have been tied for seventh place.
After 4 occasions this season on the Sunshine Ladies Tour, Tvesa is fifth on the Order of Merit, which is at the moment being topped by Kylie Henry. Chasing the chief is Gabielle Venter.
The Tour will now take a break and resume with the ABSA Ladies Invitational within the first week of April. Tvesa shall be joined by Ridhima Dilawari, Neha Tripathi, Seher Atwal and Asmitha Sathish.
-PTI
Kapur, Ahlawat solely Indians to make the lower in Macau
Indian golfers Shiv Kapur and Veer Ahlawat shot 67 and 68 respectively within the second spherical to emerge as the one two Indians to make the lower on the International Series Macau on Friday.
While Kapur was Tied-42 with a two-day whole of five-under, Ahlawat (68-68) was in tied-Sixtieth place.
Ajeetesh Sandhu, Yuvraj Singh Sandhu, SSP Chawrasia, Karandeep Kochhar, S Chikkarangappa, Rashid Khan and Gaganjeet Bhullar missed the lower, whereas Jeev Milkha Singh withdrew after the primary spherical.
Spain’s David Puig and Jbe Kruger from South Africa took the midway lead taking pictures within the low 60s.
Puig, winner of the season-opening IRS Malaysian Open, shot a six-under-par 64, whereas Kruger fired a 63.
-PTI