SQUASH
Senthilkumar, Akanksha in quarters in abroad PSA occasions
Top-seeded Indian Velavan Senthilkumar eased previous Frenchman Matteo Carrouget in straight video games to maneuver into the quarterfinals of the Batch Open squash, a USD 12,000 PSA Challenger Tour occasion in Paris.
National champion Senthilkumar, ranked 58 on the planet, beat Carrouget 11-4, 11-6, 11-7 in 29 minutes within the second spherical on Thursday after receiving a bye within the opening spherical, and can meet fifth seed Jakub Solnicky of the Czech Republic within the quarterfinals.
Elsewhere, National Games girls’s champion Akanksha Salunkhe superior to the quarterfinals of the Expression St James Open, a USD 20,000 PSA Challenger Tour occasion in Springfield, US.
Fourth seed Salunkhe, ranked 70 on the planet, beat Winifer Bonilla of Guatemala 11-8, 11-2, 11-9 in 25 minutes within the second spherical following a bye within the first, and can tackle fifth seed Alina Bushma of Ukraine subsequent.
– Team Sportstar
TENNIS
National wheelchair championship: Veeraswamy beats Subramanian to enter finals
Second seed Shekar Veeraswamy fought his well past third seed Balachandar Subramanian 3-6, 6-1, [10-7] to arrange a title conflict in opposition to prime seed Karthik Karunakaran within the second National wheelchair tennis championship on the DLTA Complex on Friday.
In the ladies’s last, prime seed KP Shilpa will play second Prathima Narayan Rao within the last.
The outcomes (semifinals)
Men: Karthik Karunakaran bt BM Kundaragi 6-0, 6-1; Shekar Veeraswamy bt Balachandar Subramanian 3-6, 6-1, [10-7].
Women: KP Shilpa bt Okay Shilpa 6-1, 6-0; Prathima Narayan Rao bt A Ruthrajeswari 6-0, 6-0.
-Team Sportstar
Arjun and Jeevan storm into semifinals
Top seeds Arjun Kadhe and Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan beat Thai-Son Kwiatkowski and Alex Lawson 6-3, 7-5 within the doubles quarterfinals of the $82,000 Challenger tennis match in Savannah, USA.
In the $40,000 ITF girls’s occasion in Wuning, China, Rutuja Bhosale and Paige Hourigan recovered from an detached begin to beat Ekaterina Shaliova and Wang Jiaqi 0-6, 6-2, [10-3] within the doubles semifinals.
The outcomes:
$82,000 Challenger, Savannah, USA: Doubles (quarterfinals): Arjun Kadhe & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt Thai-Son Kwiatkowski & Alex Lawson (USA) 6-3, 7-5.
$15,000 ITF males, Shymkent, Kazakhstan: Singles (quarterfinals): Vladyslav Orlov (Ukr) bt Dev Javia 6-4, 1-6, 7-6(4). Doubles (semifinals): SD Prajwal Dev & Sai Karteek Reddy bt Chirag Duhan & Karan Singh 7-5, 6-3.
$40,000 ITF girls, Wuning, China: Doubles (semifinals): Rutuja Bhosale & Paige Hourigan (Nzl) bt Ekaterina Shalimova & Wang Jiaqi (Chn) 0-6, 6-2, [10-3].
$15,000 ITF girls, Kursumlijska Banja, Serbia: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Karola Bejenaru (Rou) & Tea Nikcevic (Mne) bt Kiara Cvetkovic (Sui) & Annika Kannan 7-6(5), 6-2.
$15,000 ITF girls, Monastir, Tunisia: Doubles (quarterfinals): Paris Corley & Dasha Ivanova (USA) bt Diva Bhatia & Zeel Desai 6-3, 6-2.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
GOLF
Diksha playing cards 70 and enters prime 20 at South African Women’s Open
India’s Diksha Dagar put collectively a strong 2-under 70 in robust situations and entered the highest 20 on the Investec South African Women’s Open in Cape Town, South Africa, on Friday.
The southpaw is now 1-under for 2 rounds and tied 18th, up from in a single day tied 53rd. Just a few gamers are nonetheless out on the course and Diksha’s place might change barely on the par-72 Erinvale Country & Golf Estate.
Diksha, who gained the Czech Ladies Open and completed tied third in Amundi German Masters and Hero Women’s Indian Open, can also be a former champion at Women’s South African Open, which she gained in 2019 for her maiden victory on the Ladies European Tour.
As Diksha moved into prime 20, the lead had modified with England’s Eleanor Givens (69 and 4-under by way of 13 holes) and Belgium’s Manon de Roey (69 and 4-under 15 in second) have been each at 7-under.
They have been adopted by Sweden’s Lisa Petterson (68-71) and Annabell Fuller, who had two extra holes to play, and in a single day chief, Rosie Casals, who had two extra holes to play. They have been all at 5-under.
As many as 10 gamers together with Diksha have been at 1-under.
Diksha, who shot 73 on the primary day, started the second day with a bogey however rapidly obtained again the shot on the par-5 third. She adopted up that with six pars and turned in even for the day.
On the again 9, Diksha birdied tenth, however dropped a shot on eleventh. She repeated that sequence on thirteenth which she birdied however bogeyed 14th to remain at even for the day. Then got here birdies on the fifteenth and sixteenth adopted by pars on the final two for a card of 70.
Diksha picked three of her 5 birdies on the Par-5s.
On a day when scoring was harder than the primary day, Diksha was the one Indian to make certain of creating the minimize.
Vani Kapoor, who had performed solely 9 holes within the second spherical up to now, was 6-over and wanted at the least another birdie to get contained in the minimize line, which appeared more likely to fall at 5-over.
Vani, who was 3-over 75 for the primary day, was 3-over for her first 9 holes to go to 6-over.
Ridhima Dilawari (74-77) was 7-over and Tvesa Malik (76-76), who had two double bogeys within the second spherical, ended at 8-over and can miss the minimize.
This is the ultimate occasion on the Sunshine Ladies Tour and the Women’s South African Open can also be co-sanctioned with the Ladies European Tour.
-PTI
CRICKET
Maa Saroda XI clinch NCC Women’s T20
Maa Saroda Club has emerged champions of the NCC Women’s T20 Budding Challenger Cup, defeating Rani Rashmoni Club by 9 wickets in a lopsided last conflict in Howrah.
Opting to bat on a sultry Thursday night, Rani Rashmoni Club was skittled out for 57 with Debarati Guha returning with splendid figures of 4/6 from her 4 overs.
In reply, Maa Saroda Club gained in 11.2 overs with Shamaita Adhikari taking part in the sheet-anchor position in a 38-ball 37 not out and was adjudged player-of-the-match.
Organised in reminiscence of late Chandralekha Dalmiya, the NCC Budding Women’s T20 Challenger Cup 2024 commenced on March 12 with eight groups from throughout Bengal.
The league stage of the match was performed on the Rajasthan Club in Kolkata and the ultimate was staged on the Gulmahor Ground right here.
– PTI