GOLF
Diksha, Pranavi and Vani prepared for Aramco Series Korea
Diksha Dagar would look to make sure that her present kind fetches her a title after three top-10 finishes this season when she spearheads the Indian problem within the Ladies European Tour’s Aramco Team Series golf competitors subsequent week.
Diksha will likely be joined by Pranavi Urs and Vani Kapoor, whereas Tvesa Malik waits on the reserve record at quantity three.
The Aramco Team Series will likely be held in South Korea for the primary time from May 10-12 on the New Korea Country Club. The format will see 36 groups of three professionals and an newbie compete for the workforce title.
It will likely be a robust discipline led by world no.8 Charley Hull of England. The Brit is gunning for her first title of the 12 months.
This would be the first the Ladies European Tour occasion to be organised in South Korea.
Diksha already has a noteworthy end in Aramco Series Tampa the place she was tied sixth and her different Top-10s got here in Lalla Meryem Cup (ninth) and Joburg Ladies Open (T-3).
Last 12 months Diksha received the Tipsport Czech Ladies and was tied third on the Hero Indian Open and the Amundi German Masters. Overall, she had 9 particular person top-10 finishes and was third on the LET Order of Merit.
Pranavi, a winner of the Order of Merit on the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour, has performed 5 occasions this season and has a greatest end of fifth on the Lalla Meryem Cup. She was additionally within the workforce that was sixth in Aramco Series Tampa.
Vani will likely be taking part in her first Aramco Series occasion this 12 months. Last 12 months she missed the minimize in Florida and London.
Hull will captain one of many 36 groups that can go head-to-head.
Hull will likely be joined by South Korea’s very personal Hyo-Joo Kim and United States’ Danielle Kang. The match has a prize fund of USD a million.
-PTI
BOXING
ASBC Asian U-22 & Youth Boxing Championships 2024: Jadumani, Ajay shine as 4 Indians advance to semifinals
Indian boxers Mandengbam Jadumani Singh, Nikhil, Ajay Kumar and Ankush registered spectacular victories to maneuver into the lads’s U-22 semi-finals on the ASBC Asian U-22 & Youth Boxing Championships 2024 in Astana, Kazakhstan on Thursday.
Jadumani led India’s cost with a convincing 5-0 over Bhutan’s Phuntsho Kinley within the 51kg quarter-finals bout. Nikhil (57kg) put up an identical show of dominance, securing a 4-0 win over Uzbekistan’s Bakhtiyorov Ayubkhon to proceed India’s profitable momentum.
Ajay (63.5kg) and Ankush (71kg) received their respective bouts with a referee cease the competition (RSC) selections. Ajay received the bout within the first spherical itself in opposition to Mongolia’s Damdindorj P whereas Ankush wrapped up his match within the third spherical in opposition to Korea’s Lee Ju Sang.
Meanwhile, Ashish went down preventing 2-3 in opposition to Oyun Erdene E of Mongolia within the males’s 54g quarter-finals
The U-22 semi-finals will likely be performed on Saturday.
Dhruv Singh (80kg), Guddi (48kg) and Poonam (57kg) will likely be in motion later tonight within the U-22 quarter-finals.
Late on Wednesday, Aryan (92kg), Nisha (52kg), Akansha Phalaswal (70kg) and Rudrika (75kg) received their respective quarter-finals within the youth class.
Friday will see the 22 youth Indian boxers, together with 10 males, competing within the semi-finals.
Brijesh Tamta (48kg), Aryan (51kg), Sagar Jakhar (60kg), Yashwardhan Singh (63.5kg), Sumit (67kg), Priyanshu (71kg), Rahul Kundu (75kg), Sahil (80kg), Aryan (92kg) and Lakshay Rathi (+92kg) will struggle within the males’s part whereas Annu (48kg), Laxmi (50kg), Nisha (52kg), Tamanna (54kg), Yatri Patel (57kg), Nikita Chand (60kg), Shrushti Sathe (63kg), Parthavi Grewal (66kg), Akansha (70kg), Rudrika (75kg), Khushi Pooniya (81kg) and Nirjhara Bana (+81kg) will likely be in motion within the ladies’s part.
The prestigious match has been witnessing high-voltage motion with the presence of 390-plus boxers from greater than 24 international locations, preventing for the medals throughout 25 weight classes.
The finals for the youth and U-22 class will likely be performed on May 6 and seven respectively.
– Team Sportstar
TENNIS
Rohan Bopanna’s academy launches tennis programme for underprivileged youngsters
Aimed at empowering underprivileged youngsters, India’s high tennis participant Rohan Bopanna has picked 25 such children from the distant areas of Majuli Island and Bongaigaon in Assam, for help.
The collaborative initiative between Rohan Bopanna Tennis Academy (RBTA) and Kamal India Foundation UK will present complete tennis coaching to the chosen children who’re aged between 9 and 11.
The children underwent a talent and health evaluation course of and have been handpicked by reigning Australian Open champion Bopanna.
The chosen gamers will relocate to Bengaluru, the place they are going to be supplied with state-of-the-art infrastructure, a world-class tennis curriculum, skilled teaching college, boarding & lodging throughout the faculty campus, training, and steerage from Bopanna himself at RBTA.
“We are thrilled to partner with Kamal India Foundation UK to bring this transformative opportunity to talented young individuals who may not otherwise have had access to such resources,” Bopanna was quoted as saying in a press launch.
“Through this program, we aim to not only nurture their athletic talents but also empower them with education and life skills that will shape their future,” mentioned Bopanna, who just lately turned the oldest world primary on the ATP Tour.
– PTI
ITF Women’s tennis: Prarthana Thombare in doubles quarterfinals
Prarthana Thombare in partnership with Arianne Hartono saved two match factors to beat Ma YeXin and Mananchana Sawangkaew 6-7(1), 6-4, [13-11] within the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the $100,000 ITF ladies’s tennis match in Gifu,, Japan, on Thursday.
The outcomes
€205,000 Challenger, Cagliari, Italy
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Sriram Balaji & Andre Begemann (Ger) bt Luciano Darderi (Ita) & Thiago Tirante (Arg) 4-6, 6-3, [10-4]; Yuki Bhambri & Francisco Cabral (Por) bt Niccolo Dessi & Alberto Sanna (Ita) 7-5, 6-0.
$82,000 Challenger, Guangzhou, China
Doubles (quarterfinals): Calum Puttergill (Aus) & Reese Stadler (USA) bt Ray Ho (Tpe) & Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Karan Singh bt Kacper Szymkowiak (Pol) 6-2, 4-2 (retired).
$100,000 ITF ladies, Bonita Springs, USA
Singles (first spherical): Fanny Stollar (Hun) bt Sahaja Yamalapalli 6-3, 6-0.
$100,000 ITF ladies, Gifu, Japan
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Rutuja Bhosale & Sarah Grey (GBR) bt Natsumi Kawaguchi (Jpn) & Park Sohyun (Kor) 5-7, 6-0, [10-6]; Arianne Hartono (Ned) & Prarthana Thombare bt Ma YeXin (Chn) & Mananchaya Sawangkaew (Tha) 6-7(1), 6-4, [13-11].
$25,000 ITF ladies, Hammamet, Tunisia
Doubles (quarterfinals): Jasmijn Gimbrere (Ned) & Zhibek Kulambayeva (Kaz) bt Diva Bhatia & Sophia Ksandinov (Ger) 6-0, 6-0.
$15,000 ITF ladies, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Vaishnavi Adkar bt Zeel Desai 6-4, 6-0.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Dayeon Back (Kor) & Zeel Desai bt Ahn Yujin & Lee Gyeong Seo (Kor) 6-3, 6-1; Hiromi Abe & Natsuho Arakawa (Jpn) bt Vaishnavi Adkar & Camilla Bossi (Bra) 0-6, 6-4, [10-8]; Aaddi Gupta & Sara Lanca (Por) w.o. Lamis Aziz (Egy) & Patricija Paukstyte (Ltu).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
FOOTBALL
Gokulam Kerala indicators Uruguya’s Chaves
Gokulam Kerala has signed Uruguayan midfielder Martin Chaves for the subsequent season.
The 25-year-old has performed for golf equipment like NorthEast United, Churchill Brothers, and Rajasthan United. He joins the two-team I-League champion, having represented Churchill final season.
“I am very happy to join a club like Gokulam Kerala FC,” Chavis mentioned. “Those of us who’ve already been to India understand how huge Gokulam is right here within the I-League. Let’s hope this 12 months we obtain the aim of profitable the league and being in a position to be within the ISL subsequent 12 months.
-P. Okay. Ajith Kumar