Indian sports activities news wrap, January 16

GOLF

Avani lies seventh, Sandeep tenth at Australian Amateur golf

Avani Prashanth picked two birdies towards one lone bogey in direction of the tip of her first 9, to be 1-under 72 and end tied seventh after the primary spherical of the Australian Amateur Championships.

Avani, the runner-up on the Australian Masters of Amateurs final week, is three pictures behind chief Aina Fujimoto (69) at 4-under right here at Keysborough Golf Club.

Sandeep Yadav, the 2023 Indian National champion, opened with a gradual begin of 1-under 71 because the Indian Golf Union’s workforce had blended outcomes on the primary day.

The gamers are competing at two programs, with the par on the Keysborough Golf Club for ladies being par-73 and for males, par-72.

At Yarra Yarra, it’s par-70 each women and men.

It is likely one of the most prestigious novice occasions whereby each women and men play collectively.

Among ladies, 4 gamers together with final week’s winner Rianne Mikhaela Malixi had been tied second at three-under every. Amelia Whinney is sole sixth and 4 gamers together with Avani are tied at seventh.

The chief within the males’s part was Australia’s Kai Komulainen, who shot 6-under 64 at Yarra Yarra and led by one over Mitchell Kale of New Zealand, who carded 5-under 67 at Keysborough.

Among the opposite Indians taking part in in Australia this week, Heena Kang with 78 was tied-60 in ladies’s part whereas within the males’s part Varun Muthappa (74) was tied-83 and Rohit Narwal (78) was tied-165.

Avani, ranging from the tenth, birdied the par-3 fifteenth and added a second bridie on par-5 seventeenth however dropped a shot on par-5 18th.

On her second 9 — the entrance facet of the course — she parred every of the 9 holes.

Yadav opened the week with a birdie on the tenth, the place he began, and added yet another on thirteenth.

However, a double bogey on par-4 sixteenth and a bogey on par-4 18th with a birdie in between on par-5 seventeenth noticed him flip in even par.

On the second 9, he birdied the primary however dropped pictures on second and fifth whereas closing with back-to-back birdies.

-PTI

Hitaashee Bakshi secures one-shot lead

Two units of back-to-back birdies helped Hitaashee Bakshi take a one-shot lead after the opening spherical of the second leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour on the Bombay Presidency Golf Club right here on Tuesday.

Hitaashee, who has but to realize success for the reason that 2022 season when she gained thrice, had 5 birdies towards two bogeys, one on both sides of the Par-70 BPGC course.

Trailing Hitaashee had been Amandeep Drall, Sneha Singh and Ridhima Dilawari, who carded 2-under 68 every, whereas the one different under-par rating got here from novice Vidhatri Urs (69).

Hitaashee, having completed third on the Hero Order of Merit in 2022, featured solely in 9 occasions in 2023 when she additionally suffered an damage.

Now, she seems to be discovering her rhythm once more, as she was tied for second final week when novice Nishna Patel gained the title.

Hitaashee had a bogey on the third gap however rapidly recovered with a birdie on the fourth.

She continued with consecutive birdies on the sixth and seventh holes, and afterward the 14th and fifteenth. However, she confronted a setback after dropping a shot on the par-4 eleventh.

Sneha Singh, additionally tied second final week, had three birdies towards a bogey, and Amandeep Drall had the identical. Both Sneha and Amandeep dropped pictures on the par-4 ninth, their solely blemish of the day.

Ridhima Dilawari got here again bogey-free however with solely a birdie on both facet of the course.

Disha Kavery (70) was the only real sixth, whereas Neha Tripathi, Khushi Khanijau and Taniya Balasuriya, had been tied for seventh at 1-over 71 every. Rhea Jha and novice Mannat Brar had been Tied tenth with playing cards of 2-over 72 every.

Experienced Vani Kapoor had a tough begin with 6-over 76, as did Seher Atwal, they usually had been tied for twenty first place.

Last week’s winner, novice Nishna Patel, had a disappointing spherical of 7-over 77 and was approach down in T-Twenty sixth place.

-PTI

TENNIS

Bhambri-Haase pair loses in Australian Open males’s doubles first spherical

India’s Yuki Bhambri and his Dutch companion Robin Haase squandered three match factors within the deciding set to go down towards Nicolas Barrientos of Colombia and Rafael Matos of Brazil within the Australian Open males’s doubles first spherical right here on Tuesday.

The unseeded Indo-Dutch pair misplaced 6-1 6-7 (8-10) 6-7 (7-10) within the opening spherical match that lasted two hours and 26 minutes.

After Bhambri and Haase gained the primary set, their opponents made a comeback into the match by taking the second set in a tie-break.

Bhambri and Haase then had three match factors after they had been 5-4 up within the deciding set, however they wasted all of them. The deciding set additionally went to the tie break, which Barrientos and Matos gained.

The 31-year-old Bhambri from New Delhi had made it to the Australian Open third spherical in 2014 when he partnered Michael Venus of New Zealand, and that was his greatest efficiency in a Grand Slam doubles occasion.

Last 12 months, Bhambri gained his maiden ATP title on the Mallorca Championships doubles competitors, partnering South African Lloyd Harris.

Bhambri and Haase had misplaced within the semifinals of the Brisbane International ATP Tour event earlier this month.

-PTI

$25,000 ITF males’s tennis: Raghav beats wild card entrant Bhavesh

Raghav Jaisinghani beat fellow wild card entrant Bhavesh Gour 6-4, 6-2 within the first spherical of the $25,000 ITF males’s tennis event on the Arera Club on Tuesday.

In the doubles pre-quarterfinals, Ishaque Eqbal and Faisal Qamar knocked out the highest seeds Grigoriy Lomakin and David Pichler 6-1, 6-4.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

$25,000 ITF males’s tennis event: Chirag Duhan in doubles quarterfinals

Chirag Duhan in partnership with Mohamed Makhlouf of Algeria beat Zha Zhao and zheng Baoluo of China 3-6, 6-4, [14-12] within the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the $25,000 ITF males’s tennis event in Monastir, Tunisia, on Tuesday.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

ATHLETICS

National cross nation championships: Hemraj, Ankita triumph

Railway’s Hemraj Gurjar and Ankita gained the boys’s and ladies’s 10km titles within the 58th National Cross Country Championships at Gaya, Bihar, on Monday.

Services took the boys’s workforce title whereas Railway merged champion within the ladies’s part.

-Stan Rayan