Indian sports activities news wrap, January 31

GOLF

Amandeep drops late triple as Khushi takes lead in third leg of Hero WPGT

Khushi Khanijau, taking part in within the opening group, birdied her closing gap to seize the only real lead after first spherical of the third leg of 2024 Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour on the Tollygunge Club right here on Wednesday.

Playing within the first group with Riya Yadav (76), Khushi had three birdies on the eighth, tenth and a closing one on the 18th. She dropped photographs on the fifth and twelfth for a spherical of 69, the one beneath par card of the day.

The seasoned Amandeep Drall, taking part in in one of many later teams, was 4-under with two holes left when she had a disastrous triple bogey on Par-4 seventeenth and added a bogey on 18th to fall to even par 70. She is positioned second.

Four gamers, together with Hitaashee Bakshi, runner-up within the final two occasions, had been tied for third at 1-over 71 every. The different three are Seher Atwal, Jasmine Shekhar and Gauri Karhade.

Amateur Anaahat Bindra (73), who was additionally beneath par after 15, completed bogey-bogey-double bogey for 73 and was seventh.

Karishma Govind and Ananya Garg shot 74 every whereas three gamers Jyotsana Singh, Ananya Datar and Ridhima Dilawari had been tied for tenth place with rounds of 75 every.

While Khushi has received as soon as beforehand on the Hero WPG Tour on the Royal Calcutta Golf Club, Amandeep is attempting to work her manner again into kind earlier than she embarks on worldwide Tours.

Hitaashee had a birdie begin however bogeyed the following three holes, earlier than recovering with two birdies towards one dropped shot within the remaining 14 holes.

Seher Atwal made a wise restoration after being 4-over by way of 12 holes. She birdied 3 times to get to 1-over 71.

– PTI

Avani to spearhead Indian problem at Women’s Asia-Pacific

The eloquent Avani Prashanth might be accompanied by 5 different Indians because the area’s best younger golfers prepare for the sixth Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific Championship.

This week the occasion returns to the Siam Country Club, which hosted the match two years in the past. As many as 22 international locations might be represented by 90 golfers.

Besides Avani, India might be represented by Vidhatri Urs, Mannat Brar, Heena Kang, Keerthana Rajeev Nair and Saanvi Somu.

A bit of over a dozen of the 90 golfers are on the earth’s Top-100, and they’re going to rub shoulders with gamers who’re from international locations in several levels of improvement of the sport.

Avani mentioned, “This tournament is a bookmark event for all of us in our calendars. It gives us exposure to play against the best in Asia, so that is definitely one big advantage.

“And just what the APGC does for all of us we’re all so grateful for. And not only do we get to play with the best, but also make lifelong relationships that will become useful when you start playing on the LPGA or LET together.

“And I think once you win I think it’s great because that gives you a head start as a young amateur and what you should and should not do.” Defending champion, Eila Galitsky of Thailand, added, “So just what Avani said. It is great exposure, and the opportunity to just make friendships from around the world, around Asia, and the opportunity to get to play majors and compete with the top pros in the world is truly amazing.” While Avani is seeking to make her fourth, and probably, her final shot at WAAP, Galitsky is banking on a change in fortunes on the Siam Country Club.

If the 17-year-old Galitsky, the winner on the Singapore Island Country Club final 12 months, wins once more, she is going to turn into the primary participant to defend her WAAP title and likewise the primary two-time winner of the area’s premier novice occasion for girls.

In 2022, Galitsky struggled together with her putter on the Siam Country Club’s Waterside Course and was tied thirty fifth.

Avani, at forty second, is 2 locations behind Galitsky within the World Amateur Golf Ranking.

Avani and Galitsky, who’ve cast a friendship going again to the time they had been Under-10, have competed typically towards every. In six earlier clashes around the globe, they’re tied 3-3 as their private rating.

-PTI

ATHLETICS

Double gold for Manju Rani

International Manju Rani, who received the 20km gold on the opening day, received the ladies’s 10km gold on the second day of the race strolling’s Indian Open in Chandigarh on Wednesday.

The 24-year-old from Punjab, who clocked 45:20.00s, had paired with Ram Babu to win the 35km blended relay workforce bronze on the Hangzhou Asian Games final 12 months.

“My focus will be the mixed relay event this year and I hope to represent India at the Olympics,” mentioned Manju after her victory.

The Athletics Federation of India had included the senior 10km stroll within the programme by choose potential athletes for this April’s World Athletics race stroll workforce championships in Antalya, Turkey. The high 22 groups from Turkey will robotically qualify for the Paris Olympics. The closing choice for Turkey might be achieved in March.

In the boys’s 10km, Punjab’s Sahil outclassed skilled athletes to say gold in 39:25s. He had completed fifth within the 20km on Tuesday.

Goa’s Vijay Omkar Vishwakaram received the boys’s 35 km race stroll whereas the ladies’s 35km gold went to Bandana Patel of Uttar Pradesh.

The outcomes:

Men, 20km: 1. Sahil (Pun) 39:25.00s, 2. Paramjeet Singh Bisht (Utk) 39:36.00, 3. Vikash Singh (Del) 39:47.00.

35km: 1. Vijay Omkar Vishwakaram (Goa) 2:39:19, 2. Sagar Satish Chandra (Guj) 2:44:22.00, 3. Devender Singh (Har) 2:44:58.00.

Women: 10km: 1. Manju Rani (Pun) 45:20.00, 2. Payal (Utk) 46:04.00, 3. Mokavi Muthurathinam (TN) 46:10.00.

35km: 1. Bandana Patel (UP) 3:11:06.00, 2. Pooja Kumari (Punjab) 3:17:51.00, 3. Komal (Haryana) 3:23:06.00.

-Stan Rayan

TENNIS

ITF girls’s tennis: Rina Saigo beats Shrivalli Bhamidipaty

Shrivalli Bhamidipaty missed set factors in each the units and acquired crushed 7-6(8), 7-6(2) by Rina Saigo of Japan within the first spherical of the $40,000 ITF girls’s tennis match on the Indore Tennis Club on Wednesday.

Shrivalli did properly to combat again from being down 4-5 within the first set to drive the tie-break, however missed a set level at 6-5.

In the second set, Shrivalli led 5-3 and missed a set level on her serve within the tenth sport, earlier than the Japanese pulled by way of 7-2 within the eventual tie-break.

Sahaja Yamalapalli acquired off to a flying begin, successful the primary set 6-1, however couldn’t cease the seventh seed Dejana Radanovic of Serbia from dictating phrases thereafter. The Serb led 4-1 within the second set and 5-0 within the third, in racing to victory.

Qualifier Vaidehi Chaudhari additionally led 5-4 within the first set earlier than shedding 5-7, and 3-2 within the second earlier than being crushed 6-3, by Saki Imamura of Japan.

With Vaishnavi Adkar and Zeel Desai additionally bowing out within the first spherical, not one of the eight Indian gamers had been left to combat within the pre-quarterfinals.

ITF girls: Vasanti-Yvonne win in doubles pre-quarters

Vasanti Shinde in partnership with Yvonne Cavalle-Reimers of Spain beat Nefisa Berberovic and Elena Milovanovic 1-6, 6-4, [10-6] within the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the $40,000 ITF girls’s tennis match in Porto, Portugal.

– Team Sportstar

KHELO INDIA

Maharashtra baggage championship for the fourth time

Maharashtra bagged the general championships for the fourth time in six editions with 57 gold, 48 silver and 53 bronze for a complete of 158 medals within the sixth Khelo India Youth Games right here on Wednesday.

Tamil Nadu ended with its best-ever medal haul of the Games, bagging a complete of 98 medals, together with 38 gold, 21 silver and 39 bronze to complete second.

Haryana completed third with 35 gold, 22 silver and 46 bronze.

Tamil Nadu’s Maaya Rajeswaran and R. S. Rethin Pranav bagged the boys’ and ladies’ tennis singles titles. 

– Team Sportstar