Here are all the main updates and outcomes from Indian sports activities on November 8.
TENNIS
Manas and Rushil win in Rod Laver Junior Challenge Finals
Manas Dhamne and Rushil Khosla received their singles and doubles matches to pave a powerful basis for India’s 4-2 victory over Britain within the first league match of the IC Rod Laver Junior Challenge Finals on the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club in San Diego, California.
Asmi Adkar obtained crushed by Brooke Black within the singles, however Sohini Mohanty received her singles match towards Maria Ustic to safe the fourth win for India. That sealed the competition earlier than the women doubles.
In different matches within the round-robin format, South Africa beat Argentina and Italy beat host USA. India was scheduled to play USA within the second league match. The topper of the league would be the champion.
The outcomes (league):
India bt Britain 4-2 (Manas Dhamne bt Joseph Mazingham 6-4, 6-0; Rushil Khosla bt Arthur Attrill 6-2, 6-1; Asmi Adkar misplaced to Brooke Black 2-6, 2-6; Sohini Mohanty bt Maria Ustic 6-4, 3-6, [10-7]; Rushil & Manas bt Joseph & Arthur 6-2, 6-3; Asmi & Sohini misplaced to Brooke & Maria 4-6, 4-6).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Anirudh reaches doubles quarterfinals of ATP 250 Metz
Anirudh Chandrasekar in partnership with Bart Stevens beat Theo Arribage and Lluca Sanchez 6-3, 6-4 within the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the €630,705 ATP tennis match in Metz, France.
In the quarterfinals, the Indo-Dutch pair will play fourth seeds Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul.
In the Challenger in Japan, Ramkumar Ramanathan and Purav Raja beat the highest seeds Ivan Sabanov and Matej Sabanov 6-4, 6-7(2), [11-9] within the doubles pre-quarterfinals.
Sumit Nagal made the singles quarterfinals of the Challenger in Helsinki, Finland.
RESULTS
€630,705 ATP, Metz, France
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Anirudh Chandrasekar & Bart Stevens (Ned) bt Theo Arribage & Luca Sanchez (Fra) 6-3, 6-4; Constantin Frantzen & Hendrik Jebens (Ger) bt Yuki Bhambri & Victor Cornea (Rou) 6-3, 7-6(4).
€145,000 Challenger, Helsinki, Finland
Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Sumit Nagal bt Jakub Mensik (Cze), 7-5, 6-2.
$80,000 Challenger, Matsuyama, Japan
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Purav Raja & Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Ivan Sabanov & Matej Sabanov (Srb) 6-4, 6-7(2), [11-9]; Shintaro Mochizuki & Sho Shimabukuro (Jpn) bt Niki Poonacha & Divij Sharan 7-6(5), 6-1.
$15,000 ITF males, Hua Hin, Thailand
Singles (first spherical): Zhang Tianhui (Chn) bt Rohan Mehra 7-5, 6-4.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): David Pichler (Aut) & Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Jiayang Dong (Auss) & Mattias Southcombe (GBR) 6-2, 4-6, [10-3].
$15,000 ITF ladies, Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt
Singles (first spherical): Alisa Kummel bt Humera Baharmus 6-3, 6-1; Darja Suvirdjonkova (Srb) bt Ashmitha Easwaramurthi 6-4, 6-1.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Yasmin Ezzat (Egy) & Vlada Mincheva bt Ashmitha Easwaramurthi & Fan An Lin (Tpe) 2-6, 6-4, [10-5]; Humera Baharmus & Elizabeth Danailova (Bul) bt Annelin Bakker & Sarah van Ernst (Ned) 1-6, 6-4, [10-8].
-Team Sportstar
Parth Aggarwal storms into finals of AITA Men’s match
Fourth seed Parth Aggarwal beat Sarthak Suden 6-2, 2-6, 6-2 within the quarterfinals of the Rs. 2,50,000 AITA males’s tennis match on the CLTA Complex on Wednesday.
The high three seeds Neeraj Yashpaul, Udit Kamboj and Jagmeet Singh additionally made the semifinals.
The outcomes:
Singles (quarterfinals): Neeraj Yashpaul bt Tushar Mittal 6-0, 6-3; Parth Aggarwal bt Sarthak Suden 6-2, 2-6, 6-2; Jagmeet Singh bt Ajay Kundu 6-2, 3-6, 6-2; Udit Kamboj bt Shubh Negi 6-1, 6-2.
Doubles (semifinals): Udit Kamboj & Jagmeet Singh bt Eklavya Singh & Neeraj Yashpaul 4-6, 6-1, [10-6]; Siddharth Basaiti & Ajay Kundu bt Amandeep Singh Bahai & Ricky Chaudhary 6-3, 6-7(4), [12-10].
-Kamesh Srinivasan
GOLF
Bogey-free Urs leads by two at pre-qualifier Asia
Golfer Pranavi Urs opened her marketing campaign to earn a Ladies European Tour (LET) card with a bogey-free four-under 68 that gave her a two-shot lead after the primary spherical of the three-round Pre-Qualifier – Asia, in Gurugram.
Tvesa Malik, who’s trying to regain her standing on the LET, and Durga Nittur, who’s attempting to get on Tour for the primary time, carded matching rounds of two-under 70 every. Only one different participant, Neha Tripathi (71) was beneath par.
Nittur had a fantastic end with 4 birdies within the final 5 holes, with the good points approaching the 14th and fifteenth and once more on seventeenth and the 18th.
Tournament favorite novice Avani Prashanth was one of many 5 gamers to shoot even par 72. The others had been Ananya Datar, Ridhima Dilawari, who opened the day’s proceedings and performed alone with a marker, Seher Atwal and Singapore’s Sock Hwee Koh, who had additionally performed on the Hero Women’s Indian Open.
A complete of 29 gamers are within the fray within the 54-hole affair, from which the top-8 and ties will progress to LET Q-School Final Stage.
Urs, who dominated the home Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour in 2022, divided her time in 2023 between the Epson Tour within the US and LET in Europe. Now she is taking a look at stepping into the LET.
Nittur was two-over after seven holes however fought very properly on the again 9. She birdied the tenth however once more dropped a shot on thirteenth to go two-over once more. Then she birdied 4 occasions within the final 4 holes for a effective two-under spherical.
Prashanth was disillusioned together with her begin. The 16-year-old was not joyful together with her play on the greens. She had 4 birdies towards 4 bogeys, with two every of birdies and bogeys on both facet of the course.
While that is the primary pre-qualifier, a second one is scheduled to be held on the Golf Club Rotana and Samanah Golf by Nicklaus and Noria Golf Club from December 10-12.
The gruelling five-round 90-hole Qualifying School Final Stage can be held on the Al Maadan Golf Marrakech & Royal Club de Marrakech from December 16-20.
– PTI
CRICKET
Tripunithura CC pays tribute to Jayaraman
Former Kerala captain Ok. Jayaraman.
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THE HINDU ARCHIVES
Former Kerala captain Ok. Jayaraman.
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THE HINDU ARCHIVES
Tripunithura Cricket Club, the membership the place Ok. Jayaraman performed his first aggressive match, fittingly paid a memorable tribute to the previous Kerala captain and one of many State’s best cricketers who handed away lately at age 67, on Wednesday night in Kochi.
Fellow cricketers, buddies, cricket officers and relations fondly remembered Jayaram. Though he performed primarily for Swantons CC in Kochi, Jayaram was an everyday on the Tripunithura Cricket Club which hosts the Pooja all-India cricket match – one of many world’s oldest 50-over tournaments – at its famed Palace Oval in Tripunithura. Incidentally, the Pooja match’s 73rd version begins on Thursday.
Jayaram, as he was fondly known as, had a protracted checklist of buddies from all walks of life and nearly everyone remembered him as a really pleasant and humble individual.
Former Kerala stars J.Ok. Mahendra, P. Balachandran, former Kerala Cricket Association secretary S. Haridas and Dr. P. Ramakrishnan had been amongst those that spoke on the occasion.
– Stan Rayan
FOOTBALL
Services lifts National Games title
Services, the boys’s soccer champion on the National Games.
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Services, the boys’s soccer champion on the National Games.
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SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Services defeated Manipur 3-1 and received the boys’s soccer title within the thirty seventh National Games in Fatorda on Wednesday.
Christopher Kamei, Soibam Abhinash Singh (personal purpose) and Rahul Ramakrishnan scored for Services whereas Phijam Sanathoi Meetei netted Manipur’s comfort purpose.
Odisha defeated Manipur 5-3, through the tiebreaker, and received the ladies’s title on Sunday. The groups had been tied 1-1 on the finish of the regulation interval.
– Stan Rayan