TENNIS
ITF Dharwad Men’s World Tennis Tour 2023 begins tomorrow
India’s Digvijay Singh and Asian Games 2023 silver medallist Ramkumar Ramanathan are seeded third and fourth, respectively, on the ITF 25K Dharwad match.
The foremost occasion of the stated males’s World Tennis Tour occasion will begin on the Dharwad District Lawn Tennis Association courts from Tuesday.
Nick Chappell of the USA has been given the highest billing, whereas Bogdan Bobrov is seeded second.
The occasion marks the primary of 4 worldwide tennis occasions in Karnataka performed beneath the aegis of Karnataka State Lawn Tennis Association, with the following cease being the boys’s match in Davanagere.
Seedings
1-Nick Chappell (USA); 2-Bogdan Bobrov; 3-Digvijay Singh (IND); 4-Ramkumar Ramanathan (IND); 5-Kazuki Nishiwaki; 6-Florent Bax (FRA); 7-Sidharth Rawat (IND); 8-SD Prajwal Dev (IND).
Results (All Indians besides talked about in brackets; Seedings in pre-fix)
Final qualifying spherical
1-Vishnu Vardhan Vs. 11-Madhwin Kamath 4-4 (unfinished); 2-Luke Sorensen (AUS) bt 13-Rohan Mehra 6-3, 7-5; 3-Faisal Qamar bt 12-Ha Minh Duc Vu (VIE) 6-3, 7-5; 9-Enrico Giacomini (ITA) bt 4-Jack Karlsson Wistrand (SWE) 6-4, 1-6, 10-6; 5-Ranjeet Virali-Murugesan Vs. 10-Kabir Hans (postponed); Suraj R Prabodh Vs. 14-Yash Yadav (Postponed); Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam Vs. Tushar Madan 1-1 (unfinished); 16-Jagmeet Singh bt Dharmil Shah 7-6 (9), 6-4.
Round-1 Qualifiers
14-Yash Yadav bt Mukil Ramanan 6-1, 6-3; 10-Kabir Hans bt Neeraj Yashpaul 6-2, 6-1; 16-Jagmeet Singh bt Thijmen Loof (NED) 6-4, 1-1 (retd); Dharmil Shah bt 8-Mattias Southcombe (GBR) 6-1, 6-2; Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam bt 7-Chirag Duhan 7-5, 6-4; Tushar Madan bt 15-Sandesh Dattatray Kurale 7-6 (4), 6-2; bt Anurag Agarwal 6-4, 6-2.
– Team Sportstar
GOLF
Sharma finishes T-35 at Open de Espana
India’s Shubhankar Sharma completed tied thirty fifth after carding a disappointing 71 within the last spherical of acciona Open de España golf match.
Sharma, who was T-2 after the second spherical following 66-66 on the primary two days, had a tough weekend as he continued his chase to seal his berth within the season-ending DP World Tour Championship.
Matthieu Pavon powered to a maiden DP World Tour title in wire-to-wire model. The Frenchman arrived at Club de Campo Villa de Madrid with three runner-up finishes on each the European Challenge and DP World Tours however had by no means gained a European Tour group occasion regardless of constant performances.
One of these runner-up finishes was right here 12 months in the past however he all the time regarded like going one higher after a gap 63 and adopted up with rounds of 68-66-64 to get to 23-under and declare an in the end convincing victory.
Sharma had one double and one eagle and 16 pars within the last spherical, the place on various events he missed birdie possibilities.
It was per week that would have been means higher as he had two eagles, one every on the primary and last days, however he additionally had two double bogeys, one every on the third and last days.
South African Zander Lombard carded a bogey-free 64 to complete as the closest challenger, one away from England’s Nathan Kimsey and two forward of German Marcel Siem and Paraguay’s Fabrizio Zanotti.
Siem revealed {that a} 61 was the plan all alongside after he carded his lowest DP World Tour spherical by three photographs. In 519 earlier occasions, he had by no means gone decrease than 64, however he had a chip on the final for a 59 in his ten beneath par effort.
Zanotti was bogey-free with seven birdies in a 64 to sit down a shot forward of Frenchman Julien Guerrier and English pair Dan Bradbury and Richard Mansell, who carded rounds of 67, 66 and 65, respectively.
Defending champion Jon Rahm ended his week with a 64 to complete at 14-under alongside fellow Spaniard Alfredo Garcia-Heredia, French duo Romain Langasque and Mike Lorenzo-Vera, Scot Ewen Ferguson, Dane Marcus Helligkilde, Kiwi Daniel Hillier, and Finn Kalle Samooja.
– Press Trust of India
POLO
Delhi Polo season to open with Quarter Master General
Some of the most effective riders shall be in motion within the Delhi Polo season for the following seven weeks on the Jaipur Polo floor and Army Equestrian Centre.
The season will open with Quarter Master General (QMG) polo championship, adopted by the Bhopal-Pataudi Cup. There shall be two 14-goal occasions, Indian Masters and Sir Pratap Singh Cup thereafter.
The different common tournaments will function alongside the best way, for a complete of 11 occasions, concluding with the 8-goal Baroda Cup.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
HOCKEY
Nehru sub-junior match: Amit Patel hat-trick guides Ashwini Sports Academy to win
Amit Patel scored three objectives in guiding Ashwini Sports Academy, Coorg, to a 5-4 victory over Government Higher Secondary School, Nirwa, Hanumangarh, within the Steelbird fortieth Nehru sub-junior hockey match on the Shivaji Stadium on Monday.
Shashank Kumar and Gaurav Kumar Yadav scored the opposite objectives for the winner. Sumit Kumar, Narender, Mohit and Vipin Swami discovered the goal for the Rajasthan group.
The outcomes (league)
Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya, Bankner, 2 (Shiva 2) drew with Gautam Public School, Ahmadnagar, 2 (Shaikh Shoaib Mujib, Vijay Deore).
Ashwini Sports Academy, Coorg, 5 (Amit Patel 3, Shashank Kumar, Gaurav Kumar Yadav) bt Government HSS, Nirwa, Hanumangarh, 4 (Sumit Kumar, Narender, Mohit, Vipin Swami).
Moti Lal Nehru School of Sports, Rai, 4 (Tarun 2, Jayant Vatsal, Varun) bt Holy World Public School, Batala, 1 (Ishaandeep Singh).
Royal International SSS, Charkhi Dadri, 10 (Rahul 2, Dipender, Karan, Poras, Nikhil, Khushal, Aditya, Jora Singh, Jitin) bt St. Agnes Inter College, Dehra Dun.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
FOOTBALL
Punjab blanks Bengal in Santosh Trophy
Punjab blanked former 32-time champion West Bengal 3-0 in a Group ‘B’ match of the 77 th Santosh Trophy National soccer championship at Banga on Monday.
With that end result, Bengal fell to the fourth spot with 5 factors (1 win, 2 attracts, 1 loss) within the group and is now out of the race for a final-phase berth.
Delhi, which beat Ladakh 3-1, is on high of the six-team Group ‘B’ with 10 factors whereas Odisha (9 factors) climbed to the second rung after blanking Haryana 2-0. Punjab is within the third spot within the group with six factors.
Group B outcomes (league):
Punjab 3 (Mohammed Asif Khan 21, Akashdeep Singh 48, Sukhmanpreet Singh 88) bt West Bengal 0
Delhi 3 (Neeraj Bhandari 29, Dishant Negi 62, Jaideep Singh 86) bt Ladakh 1 (Abid Ali 19)
Odisha 2 (Harjinder Singh 44, Dinabandhu Das 48) bt Haryana 0
– Stan Ryan
MOTORSPORT
Sanam Sekhon, hailed because the drift champ of India, dominated proceedings on the inaugural JK Tyre Drift Challenge as he swept unopposed to victory in two out of three classes on the nation’s first-ever official drifting competitors. The seasoned Mudit Grover additionally completed on the rostrum in all three classes of the competitors.
Sekhon regarded poised and in management as he slithered his specially-prepped Lexus GS 300 sideways across the corners, and Mudit, in his BMW E46, showcased his spectacular expertise on the twisting drift monitor on the Buddh International Circuit in a masterful show of tyre-smoking automotive management.
One of the vehicles taking part on the inaugural JK Tyre Drift Challenge.
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One of the vehicles taking part on the inaugural JK Tyre Drift Challenge.
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The Chandigarh-based driver gained the D1 class with a whopping haul of 744 factors, along with his closest rival Jugraj Singh Bhurjee, driving a BMW M3, solely choosing up a rating of 476. Mudit, with 286 factors, sealed third in his BMW E46.
Sekhon scored 460 factors to additionally win the D2 class with Mudit (262 factors) and Mugdha Grover, driving the Mercedes C200 Okay, (156 factors) finishing the rostrum.
His hopes of finishing an unbeaten run, nonetheless, had been dashed with Mudit beating him to victory with 700 factors to Sekhon’s 636, with Samyak Kapoor on 281 factors a distant third.
Points had been awarded by a three-member professional panel of worldwide judges comprising Taniguchi Atsushi from Japan, Tanakorn Lertyaovarit from Thailand and India’s personal drift professional Alistair Woodham.
Drivers had been judged on a number of parameters together with line, angle, model and pace.
The three classes – D1, D2 and Open – had been differentiated by tyre width. Cars competing within the D1 class had been working on tyres that had been 215-255mm large. The most permitted tyre width within the D2 class was 205mm, whereas all rivals, whatever the width of their tyres had been eligible for the Open class.
Drifting is a motorsport self-discipline that rewards talent, precision, and automotive management over outright pace. It entails drivers throwing their vehicles right into a slide and utilizing oversteer to go sideways by means of a nook at pace.
– Team Sportstar