GOLF
Aditi double bogeys final gap, nonetheless shoots 67 to lie Tenth in Malaysia
India’s Aditi Ashok spoiled her very good wanting spherical with a double bogey on the closing gap however nonetheless shot 5-under 67 to be positioned tied Tenth after the primary spherical of the Maybank Championship golf match on Thursday.
From tied-second at one level she was tied-Tenth. Thailand’s Jasmine Suwannapura took the lead at 9-under 63.
There was a stoppage in play of over three hours and 45 minutes, however motion resumed later and the spherical was accomplished.
Aditi, beginning on the Tenth, bogeyed the twelfth however 5 birdies in subsequent six holes from thirteenth to the 18th noticed her flip in 4-under 32. She added additional birdies on first, third and fifth and was 7-under by way of 14 holes. Three pars and a closing double noticed her end at 67 and 4 behind the chief.
Play started below sunny skies and scorching situations, however the climate turned cloudy and gray within the afternoon resulting in a big delay in play.
Only 54 gamers accomplished their first spherical earlier than lighting within the space suspended the primary spherical. Eight teams and 32 gamers have been left to finish spherical one they usually did that after the stoppage.
Teeing off within the first group of the day, Thailand’s Suwannapura took the first-round lead nicely earlier than afternoon storms suspended play.
The two-time LPGA Tour winner shot a brand new career-low rating of 63 at Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club, recording seven birdies and an eagle in her 9-under bogey-free spherical.
It was a powerful feat for the 30-year-old, particularly since she was unable to get a full follow spherical earlier than the match started.
-PTI
Shubham Jaglan opens with 1-over on robust day, lies ninth
Shubham Jaglan performed some good and good golf in somewhat tough situations for a spherical of 1-over 72 and was positioned tied ninth after the primary spherical of the 14th Asia-Pacific Amateur Championships on Thursday.
The difficult situations, which included rain, chill, and robust winds, meant solely six gamers got here below par, two others shot par and 10 gamers together with Jaglan carded rounds of 1-over every.
Kazuma Kobori of New Zealand, who had one of the best particular person rating of 16-under eventually week’s World Amateur Team occasion in Abu Dhabi, shot 5-under after ranging from the ninth, the beginning tee on the again 9 of the composite course at Royal Melbourne.
Apart from Jaglan, the opposite six Indians had a tough day, although Yuvraj Singh, ranging from the ninth, went 4-over after simply six. He fought again with birdies on seventeenth and fourth however bogeyed fifth and eighth. He did birdie in between on the sixth and ended with 74 and was T-Twenty seventh.
Raghav Chugh and Krishnav Nikhil Chopra shot 6-over 77 every to be T-51, whereas 13-year-old Kartik Singh (78) was T-62, Shaurya Bhattacharya (83) was T-98 and Vedant Sirohi (85) was T-107.
Jaglan, 22, a collegiate golfer from University of South Florida, carrying India colors for the second time, dropped two bogeys within the final 4 holes and was one of many solely 4 gamers in Top-18 to not get a birdie or an eagle on the seventeenth and the 18th.
Jaglan, realizing his driving has been considerably “off” determined to make use of the massive membership simply 3 times and relied extra on the 3-wood. He had one birdie on every half, and three bogeys on the format designed by Allister Mackenzie, who has a robust reference to the Augusta National Golf Club.
With combined emotions, he mentioned, “It was awesome. I thought I played pretty solid all day. The weather was pretty funny. I felt like every time I took my jacket off, it started raining again.
“I thought it was pretty challenging. The wind was there all day. I feel like I adapted pretty good to that.” Australians Billy Dowling and Jasper Stubbs, who hit the opening shot of the Championship, shot 3-under, as did South Korea’s Hyun Uk Kim. The tall Chinese Deng Wenyi shot 2-under and his teammate Ziqin Zhou carded 1-under.
Alexander Yang of Hong Kong and Harry Takis of Australia have been even par after which 10 gamers shot 1-over.
Kobori opened with a par on ninth after which ran 4 birdies in a row and added a fifth on seventeenth, his ninth gap after which parred the remaining 9.
Kobori, who turned 22 on Wednesday, is extremely skilled and is showing in his third Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship with a better of T-24 in Thailand final yr.
This yr he has been in sensational kind. Every week after topping the WATC particular person scores, he’s looking for to turn out to be New Zealand’s first winner.
Earlier in 2023, he received each the Western Amateur within the US and the Australian Amateur and recorded top-six finishes in each the New Zealand Open and New Zealand PGA Championship. He celebrated his twenty second birthday on Wednesday, a day earlier than the opening spherical at Royal Melbourne.
The Composite Course this week consists of 12 holes from the West Course and 6 holes from the East Course and the again 9 begins from the ninth.
-PTI
Avani shoots second straight bogey-free 68, lies 2nd in World Amateur golf
India’s Avani Prashanth fired a second straight bogey-free spherical of 4-under 68 to lie tied second after the second spherical of particular person part on the Women’s World Amateur Team Championships (WWATC) golf match in Abu Dhabi on Thursday.
Avani is now 8-under however two pictures behind Navaporn Soontreeyapas of Thailand, who shot a superb 7-under 65 with eight birdies and one bogey.
Winner of the person honours on the Queen Sirikit Cup, Avani, who rose to 69th in World Amateur golf rankings following a fifth place end within the Hero Women’s Indian Open, might transfer into top-50 if she tops the person part this week at WWATC.
In the final two years Avani has been phenomenal. Her 39 begins have yielded 11 wins and 9 different top-10 finishes for a complete of 20 top-10 finishes.
Two of the wins have come in opposition to professionals, as soon as every in India and Europe. Five of her 20 top-10s have been in professional occasions, two of them being full area Ladies European Tour occasions in Kenya and India.
The different two Indians women in fray, Mannat Brar (72-74) at T-49 and Nishna Patel (75-80) at T-94, are method down on the leaderboard.
With prime two scores being counted for the staff title, India who have been fourth when play completed on the primary day, have now slipped to T-7. Thailand, Australia and Spain are tied for the primary place and Korea are fourth. United States and England are tied fifth with India, Germany and Canada at tied seventh spot.
Starting late within the afternoon, Avani birdied Par-3 first, Par-5 eighth and Par-3s on twelfth and fifteenth but additionally missed just a few different probabilities.
“Coming back without a bogey for a second day in a row is something I am very pleased about,” mentioned Avani, who’s tied with Korea’s Kyorim Seo (69-67).
Navaporn is the winner of the Singapore Open amateurs and was a member of the gold medal-winning Thai staff on the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in June this yr. Ranked 266th on the earth, Navaporn has been a shock this week, the place the sector consists of 14 of the world’s Top-20.
They embody world No. 1 newbie Ingrid Linblad of Sweden and No. 3 Cayetana Fernandez Garcia-Poggio of Spain. The different top-10 stars are Minsol Kim (KOR) at No. 4, Julia Lopez Ramirez (ESP) at No. 5, Anna Davis (USA) at No. 6, Helen Briem (GER) at No. 7, Lottie Woad (ENG) at No. 9 and Meja Ortengren (SWE) at No. 10.
Cayetana is mendacity fourth with rounds of 68-69 and Anna Davis (73-68), who received the 2022 Augusta National Women’s Amateur and competed in seven LPGA Tour occasions final yr, together with three main championships, is T-10.
Minsol Kim (KOR) is T-Thirtieth and Lindblad, with 71-75, is method down in T-Forty fifth place.
-PTI
Abhinav Lohan and Jairaj Singh Sandhu share midway lead
Faridabad golfer Abhinav Lohan’s second spherical of four-under 68 propelled him into the joint lead together with Chandigarh’s Jairaj Singh Sandhu on the Rs 1 crore Haryana Open in Panchkula on Thursday.
Jairaj shot a three-under 69 on the Panchkula Golf Club.
Abhinav (67-68) and left-hander Jairaj (66-69), the first-round chief, have been tied on the prime with an identical totals of nine-under 135.
Akshay Sharma, one other Chandigarh golfer, continued his scorching streak with a second straight 68 to be positioned third at eight-under 136.
Besides Jairaj and Akshay, the opposite Tricity golfer within the prime 10 is Angad Cheema who signed for the day’s greatest rating of 66 to be tied fourth at seven-under 137.
TATA Steel PGTI Ranking chief Om Prakash Chouhan too shot a 66 to be positioned tied fourth.
The lower went at even-par 144. Fifty-three professionals and two amateurs (out of three) made the lower. Abhishek Kumar of Panchkula was one of many two amateurs to make the lower.
-PTI
Good end in Riyadh might take Diksha to prime of LET Order of Merit
India’s Diksha Dagar, who’s the captain of her staff, and Gaurika Bishnoi, who shall be enjoying her first occasion right here, are a part of a star-studded area on the Aramco Team Series Riyadh golf match starting on Friday.
Diksha, whose staff consists of Celin Hebrin, Jana Melichova and newbie Samir Fostock of UAE, is mendacity second within the Race to Costa Del Sol standings.
With No. 1 Celine Boutier skipping the occasion, Diksha, who’s little over 78 factors behind, might go to the highest with a good end this week.
Gaurika is within the staff with Allison Lee, Kim Metraux and newbie Chris Thomas.
This is the fifth and ultimate occasion of the 2023 collection to be held on the Riyadh Golf Club.
Amongst these vying for particular person and staff accolades is Lilia Vu. The American world No.2 has had a sensational season to date, profitable two Major championships with victories within the Chevron Championship and AIG Women’s Open.
Vu is hopeful of placing up a problem in Riyadh and is enthused by the chance to play alongside others.
Another one wanting ahead to a win is England’s Georgia Hall, the world No.18 who has skilled victory on this yr’s collection at London’s Centurion Club within the staff occasion.
-PTI
TENNIS
Yuki and Julian Cash in quarterfinals
Yuki Bhambri in partnership with Julian Cash beat Anirudh Chandrasekar and Vijay Sundar Prashanth 6-4, 6-2 within the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the €118,000 Challenger tennis match in Brest, France, on Thursday.
The outcomes:
€118,000 Challenger, Brest, France: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Yuki Bhambri & Julian Cash (GBR) bt Anirudh Chandrasekar & Vijay Sundar Prashanth 6-4, 6-2.
$80,000 ITF girls, Tyler, USA: Singles (first spherical): Martha Matoula (Gre) bt Sahaja Yamalapalli 3-6, 6-3, 6-4. Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Chieh-Yu Hsu (Tpe) & Sahaja Yamalapalli bt Lia Karatancheva (Bul) & Maria Kononova 1-6, 6-3, [10-6].
$15,000 ITF girls, Monastir, Tunisia: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Amelia Waligora (Bel) bt Jennifer Luikham 7-5, 6-2.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
TNTTA launches its State-level inter-club league, to start on October 29
The Tamil Nadu Table Tennis Association (TNTTA) formally introduced the launch of the TNTTA-VAVE State-level inter-club desk tennis league at a press convention right here on Thursday.
The league will begin on October 29 on the Montfort stadium in St. Thomas Mount and shall be held on weekends and public holidays at varied venues in Chennai.
“The league has been conceived to give players exposure to team environment in a competitive atmosphere,” mentioned TNTTA Secretary Vidyasagar.
There shall be 5 classes – elite, open, sub-juniors, corporates, and social membership.
Each staff within the elite class, the top-most tier, will represent 5 gamers every from the boys’s, girls’s, u-19 boys’ and women’, and u-15 boys’ or women’ age teams. Seven matches shall be performed in a tie – 5 singles for every age group, males’s doubles, and open doubles.
The elite class may have a most of 12 groups, open 24, sub-juniors 24, corporates 24, and social membership 12.
Around 72 groups comprising greater than 400 gamers are already registered for the league.
Some prime gamers who will characteristic within the elite class are Amalraj, Balamurugan, P.B. Abhinandh, Preyesh Suresh Raj, and Selena Deepthi.
The league carries a complete prize cash of ₹6 lakh. The elite champion, runner-up, and semifinalists will obtain prize cash of ₹1.5 lakh, ₹1 lakh, and ₹50,000 every.
Elite gamers shall be auctioned for the Table Tennis Super League (TTSL) that carries a complete prize cash of ₹14 lakh.
Vave.life, a Singapore-based Table Tennis promotion organisation, would be the league’s principal sponsor. The league matches shall be streamed stay on YouTube.
-Team Sportstar
Manish, Madhwin rating upset wins enroute to quarters at ITF Davangere Open
On a day when 4 seeds bit the mud, Manish Sureshkumar and Madhwin Kamath of India created ripples with an upset victory every enroute to the quarterfinals of the ITF Davangere Open Men’s World Tennis Tour.
In the pre-quarterfinal matches performed on the Davangere Tennis Association Davangere courts right here on Thursday, 24-year-old Manish edged previous third seed Digvijay Pratap Singh in an in depth encounter 7-6 (5), 7-6 (2) whereas qualifier Madhwin battled previous fourth seed Florent Bax of France 7-6 (4), 6-7 (4), 6-4 in a match that lasted 3-hours and 13 minutes.
In the opposite upsets of the day, Karan Singh confirmed sixth seed SD Prajwal Dev the door with a 6-1, 6-4 victory whereas in a minor upset, winner of the final leg Ramkumar Ramanathan brushed apart the problem of seventh seed Rishab Agarwal 6-0, 6-3.
-Team Sportstar
POLO
Pataudi Cup polo match: Achievers Red beats Delta Foundation
Matthew Perry scored seven objectives as Achievers Red beat Delta Foundation 9-6 in a league match of the Bhopal Pataudi Cup polo match on the Army Equestrian Centre, Delhi Cantonment, on Thursday.
The outcomes:
Achievers Red 9 (Matthew Perry 7, Shamsheer Ali 2) bt Delta Foundation 6 (Angad Kalaan 3, Naveen Singh 2, Salim Azmi).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
BASKETBALL
Hansraj Prabhakar match: Oxford School beats Bluebells School
Aadil and Soham scored 47 factors between them to assist host Oxford School to a 67-41 victory over Bluebells School within the senior boys part of the thirty fourth Hansraj Prabhakar basketball match on the faculty courts in E-Block, Vikaspuri, on Thursday.
The outcomes:
Senior boys: Oxford School 67 (Aadil 24, Soham 23) bt Bluebells School 41 (Shasta 13, Yugansh 12).
Montfort School 69 (Bhaskar 31 Shubham 13) bt Ball Bharati School 50 (Vaibhav 14, Ranveer 14).
Shiv Nadar School, Noida, 60 (Nikhil 24, Arhamar 12) bt Ball Bharati 41 (Daksh Rana 15, Sankalp 12).
Under-15 boys: Oxford School 63 (Chaitanya Chaudhary 18, Nishant 16) bt Indira Ideal 17.
Montfort School 34 bt Fr. Agnel School 14.
Bluebells School 39 (Akshay Sharma 21) bt Modern School, Barakhamba Road, 36 (Lavya Saini 11).
Under-16 women: Ball Bharati 40 bt Modern School, Barakhamba Road, 26.
Shiv Nadar School 18 bt Fr. Agnel School 12.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
TABLE TENNIS
Soham and Riana emerge U-15 champions in UTT National C’ship
Eighth seed Soham Mukherjee continued his glorious kind as he beat Rupam Sardar to win the Under-15 boys title within the second UTT National Ranking Championships in Thiruvananthapuram on Thursday.
Riana Bhoota confirmed the abilities of a left-hander in good measure within the Under-15 women ultimate to outsmart top-seed Avisha Karmakar 3-2 and raise the crown.
Soham’s 3-1 win within the all-Bengal ultimate got here straightforward and fast.
Rupam, who put up a semblance of a struggle within the third sport, squandered two sport factors within the third, permitting Soham to go 2-1 up. The loss affected his rhythm a lot that he faltered within the subsequent, paving the way in which for Soham to emerge winner.
In the women ultimate, Riana gave some torrid moments for Avisha, the title favorite. After the primary sport loss, Riana sized up her opponent’s weak spot and performed because the state of affairs demanded. She took a 2-1 lead however let slip the fourth sport of her palms as Avisha restored parity.
But within the decider, the left-hander was aggressive sufficient to tame the highest seed to complete the job in type.
– PTI
HOCKEY
Gursewak Singh hammered 14 objectives to energy Round Glass Academy, Punjab, to a 21-1 victory over Government Higher Secondary School, Potanar, Bastar, in a league match of the Kanwarji 51st Nehru junior hockey match on the Shivaji Stadium right here on Thursday.
The outcomes (league):
Sukhjeevan Sports Academy, Agra, 5 (Divyanshu Sharma 2, Shivam Patel 2, Anshu Pandey) bt Punjab Institute of Sports, Mohali, 1 (Gurkirat Singh).
Round Glass Academy, Punjab, 21 (Gursewak Singh 14, Jarman Singh 3, Inderjit Singh, Jasmeet Singh, Arshdip Singh, Sunny) bt Government HSS, Potanar, Bastar, 1 (Pratap Lakra).
Directorate General, NCC Blue, 4 (Govind 2, Naitik Rana, Gurpreet Singh) bt SD SSSS, Narwana, Jind, 1 (Nitin Dhillon).
Government HS, Kawnpui, Mizoram, 7 (R Lalruatsanga 2, Lalramhlua Kawlni, Vanlal Chenpuia, Malsawmkima Varte, Lalruatsanga Ralte, Lalhlimpuia) bt Anwar Academy, Partapgarh, 3 (Mohd. Ahad 2, Ankit Pal).
BRIDGE
HCL International championship- Asian Games medallist Jaggy Shivdasani, shall be in motion
Some of one of the best gamers on the earth like Zia Mahmood of USA, Boye Brogeland of Norway, Mikael Rimstedt of Sweden and the oldest Indian medallist within the current Asian Games in Hangzhou, the 65-year-old Jaggy Shivdasani, shall be in motion within the twentieth HCL worldwide bridge championship to be staged on the Leela Ambience right here from October 31 to November 6.
The championship will provide a complete prize purse of Rs.2.6 crore.
About 800 gamers in 140 groups are anticipated to compete from USA, Norway, Sweden, Poland, Bulgaria, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, Indonesia, Thailand, Kenya, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and host India.
“This championship is not just a competition, it is a celebration of the boundless power of the human mind. It is a platform that elevates the sport, placing it on the global map”, mentioned Kiran Nadar, an internationally acclaimed participant who has been instrumental within the improvement of the sport, particularly by way of the HCL championship, through the years..
The championship may have 4 predominant occasions. The Team of Four gold, the Team of Four silver, together with Open Pairs and IMP Pairs occasions. To mark the 20 years of the championship, there shall be a ProAm occasion on the final day, with amateurs taking part together with professionals.
-Kamesh Srinivasan