GOLF
Jatiwal emerges midway chief in Gurgaon Open golf
Chandigarh’s Rajiv Kumar Jatiwal adopted up his first spherical of 66 with one other top-notch effort of five-under 67 in spherical two to emerge as midway chief at 11-under 133 on the Rs 1 crore Gurgaon Open golf event on Wednesday.
Bengaluru golfer M Dharma’s 69 positioned him second at nine-under 135 on the Classic Golf & Country Club.
On a day when the wind performed havoc by consistently switching instructions, Gurugram-based Sunhit Bishnoi produced the joint lowest spherical of 66 to maneuver into third place at eight-under 136.
Arjun Prasad of Delhi additionally shot a 66 to be positioned an additional stroke behind in tied fourth at seven-under 137 together with Tapy Ghai (68) of Gurugram.
The midway minimize went at even-par 144. Fifty-six professionals made the minimize.
Jatiwal (66-67), in a single day tied third and three off the lead, produced some nice strategy photographs to arrange quick birdie conversions on three of the primary 4 holes.
With the switching winds creating issues in membership choice for a lot of the area together with the 48-year-old Jatiwal, bogeys adopted for him on the sixth and eighth.
Jatiwal, winner of 1 skilled title in his rookie season on the Indian circuit again in 1998, rallied with one other splendid strategy shot from 215 yards on the par-5 ninth that led to a tap-in for eagle.
Jatiwal birdied the following gap earlier than going by one other hunch with bogeys on the eleventh and twelfth.
He had a remaining flourish in retailer as he struck his irons and wedges to perfection to choose up three extra birdies on the 14th, fifteenth and sixteenth.
“While I putted really well in round one, today it was all about my approach shots. The eagle on the ninth was the highlight for me today. Importantly, I made good comebacks twice after suffering bogeys,” mentioned Jatiwal.
“I’ll look to play my natural game from here on and repeat what I’ve been doing so far. Keeping my focus going will also be important. My game has been quite inconsistent so far this season as I’ve missed cuts by one or two shots.” Dharma (66-69) moved up one spot from his in a single day tied third because of his 69 that featured 4 birdies and a bogey.
Dharma’s spherical included some distinctive bunker photographs and chips and noticed him land it inside two toes of the pin on three events.
Bishnoi shot 66 to rise 21 spots to 3rd place whereas Arjun Prasad additionally posted the identical quantity to climb 36 locations to tied fourth.
-PTI
TENNIS
Yuki Bhambri in ATP quarterfinals
Yuki Bhambri in partnership with Albano Olivetti of France knocked out the third seeds Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen of Belgium 4-6, 7-6(5), [10-6] within the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the €651,865 ATP tennis event in Munich, Germany, on Wednesday.
Interestingly, the Belgian pair was recent from successful the title within the Monte Carlo Masters.
In the quarterfinals, Yuki and Albano will play Robert Galloway and Evna King of USA.
The outcomes:
€651,865 ATP, Munich, Germany
Doubles (pre-quarrterfinals): Yuki Bhambri & Albano Olivetti (Fra) bt Sander Gille & Joran Vliegen (Bel) 4-6, 7-6(5), [10-6].
$164,000 Challenger, Acapulco, Mexico
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Rithvik Bollipalli & Niki Poonacha bt Juan Ficovich (Arg) & Joao Da Silva (Bra) 7-5, 6-2.
$15,000 ITF males, Shymkent, Kazakhstan
Singles (first spherical): Yuvan Nandal bt SD Prajwal Dev 6-4, 7-6(1); Aryan Shah bt Grigoriy Lomakin (Kaz) 6-4, 6-4; Karan Singh bt Vitaliy Zatespin (Kaz) 0-6, 6-7(3), 7-6(3); Eric Vanshelboim (Ukr) bt Manish Sureshkumar 7-6(1), 7-6(6); Dev Javia bt Kazuki Nishiwaki (Jpn) 3-6, 7-6(3), 6-4.
$40,000 ITF girls, Shenzhen, China
Singles (first spherical): Rutuja Bhosale bt Gao Xinyu (Chn) 3-6, 6-4, 6-3.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Rutuja Bhosale & Ma YeXin (Chn) bt Alevtina Ibragiimova & Anastasia Kovaleva 6-4, 4-6, [10-8]; Arianne Hartono (Ned) & Prarthana Thombare bt Choi Ji Hee (Kor) & Beatrice Gumulya (Ina) 6-4, 6-1.
$25,000 ITF girls, Hammamet, Tunisia
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Vaishnavi Adkar & Ranim Rassil (Tun) bt Joyce Behnke (Ger) & Sameeksha Shroff 6-1, 6-3.
$15,000 ITF girls, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (first spherical): Arabella Koller (Aut) bt Zeel Desai 6-2, 7-6(2).
$15,000 ITF girls, Shymkent, Kazakhstan
Singles (first spherical): Sandugash Kenzhibayeva (Kaz) bt Saumya Vig 6-3, 6-0; Aruzhan Sagandikova (Kaz) bt Smriti Bhasin 7-5, 6-2; Ashmitha Easwaramurthi bt Ustiniya Lekomtseva 6-3, 6-3.
-Team Sportstar
GYMNASTICS
Dipa qualifies for remaining at Apparatus World Cup, Pranati misses out
Star India gymnast Dipa Karmakar on Wednesday entered the ladies’s vault remaining after ending sixth within the qualifying spherical of the continued FIG Apparatus World Cup, a Paris Olympics qualifying occasion, in Doha.
The 30-year-old, who had completed a creditable fourth on the Baku Apparatus World Cup in Azerbaijan final month, scored 12.500 within the first vault and 13.066 within the second vault to whole 12.783.
Navas Karla (13.916), Georgieva Valentina (13.316) and An Chang Ok (13.166) took the primary three positions within the qualifying spherical.
The high eight finishers within the qualification spherical make it to the finals.
“I am thankful to SAI for sending me. Dipa is sixth now and she will look to do better in the final. She has gone through a lot. It is not easy to compete against world’s best after two ACLs (anterior cruciate ligament injury), so we are not thinking too much about Olympic qualification,” her long-time coach Bishweshwar Nandi informed PTI.
The remaining is scheduled on Friday.
The different Indian within the fray, Pranati Nayak, nonetheless, didn’t qualify for the ultimate after ending eleventh within the qualifying spherical.
Pranati, 29, who had received the bronze medal in vault occasion at Cairo World Cup this February and in addition represented India on the Tokyo Olympics, suffered a fall within the second vault to provide you with a rating of 12.416.
“She had a bit of ankle swelling but it is mainly the fall in the second vault which affected her,” mentioned coach Ashok Kumar Mishra.
Dipa, who battled two knee operations in 2017 and 2019 resulting from ACL tears and a 21-month suspension resulting from a doping violation, is unlikely to qualify for the Paris Games in vault as she at present has an Olympics qualification rating of 34 and even a gold medal right here will solely take her rating to 64.
“Only two gymnasts in each apparatus will qualify in women’s vault from this tournament and Bulgaria’s Valentina and Korea’s Chang are ahead with 84 and 80 points,” Mishra mentioned.
Valentina had received the gold forward of Chang within the final World Cup in Baku.
Gymnasts earn Olympic rating factors from the Apparatus World Cup collection primarily based on how nicely they do in comparison with different eligible gymnasts on every equipment. The highest-ranked eligible gymnast in a remaining earns 30 rating factors, second highest 25, and so forth.
Dipa, who returned after finishing the dope ban solely final yr, didn’t take part within the World Cup in Cottbus, Germany (Feb 22-25).
Dipa had completed fifth in Cairo (Feb 15-18) World Cup, the place Pranati received a bronze.
The Asian Championship, scheduled to be held in Uzbekistan from May 16 to 19, is the ultimate Olympic qualifier.
“In Asian Championships, only one girl can qualify and that too in all-round. It will be extremely tough, our girls will have to do well not only in vault but also in other three apparatus,” Mishra mentioned.
-PTI