GOLF

Khalin, Amandeep take lead in Asian Games trials for golf

Khalin Joshi and Amandeep Drall grabbed the lead on the primary day of the Asian Games trials for golf which started on the Royal Calcutta Golf Club in Kolkata on Tuesday.

Joshi from Bengaluru had an excellent streak of birdies from the primary to the fourth and added a fifth on gap quantity six on solution to a stable five-under 67 that included a complete of seven birdies towards two bogeys, one every on both aspect of the historic RCGC course.

Joshi was adopted by Ajeetesh Sandhu, whose 4-under 68 included 5 birdies and one solitary bogey.

Four gamers led by Rashid Khan, a group silver medallist on the 2010 Asian Games, whereas being an newbie, Olympian SSP Chawrasia, Aman Raj and Yuvraj Sandhu shot 3-under 69 every.

Two different gamers, Yuvraj Singh and Sachin Baisoya carded 2-under 70 every, whereas Karandeep Kochhar and S Chikkarangappa shot 1-under 71 every as 10 out of the 19 males taking part in the choice trials shot below par.

Among ladies, Amandeep Drall, who had only one birdie in first 10 holes, dropped a shot on eleventh however holed 5 straight birdies from twelfth to sixteenth earlier than dropping a second shot on seventeenth and completed 4-under 68.

Drall was adopted by Tokyo Olympics participant Diksha Dagar, who shot 3-under 69 with an eagle, two birdies and a bogey.

Four gamers, Tvesa Malik, Neha Tripathi, Pranavi Urs and Avani Prashanth carded 2-under 70 every to be tied third.

Vani Kapoor was the opposite participant within the ladies’s part to shoot below par with 1-under 71.

A complete of 19 males and 19 ladies are competing for the Indian group which can play on the Asian Games in China in September-October this yr.

-PTI

TENNIS

Nagal reaches second spherical at Rome Challenger

India’s top-ranked male Sumit Nagal progressed to the second spherical of the ATP Challenger Tour occasion in Rome on Tuesday.

Nagal gained 6-2, 6-4 towards fourth-seeded Italian Francesco Maestrelli within the opening-round match in an hour and 24 minutes.

Nagal will subsequent face native wildcard Fausto Tabacco.

RESULTS

ATP Rome Challenger

Singles, First Round: [Q] Sumit Nagal bt [4] Francesco Maestrelli (ITA) 6-2, 6-4

ITF W60 Oeiras

Singles, First Round: [4] Greet Minnen (BEL) bt Karman Kaur Thandi 6-2, 6-3

ITF M25 Jakarta

Singles, First Round: Ray Ho(TPE) bt [1] Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-0, 6-2

Qualifying, Final Round: [2] Matthew Romios (AUS) bt [11] Bharath Nishok Kumaran 6-4, 6-0

Doubles, First Round: Sai Karteek Reddy Ganta/Theertha Shashank Macherla bt Tomohiro Masabayashi/Takeru Yuzuki (JPN) 6-3, 3-6, 10-3

ITF W25 Nottingham

Doubles, Round of 16: [1] Rutuja Bhosale/Arianne Hartono (NED) bt Gabriella Da Silva Fick/Taylah Preston (AUS) 6-2, 7-5

ITF M15 Monastir, Tunisia

Doubles, Round of 16: Chirag Duhan/Aleksi Lofman (FIN) bt Jayden Court/Thomas Braithwaite (AUS) 7-5, 3-6, 10-6

ITF W15 Monastir, Tunisia

Singles, Final Qualifying Round: Vaishnavi Adkar bt [16] Gina Kondos (USA) 6-2, 6-2

Doubles, Round of 16: Carola Cavelli(ITA)/Sofia Da Cruz Mendonca (BRA) bt Vaishnavi Adkar/Shria Atturu (USA) 6-3, 6-4; Jiaqi Wang (CHN)/Ecaterina Visnevscaia (MOL) bt [4] Jennifer Luikham/Teja Tirunelveli (USA) 6-2, 6-4

- Team Sportstar