TENNIS

Asia-Oceania WJT: Indian women seeded No. 2; clubbed with Hong Kong, Singapore and Lebanon

The Indian women have been seeded No.2 and clubbed with Hong Kong, Singapore and Lebanon in group -D for the Asia-Oceania World Junior under-14 tennis event being performed in Kuching, Malaysia.

The first day’s play was washed out, and the referee has advised two rounds of competitors on Tuesday. Australia has been seeded No.1, whereas Japan and Thailand are the third and fourth seeds respectively.

The groupings

Group-A: Australia, New Zealand, Chinese Taipei, Kazakhstan.

Group-B: Thailand, Nepal, Iran, Korea.

Group-C: Japan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Uzbekistan.

Group-D: India, Singapore, Lebanon, Hong Kong.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

ITF $25k Lucknow: Opportunity for Indians to enhance ATP Ranking

It will likely be one other good likelihood for the Indian gamers to ply their commerce in acquainted home circumstances and enhance their standing on the ATP pc, within the $25,000 ITF tennis event to be performed on the Ekana Sports Complex in Lucknow from Tuesday.

The new venue has already fascinated the gamers with eight high class courts. Two extra present courts are additionally developing which might make it a vibrant place for tennis occasions sooner or later, aside from serving as an enormous enhance for the gamers within the area.

Nam Hoang Ly of Vietnam, who had gained the Wimbledon junior doubles title with Sumit Nagal in 2015, is the highest seed, forward of Oliver Crawford of USA and the champion of the final event in Delhi, Evgeny Donskoy.

Mukund Sasikumar is the one Indian participant who has managed to get a seeding. He is fifth seed behind Vladyslav Orlov of Ukraine.

Niki Poonacha, who had made the semifinals final week opens, in opposition to Manish Sureshkumar, who compensated for his early exit in singles by getting into the doubles last with Parikshit Somani in Delhi. Digvijay Pratap Singh opens in opposition to Donskoy.

Two wild playing cards - the younger Rushil Khosla and former nationwide champion Siddharth Vishwakarma - will face one another within the first spherical. Ishaque Eqbal strengthens the sector and will likely be up in opposition to Sidharth Rawat.

It must be one other week of energetic matches on the model new facility.

The seedings: 1. Nam Hoang Ly (Vie), 2. Oliver Crawford (USA), 3. Evgeny Donskoy, 4. Vladyslav Orlov (Ukr), 5. Mukund Sasikumar, 6. Arthur Weber (Fra), 7. Eric Vanshelboim (Ukr), 8. Shuichi Sekiguchi (Jpn).

-Kamesh Srinivasan

ITF Juniors, Bhilai

Anvi Punaganti recovered from the brink of defeat to beat Kaajal Ramisetty 3-6, 7-6(6), 6-1 within the women first spherical of the ITF junior tennis event on the Bhilai Steel Plant tennis advanced on Monday.

RESULTS (1st Round)

Boys: Pratyaksh bt Adavait Mantri (Sgp) 6-1, 6-1; Kandhavel Mahalingam bt Athavaraj Balani 6-1, 6-1; Skandha Prasanna Rao bt Siddhant Sharma 5-7, 7-5, 6-3; Deepam Malik bt Harsh Fogaat 6-2, 6-4; Victor Mohanram (Esp) bt Debarshi Sen 6-3, 6-2; Vihaan Reddy bt Aditeey Singh Jadon 6-1, 6-0; Siddharth Marathe bt Ved Shetty 6-2, 6-4; Vatsal Manikantan bt Svarmanyu Singh 6-1, 4-6, 6-2; Mayank Sharma bt Sriniketh Kannan 2-6, 7-5, 6-3; Daksh Kukreti bt Navya Verma 6-1, 6-4; Teetawat Tavachphongsri (Tha) bt Pranav Korade 6-2, 6-3; Smit Patel bt Dhanush Varma 7-5, 2-6, 6-2.

Girls: Aishwarya Jadhav bt Mehak Kapoor 6-2, 6-1; Riya Sachdeva bt Diya Desai 6-0, 6-1; Amodini Naik bt Mandagalla Princy 6-4, 6-3; Hirva Rangani bt Saumya Chatterjee 7-5, 6-3; Danaiya Amangazhiyeva (Kaz) bt Keewah Husain 6-1, 6-0; Suhani Gaur bt Arzan Khorakiwala 6-1, 7-5; Anvi Punaganti bt Kaajal Ramisetty 3-6, 7-6(6), 6-1; Prisha Shinde bt Saily Thakkar 6-0, 6-1; Aanya Choubey (USA) bt Kabyanjali Hazarika 6-0, 6-0; Nemha Sarah Kispotta bt Nandika Agrawal 6-0, 6-1; Shagun Kumari bt Saanvi Misra 6-4, 4-6, 6-2; Saumya Ronde bt Sreenidhi Balaji 2-2 (retired).

- Team Sportstar

GOLF

Record entries and purse for seventh leg of Women’s Pro Golf Tour

A star-studded area with report variety of entries and the best prize fund for a home occasion would be the function of the seventh leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour on the DLF Golf and Country Club in Gurugram.

Virtually all the highest Indian girls stars barring Aditi Ashok, Diksha Dagar and Pranavi Urs will tee up on the occasion, carrying a report purse of Rs 23 lakhs, which will get underway on Tuesday.

Vani Kapoor, Amandeep Drall, Ridhima Dilawari and Seher Atwal, who've been enjoying on the Ladies European Tour (LET) occasions, as additionally Tvesa Malik, Neha Tripathi and Gaurika Bishnoi, who will probably be part of them on the worldwide circuit quickly, are additionally within the area.

Five of the six winners of the six occasions held to this point are additionally within the area, together with Sneha Singh, the one a number of winner of the continued season.

The different winners of the season, who will likely be on the occasion embrace Seher, Amandeep and Gaurika, who gained the sixth leg in a play-off with Tvesa Malik.

Hitaashee Bakshi, who's on a comeback path after being out of motion for some time, may also fancy her possibilities after her first begin final week.

The 33 professionals, which is the best, will likely be joined by six amateurs, together with Vidhatri Urs and Lavanya Jadon, who performed for India on the Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific in Singapore earlier this month.

The present Order of Merit chief is Sneha Singh, who, after her two wins, is greater than Rs.1,09,000 forward of the second positioned Seher Awal. Amandeep Drall is mendacity third and Khushi Khanijau and Jasmine Shekar are mendacity fourth and fifth.

- PTI