Asia-Oceania World Juniors: India beat Hong Kong
The Indian women sustained their good run and beat seventh seed Hong Kong 2-0 within the final league match of group D within the Asia-Oceania World Junior under-14 tennis event in Kuching, Malaysia, on Wednesday.
Having overwhelmed Singapore and Lebanon earlier, the Indian crew topped the group and can play Kazakhstan, which completed second to Australia in group-A.
Hong Kong, which completed second in India’s group, will problem Australia, whereas Thailand, Japan, Uzbekistan and Korea had been the opposite groups to make the quarterfinals.
The Captain of the crew, Namita Bal, was pleased with the efficiency of the crew thus far and felt that it was a studying expertise for the ladies.
“For now, we are focusing on recovery, staying fit, staying fresh because that is the biggest advantage we have over Kazakhstan”, mentioned Namita.
RESULT
Group-D: India bt Hong Kong 2-0 (Harithashree Venkatesh bt Sum Yuet Charlotte Lam 6-3, 6-0; Maaya Rajeshwaran bt Yui Hei Hebe Leung 7-5, 6-3).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
ITF Men’s Tournament, Lucknow
Karan Singh knocked out eighth seed Shuichi Sekiguchi of Japan 6-3, 6-4 within the first spherical of the $25,000 ITF males’s tennis event on the Ekaana Sports Complex on Wednesday.
Karan fired 11 aces and transformed three of seven breakpoints to arrange a pre-quarterfinal towards Palaphoom Kovapitukted of Thailand.
In one other match, Manish Sureshkumar fought his well beyond Niki Poonacha 7-6(9), 4-6, 6-2. Niki had led 5-2 within the first set and missed 4 set factors within the tie-break. In the decider, it was a battle for Niki as he saved 5 breakpoints for 2-4, and Manish pulled by.
The champion of the final event in Delhi, Evgeny Donskoy had a tricky time towards Digvijay Pratap Singh, however dealt with the crunch with ease from 4-5 within the third set.
The finalist of the final event, Yusuke Takahashi of Japan survived a scare to win within the third set tie-break towards Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam. It was a commendable effort by Abhinav as he recovered from being down 0-6, 3-5, however missed a match level within the twelfth recreation of the decider that denied him a fairy story end.
RESULTS
Singles (first spherical): Blake Ellis (Aus) bt Yash Chaurasia 6-3, 6-3; Siddharth vishwakarma bt Rushil Khosla 7-6(2), 6-3; Arthur Weber (Fra) bt madhwin Kamath 7-5, 6-2; Vladyslav Orlov (Ukr) bt Faisal Qamar 6-2, 7-5; Boris Butulija (Srb)bt Woobin Shin (Kor) 2-6, 6-4, 6-4; Yusuke Takahashi (Jpn) bt Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 6-0, 5-7, 7-6(4); Karan Singh bt Shuichi Sekiguchi (Jpn) 6-3, 6-4; Palaphoom Kovapitukted (Tha) bt Raghav Jaisinghani 6-2, 6-3; Manish Sureshkumar bt Niki Poonacha 7-6(9), 4-6, 6-2; Evgeny Donskoy bt Digvijay Pratap Singh 6-2, 2-6, 7-5; Mukund Sasikumar bt Stijn Pel )Ned) 6-4, 6-2; Rishab Agarwal bt SD Prajwal Dev 6-4, 6-3; Sidharth Rawat bt Ishaque Eqbal 4-6, 6-2, 6-4; Oliver Crawford (USA) bt George Loffhagen (GBR) 2-6, 6-3, 6-3.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Rithvik Bollipalli & Niki Poonacha bt Chandril Sood & Lakshit Sood 6-4, 6-1; Nitin Kumar Sinha & Arthur Weber (Fra) bt Lohithaksha Bathrinath & Mukund Sasikumar 6-4, 3-6, [10-7]; Blake Ellis (Aus) & Shuichi Sekiguchi (Jpn) bt Vladyslav Orlov (Ukr) & Kelsey Stevenson (Can) 7-6(4), 7-6(2); Ishaque Eqbal & Karan Singh bt Tushar Madan & Faisal Qamar 7-6(3), 6-4; Francis Casey Alcantara (Phi) & Pruchya Isaro (Tha) bt David Perez Sanz (Esp) & Eric Vanshelboim (Ukr) 6-2, 7-6(2); SD Prajwal Dev & Sai Karteek Reddy bt Yash Chaurasia & Lakshya Gupta 6-2, 4-6, [10-5]; Grigoriy Lomakin (Kaz) & Vishnu Vardhan bt Rushil Khosla & Hemant Kumar 6-1, 6-3.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
ITF Juniors, Bhilai
Qualifier Kashit Nagrale stretched Vihaan Reddy to a few units, however the champion of the final two tournaments in Gurugram and Dehradun finally prevailed 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 within the boys pre-quarterfinals of the ITF junior tennis event on the Bhilai Steel Sports Complex on Wednesday.
In the quarterfinals, Vihaan will play fourth seed Vatsal Manikantan, who fought his well beyond Siddharth Marathe 1-6, 7-5, 7-5.
RESULTS (Pre-Quarterfinals)
Boys: Kandhavel Mahalingam bt Arjun Abhyankar 6-0, 6-1; Skandha Rao bt Deepam Malik 6-4, 5-7, 6-2; Victor Mohanram (Esp) bt Swastik Sharma 6-2, 6-2; Vihaan Reddy bt Kashit Nagrale 4-6, 6-4, 6-2; Vatsal Manikantan bt Siddharth Marathe 1-6, 7-5, 7-5; Daksh Kukreti bt Mayank Sharma 6-7(2), 6-4, 6-3; Smit Patel bt Teetawat Tavachphongsri (Tha) 6-4, 6-4.
Girls: Aishwarya Jadhav bt Shaivi Dalal 6-3, 6-1; Riya Sachdeva bt Shimreen Ahamed 4-6, 7-5, 7-6(5); Amodini Naik bt Hirva Rangani 6-3, 6-0; Suhani Gaur bt Danaiya amangazhiyeva (Kaz) 6-1, 6-4; Devanshee Prabhudesai bt Aleena Farid 6-2, 6-4; Prisha Shinde bt Anvi Punaganti 6-3, 6-1; Nemha Sarah Kispotta bt Aanya Choubey 5-7, 7-5, 7-5; Saumya Ronde bt Shagun Kumari 6-0, 6-1.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
No IOC crew at World championship
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has not despatched any crew to the continued World ladies’s boxing championships.
Even although the International Boxing Association (IBA) had claimed that an IOC crew, led by the PriceWaterhouseCoopers, could be current on the occasion, sources confirmed that none from the Olympic physique got here to the occasion.
However, a crew of the McLaren Independent Investigation Unit (MIIU) has been doing onsite monitoring of the occasion.
- Y.B. Sarangi
Tvesa fires 68 to rise to high of leaderboard in seventh Leg of Hero WPGT
Tvesa Malik, taking part in on her residence course on the DLF Golf and Country Club, climbed to the highest of the leaderboard for the primary time this season within the seventh leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour right here on Wednesday.
Tvesa, who had a none-too-happy season on the Ladies European Tour in 2022, seemed decided as she has been shaking off the rust over the past two weeks.
Every week after dropping in a playoff to Gaurika Bishnoi within the sixth leg of the Tour, Tvesa carded four-under 68, her finest spherical of the yr, to take a one-shot lead into the ultimate spherical.
Following up on her modest 74 on the primary day, Tvesa, with 68, moved to 2 beneath 142 and was one shot forward of final week’s winner, Gaurika (71-72).
Amateur Vidhatri Urs, contemporary from her expertise on the Queen Sirikit Cup the place India completed second within the Philippines after which taking part in on the Women’s Amateur Asia Pacific in Singapore, confirmed good kind with one-under 71 and was mendacity sole third at even par 144.
Vani Kapoor (72-73) suffered three bogeys within the final 5 holes and was fourth whereas Ridhima Dilawari (73-74) and Asmitha Sathish (75-72) had been tied for the fifth spot.
Tvesa, making an attempt to play herself again into kind, has improved with every outing. She birdied the second after which had back-to-back birdies on the fifth and sixth. She dropped a shot on the seventh solely to get one other pair of birdies on the eighth and ninth after which turned in an outstanding four-under 32.
On the again 9, she bogeyed the tenth and birdied the seventeenth for the day’s work of 68.
Gaurika additionally had two units of back-to-back birdies on the eighth and ninth after which ay the sixteenth and seventeenth. However, she dropped bogeys on first, third, eleventh and thirteenth and completed even par and dropped from being an in a single day co-leader to second place.
Vidhatri had 5 birdies towards two bogeys and a double bogey and Vani Kapoor had three birdies and three of her 4 bogeys got here on Par-5s as she carded 73.
Seher Atwal (76-73), with one birdie and one bogey on both aspect of the course, was the only real seventh whereas one other beginner Anvvi Dahhiya (80-73) and Amandeep Drall (74-79), the runner-up on the Hero Women’s Indian Open on the identical course final yr, had been tied eighth.
Oviya Reddi (77-77) and Agrima Manral (75-79) had been tied for tenth.
Amandeep had a spherical to neglect as she parred the entire of the entrance 9 after which had 4 bogeys in a row from the tenth and closed with a triple bogey on the 18th.
The reduce fell at 161 and 23 gamers made the reduce. Among the distinguished names lacking the reduce had been Saaniya Sharma and Hitaashee Bakshi. PTI Cor SSC Tee occasions for the second spherical of the seventh leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour on the DLF Golf and Country Club:
SCORES
1. 7:30 am: Ananya Datar 161, Durga Nittur 161 2. 7:40 am: Jasmine Shekar 160, Sneha Singh 160, Lakhmehar Pardesi 159 3. 7:50 am: Khushi Khanijau 159, Riya Yadav 158, Kriti Chowhan 158 4. 8:00 am: Neha Tripathi 158, Rhea Purvi S. 157, Shweta Mansingh 156 5. 8:15 am: Rhea Jha 155, Agrima Manral 154, Oviya Reddi 154 6. 8:25 am: Amandeep Drall 153, Anvvi Dahhiya (A) 153, Seher Atwal 149 7. 8:35 am: Ridhima Dilawari 147, Asmitha Sathish 147, Vani Kapoor 145 8. 8:45 am: Vidhatri Urs (A) 144, Gaurika Bishnoi 143, Tvesa Malik 142 SSC SSC
-PTI
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