MOTORSPORTS
TVS Racing creates a brand new prime velocity document within the first spherical of 2023 TVS Asia One Make Championship
With a 40-year heritage of racing, TVS Racing, the flagbearer of One Make Championship in India rung within the 2 nd version of TVS Asia One Make Championship 2023 in an exhilarating method by breaking its final 12 months data on the Chang International Circuit, Thailand.
Further solidifying its place as India’s main racing crew within the two-wheeler motorsports area, TVS Racing created a brand new prime velocity document of 215.9 km/hr within the first spherical of the worldwide championship that occurs on the facet strains of ARRC.
Speaking on this momentous event, Mr Vimal Sumbly, Head Business – Premium, TVS Motor Company, stated, “We and our customers are extremely proud of the record-breaking performance by TVS Racing at the 2023 TVS Asia One Make Championship. This is a testament to the hard work and dedication of the team, and their pursuit of excellence in all aspects of motorsports.”
-Team Sportstar
Asia Oceania World juniors: Honk Kong beats India
The Indian boys fought valiantly however Hong Kong asserted itself with a 3-0 victory within the final league match of Group-C within the Asia-Oceania World junior under-14 tennis event in Kuching, Malaysia, on Wednesday.
Having solely overwhelmed New Zealand within the league, India positioned third behind Hong Kong and Chinese Taipei, which certified for the quarterfinals.
Korea, Japan, Kazakhstan, Thailand, Pakistan and Australia have been the opposite groups to make it to the knock-out stage.
India will play Iran within the first play-off match to resolve the decrease placings from the ninth spot.
Results (league):
Hong Kong bt India 3-0 (Fu Wang Choi bt Prakaash Sarran 6-2, 6-0; Sin Hang Tam bt Shivtej Shirfule 6-0, 6-7(2), 6-3; Fun Wang Choi & Selwyn Wong bt Prakaash & Shivtej 4-6, 6-4, [14-12]).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Top seed Karthik Karunakaran ousted at National Wheelchair Championship
Balachandar Subramanian beat prime seed Karthik Karunakaran 4-6, 7-6(4), [10-5] within the semifinals of the National wheelchair tennis championship on the Indore Tennis Club on Wednesday.
In the ultimate, Subramanian will play his doubles companion and second seed Shekar Veerasswamy who eased previous Sathasivam Kannupayan for the lack of two video games.
In the doubles ultimate, Subramanian and Veeraswamy will play the highest seeds Mariappan Durai and Karunakaran.
In the ladies’s part, prime seed KP Shilpa gained her third and final league match towards Sheranthi Thomas 9-1 to emerge the champion within the four-player subject. She had earlier overwhelmed Prathima Rao and Nalina Kumari, with equal ease.
RESULTS:
Men: Balachandar Subramanian bt Karthik Karunakaran 4-6, 7-6(4), [10-5]; Shekar Veeraswamy bt Sathasivam Kannupayan 6-1, 6-1.
Doubles: Mariappan Durai & Karthik Karunakaran bt H Madhusudan & Indrajeet Pandey 6-1, 6-4; B Subramanian & Shekar Veeraswamy bt M Gabriel & SSureshkumar 6-1, 7-5.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
India’s SD Prajwal Dev advances to pre-quarterfinals of Mysuru Open
India’s SD Prajwal Dev made his manner into the singles pre-quarterfinals of the ITF Mysuru Open with a 6-4 7-5 win over compatriot S Abhinav Sanjeev on the Mysore Tennis Club on Wednesday.
Prajwal was scheduled to fulfill skilled Indian participant Ramkumar Ramanathan, who was seeded fifth right here, however the latter needed to withdraw from the event owing to an damage.
Prajwal, the 26-year-old Mysuru participant, will face his countryman Vishnu Vardhan within the Round of 16.
The USD 25,000 occasion is being hosted by the Karnataka State Lawn Tennis Association (KSLTA).
But the largest shock of the day got here when unseeded Briton George Loffhagen, a world quantity 182, shocked top-seeded Nam Hoang Ly of Vietnam 6-3 6-4.
However, the second-seeded Oliver Crawford of the USA and Oriov Vladyslav of Ukraine had higher fortunes on the day, advancing to the pre-quarterfinals.
Crawford had little hassle in vanquishing Manish Ganesh, a wildcard entrant from India, with a 6-1 6-3 victory. But Vladyslav confronted a stiff problem from India’s Niki Poonacha earlier than rising a 4-6 6-2 6-3 victor.
Eighth-seeded Australian Ellis Blake too booked a berth within the pre-quarterfinals after his Indian opponent Siddharth Vishwakarma, a qualifier, withdrew from the match whereas main 2-0 within the first set.
Fourth-seeded Mukund Sasikumar took to court docket late within the night towards Serbia’s Boris Butulija. But the skies opened as much as interrupt the match when the Indian participant was main 2-1 within the first set. The match will resume on Thursday.
-PTI
Arjun Kadhe reaches doubles quarterfinals in Lille Challenger
Arjun Kadhe and Igor Zelenay of Slovakia beat the fourth seeds Andrew Harris and John-Patrick Smith of Australia 6-3, 3-6, [10-3] within the doubles quarterfinals of the €118,000 Challenger tennis event in Lille, France, on Wednesday.
RESULTS
€145,000 Challenger, Sanremo, Italy
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Roman Jebavy & Adam Pavlasek (Cze) bt Sriram Balaji & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 6-3, 6-3.
€118,000 Challenger, Lille, France
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Arjun Kadhe & Igor Zelenay (Svk) bt Andrew Harris & John-Patrick Smith (Aus) 6-3, 3-6, [10-3].
€73,000 Challenger, Girona, Spain
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Yuki Bhambri & Saketh Myneni bt Zvonimir Babic (Cro) & Piotr Matuszewski (Pol) 6-3, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF males, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (first spherical): Alexandre Reco (Fra) bt Manas Dhamne 6-2, 7-5.
$25,000 ITF girls, Jakarta, Indonesia
Singles (first spherical): Hanyu Guo (Chn) bt Sahaja Yamalapalli 6-0, 6-3; Ankita Raina bt Peangtarn Plepuech (Tha) 6-0, 6-2; Rutuja Bhosale bt Haruna Arakawa (Jpn) 6-2, 6-2.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Shotgun World Cup: India finishes sixteenth in combined skeet occasion
Areeba Khan and Angad Vir Singh Bajwa shot a mixed rating of 131 and positioned sixteenth in combined skeet within the shotgun World Cup in Larnaca, Cyprus, on Wednesday.
The different Indian crew of Raiza Dhillon and Man Singh had a complete of 125 and positioned twenty second amongst 32 groups.
Nadine Messerschmidt and Sven Korte of Germany, who needed to win a shoot-off towards the formidable crew of Kimberly Rhode and Dustan Taylor to make the gold medal match, went on to beat the qualification toppers from Cyprus Anastasia Eleftheriou and Petros Englezoudis 6-4 for the gold.
RESULT
Mixed skeet: 1. Germany (Nadine Messerschmidt, Sven Korte) 6 (137); 2. Cyprus (Anastasia Eleftheriou, Petros Englezoudis) 4 (140); 3. Chile (Francisca Chadid, Hector Barrahona) 6 (136); 4. USA (Kimberly Rhode, Dustan Taylor) 2 (137)3; 16. India (Areeba Khan, Angad Vir Singh Bajwa) 131; 22. India-2 (Raiza Dhillon, Man Singh) 125.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Kochi to host first marathon with prize cash
The Federal Bank Kochi Marathon, the town’s first 42.195km run with a prize-money, will likely be held on May 1. Apart from the primary occasion, there will likely be a half marathon, a 10-km occasion and a 3km inexperienced run which hopes to draw faculties, housing societies, establishments and ladies’s teams in huge numbers.
The marathons held earlier within the metropolis didn't have any prize-money however the Kochi Marathon, which has Federal Bank as its title sponsor and which will likely be organised by CleoSportz, will carry a complete prize fund of Rs 10 lakh. The organisers hope to rope in a number of the nationwide stars for the occasion.
Kerala High Court Judge Devan Ramachandran launched the marathon’s brand and Kochi Metro Rail Limited’s MD Loknath Behera was offered the primary bib of the occasion by Kochi City Police Commissioner Okay. Sethuraman.
Olympians Gopi Thonakal and O.P. Jaisha, additionally the nationwide document holder within the girls’s marathon, Federal Bank Group President and CFO Venkatraman Venkateswaran and Coast Guard DIG N. Ravi have been amongst those that spoke.
Organised in affiliation with Kerala Police, the marathon will likely be flagged off from the Maharaja’s Stadium and can run by way of an attractive course.
-Stan Rayan
Delhi International Open: Aravindh Chithambaram takes lead with win over Murzin
Aravindh Chithambaram took an enormous step in the direction of successful the Delhi International chess title when he defeated fellow joint-leader Volodar Murzin and opened a half-point lead going into Thursday’s tenth and ultimate spherical.
The top-board battle within the ninth and penultimate spherical lasted 40 strikes when Murzin, outplayed by the extra skilled Indian, resigned.
Aravindh is adopted by 5 abroad challengers at eight factors. Further half some extent behind are 14 gamers, together with 10 Indians.
Since Aravindh doesn't take pleasure in the very best tie-break rating after 9 rounds, he can't be certain of successful the title with a final-round draw.
RESULTS
Ninth spherical: Arvindh Chithambaram (8.5) bt Volodar Murzin (FIDE, 7.5); Levan Pantsulaia (Geo, 8) bt Neelash Saha (7); Deepan Chakkravarthy (7.5) drew with Kiheil Mchedlishvili (Geo, 7.5); Kirill Stupak (FIDE, 7) misplaced to Boris Savchenko (FIDE, 8); Anuj Shrivatri (7) drew with Michal Krasenkow (Pol, 7.5); Luka Paichadze (Geo, 8) bt Ameya Audi (7); Aleksej Aleksandrov (FIDE, 8) bt S. Nitin (7); Almas Rakhmatullaev (Uzb, 7) misplaced to Alexei Fedorov (FIDE, 8); S. P. Sethuraman (7.5) bt Eldiar Orozbaev (Kgz, 7).
-Rakesh Rao
FIDE WOMEN’S GRAND PRIX: Koneru Humpy, Vaishali lose in fourth spherical
Okay. Humpy and R. Vaishali crashed to fourth-round defeats on a day when all boards produced decisive verdicts within the FIDE Women’s Grand Prix chess right here on Wednesday.
Humpy, enjoying white towards China’s Zhu Jiner, missed some tactical strokes after Move 20 and finally surrendered after 36 strikes with a bishop much less on the board.
Vaishali yielded an excessive amount of floor to Kateryna Lagno within the center recreation in a closed place. Soon Kateryna traded her rooks for Vaishali’s queen and got here inside seven strikes of checkmating her younger rival. Vaishali resigned on the fortieth transfer.
Aleksandra Goryachkina ended a two-win run for in a single day chief Bibisara Assaubayeva by inflicting a 70-move defeat. Polina Shuvalova scored over Nana Dzagnidze in 52 strikes. D. Harika and Georgian Nino Batsiashvili loved a bye.
RESULTS
Fourth spherical: Okay. Humpy (1.5) misplaced to Zhu Jiner (Chn, 2.5); Kateryna Lagno (FIDE, 2) bt R. Vaishali (0); Polina Shuvalova (FIDE, 2.5) btNana Dzagnidze (Geo 1.5); Aleksandra Goryachkina (FIDE, 2) bt Bibisara Assaubayeva (Kaz, 2); D. Harika and Nino Batsiashvili (Geo, 0.5) bye.
-Rakesh Rao
The Challenge 2023: Kartik Sharma is highest-placed Indian in tied fourth, Fitzpatrick leads
Kartik Sharma (66-67) was the highest-placed Indian golfer in tied fourth at 11-under 133 at The Challenge 2023, a USD 300,000 occasion being performed on the Karnataka Golf Association (KGA) course.
The others sharing fourth place have been Switzerland’s Joel Girrbach (69-64), who shot the day’s joint finest rating of 64 in addition to Frenchman Frederic Lacroix (67-66).
Englishman Alex Fitzpatrick seized the midway lead with a second straight seven-under 6. Fitzpatrick (65-65), who was in a single day tied second and one off the lead, took his whole rating to 14-under 130 in spherical two to guide by one shot on the occasion co-sanctioned by the Challenge Tour and PGTI.
Spain’s Ivan Cantero Gutierrez (66-65) occupied second place at 13-under 131 whereas Dutchman Lars Van Meijel (66-66) was in third place at 12-under 132. The lower was declared at two-under 142. Sixty-nine gamers together with 66 professionals and all of the three amateurs within the subject made the lower. Twenty Indian gamers out of a complete of 55 made the lower.
Twenty-four-year-old Alex Fitzpatrick, enjoying his rookie season on the Challenge Tour, additionally occurs to be the youthful brother of 2022 US Open champion Matthew Fitzpatrick. The man from Sheffield has gone bogey-free within the event to this point. Fitzpatrick, who missed the lower finally week’s occasion at KGA, produced an eagle and 5 birdies on Wednesday.
The highlights of Alex’s second spherical included his excellent drive on the par-4 first gap that landed on the inexperienced and arrange a birdie, a 10-foot eagle conversion on the fifth and a chip-in from the bunker for birdie on the ninth.
The left-handed Kartik, mendacity tied fifth and two photographs off the lead firstly of the day, sank three lengthy birdie putts from a spread of 10 to 30 ft on the back-nine. The 22-year-old Kartik, but to register his first win, then added two extra birdies courtesy his correct chipping on the front-nine.
India’s Aman Raj, like Kartik, too fired a flawless 67, to maneuver up six spots and finish the day in tied tenth place at nine-under 135.
The Indian duo of Udayan Mane (64) and M Dharma (66) have been tied fifteenth at eight-under 136. Udayan fired the day’s joint finest rating of 64.
- PTI
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