TENNIS

India loses to Korea in Junior Davis Cup quarterfinals

Top seed Korea gained each the singles matches with out dropping a set to scotch India’s hopes within the quarterfinals of the Asia-Oceania Junior Davis Cup under-16 tennis event in Shymkent, Kazakhstan, on Thursday.

Moobeeb Kim beat Rethin Pranav 7-6(2), 6-1 within the opening singles. Donghyun Hwang dropped 5 video games in beating Kriish Tyagi within the second match. Korea gave a walkover within the inconsequential doubles.

The second seeded India will play Australia within the positional play-off for the 5-Eighth locations. Kazakhstan, Thailand and Japan have been the opposite groups that made it to the semifinals. All the highest 4 groups certified for the World Group competitors to be staged later in Europe.

The outcomes (quarterfinals): Korea bt India 2-1 (Moobeeb Kim bt Rethin Pranav 7-6(2), 6-1; Donghyun Hwang bt Kriish Tyagi 6-2, 6-3; Yeonsu Jeong & Moobeeb Kim misplaced to Aarjun Pandit & Kriish Tyagi w.o.).

GOLF

Diksha, Tvesa amongst 5 Indians in Jabra Ladies Open in France

The trio of Diksha Dagar, Amandeep Drall and Tvesa Malik will lead the Indian problem on the Jabra Ladies Open because the Ladies European Tour begins on its European leg of the season.

Five Indians in a area of 132 present the rising energy of Indian golf, as all 5 have been distinguished winners on the home Hero Women’s Golf Tour, the place they lower their tooth.

While Diksha has a LET win in South Africa prior to now, the 2022 Hero Women’s Indian runner-up Amandeep Drall and each Tvesa Malik and Vani Kapoor have featured in Top-5 of the LET occasions and are searching for their breakthrough.

While Diksha, Vani and Amandeep bought a spot within the occasion on the energy of their efficiency final season, Seher has come by way of the LET Qualifying School and Tvesa, who had a disappointing 2023, bought in through the reserve checklist on the Career Money Category.

-PTI

PICKLEBALL

AIPA to organise third National Ranking Pickleball Tournament in Margao

The third National Ranking Pickleball Tournament will probably be organised by the All India Pickleball Association (AIPA) from May 19 to 21.

The AIPA will conduct the event in affiliation with the Goa Pickleball Association and the Directorate of Sports and Youth Affairs, Goa. The competitors will probably be held on the Fatorda Stadium. The earlier two editions have been held in Pune in 2019 and at Dombivli, close to Mumbai in 2021.

“The three-day tournament will witness over 250 participants from 16 states. The players can choose to compete from 16 different categories like Under-14 and Under-19 men’s, women’s open, 35 plus men, 35 plus women, 50 plus men, and 50 plus women apart from mixed doubles,” a launch mentioned.

The event will function gamers together with Tejas Mahajan, Mayur Patil, Kuldeep Mahajan, Isha Lakhani, Snehal Patil, Vrushali Thakare, and Under-19 champion siblings Arjun and Aditya, Himansh Mehta, Avinash Kumar from Bihar in addition to SonuKumar Vishwakarma from Dhanbad, Jharkhand.

Himanshu Dewaskar, Sandeep Tawde and Ajeet Bharadwaj are among the many gamers from 35 plus and 50 plus.

“We have been getting great responses from players who are looking to participate in the National Ranking Tournament. The sport is growing, and we want to make sure that it reaches every nook and corner of India,” mentioned AIPA president Arvind Prabhoo.

-Team Sportstar

SHOOTING

Sarabjot and Divya clinch gold in Shooting World Cup

Sarabjot Singh and TS Divya beat world champions Zorana Arunovic and Damir Mikec of Serbia 16-14 to clinch the combined air pistol gold within the World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Thursday.

With the 2 groups tied on 14-14, Sarabjot shot 10.6 and Divya 9.9. Zorana shot 8.6 and Mikec had 10.3. With 20.5 complete as in opposition to 18.9, the Indian pair bought the 2 factors and the gold with it.

The different Indian staff of Esha Singh and Varun Tomar scored 5778 and missed the medal spherical by two factors.

It was the second medal for India, following the ladies’s air pistol bronze by Rhythm Sangwan. India was second within the medals desk behind China which had one gold and one silver.

The Chinese bought each these medals in combined air rifle. The Indian duo of Tilottama Sen and Hriday Hazarika positioned seventeenth in a area of 72 groups.

The outcomes:

Mixed air rifle: 1. China (Huang Yuting, Sheng Lihao) 16 (634.2); 2. China-2 (Wang Zhilin, Yang Haoran) 14 (632.8); 3. Czech Republic (Aneta Brabcova, Frantisek Smetana) 17 (630.0); 4. Hungary (Denes Eszter, Pekler Zelan) 11 (630.8); 17. India-2 (Tilottama Sen, Hriday Hazarika) 627.6; 28. India (Ramita Jindal, Rudrankksh Patil) 626.3.

Mixed air pistol: 1. India (TS Divya, Sarabjot Singh) 16 ((581); 2. Serbia (Zorana Arunovic, Damir Mikec) 14 (581); 3. Turkey (Simal Yilmaz, Ismail Keles) 17 (581); 4. Italy (Sara Costantino, Paolo Monna) 9 (580); 6. India-2 (Esha Singh, Varun Tomar) 578.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

TENNIS

Arjun Kadhe in Busan semifinals

Arjun Kadhe in partnership with Nam Ji Sunggh of Korea beat Jaesung Choe and Uisung Park 7-6(3), 6-3 within the doubles quarterfinals of the $160,000 Challenger tennis event in Busan, Korea, on Thursday.

The outcomes:

$160,000 Challenger, Busan, Korea Doubles (quarterfinals): Arjun Kadhe & Nam Ji Sung (Kor) bt Jaesung Choe & Uisung Park (Kor) 7-6(3), 6-3.

€118,000 Challenger, Mauthausen, Austria Doubles (quarterfinals): Marco Bortolotti (Ita) & Inigo Cervantes (Esp) bt Sriram Balaji & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan 6-2, 6-4.

$25,000 ITF girls, Kachreti, Georgia Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Zhuoxuan Bai (Chn) bt Sahaja Yamalapalli 6-3, 6-3.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Stacey Fung (Can) & Maria Kozyreva bt Zeel Desai & Sahaja Yamalapalli 7-6(5), 6-3.

$15,000 ITF girls, Monastir, Tunisia Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Ranah Stoiber (GBR) bt Tanisha Kashyap 7-6((2), 6-3.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Lucie Wargnier (Fra) & Sharmada Balu bt Diana Ilie (Rou) Lena Iglesias (Fra) 6-3, 6-1; Ranim Rassil (Tun) & Aaddi Gupta bt Chahd Berriri (Tun) &Sarah Hawkshaw (Irl) 7-5, 6-7(3), [10-3].

-Kamesh Srinivasan