TENNIS

AITA National sequence juniors: Divya Ungrish defeats high seed Shagun Kumari

Divya Ungrish beat the highest seed Shagun Kumari 6-1, 6-4 to clinch the women title within the AITA National sequence under-18 tennis match on the Singha Sports Academy on Friday.

In the boys part, Ashwajit Senjam beat high seed Keshav Goel 6-0, 6-2 to arrange a title conflict in opposition to Arjun Rathi.

RESULTS

Under-18 boys (semifinals): Ashwajit Senjam bt Keshav Goel 6-0, 6-2; Arjun Rathi bt Shivam Devam 6-3, 7-5.Doubles (closing): Keshav Goel & Satwik Kollepalli bt Jatin Nan & Aryan Chauhan 6-3, 6-3.Under-18 women (closing): Divya Ungrish bt Shagun Kumari 6-1, 6-4;Semifinals: Shagun bt Saumrita Verma 6-4, 6-1; Divya bt Jjeetesh Kumari 6-0, 7-6(3).Doubles (closing): Shagun Kumari & Saumrita Verma bt Saumya Chatterjee & Sohini Chatterjee 6-2, 6-4.

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Niki Poonacha loses doubles semifinals

Niki Poonacha in partnership with Adam Taylor was overwhelmed 7-6(4), 4-6, [10-6] within the doubles semifinals of the $80,000 Challenger tennis match in Tunis, Tunisia, on Friday.

The semifinal entry fetched 30 ATP factors and $1,630 for the Indo-Aussie pair.

In the $25,000 ITF occasion in Kursumlijska Banja, Serbia, high seeds Rithvik Bollipalli and Sai Karteek Reddy missed 5 match factors and had been overwhelmed 6-4, 3-6, [18-16] within the doubles quarterfinals.

The outcomes:

$80,000 Challenger, Tunis, TunisiaDoubles (semifinals): James McCabe (Aus) & Aziz Ouakaa (Tun) bt Niki Poonacha &Adam Taylor (Aus) 7-6(4), 4-6, [10-6].

$25,000 ITF males, Kursumlijska Banja, SerbiaDoubles (quarterfinals): Guy Ouden (Ned) & Samuel Ruggeri (Ita) bt Rithvik Bollipalli & Sai Karteek Reddy 6-4, 3-6, [18-16].

$15,000 ITF males, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Singles (quarterfinals): Alec Beckley (RSA) bt Digvijay Pratap Singh 7-6(1), 6-4; Eric Vanshelboim (Ukr) bt SD Prajwal Dev 6-3, 7-6(6).

Doubles (quarterfinals): Akram El Sallaly (Egy) & Kris Van Wyk (RSA) bt Chirag Duhan & Sina Moghimi (Iri) 7-5, 4-6, [10-8]; Ishaque Eqbal & Karan Ssingh bt Dylan Salton (RSA) & Mattias Ssouthcombe (GBR) 6-4, 6-2; Yash Chaurasia & Jagmeet Singh bt Jjonathan Baron & Ben Weintraub (Isr) 6-3, 6-2.

$25,000 ITF ladies, Kachreti, Georgia

Singles (quarterfinals): Dejana Radanovic (Srb) bt Sahaja Yamalapalli 6-4, 6-3.

$15,000 ITF ladies, Curitiba, Brazil

Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Smriti Bhasin bt Maria Turchetto (Bra) 6-1, 6-3.

$15,000 ITF ladies, Monastir, Tunisia

Doubles (quarterfinals): Sharmada Balu & Elaine Genovese (Mlt) bt Alisha Reayer (GBR) & Elizaveta Shebekina 6-4, 6-2.

-Team Sportstar

WRESTLING

Former World cadet champion and World junior bronze medallist Sagar Jaglan gained the under-23 freestyle 79kg trials to get chosen for the Asian under-17 and under-23 wrestling championships on Friday.

Altogether 213 wrestlers in freestyle, 86 in Greco Roman and 98 in ladies participated within the trials held at Sonepat and Patiala.

The chosen wrestlers: U-17: Freestyle: Sourabh (65kg), Saurabh Yadav (80kg); Greco Roman: Sachin Kumar (65kg), Aman (80kg); Women: Neha (57kg), Shiksha (65kg).

U-23: Abhimanyu (70kg), Yash (74kg), Sagar Jaglan (79kg); Greco Roman: Vinayak Patil (67kg), Ankit Gulia (72kg), Vikas (77kg); Women: Rajni (57kg), Nitika (62kg), Bhateri (65kg).

EQUESTRIAN

SAI takes cognisance on non-selection of equestrian gamers for Asiad

The Sports Authority of India (SAI) on Friday took cognisance on the non-selection of Fouaad Mirza, Chirag Khandal and Shashank Singh Kataria within the Asian Games lengthy record after the intervention of the nation’s high court docket.

SAI officers, together with Shiv Sharma, Deputy Director General (DDG) on Friday interacted with Mirza, Khandal and Kataria just about concerning their grievances on non-selection within the lengthy record for the upcoming Asian Games to be held in September-October in Hangzhou.

According to a SAI assertion, whereas Khandal has knowledgeable SAI that the Hon’ble Supreme Court had directed the Equestrian Federation of India (EFI) to incorporate his identify within the Asian Games lengthy record, Tokyo Olympian Mirza and Katariya, on their behalf, have requested their inclusion within the Asian Games lengthy record.

They have additionally demanded a good and clear choice course of.

“SAI has taken cognisance on the matter and informed EFI to take a suitable decision on the same as soon as possible,” SAI mentioned within the assertion.

The Delhi High Court in March had additionally criticised the beleaguered Equestrian Federation of India (EFI) for an unfair choice course of for the upcoming Hangzhou Asian Games.

The court docket had ordered the EFI to permit all athletes who participated in choice trials, both in 2021–2022 or 2022–2023, to be chosen as possible and attend teaching camps in Europe.

The EFI had earlier uncared for the minimal eligibility requirement which led the gamers to maneuver the court docket.

-PTI

GOLF

Rough begin for Lahiri, prone to miss reduce at PGA; DeChambeau in lead

Returning to Major motion after a full 12 months, Anirban Lahiri had a disappointing begin on the a hundred and fifth PGA Championship as he was seven-over after 12 holes within the second spherical to significantly jeopardise his possibilities of making the reduce on the Oak Hill Country Club right here.

Four over after 16 holes when play ended on a weather-hit opening spherical on Thursday, Lahiri completed with pars for a spherical of 74.

Soon after he began the second spherical and was three-over after 12 holes to go to seven-over from the place he was virtually sure to overlook the reduce. He was mendacity Tied 111th.

Former US Open champion Bryson DeChambeau held a one-shot lead after the frost-hit first spherical ended on Friday.

Liv Golf League member DeChambeau shot 66, whilst 5 gamers, together with fellow LIV member Dustin Johnson, world quantity two Scottie Scheffler, and in a single day clubhouse chief Eric Cole had been bunched along with 3 beneath par 67s.

World no 1 Jon Rahm of Spain had a tough begin and was six-over 76 and confronted with a tricky activity to make the reduce.

Three-time previous PGA Championship winner Phil Mickelson was three-over 73 after the primary spherical.

Other massive names in issues had been England’s Matt Fitzpatrick (76), Jason Day, final week’s winner on the PGA Tour Jason Day (76) of Australia and Korea’s rising star Joohyung ‘Tom’ Kim (73).

-PTI