Indian sports activities information wrap, November 14

GOLF

Sharma falters in closing phases, finishes third at Nedbank Problem

India’s Shubhankar Sharma faltered in direction of the tip with back-to-back bogeys to squander the lead and finally end third on the Nedbank Golf Problem right here.

Sharma (71, 69, 69, 69) bogeyed the sixteenth and seventeenth holes to let the benefit slip as he carded three-under 69 within the remaining spherical late on Sunday.

The 26-year-old Indian, who had a disappointing run after his runner-up end in Abu Dhabi at first of the yr, completed nine-under for the match on the Gary Participant Golf Course to say a prize cash of 372,906 euros.

At one stage, he was 11-under after 15 holes.

Sharma will now play the DP World Tour Championship in Dubai from November 17-20.

Sharma’s solely different high 10 end this yr was a powerful T-2 end in January on the USD 8 million HSBC Championship in Abu Dhabi. After that he missed lots of cuts.

Defending champion Tommy Fleetwood of England shot a five-under 67 for back-to-back titles, ending 11-under for the match, profitable by one shot over Ryan Fox, who ended 10-under after carding a 68.

Fleetwood received the Nedbank Problem in 2019, when it was final held. So, he held on to his title regardless of three intervening years.

Sharma regarded set for a 3rd European Tour victory with 4 holes left after he birdied the par-5 14th gap to get to 11-under, drawing stage with Fleetwood, who had simply recovered fantastically from the bunker for an eagle on the outlet.

Fox, the opposite participant within the group, additionally birdied the outlet for a three-way tie for the lead.

Then because the match entered the ultimate phases, Fleetwood parred all of the remaining holes, whereas Sharma bogeyed the sixteenth and seventeenth holes. Fox bogeyed the ultimate gap to complete one shot again.

Fleetwood and Fox went into the ultimate spherical three pictures behind Rasmus Højgaard and Thomas Detry and the in a single day leaders had solely managed 5 holes when play was suspended resulting from lightning within the space.

Shortly after the restart, Højgaard went bogey-bogey-double bogey from the seventh, and Fleetwood and Sharma took benefit, shifting to 10 beneath with birdies on the par-five ninth.

Sharma posted one other on the tenth whereas Fleetwood might solely par as Fox joined the occasion.

Fox had began with six straight pars, then birdied 4 in a row. He left himself round eight ft on the seventh and eighth, was unfortunate with an extended eagle putt on the ninth earlier than tapping in, after which holed an 11-footer on the tenth.

Fleetwood slipped again after a bogey on the twelfth however a second of magic on the 14th turned issues again in his favour. He was within the bunker left of the par-five in two and holed it for an eagle it to leap to 11 beneath.

Moments later, his enjoying companions Sharma and Fox rolled of their birdie putts and the three of them walked to the fifteenth tee sharing the lead.

Sharma’s problem ended with bogeys at 16 and 17 and when Fleetwood tapped in for par on the final, after nearly sinking an enormous birdie try, Fox paid for a poor tee shot and posted his solely bogey of the day on the worst attainable second.

Whereas Sharma completed in solo third, Scotland’s Richie Ramsay ended a shot additional again. Christiaan Bezuidenhout was the very best positioned residence participant at seven-under par alongside Sweden’s Sebastian Soderberg.

The occasion was held after a three-year hole due to the Covid pandemic.

Sharma had received on the European Tour in December 2017 when he claimed the Joburg Open, adopted by the Maybank Championship.

-PTI

Sandhu high Indian at twenty first as Ogletree wins maiden professional title

Cairo, Nov 14 (PTI) India’s Ajeetesh Sandhu shot one-under 69 to emerge as the perfect Indian at tied twenty seventh on the USD 1.5 million Worldwide Series Egypt right here.

Sandhu was 7-under 283 for the week.

SSP Chawrasia (69) was the following finest Indian at 3-under 277 in tied forty first, whereas S Chikkarangappa (70) was tied forty fifth. Viraj Madappa (72) was tied 51st and Gaganjeet Bhullar (70) completed tied 61st in what was a disappointing marketing campaign for the Indians.

Andy Ogletree fired a remaining spherical eight-under 62 to complete with a match whole of 23-under and win by 4 pictures from Austria’s Bernd Wiesberger, who returned a 63.

It was Ogletree’s maiden title within the skilled ranks.

Korean Jeunghun Wang (64) and Sihwan Kim (65) from the USA tied for third, seven behind the winner. The end result noticed Sihwan Kim return to the highest of the Asian Tour Order of Advantage listing.

Ogletree began the day with a three-shot benefit from Wiesberger and took a agency grip of the match by touring the entrance 9 in four-under-par 32 with birdies on one, three, 5, seven and 9 with a dropped shot on eight doing little harm to his lead.

He was 4 forward of Wiesberger on the flip. The Austrian pushed exhausting to mount a problem and eagled the par-four tenth after holing his second however Ogletree responded with a birdie on that gap to sit down comfortably three in entrance.

Wiesberger closed to inside two after a birdie on 13 however the sixteenth proved to be pivotal because the American made a birdie whereas Wiesberger dropped a shot to place the hole again to 4.

Wiesberger made birdie on 17 however it nonetheless left Ogletree with the consolation of a three-shot lead happening the final, which he fittingly birdied to place the icing on the cake.

The 24-year-old, who performed on the golf crew on the prestigious Georgia Tech College, received the US Newbie in 2019 and was a part of the victorious American crew on the Walker Cup the identical yr. He turned skilled the next yr and is a rookie on the Asian Tour this season.

Two extra occasions stay on the Asian Tour this season: the Bangabandhu Cup Golf Bangladesh Open (November 24-27) and the BNI Indonesian Masters introduced by TNE (December 1-4). 

- PTI

ATHLETICS

Vidhi, Deepika register new U-18 nationwide information in Junior Athletics meet

Uttar Pradesh’s Vidhi and Deepika of Haryana registered new ladies’ Beneath-18 nationwide information in shot put and javelin throw respectively on the fourth day of the thirty seventh AFI Nationwide Junior Athletics Championships right here on Monday.

Vidhi, who will flip 18 subsequent month, grew to become the primary Indian U-18 shot putter to breach the 16m mark along with her second attempt of 16.18m.

She improved on the U-18 nationwide document set at 15.99m by Kachnar Chaudhary in Coimbatore in 2016.

Vidhi adopted that up with two extra efforts over 16m, marking 16.56m on her fourth try as the brand new benchmark within the age-group.

Deepika, who received a silver medal within the Asian U-18 meet in Kuwait a month in the past, improved her personal U-18 nationwide document of 51.84m set within the Nationwide U-18 Championships in Bhopal in September with a throw of 52.75m on her second attempt.

She additional recorded throws of 53.17m and 53.36m.

Sanjay Vishnoi of Rajasthan additionally broke the nationwide document whereas profitable the boys’ U-16 javelin throw competitors.

On a day when as many as 5 throwers breached the 60m, Vishnoi’s fifth try of 62.47m was not solely a profitable throw, but in addition helped him break Bihar’s Virender Yadav’s document of 62.16m.

The outcomes (winners solely):

Males:Beneath 20: Lengthy soar: Amitra Ghosh (WB) 7.55m. 4x100m relay: Odisha (41.31s).

Boys: Beneath-18: Excessive soar: Deepanshu (Har) 1.99m. Shot put: Armandeep Singh (Pun) 18.78m. 10,000m race stroll: Aditya Negi (Uttarakhand) 42:44.93.

Beneath-16: Javelin throw: Sanjay Vishnoi (Raj) 62.47m.

Beneath-14: Youngsters Javelin throw: Dhairya Alpeshbhai (Guj) 57.08m. Triathlon: Anirban Adhikary (WB) 1813 pts.

Ladies: Beneath-20: 4x100m relay: Tamil Nadu (49.01s). Triple soar: Poorva Hitesh Sawant (Mah) 12.98m. Pole vault: Rajni (Har) 3.30m. Heptathlon: Ok.A. Anamika (Ker) 4387 pts. Combined 4x400m relay: Karnataka (3:33.10s).

Women: Beneath-18: Shot put: Vidhi (UP) 16.56m NR, OR 15.99. Javelin throw: Deepika (Har) 53.36m NR, OR 51.84. Heptathlon: Pavana Nagaraj (Kar) 4547 pts.

Beneath-16: 3000m race stroll: Khushbu Yadav (Raj) 15:12.76s. Hexathlon: Eva Manoj (Mah) 3094 pts.

Beneath-14: Shot Put: Divjot Kaur (Pun) 14.29m NR, OR 14.25. Youngsters javelin throw: Tejaswani Dhal (Odi) 33.60m. Triathlon: Komal (Har) 1623 pts.

-PTI

TENNIS

Oliver Crawford to proceed as high seed

Champion of the final occasion in Indore, Oliver Crawford will proceed as the highest seed within the $25,000 ITF males’s tennis match to be performed on the MSLTA Courts from Tuesday.

Solely two Indian gamers, nationwide champion Manish Sureshkumar and Sidharth Rawat have managed to achieve seeding, within the fifth and sixth positions respectively.

It is going to be fascinating to see how effectively the Indian gamers capitalise on one other occasion at residence, towards robust opposition from overseas. Digvijay Pratap Singh had performed effectively to clinch the title within the first $15,000 match of the present series in Delhi. The sphere did have Oliver Crawford and one other robust Frenchman, Florent Bax who retired halfway via the ultimate with an ankle damage.

It solely confirmed that the Indian gamers have been able to stepping up and grabbing their likelihood, particularly in beneficial home situations.

Three nationwide champions, VM Ranjeet, Siddharth Vishwakarma and Dalwinder Singh have made it to the third and remaining qualifying spherical, which provides a good indication of the depth of competitors.

The outcomes:

Qualifying singles (second spherical): Rishi Reddy bt Gunjan Jadhav 6-3, 6-3; Ivan Denisov (Rus) bt Lakshit Sood 6-1, 6-4; Kazuki NIshiwaki (Jpn) bt Shashank Theertha 6-3, 6-1; VM Ranjeet bt Suraj Prabodh 6-2, 6-3; Siddharth Vishwakarma bt BR Nikshep 6-3, 6-1; Shahbaaz Khan bt Corban Crowther (Nzl) 7-6(11), 6-2; Ryotaro Matsumura (Jpn) bt Manish Ganesh 6-1, 6-1; Madhwin Kamath bt Lakshya Gupta 6-0, 6-3; Dalwinder Singh bt Oges Theyjo 6-2, 6-1; Raghav Jaisinghani bt Guhan Rajan 6-1, 6-2; Faisal Qamar bt Mohit Bhardwaj 6-1, 6-1; Shivank Bhatnagar bt Yash Chaurasia 3-6, 6-1, [10-8].

The seedings: 1. Oliver Crawford (USA), 2. Ben Pateael (Isr), 3. Vladyslav Orlov (Ukr), 4. Dominik Palan (Cze), 5. Manish Sureshkumar, 6. Sidharth Rawat, 7. Arthur Weber (Fra), 8. Bekhan Atlangeriev (Rus).

-Kamesh Srinivasan

HOCKEY

Senior males’s Nationals to be held in TN; Ladies’s Nationals in Telangana

The Senior males’s Nationwide hockey championships can be held both in Kovilpatti or Madurai whereas the ladies’s Nationals can be held in Telangana, each within the month of April 2023, and the junior and sub-junior boys’ and ladies’ Nationals will carried out in Odisha in February 2023, in response to Sekhar J Manoharan, Treasurer of Hockey India and President of Hockey Unit of Tamil Nadu (HUTN).

Talking to Sportstar on Monday, Manoharan stated HUTN was eager to organise the Professional League matches in Chennai in March. The league was held from 2013-17 and after that it didn’t happen. “I used to be considering of getting a crew from Tamil Nadu within the Professional League whereas Hockey India President Dilip Tirkey was eager that HUTN organise the league in Chennai as this might be the primary time that Tamil Nadu might it,” revealed Manoharan.

So far as participation of high Indian male gamers within the Senior Nationals is worried, Manoharan stated there's a truthful likelihood that massive stars would possibly participate. “The World Cup will recover from by January and by April they need to be ready to take part within the Nationals,” he stated.

-Ok. Keerthivasan

FOOTBALL

Asia-Oceania blind championship: India, Malaysia stay goalless at full time

Kochi: India held Malaysia goalless in a males’s Group ‘A’ league match of the Asia-Oceania blind soccer championship on the United Sports activities Centre, Kakkanad, on Monday.

It was India’s second match within the occasion. The host had blanked Kazakhstan 4-0 in its opener.

-Stan Rayan

Kenkre beat Sudeva 2-1 to make profitable begin in I League

Kenkre FC began its I-League marketing campaign on a profitable observe, beating hosts Sudeva Delhi FC 2-1 on the Chhatrasal Stadium right here on Monday.

After the groups have been locked 1-1 at half time, Azfar Noorani scored within the 61st minute to clinch the problem in favour of Kenkre FC.

The match started with the Mumbai outfit making all efforts to search out its attackers via lengthy balls, whereas Sudeva FC tried to play with fast passes.

Nonetheless, neither crew might make any tangible inroad within the rival space. The primary actual likelihood bought into Sudeva’s manner when its Nigerian ahead Odili Felix Chidi noticed his shot saved by Kenkre goalkeeper Padam Chettri within the eighth minute.

Nonetheless, 4 minutes later, Kenkre FC drew the primary blood as defender Ahmed Faiz Khan scored from a nook kick.

The house aspect grew into the sport after conceding the objective and began dictating phrases within the midfield. Within the fifteenth minute, a nook kick taken by Sudeva’s 18-year-old Seilenthang Lotjem was defended poorly by the Kenkre defence.

Kynsailang Khongsit’s reasonably unsure clearance discovered Sudeva captain Nishchal Chandan in a very good place, however his highly effective shot hit the publish.

Although Sudeva FC had an edge within the first half, Kenkre’s Aravindraj Rajan and Noorani managed to maintain the rival defence on their toes with some good runs.

On the half-hour mark, Kiran Pandhare had a nervy second when he misplaced the ball to Felix Chidi however was relieved to search out Chidi shot straight to goalkeeper Chettri.

Sudeva’s Japanese recruit, Kosuke Uchida performed a pivotal function within the midfield for the hosts as he dropped deep on a number of events to provoke efficient strikes via the wings.

In the course of the add-on instances of the primary half, younger Sudeva winger R Lawmnasangzuala discovered Basit Ahmed Bhat with a nice cross and Basit’s good header discovered the equaliser for the house aspect.

The second half started at a sluggish tempo with each the groups looking for their rhythm again. Basit remained energetic on the left with some nice strikes with good dribbling.

As soon as he put in an exquisite cross, discovering Tetsuaki Misawa who couldn’t preserve his shot down. Kenkre regained its lead on the hour mark as Rajan offered an ideal via ball to Noorani, who struck powerfully to search out the goal.

Kenkre nearly scored the third objective when Noorani put in a cross from the left flank for Kiran Pandhare, who got here up with a very good header however his try was saved by the Sudeva custodian Ashish Sibi.

Sudeva stepped up its assaults within the remaining quarter. Substitute Francis Uchenna Nwankwo put in a number of crosses into the opponents’ field however his teammates did not capitalise on them. 

PTI

First-half strikes earn RoundGlass Punjab FC 2-1 win over Sreenidi Deccan

RoundGlass Punjab FC defeated Sreenidi Deccan 2-1 to begin its I-League marketing campaign on a profitable observe on the Tau Devi Lal Stadioum right here on Monday.

First half strikes from Luka Majcen and Samuel Lalmuanpuia clinched three factors for the Punjab outfit whilst Sreenidi defender Shahabaaz Khan scored within the 58th minute to cut back the margin.

The primary half started on a tentative observe as each the groups regarded to enter their respective passing rhythms. Assaults have been few and much between within the opening quarter-hour.

The house aspect began to dominate the exchanges finally and the primary main likelihood got here within the twenty first minute after a free-kick from the left flank was headed in direction of his personal objective by Sreenidi defence, which needed to be cleared off the road on the final second.

Two minutes later, RoundGlass Punjab FC’s strain paid dividends. A fast throw-in from the fitting flank discovered Brandon Vanlalremdika in area contained in the penalty space. He chipped in a cross for Majcen and the Slovenian marksman well positioned it past the keeper within the close to publish.

The Punjab aspect continued to create waves of assault, with Majcen’s shot from shut vary being blocked on the goal-line within the thirty eighth minute. Nonetheless, he was narrowly offside as effectively whereas receiving the ball.

With two minutes of the primary half left, RoundGlass Punjab FC doubled its lead via Lalmuanpuia.

After Majcen was introduced down on the fringe of the penalty space, the midfielder took the free-kick and positioned it over the wall and previous the goalkeeper, a lot to the delight of the house followers.

The perfect likelihood of the half for the guests got here on the half hour mark after a free-kick from the fitting flank posed questions of the defence however Adnan Secerovic cleared in time.

Sreenidi Deccan regarded to modify issues round within the second half with attacker David Munoz approaching as an alternative. They created a gap within the 54th minute as Louis Ogana performed a low cross from the fitting, which was collected safely by Kiran Limbu.

Sreenidi, nonetheless, continued to press and lowered the deficit within the 58th minute. Gabriel’s cross was palmed away from objective by Limbu, and Khan bought his head to the unfastened ball first and put it into the online.

The match grew in depth and RoundGlass Punjab FC got here near discovering its third objective within the 68th minute.

Krishnananda Singh received the ball excessive up the pitch and charged in direction of the by-line from the left wing however his cross was inches away from discovering Majcen.

Six minutes later, the striker nearly performed in substitute Pranjal Bhumij on a quick counter-attack however his go was inaccurate and was collected by Sreenidi keeper Aryan Lamba.

The Hyderabad-based aspect piled on the strain searching for the equaliser in direction of the tip, however the Punjab backline thwarted their makes an attempt. 

PTI