GOLF
Chennai Open: Thangaraja in sole lead on penultimate day
Sri Lanka’s N. Thangaraja shot a five-under 67 for a complete of 16-under 200 to emerge the only real chief whilst he loved a slim one-stroke lead on the third day of the Impiger Applied sciences-Chennai Open golf event on the Cosmo-TNGF course in Chennai on Thursday.
In a single day joint chief Manu Gandas scored a 68 for a complete of 15-under 201 that put him in second place. Abhijit Singh Chadha has been constant and his day’s greatest rating of 66 took him to 14-under 202 to be positioned third.
Thangaraja’s day featured an eagle, 5 birdies and two bogeys. He had a greater front-nine in comparison with first 9. A 3-time winner on the PGTI circuit, Thangaraja got here up with 4 birdies on the back-nine with good placing and a advantageous chip to emerge as a powerful contender for the crown.
“I used to be fairly weak in my chip-putt, one I've to enhance to bag the title. I’ve performed so nicely after a very long time so simply need to maintain it going. I’ve tailored nicely to the circumstances,” mentioned the 41-year-old, who final received on the PGTI in 2018.
Scores (Day Three)
1. N. Thangaraja (SL) 200 (66, 67, 67); 2. Manu Gandas 201 (68, 65, 68); 3. Abhijit Singh Chadha 202 (71, 65, 66); 4. Karandeep Kochhar 204 (71, 65, 68); 5. Khalin Joshi 205 (67, 68, 70).
- Okay. Keerthivasan
TENNIS
US Open Qualifiers: Bhambri reaches second spherical; Ramanathan, Nagal knocked out
India’s Yuki Bhambri superior to the boys’s singles second spherical after a hard-fought win over Moldovian Radu Albot within the US Open qualifiers.
Nevertheless, the nation’s highest-ranked males’s singles participant, Ramkumar Ramanathan, and Sumit Nagal made early exits after shedding their respective qualifying matches in straight units.
Whereas world quantity 241 Ramanathan went right down to American teen Bruno Kuzuhara 3-6, 5-7 in a single hour and 28 minutes, Nagal misplaced to Canadian Vasek Pospisil 6-7, 4-6.
Yuki, who's ranked world quantity 552, downed world quantity 107 Albot 7-6(4) 6-4 in a match that lasted one hour and 34 minutes.
Whereas Yuki received off to a gradual begin within the first set, the Indian bounced again and stretched the opening set to a tie-breaker, through which he triumphed.
With a much better breakpoint conversions within the second set coupled with an honest internet play, Yuki pocketed the second set to enter the subsequent spherical.
The 30-year-old will tackle Belgium’s Zizou Bergs within the second qualifying spherical of the Grand Slam occasion on Thursday.
Yuki, who spent essentially the most of final three years nursing knee accidents and recovering from a number of operations, performed his first Grand Slam qualifier earlier this yr on the Australian Open, the place he misplaced within the second spherical of qualifiers.
- PTI
ITF J4 occasion: Pranav Karthik knocks out second seed Denim Yadav to achieve semifinals
Seventh seed Pranav Karthik defeated second seed Denim Yadav 7-6 (1), 6-3 to achieve the semifinals of the ITF J4 occasion in Chennai.
Later within the day, Pranav and his American accomplice Pavan Uppu knocked out second-seeded duo of Denim and Kriish Tyagi within the doubles quarterfinals.
For the second day in a row, matches had been performed on the exhausting courts on the Gandhi Nagar Membership and the Powerpak Tennis Academy versus the clay courts on the SDAT Stadium in Egmore and the Madras Gymkhana Membership because of rain.
Outcomes
Boys’ Singles Quarterfinals
[1] Aman Dahiya bt Pavan Uppu (USA) 7-5, 7-6 (5); [6] Rethin Pranav bt Debasis Sahoo 6-2, 6-1; [7] Pranav Karthik bt [2] Denim Yadav 7-6 (1), 6-3; [5] Kriish Tyagi bt Venkat Rishi Batlanki (USA) 6-2, 1-0 retd.
Women’ Singles Quarterfinals
[1] Suhitha Maruri bt Maaya Rajeshwaran Revathi 6-4, 6-1; [2] Madhurima Sawant bt [7] Saina Deshpande (USA0 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4); [4] Sonal Patil bt Riya Sachdeva 7-5, 6-2; Harshini N Nagaraj bt [5] Ruma Gaikaiwari 5-7, 6-2, 6-3.
Boys’ Doubles Quarterfinals
Pranav Karthik/Pavan Uppu (USA) bt [2] Kriish Tyagi, Denim Yadav 6-3, 6-4; [3] Bushan Haobham/Aryan Jit Singh bt Rethin Pranav/Agriya Yadav 6-0, 6-2; Debasis Sahoo/Gagan Rakesh Vimal bt [1] Aman Dahiya/Daksh Prasad 6-4, 6-7 (6), [10-4]; [4] Deep Munim/Dhananjay Athreya bt Arya Bhattacharya/ Chandan Shivaraj 5-7, 6-4, [12-10]
Women’ Doubles Quarterfinals
Rishitha Basireddy/Sohini Mohanty bt Harshini N Nagaraj/ Presha Shanthamoorthi 6-4, 6-0; [2] Ruma Gaikaiwari/Sonal Patil bt Durganshi Kumar/Riya Sachdeva 6-2, 6-2
- Group Sportstar
SHOOTING
Nationwide choice trials
Priya, champion Ayushi Podder and Lajja Gauswami, one of the best in ladies’s rifle 3-position in Bhopal on Thursday.
Ayushi Podder beat Priya 16-8 to high the ladies’s 50-metre rifle 3-position occasion within the sixth Nationwide capturing choice trials on the Madhya Pradesh Academy in Bhopal on Thursday.
It was a persistently top quality efficiency by the 21-year-old Ayushi as she topped qualification with 587 together with Priya, and topped the second stage 0.8 level forward of the identical rival. World Cup medallist Lajja Gauswami completed third forward of Nischal.
Bandhvi Singh who had topped the fifth trials and Meghana Sajjanar had additionally shot 587 in qualification however completed sixth and seventh respectively. Apurvi Chandela shot 579 and positioned eleventh.
Nischal shot one of the best among the many juniors in qualification with 582, however was overwhelmed to the highest spot 17-9 by Ramita Jindal.
Within the non-Olympic 50-metre free pistol, Arjun Singh Cheema and Ravinder topped the fifth and sixth trials respectively, on the Dr. Karni Singh Vary, Tughlakabad.
Outcomes
50m rifle 3-position
Ladies: 1. Ayushi Podder 16 (402.3) 587; 2. Priya 8 (401.5) 587; 3. Lajja Gauswami 400.1 (582); 4. Nischal 400.1 (582).
Juniors: 1. Ramita Jindal 17 (395.9) 574; 2. Nischal 9 (404.7) 582; 3. Heena Gohei 395.4 (570); 4. Nikita Kundu 391.9 (575).
50m free pistol
Trial-6: Males: 1. Ravinder 562; 2. Abhinav Choudhary 560; 3. Kunal Rana 559.
Junior males: 1. Abhinav Choudhary 560; 2. Ajinkya Chavan 549; 3. Naved Chaudhary 545.
Junior ladies: 1. Khushi Kapoor 541; 2. Tiyana Phogat 535; 3. Vibhuti Bhatia 533.
Trial-5: Males: 1. Arjun Singh Cheema 562; 2. Avishkaar Tomar 558; 3. Ravinder 558.
Junior males: 1. Abhinav Choudhary 554; 2. Ankait Tomar 544; 3. Akshat Varma 540.
Junior ladies: 1. Sakshi Suryavanshi 545; 2. Shikha Narwal 540; 3. Divanshi 536.
25m sports activities pistol
Junior males: 1. Rajkanwar Sandhu 584; 2. Sameer 583; 3. Ankait Tomar 580.
- Kamesh Srinivasan
