Indian sports activities information wrap, November 25

ITF Juniors

Prime seed Kriish Tyagi performed an impressed sport to outwit Hitesh Chauhan 6-1, 6-3 within the semifinals of the ITF grade-4 junior tennis match on the DLTA Complicated on Friday.

Within the remaining, Kriish will play Hanu Patel who outplayed Deep Munim for the lack of two video games.

Within the women part, high seed Sonal Patil will play fourth seed Margot Phanthala of France within the remaining.

Sonal gave herself an opportunity for a double, as she received the doubles title with Lidia Podgorichani of Thailand.

The boys doubles title was bagged by Dhananjay Athreya and Deep Munim.

- Kamesh Srinivasan

ITF males’s match

Two-time nationwide champion Niki Poonacha sailed previous Ryuki Matsuda of Japan 6-3, 6-4 within the quarterfinals of the $15,000 ITF males’s tennis match on the BSP Tennis Complicated on Friday.

Within the semifinals, Niki will play compatriot Karan Singh who continued together with his forceful sport in outplaying former nationwide champion Dalwinder Singh for the lack of three video games.

The opposite semifinal can be between high seed Vladyslav Orlov of Ukraine and Ryotaro Matsumura of Japan.

- Kamesh Srinivasan

AITA girls’s match

Third seed Sandeepti Singh Rao beat high seed Himaanshika Singh 6-1, 6-2 within the remaining of the Rs.100,000 AITA girls’s tennis match on the Tennis Challenge, Baliawas, on Friday.

Sandeepti, a trainee of coach Ankit Patel, had dropped just one set alongside the way in which, to Sachi Sharma, for a dominant efficiency within the match.

- Kamesh Srinivasan

Ankita Raina makes progress in Australia

Ankita Raina made the singles quarterfinals and doubles semifinals within the $25,000 ITF girls’s tennis match in Traralgon, Australia, on Friday.

She beat Michika Ozeki of Japan 6-0, 6-2 within the singles pre-quarterfinals.Seeded No.1 with Priska Nugroho in doubles, Ankita and accomplice pipped the Nayar sisters Anja and Sara of Australia, 10-8 within the tremendous tie-break of the quarterfinals.

Within the $25,000 UTR Professional girls’s occasion in Dubai, Farhat Aleen Qamar misplaced her final league match to Anna Ureke 2-6, 1-6. After a 3 means tie with Farhat Aleen and Isabelle Kouzmanov, Anna progressed to the semifinals on higher video games win-loss common. Sai Samhitha completed second in her group to qualify for the fifth-eighth play-off. Aleen could have a play-off for the ninth to twelfth placings. Humera and Akanksha completed fifth of their respective teams and could have a play-off for the seventeenth to twentieth spots.

The outcomes:

$106,240 Challenger, Temuco, Chile Doubles (quarterfinals):

Luis David Martinez (Ven) & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt Nicolas Bruna (Chi) & Joao Domingues (Por) 6-1, 6-4.

$25,000 ITF girls, Traralgon, Australia

Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Ankita Raina bt Michika Ozeki (Jpn) 6-0, 6-2; Destanee Aiava (Aus) bt Sahaja Yamalapalli 6-0, 6-2.

Doubles (quarterfinals): Priska Nugroho (Ina) & Ankita Raina bt Anja Nayar & Sara Nayar (Aus) 6-1, 3-6, [10-8].

$15,000 ITF girls, Nairobi, Kenya

Doubles (semifinals): Sabastiani Leon (USA) & Sharmada Balu bt Celine Simunyu (Irl) & Sravya Shivani 6-3, 3-1 (retired).

Quarterfinals: Sabastiani & Sharmada bt Valery Gynina (Rus) & Divine Nweke (Ngr) 7-6(6), 6-2; Celine & Sravya bt Anushka Ashar & Prisha Vyas (USA) 6-2, 6-1; Angella Okutoyi (Ken) & Smriti Bhasin bt Emma Tothova (Svk) & Sevil Yuldasheva (Uzb) 6-2, 6-4.

$25,000 UTR Professional girls, Dubai, UAE

Group-A: Eva Busaad (Bul) bt Akanksha Nitture 6-2, 6-1; Group-B: Melissa Boyden (Ned) bt Humera Baharmus 6-4, 6-1; Group-D: Anna Ureke (Rus) bt Farhat Aleen Qamar 6-2, 6-1.

GOLF

Om Prakash Chouhan matches course document of 63 to zoom to the highest on the midway stage

Om Prakash Chouhan of Mhow matched Manu Gandas’ course document of nine-under 63 from spherical one to realize three spots to take a two-shot lead at a complete of 15-under 129 after second spherical of the Dream Valley Group Vooty Masters golf championship at Vooty Golf County in Vikarabad on Friday.

Om Prakash, a winner on the PGTI this 12 months and presently positioned sixth on the PGTI Order of Advantage, loved an excellent higher back-nine choosing up 5 birdies together with three the place he made some terrific up and downs from the bunker.

“Each side of my sport was sharper immediately as in comparison with spherical one, particularly my second photographs and bunker photographs. I modified my driver and 3-wood final week as I felt that I wasn’t hitting it that properly. The brand new golf equipment have helped me enhance each my distance and accuracy off the tee,” Om Prakash mentioned.

Om Prakash Chouhan | Photograph Credit score: Particular Association

“I felt the rhythm after the great par-save on the tenth. Then the 15-feet eagle conversion on the twelfth acquired my putter going. This can be a new golf course for all of the gamers together with myself so I utilized the follow spherical and the Professional-Am spherical earlier than the occasion rather well. That ultimately helped me quite a bit in planning my sport, he defined.”

Manu Gandas, the primary spherical chief, slipped into second place at 13-under 131 after posting a 68 on day two.

Chandigarh’s Angad Cheema (67), who was in a single day tied second, ended the second spherical in third place at 12-under 132.

The minimize got here down at one-under 143 and 50 professionals and one newbie made the minimize to make it to the cash rounds over the weekend.

Om Prakash Chouhan (66-63) had early jitters as he saved par from the bunker on the tenth, his first gap of the day. The 36-year-old, who's a seven-time winner on the PGTI, then made his first transfer of the day with a 15-feet eagle conversion on the twelfth. Chouhan constructed on the momentum together with his birdie on the fifteenth the place he drove the par-4 inexperienced. One other good par save from the bunker adopted on the sixteenth earlier than he picked up a birdie on the 18th.

Noida’s Gaurav Pratap Singh (65) was positioned fourth at 10-under 134.

PGTI Order of Advantage chief and five-time winner this season Yuvraj Singh Sandhu (71), was tied twelfth at six-under 138 and Ajeetesh Sandhu (69), one of many pre-event favourites, was tied seventeenth at five-under 139.

- Crew Sportstar

Diksha Dagar lie 1-under after two rounds in Costa del Sol in Spain

India’s Diksha Dagar birdied her remaining gap on the second day to register one-under 72 on the Andalucía Costa del Sol Open de España golf match right here.

Diksha, who shot 73 within the first spherical is one-under for 36 holes and mendacity tied thirty fifth even because the second spherical was nonetheless in progress.

Vani Kapoor, who shot one-over 74 within the first spherical was three-over by 17 holes and trailing means again whereas Amandeep Drall, runner-up on the Hero Ladies’s Indian Open, was even additional behind at six-over with three holes left in second spherical.

She had 76 within the first spherical.

Ranging from the again stretch of the programs, which started on the eleventh, Diksha birdied twelfth and thirteenth and had pars until she dropped a shot on the second.

A birdie adopted on third however back-to-back bogeys noticed her drop to even par.

A birdie on the tenth, which was her closing gap, noticed her again to purple numbers. Spanish newbie Cayetana Fernandez had rounds of 70-65 and was 11-under to benefit from the lead.

-PTI