Indian sports activities wrap, November 9: Saurav Ghosal exits New Zealand Open in second spherical

SQUASH

Saurav Ghosal exits New Zealand Open in second spherical

Commonwealth Video games bronze medallist Saurav Ghosal was knocked out of the New Zealand Open, a PSA silver stage world tour occasion, in Tauranga on Wednesday.

Fifth-seeded Ghosal, who acquired a bye within the opening spherical, misplaced 2-3 (7-11, 4-11, 11-8, 11-7, 7-11) to Argentina’s Leandro Romiglio in 67 minutes within the second spherical.

READ: Saurav Ghosal continues to dwell the dream in a season like no different

World No. 15 Ghosal, who lately led the nation to its first-ever gold medal on the Asian Staff Championships in Kuwait, was 3-8 down within the third sport after dropping the primary two in opposition to World No. 68 Romiglio earlier than making an unimaginable comeback to stage the rating at two-games-all.

Nevertheless, the Argentine received his focus again simply in time to edge Ghosal within the closing sport and clinched the largest win of his profession.

“I began actually stable within the first two video games after which he began to play within the third and fourth. He discovered his manner again into the sport, and so I'm actually joyful to complete it off within the fifth, actually,” Romiglio advised psaworldtour.com after the win.

- Staff Sportstar

TENNIS

Dalwinder eliminates Russia’s Bekhan Atlangeriev

Dalwinder Singh knocked out sixth seed Bekhan Atlangeriev of Russia 1-6, 6-1, 7-6(6) within the first spherical of the $25,000 ITF males’s tennis match on the Indore Tennis Membership on Wednesday.

Making the principle draw as a lucky-loser, the previous Nationwide champion Dalwinder was at his preventing finest, as he saved a match level within the twelfth sport of the decider to drive the tie-break. In a contest of fluctuating fortunes, Dalwinder transformed his second match level to arrange a pre-quarterfinal in opposition to wild card entrant Raghav Jaisinghani.

The champion final week, Digvijay Pratap Singh was crushed 6-3, 7-6(7) by fortunate loser Woobin Shin of Korea. Manish Sureshkumar, Niki Poonacha, Nitin Kumar Sinha and Karan Singh have been the opposite distinguished Indian gamers to lose first spherical.

Fifth seed Sidharth Rawat fought his well past qualifier Faisal Qamar in three units.

-Kamesh Srinivaan

Karman Kaur Thandi wins first spherical

New Delhi: Third seed Karman Kaur Thandi beat Michaela Bayerlova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 within the first spherical of the $60,000 ITF girls’s tennis match in Calgary, Canada.

Karman, who had taken per week off owing to an damage and had skipped a $125,000 occasion, was scheduled to play Ana Sofia Sanchez of Mexico within the pre-quarterfinals.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

GOLF

Amandeep, Vani be a part of Tvesa and Diksha at Aramco Series in Jeddah

Jeddah: Hero Girls’s Indian Open runners-up Amandeep Drall and the gifted Vani Kapoor will look to place up a very good present after they make their debut on the Aramco Staff Series in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia starting on Thursday.

The ultimate occasion of the Aramco Series and in addition the penultimate occasion of the 2022 Women European Tour season, will see a minimum of 4 Indians.

Moreover Amandeep and Vani, Diksha Dagar, who has been a part of the profitable crew as soon as in 2021, and the LET common Tvesa Malik are additionally within the area.

Amandeep had completed tied second on the USD 400,000 occasion in India, whereas Vani signed off at tied eighth on the similar occasion. The duo will look to proceed their good run right here.

For Tvesa, that is the ultimate shot at entering into the Tour Championship in Spain, for which Diksha, Amandeep and Vani have already booked their locations.

Olivia Cowan, who clinched her maiden title with a win in India, and has a minimum of 27 top-10 finishes on the LET, is wanting ahead to taking part in on the Royal Greens Golf & Nation Membership.

Cowan was runner-up on the Aramco Staff Series – Jeddah in 2021.

“It was solely two weeks in the past that I received, and I used to be clearly ready a very long time for this win. I got here shut just a few instances and needed to take some knock-backs, however I believe you be taught from them. I wouldn’t say so I really feel stress,” Cowan stated.

“I had a very good week in India, I got here out on high, however it is a new week, and something can occur. There are nice gamers right here, and all I need to do is simply proceed what I did in India and have enjoyable taking part in golf. If I find yourself on the high in the long run, that’s nice.” The Aramco Staff Series – Jeddah will see a person 54-hole stroke play match happen alongside a 36-hole Staff occasion, with every match having a prize pool of USD 500,000.

England’s Georgia Corridor, who's ninth within the 2022 Race to Costa del Sol, returns to the scene of her victory having received the sooner version of the Aramco Saudi Women Worldwide.

Defending champion of the Particular person match Pia Babnik is again searching for extra success in Jeddah as are England’s Bronte Legislation and Belgium’s Manon De Roey, who received the Particular person occasions in London and Bangkok, respectfully.

There are 11 winners from the 2022 LET season, who shall be looking for one other title, with seven of the highest 10 within the Race to Costa del Sol additionally competing, whereas there's a return to skilled competitors for European Solheim Cup Captain Suzann Pettersen.

-PTI

Kapil continues superb kind at Telangana Golconda Masters

Hyderabad: Kapil Kumar of Delhi, the runner-up on the final PGTI occasion in Pune, continued his superb kind regardless of damage issues with a nine-under 61 to take the spherical one lead on the Rs. 40 lakh IRA Telangana Golconda Masters on the Hyderabad Golf Affiliation (HGA) course right here on Wednesday.

Kapil sank seven birdies and an eagle for a bogey-free spherical. He was off to a terrific begin with birdies on the primary 4 holes making a few conversions from 10 to 12 toes. An eagle on the par-5 eighth adopted by a birdie on the ninth took Kapil to seven-under on the flip. He produced a few nice wedge pictures on the fifteenth and seventeenth so as to add two extra birdies to his flawless card.

Native novice Milind Soni, 17, struck an excellent seven-under 63 to be tied second with Gurugram’s Manu Gandas, a three-time winner on the PGTI this 12 months.

Soni, who represented India on the Eisenhower Trophy earlier this 12 months, had an incredible begin. He started the week with an eagle-two as he holed his method from 134 yards on the primary gap. Along with his method sport in high form, he went on to choose up 4 extra birdies on the front-nine together with three tap-ins.

Soni made additional inroads on the back-nine with birdies on the tenth and 14th. He drove the inexperienced on the par-4 14th. His solely blip was the bogey on the seventeenth the place he discovered the water.

-V. V. Subrahmanyam

Afshan Fatima takes two-shot lead over Gaurika in 14th leg of Hero WPGT

Panchkula: Afshan Fatima returned to kind with a two-under 70 to take a two-shot lead after the primary spherical of the 14th Leg of the Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour right here on Wednesday.

Afshan, who was twice runner-up in 2019 and as soon as earlier than that in 2018 and has not received for the reason that thirteenth Leg of the 2018 season, was on high of the chief board after a really very long time.

Her card was the day’s solely below par rating on the Panchkula Golf Membership.

The 26-year-old from Jaipur had a bogey on the second gap itself however she fought again with three birdies on third, seventh and ninth and one other one on eleventh to go 3-under for the day. She dropped a shot late on the seventeenth.

Gaurika Bishnoi, who received the weather-hit thirteenth Leg after which had a creditable High-10 end on the Hero Girls’s Indian Open, overcame a bogey-bogey begin with a string of pars until the twelfth gap.

She birdied the thirteenth after which closed with one other birdie on 18th to make sure she completed at even par 72.

As many as six gamers completed at 1-over 73.

Shweta Mansingh suffered a crippling triple bogey on Par-5 fifteenth after a bogey begin. She additionally had three birdies. Ridhima Dilawari bogeyed 14th, fifteenth and seventeenth after being 1-under until then. She completed 1-over.

Seher Atwal had only one birdie on the eighth and two bogeys on the again 9, whereas Saaniya Sharma was hit by three bogeys in a row from sixth to eighth as she had 4 different birdies, three of them within the final 5 holes. Total she had 4 birdies in opposition to 5 bogeys.

Khushi Khanijau had two birdies in opposition to one bogey and one double, whereas novice Vidhatri Urs had two birdies in opposition to three bogeys.

Three gamers Neha Tripathi, Agrima Manral and Asmitha Sathish shot 2-over 74 every.

Sneha Singh carded a disappointing 6-over 78, whereas one other pre-tournament favorite Hitaashee Bakshi carded 4-over 76.

-PTI