June 15: Indian sports activities information wrap of the day

GOLF

Flawless Ridhima takes 3-shot lead in eighth leg of Hero WPGT

Ridhima Dilawari fired a flawless 3-under 69 to seize a three-shot lead on the finish of the opening spherical of the eighth leg of the Hero Girls’s Professional Golf Tour in Bengaluru on Wednesday.

Ridhima, who has not tasted a win since January 2021, had three birdies in a row from eleventh to thirteenth and so they got here on a Par-5, Par-4 and a Par-3 as she carded 69.

Three little identified kids, Agrima Manral (17), Disha Kavery (18) and Trimann Saluja (20) are tied for second with related playing cards of even par 72 every.

Jahanvi Bakshi and Afshan Fatima have been tied fifth with 73 every, whereas Lakhmehar Pardesi, Pranavi Urs and amateurs Jia Katariya and Smriti Bhargav have been tied seventh with rounds of 74 every.

Ridhima was targeted and can sit up for taking part in regular, as she has had some good begins however thereafter given away the benefit.

Trimann Saluja was spectacular with six birdies, however she additionally gave away an equal variety of bogeys, making it a novel card of six birdies, six pars and 6 bogeys.

Agrima had 4 birdies and 4 pars, whereas Disha was hit by a double bogey in a spherical that in any other case had 4 birdies and two bogeys.

Pranavi was not in her flowing type, however she usually makes up within the final two rounds. She had two birdies towards 4 bogeys.

Final week’s runner-up Asmitha Sathish had a tough outing with a spherical of 76, with two bogeys, a double and no birdies to be Tied-Fifteenth.

- PTI

Mane lies T-20 halfway by Spherical 1 in Jakarta

Udayan Mane, the lone Indian within the subject of the Asian Improvement Tour’s Indo Masters Invitational, was mendacity T-Twentieth halfway by the primary spherical, which was suspended attributable to lightning and heavy rain.

Malaysia’s Shahriffuddin Ariffin took an early lead posting a five-under-par 67. He led 4 gamers by two photographs.

Mane, who had a High-10 end on ADT final week, had one birdie and one bogey in his 9 holes.

Ariffin, who had the benefit of an early tee time, posted a constant rating with three birdies on every 9, with solely a single bogey on his sixth gap of the day, the par 3 sixteenth. He was comfortable together with his efficiency on the USD 70,000 Asian Improvement Tour occasion, the second in a sequence of six in Indonesia.

4 gamers together with China’s Chen Guxin, Pisitchai Thippong of Thailand, Lloyd Jefferson Go of the Philippines and Singapore’s Jesse Yap have been Tied-2nd, however Go and Yap nonetheless had three holes to play within the first spherical.

Final week’s winner Naraajie E. Ramadhanputra of Indonesia began properly from the tenth tee however two bogeys earlier than the flip slowed his advance. He shot 71 and was T-Ninth.

- PTI

POWERLIFTING

Parmjeet, Manpreet clinch bronze medals at Asia-Oceania Para Powerlifting C'ships

Indian para powerlifters Parmjeet Kumar and Manpreet Kaur put up spectacular shows to win bronze medals of their respective classes on the 2022 Asia Oceania Open Championships in Pyeongtaek, South Korea on Wednesday.

Kumar, who made historical past by successful India's first medal at a World Championships claiming a bronze in Tbilisi 2021, produced a private finest raise of 163kg in his third try and clinch the bronze in males's as much as 49kg open closing.

His earlier private finest was 158kg achieved in Tbilisi 2021. The Indian completed behind Jordan's Omar Qarada (175kg) and Vietnam's Le Van Cong (173kg), who gained the gold and silver respectively.

Earlier than Kumar's present, Kaur had fetched the primary medal for the Indian contingent, a bronze within the ladies's upto 41kg finals.

She lifted 88kg to say the bronze in open class, ending behind Tokyo 2020 Paralympic gold and silver medallists Guo Lingling (111kg) and Ni Nengah Widiasih (99kg).

By lifting 88kg in Pyeongtaek, Kaur, an Asian Para Video games bronze medallist, had additionally improved her private better of 81kg recorded in Tbilisi 2021 Worlds.

- PTI

TENNIS

Ramkumar reaches doubles quarterfinals in Ilkley

Ramkumar Ramanathan in partnership with John-Patrick Smith beat the fourth seeds Andrea Vavassori and Szyman Walkow 7-6(4), 6-2 within the doubles pre-quarterfinals of the €134,920 Challenger tennis event in the UK on Wednesday.

- Kamesh Srinivasan

AITA Tremendous sequence juniors: High seed Dhruv reaches semis

High seed Dhruv Sachdeva was stretched to the restrict by fifth seed Deepam Malik earlier than he prevailed 3-6, 7-5, 7-6(6) within the under-16 boys quarterfinals of the AITA Tremendous sequence junior tennis event on the CLTA Complicated in Chandigarh on Wednesday.

Within the semifinals, Dhruv will play eighth seed Vatsal Manikantan who eased previous fourth seed Dhruv Kumar 6-4, 6-2.

Apparently, Vatsal beat Dhruv 6-3, 6-2 within the quarterfinals of the under-18 part, and can play Bicky Sagolshem within the semifinals.

Within the women part, Jaya Kapoor made the semifinals of each the under-16 and 18 occasions.

- Kamesh Srinivasan

ITF South Asia Beneath-12: Indian boys outplay Maldives, women defeat Nepal

Indian boys outplayed Maldives 3-0, dropping one token recreation in all within the league section of the ITF South Asia under-12 tennis event in Kathmandu on Wednesday.

Within the women round-robin league, India beat host Nepal 3-0, dropping six video games in all in successful the three matches.

- Kamesh Srinivasan

SHOOTING

Vijayveer Sidhu beat Arpit Goel 33-27 for the gold in 25-metre fast hearth pistol occasion within the Twentieth Kumar Surendra Singh taking pictures championship on the Madhya Pradesh Academy in Bhopal on Wednesday.

Arpit had topped qualification with 581 together with Gurmeet however was unable to match Vijayveer within the gold medal match.

Vijayveer was pipped 32-31 within the junior closing by Adarsh Singh, who needed to accept the bronze within the males's occasion.

Within the 50-metre rifle inclined occasion held on the Dr. Karni Singh Vary in Tughlakabad, Akhil Sheoran topped with 623.7. The junior honour went to Surya Pratap Banshtu who shot 616.9. The non-Olympic occasion doesn't
function a closing.

- Kamesh Srinivasan