TENNIS
Nazneen to be India's captain for Margaret Court docket Cup
Nazneen Rahman would be the captain of the four-member Indian workforce that can compete within the ITF Seniors Margaret Court docket Cup World Championship tennis to be staged in Portugal from July 31 to August 5. A complete of 23 groups are scheduled to take part within the over-45 ladies’s occasion.
India may also be fielding males’s groups within the over-35, 40 and 45 sections.
| The workforce: Nazneen Rahman (captain), Sonal Vohra, Prerana Apte, Rashmi Mohan. |
Karan loses within the pre-quarterfinals of ITF Tunisia
Karan Singh went down preventing to the second seed Skander Mansouri 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 within the pre-quarterfinals of the USD 25,000 ITF males’s tennis match in Tunisia on Thursday.
The outcomes: $25,000 ITF males, Mataro, Spain Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Kuzey Cekirge (Tur) & Anthony Genov (Bull) bt Alexey Vatutin & Rishab Agarwal 6-4, 6-1; Sai Karteek Reddy Ganta & Manish Sureshkumar bt Max Alcala Gurri & Bruno Pujol Navarro (Esp) 6-1, 3-6, [10-5]. $25,000 ITF males, Monastir, Tunisia Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Skander Mansouri (Tun) bt Karan Singh 6-3, 2-6, 6-3. Doubles (quarterfinals): Yu Hsiou Hsu (Tpe) & Fajing Solar (Chn) bt Shivank Bhatnagar & Dharmil Shah 6-4, 6-0. $15,000 ITF males, Oran, Algeria Singles (quarterfinals): Rayan Ghedjemis (Alg) bt Digvijay Pratap Singh 6-0, 6-4j; Robin Bertrand (Fra) bt Ishaque Eqbal 6-1, 6-0. Doubles (semifinals): Robin Bertrand (Fra) & Mirko Martinez (Sui) bt Ishaque Eqbal & Digvijay Pratap Singh 6-3, 7-5; Quarterfinals: Parth Aggarwal & Tushar Madan bt Viktor Filipenko (Hun) & George Gregoriou (Gre) 6-3, 6-3. $15,000 ITF males, Monastir, Tunisia Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Alexander Crnokrak (Aus) bt Abhinav Sanjeev Shanmugam 6-2, 6-3; Khololwam Montsi (RSA) bt Adil Kalyanpur 6-2, 1-0 (retired). Doubles (quarterfinals): Mousa Alkotop (Jor) & Mohamed Amin Ouesslati (Tun) bt Adil & Abhinav 6-3, 4-6, [12-10]. $25,000 ITF ladies, Tbilisi, Georgia Doubles (quarterfinals): Arlinda Rushiti & Tess Sugnauxx (Sui) bt Ayla Aksu (Tur) & Zeel Desai 6-2, 6-2. $15,000 ITF ladies, Monastir, Tunisia Doubles (quarterfinals): Mei Hasegawa (Jpn) & Ashmitha Easwaramurthi bt Astrid Cirotte & Chloe Cirotte (Fra) 6-4, 6-4; Chiara Girelli & Marie Villet (Fra) bt Hellena Narmont (Est) & Kaaviya Balasubramanian 6-0, 6-3. $15,000 ITF ladies, Cancun, Mexico Singles (first spherical): Sravya Shivani bt Carly Kunkler (US) 6-4, 6-1. |
- Kamesh Srinivasan
CHESS
Abhijeet Gupta (4.5 factors) misplaced his sixth spherical sport and the half-point in a single day lead following a 61-move give up to Romania’s Bogdan-Daniel Deac within the Sharjah Masters chess match in Sharjah on Thursday.
Deac shared the lead at 5 factors with UAE’s Salem Saleh and Uzbekistan’s Nodirbek Adbusattorov, the reigning world speedy champion.
Outstanding among the many victorious Indians of the day, it was a 3rd victory for D. Gukesh, second for Arjun Erigaisi and first for Nihal Sarin.
| The outcomes (involving Indians): Sixth spherical: Abhijeet Gupta (4.5) misplaced to Bogdan-Daniel Deac (Rou, 5); Gabriel Sargissian (Arm, 3.5) drew with S. P. Sethuraman (3.5); Arjun Erigaisi (4) bt Aryan Chopra (3); Javokhir Sindarov (Uzb, 3.5) drew with S. L. Narayanan (3.5); Robert Hovhannisyan (Arm, 3) misplaced to D. Gukesh (4); Jules Moussard (Fra, 3.5) drew with Aravindh Chithambaram (3.5); Maksim Chigaev (FIDE, 3.5) drew with Abhimanyu Puranik (3.5); Sanal Vahap (Tur, 3.5) drew with Raunak Sadhwani (3.5); B. Adhiban (3.5) drew with Lucas van Foreest (Ned, 3.5); Aleksandar Indjic (Srb, 3) drew with Adiya Mittal (3); Morani Luca Jr. (Ita, 3) drew with Surya Shekhar Ganguly (3); Nihal Sarin (3) bt Fabian Baenziger (Sui, 2); Ilyass Msellek (Mar, 2) misplaced to Sankalp Gupta (3). |
- Rakesh Rao
ATHLETICS
Jyothi Yarraji breaks Nationwide file once more
Jyothi Yarraji broke the ladies’s 100m hurdles nationwide file for the third time this month, clocking 13.04s whereas topping the second warmth within the Harry Schulting Video games at Vught, the Netherlands, on Thursday.
Nevertheless Jyothi, who had clocked 13.23 in Cyprus on Might 10 and improved her nationwide file to 13.11 in Britain on Might 22, didn't begin the ultimate.
The host’s Marijke Esselink received the gold in 13.61s.
In the meantime Siddhanth Thingalaya, the nationwide file holder with 13.48s, completed third within the males’s 110m hurdles in 14.09s. Mark Heiden of the Netherlands took the gold in 13.89s.
Jeswin Aldrin fifth in Spain
A few hours after M. Sreeshankar received the worldwide jumps meet gold in Greece, Tamil Nadu’s Federation Cup lengthy bounce champion Jeswin Aldrin completed fifth, with 7.69m, within the Iberoamericano athletics meet at Huelva, Spain, on Wednesday.
Aldrin’s greatest jumps – a private greatest 8.26m and a wind-assisted 8.37m – got here on the Federation Cup in Malappuram early final month.
Croatia’s Filip Pravdica received the occasion in Huelva with 7.91m.
- Stan Rayan
