Indian sports activities information wrap, November 29

GOLF

Diksha stays in High-60 of LET after ending forty first in Spain

Diksha Dagar completed 2022 with a modest spherical of 1-over 74 on the Par-73 Alferini Golf course, however ensured full enjoying standing for the subsequent season.

The 2023 season will likely be her fifth successive on the Girls European Tour (LET).

Diksha, one of many solely two Indian ladies to have received on the LET, completed tied forty first on the Andalucía Costa del Sol Open de España, the ultimate occasion of the season.

Additionally ending in tied forty first place was Vani Kapoor (74). A 3rd Indian, Amandeep Drall, couldn’t reproduce the magic of a runner-up end at Hero Indian Open, and ended tied forty fifth.

Diksha was the perfect Indian on the LET Order of Advantage at 54th place, whereas Vani Kapoor was 63rd and Amandeep Drall completed 66th.

Tvesa Malik, who was nineteenth in 2021, dropped to 116th. Aditi Ashok, who performed solely seven occasions on LET in 2021, was one centesimal, however could have standing as a three-time winner.

In the meantime, Caroline Hedwall returned to the winner’s circle for the primary time in 4 years, successful the season-ending Andalucía Costa del Sol Open de España. The Swedish star was locked in a battle for the title with Switzerland’s Morgane Metraux after regulation play. They have been tied at 18-under and headed for a playoff.

After enjoying the 18th gap 3 times they went to the seventeenth gap. It was a gap the place Hedwall has had success all week and he or she made the inexperienced in two and sunk her birdie putt to win her seventh LET title.

TENNIS

PSPB event

Picture of Champion Indian Oil staff, Ramkumar Ramanathan, Diivj Sharan,
Sumit Nagal and Rohan Bopanna.
| Picture Credit score: Particular Association

Sumit Nagal and Ramkumar Ramanathan powered Indian Oil to a 2-0 victory over Oil and Pure Fuel Company (ONGC) within the ultimate of the forty first PSPB inter-unit tennis event on the DLTA Advanced on Tuesday.

Sumit overcame a stiff resistance from Vishnu Vardhan for a 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 victory within the first singles. Competing within the Challenger circuit, Sumit was sharp and took cost of the scenario on key factors. Ramkumar closed the competition with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Yuki Bhambri, who hardly ever performs singles lately.

Sumit and Ramkumar additionally arrange a title conflict in singles, by beating Rohan Bopanna and Yuki respectively.

Within the ladies’s occasion, the ultimate will likely be between the highest two seeds Ankita Raina and Riya Bhatia.

The outcomes:

Males (semifinals): Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Rohan Bopanna 9-5; Sumit Nagal bt Yuki Bhambri 9-6.

Doubles (semifinals): Rohan Bopanna & Divij Sharan bt Udit Gogoi & Chandrashekhar Mohanti 6-2; Vishnu Vardhan & VM Ranjeet bt Anup Toppo & Sunny Rajpal 6-1.

Group (ultimate): Indian Oil bt ONGC 2-0 (Sumit Nagal bt Vishnu Vardhan 6-4, 3-6, 6-1; Ramkumar Ramanathan bt Yuki Bhambri 6-3, 6-4).

Girls (semifinals): Ankita Raina bt Prarthana Thombare 6-4; Riya Bhatia bt Bagmishree 6-1.

Veterans (semifinals): KS Rawat bt Rajkumar Dube 6-2; VN Prem Prakash bt Pratul Saikia 6-0.

Group (ultimate): ONGC bt HPCL 2-0 (KS Rawat bt Sukhwinder Singh 6-0, 6-0; Prem Prakash bt Rahul Borah 6-1, 6-0).

-Kamesh Srinivasan

AITA Match

Ananya Dhankhar fought her well beyond fifth seed Radhika Yadav 7-5, 6-7(3), 7-5 within the pre-quarterfinals of the Rs.100,000 AITA ladies’s tennis event on the Joygaon Academy on Tuesday.

Within the quarterfinals, Ananya will problem second seed Riya Uboveja.

The outcomes (pre-quarterfinals): Sandeepti Singh Rao bt Abhilasha Bista 6-1, 6-2; Bhumika Rohilla bt Anahat Pannu 6-3, 4-6, 7-5; Rachita Talwar bt Poorvi Bhatt 6-4, 6-2; Ritu Rai bt Gurjot Bharaj 6-0, 6-0; Ritu Ohlyan bt Kriti Tomar 6-1, 6-2; Shruti Gupta bt Kaashvi Thapliyal 6-2, 6-1; Ananya Dhankhar bt Radhika Yadav 7-5, 6-7(3), 7-5; Riya Uboveja bt Ishika Choudhary 6-1, 6-1.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

ITF Juniors

Fortunate loser Aishwarya Jadhav beat Asmi Adkar 7-5, 6-0 within the ladies first spherical of the Gadre Marine ITF grade-3 junior tennis event organised by MSLTA on the Deccan Gymkhana Membership on Tuesday.

The outcomes (first spherical):

Boys: Dhananjay Athreya bt Siddharth Marathe 6-6(retired); Kriish Tyagi bt Prajwal Tewari 6-3, 6-1.

Ladies: Margot Phanthala (Fra) bt Pushti Laddha 6-1, 6-1; Kamonwan Yodpetch (Tha) Gauri Mangaonkar 6-3, 6-3; Maaya Rajeshwaran bt Prisha Shinde 5-4 (retired); Nandini Dixit bt Angeles Rodriguez-Rizo (Mex) 6-3, 3-0 (retired); Aishwarya Jadhav bt Asmi Adkar 7-5, 6-0; Sonal Patil bt Ruma Gaikaiwari 6-1, 6-1.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

ATHLETICS

High runners for Kolkata 25K

Commonwealth Video games marathon champion Viktor Kiplangat of Uganda and defending champion and course file holder Leonard Barsoton of Kenya will likely be among the many main runners within the Tata Metal Kolkata 25K race, which returns to the town on December 18 after a two-year break.

Two-time Tokyo marathon winner Birhanu Legese of Ethiopia and main ladies runners similar to Tokyo marathon winner Ashete Bekere of Ethiopia and 2019 Kolkata 25K runner-up Desi Jisa of Bahrain would be the different outstanding names within the race providing a complete prize purse of 100000 USD.

As per data shared by the organizers at a countdown occasion, graced by cricketer Jhulan Goswami and Bengali movie actress Subhashree Ganguly, right here on Tuesday, the worldwide elite runners will likely be incentivised with an occasion file bonus of 3000 USD.

-Y. B. Sarangi

BASKETBALL

Nationwide basketball championship

Prince Tyagi (39) and Manik Ohlyan (22) did the majority of scoring in serving to Delhi to a 104-81 victory over Uttarakhand in a group-C league match of the 72nd Nationwide basketball championship on the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Stadium on Tuesday.

Delhi made the quarterfinals together with Tamil Nadu, Railways, Haryana, Punjab, Companies, Kerala and Telangana.

Within the ladies’s part, Railways, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Maharahstra made the quarterfinals.

The outcomes:

Males: Group-A: Punjab 82 (Amritpal Singh 20, Amjot Singh 20, Anmoldeep Singh 13) bt Gujarat 54 (Sahaj Patel 11, Kuldeep Tamaliya 11, Sagar Mori 10).

Telangana 80 (Nathan 20, M Raju 16, Gowtam 12) bt Maharashtra 71 (Sayyed 20, Navin 14, Raj Kalbhor 14).

Group-B: Companies 94 (Mandeep Singh 16, Akhilesh Kumar 14, Ajay Singh 11, Magipal Singh 11) bt Kerala 70 (Sajesh 16, Sejin Mathew 13, Shanaz Muhammed 12, Rahul Sharath 12).

Madhya Pradesh 104 (Prakash Misra 25, Christopher Minhas 15, Rakesh Kumar Sharma 13, Surya Pratap Singh 12) bt West Bengal 93 (Raghav Sehgal 30, Arshdeep Singh 24).

Group-C: Tamil Nadu 115 (Muin Bek 20, M Aravind Kumar 19, Baladhaneswar 14, Lokeshwaran 12) bt Mizoram 64 (Vanal Thazhuala 22, Zonunsanga 11).

Delhi 104 (Prince Tyagi 39, Manik Ohlyan 22, Abhishek Tyagi 12) bt Uttarakhand 81 (Prashanth Rawat 25, Arjun Singh 18, Keshar Singh 17,Amandeep 11).

Girls: Group-A: Railways 109 (M Pushpa 18, Madhu Kumari 12, NIsha Sharma 12, Dharshini 10, Navaneeta 10, Poonam Chaturvedi 10) bt Karnataka 52 (Varsha Nandini 14, Pavani Sangwan 11).

Group-B: Tamil Nadu 65 (Sruthi 27, Shobhana 12) bt West Bengal 58 (Nivya Raj 21).

Group-C: Kerala 89 (PS Jeena 20, Stephy Nixon 19, Minnu Maria 14) bt Uttar Pradesh 59 (Sanju Yadav 22, Sruti Yadav 13).

Group-D: Maharashtra 78 (Abha Lad 19, Durga Dharamadhakari 17, Chaitali Bafna 13) bt Madhya Pradesh 37.

Delhi 74 (Raspreet Sidhu 22, Khushi Ahlawat 11) bt Odisha 59 (Lipramayee Satapathy 20, Anuradha Seth 11).

-Kamesh Srinivasan

FOOTBALL

NEROCA beat Kenkre 1-0 for first away win of season

NEROCA FC beat Kenkre FC 1-0 to select up their first away win of the I-League season on the Cooperage Stadium on Tuesday.

Striker Jourdain Fletcher’s thumping strike within the 57th minute received all three factors for the Orange Brigade, who had as many as 11 pictures on course in your complete match.

NEROCA dominated possession proper from the primary whistle with the Uzbek midfield duo of Sardor Jakhonov and Mirjalol Kasimov pulling the strings in the midst of the park.

The Orange Brigade had their first try on course on seventh minute when teenager Tangva Ragui dispatched a shot from outdoors the field, which was well-caught by goalkeeper Padam Chettri.

That turned out to be the one contribution of the sport from the Kenkre custodian, as he needed to be substituted for Tenzin Samdup within the seventeenth minute as a result of an damage.

The hosts’ compact defence meant that NEROCA needed to resort to long-range makes an attempt to attempt to discover the breakthrough. One such shot got here on the half-hour mark as Kasimov tried his luck from 25 yards out however couldn’t get sufficient bend on the ball because it sailed broad of the publish.

The Orange Brigade lastly unlocked the cussed Kenkre defence within the 57th minute. Jakhonov slipped a perfectly-weighted move to Fletcher on the overlap and the Jamaican took a contact earlier than drilling it into the roof of the web along with his left foot.

NEROCA maintained the identical attacking depth after taking the lead with Thomyo Shimray approaching to inject much more tempo into the wings. The guests exerted full management in midfield, leaving Kenkre pissed off as they struggled to keep up possession.

The Mumbaikars, nonetheless, got here near discovering an unlikely equaliser within the eightieth minute as defender Kynsailang Khongsit made a darting run contained in the field earlier than releasing a robust shot, which was palmed away by goalkeeper Shubham Dhas.

The consequence noticed NEROCA rise to seventh place within the standings with six factors. Kenkre slipped to tenth place with 4 factors from as many video games. 

-PTI