SHOOTING
TS Divya wins gold at Kumar Surendra Singh Championship
Divya Subbaraju was in top form as she beat Riya Thatte 31-28 for the 25-metre sports pistol gold in the 23rd Kumar Surendra Singh Shooting Championship at the Madhya Pradesh Academy on Thursday.
The 29-year-old Divya had topped qualification with 586 and shot a strong final to assert her supremacy in a strong field, which included Asian Games and multiple World Cup gold medallist Rahi Sarnobat.
Naamya Kapoor won the junior gold, beating Tejaswani 34-33.
RESULTS
25m sports pistol: Women: 1. TS Divya 31 (586); 2. Riya Thatte 28 (581); 3. Arshdeep Kaur 23 (578).
Juniors: 1. Naamya Kapoor 34 (570); 2. Tejaswani 33 (572); 3. Prisha Gupta 30 (569).
-Team Sportstar
BOXING
Asian U-15 & U-17 Boxing Championships: Five more Indians advance to semifinals
Five Indian boxers, including three boys and two girls, advanced to the semifinals of the Asian U-15 Championships here.
From the men’s U-15 championship, Nelson Khwairakpam (55 kg) secured a Referee Stops Contest (RSC) win in the first round over Chinese Taipei’s Wang Sheng-Yang on the fifth day of competitions on Wednesday.
Abhijeet (61 kg) and Lakshay Phogat (64 kg) cruised to 5-0 victories against opponents from Kyrgyzstan and Jordan, respectively in their quarterfinal bouts.
Among the girls, Princi (52 kg) delivered a strong 5-0 result over Ukraine’s Yeva Kubanova.
Samruddhi Satish Shinde (55 kg) wrapped up her bout with an RSC in the third round against Ukraine’s Kseniia Savina.
Six Indians had already made their way into the semifinals on Tuesday.
Results:
Men’s U-15 – Quarterfinals: 52 kg: Ravi Sihag (IND) lost to Elshod Shakirjonov (UZB) – WP 2:3 55 kg: Nelson Khwairakpam (IND) def. Wang Sheng-Yang (TPE) – RSC R1 58 kg: Naman Saini (IND) lost to Jakhongirjon Usmankulov (UZB) – WP 0:5 61 kg: Abhijeet (IND) def. Mukhammad Burkhanov (KGZ) – WP 5:0 64 kg: Lakshay Phogat (IND) def. Laith Ajailat (JOR) – WP 5:0
-PTI
Tennis
Sherry enters quarterfinals of U18 quarterfinals of AITA Junior National Series
Sherry Sharma beat second seed Riya Sachdeva 6-4, 4-6, 6-3 in the under-18 girls Quarterfinals of the AITA National Series Junior Tennis Tournament at the CLTA Complex on Thursday.
The results:
Under-18 boys (quarterfinals): Swaraaj Dhamdhere bt Vivaan Bidasaria 6-3, 6-2; Armaan Walia bt Dhruv Ghanghas 6-4, 6-0; Ribhav Saroha bt Anuj Tahsildar 6-2, 6-2; Nithin Barath bt Megh Patel 6-2, 1-6, 6-2.
Doubles (final): Swaraj Dhamdhere & Neev Kothari bt Shreyas Dogial & Dhruv Ghanghas 2-6, 7-6(6), [10-7].
Under-18 girls (quarterfinals): Ranjhana Sangram bt Manshi Singh 6-4 6-4; Shagun Kumari bt Pal Upadhyay 7-6(5), 6-2; Nainika Bendram bt Iha Joshi 6-3, 6-2; Sherry Sharma bt Riya Sachdeva 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.
Doubles (final): Nainika Bendram & Riya Sachdeva bt Afreen Rahil & Ranjhana Sangram 6-2, 7-6(2).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
Srishti Kiran shines at Asian Under-14 Development Tennis Championship
Srishti Kiran beat Adani Muhammad of Malaysia 6-2, 6-1 in the girls pre-quarterfinals of the Asian under-14 Development tennis championship at the DLTA Complex on Thursday.
Srishti will meet Tamina Saken of Kazakhstan in the quarterfinals. Second seed Jensi Kanabar also made the quarterfinals by outplaying Amanda Teng of Malaysia and will play fifth seed Nualsri Paweenon of Thailand.
RESULTS
Boys (pre-quarterfinals): Jang Juneo (Kor) bt Viraj Choudhary 6-0, 6-0.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Chun Lok & Fu Choi (Hkg) bt Vivaan Mirdha & Viraj Choudhary 7-6(0), 6-7(5), [10-7].
Girls (pre-quarterfinals): Srishti Kiran bt Adani Muhammad (Mas) 6-2, 6-1; Jensi Kanabar bt Amanda Teng (Mas) 6-1, 6-0.
-Team Sportstar
Aryan Shah enters quarterfinals of Ivory Coast Open II
Aryan Shah continued to assert his game as he beat sixth seed Ergi Kirkin of Turkey 6-1, 4-6, 6-4 in the pre-quarterfinals of the $60,000 Challenger tennis tournament (Ivory Coast Open II) in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on Thursday.
The 19-year-old Aryan will challenge the third seed Michael Geerts of Belgium in the quarterfinals.
The results:
$100,000 Challenger, Gwangju, Korea: Doubles (quarterfinals): Ramkumar Ramanathan & Aoran Wang (Chn) bt Blake Bayldon (Aus) & Reese Stalder (USA) 7-6(4), 7-6(1).
$60,000 Challenger, Abidjan, Ivory Coast: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Aryan Shah bt Ergi Kirkin (Tur) 6-1, 4-6, 6-4. Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Aleksandre Bakshi (Geo) & Prajwal Dev bt Juan Bianchi & Brandon Perez (Ven) 7-5, 6-1.
€54,000 Challenger, Rome, Italy: Doubles (quarterfinals): Simone Agostini (Ita) & Kelsey Stevenson (Can) bt Siddhant Banthia & Alexander Donski (Bul) 6-4, 3-6, [11-9]; Pre-quarterfinals: Banthia & Donski bt Federico Arnaboldi (Ita) & Remy Bertola (Sui) 6-3, 6-4.
$30,000 ITF men, Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Nikolas Izquierdo (Esp) & Mark Vervoort (Ned) bt Andrey Chepelev & Chirag Duhan 5-7, 6-3, [10-8].
$100,000 ITF women, Tokyo, Japan: Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Hong Yi Cody Wong (Hkg) & Lin Zhu (Chn) bt Arianne Hartono (Ned) & Prarthana Thombare 3-6, 6-3, [11-9].
$15,000 ITF women, Monastir, Tunisia: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Zeel Desai bt Laura Cilekova (Svk) 3-6, 7-5, 6-3. Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Abigail Rencheli & Hibah Shaikh (USA) bt Tanisha Kashyap & Arabella Koller (Aut) 6-3, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF women, Antalya, Turkey: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Vaishnavi Adkar bt Justina Daniele (Arg) 6-4, 6-4. Doubles (quarterfinals): Vaishnavi Adkar & India Houghton (USA) bt Sarah Fajmonova (Cze) & Ilay Yoruk (Tur) 6-2, 6-1.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
GOLF
Gaurav Pratap fires course record of 63 at PGTI Invitational
Noida’s Gaurav Pratap Singh shot a course record score of nine-under 63 to take the first-round lead at the INR 2 crore Kapil Dev-Grant Thornton Invitational 2025 which commenced at the Prestige Golfshire Club here on Thursday.
Gaurav’s flawless round broke the previous course record of five-under 67 set by Rashid Khan in 2012.
Delhi’s Arjun Prasad, fresh from his runner-up finish in Delhi last week, continued his fine form with an eight-under 64 as he held second position on day one.
Bengaluru’s Khalin Joshi struck a 65 to be placed third at the first-of-its-kind PGTI event with a mixed field of men and lady professionals.
Gaganjeet Bhullar, Om Prakash Chouhan and Yuvraj Sandhu were among the prominent names bunched in tied sixth with scores of 67.
Hitaashee Bakshi had the best score among the lady golfers after she returned a 69 to be tied 19th.
-PTI
