BOXING
Thailand Open: Deepak, Kiran in finals
Deepak (75kg) and Kiran (women’s 80+ kg) reached summit clashes of their respective weight classes at the Thailand Open International Boxing Tournament in Bangkok on Friday.
Deepak defeated home favourite Peerapat Yeasu, while Kiran got past Ukraine’s Polina Chernen with an identical 5-0 margin. Priya (57kg) and Saneh (70kg) lost in the semifinals.
-Team Sportstar
GOLF
Ahlawat makes promising start in Austria, Sharma struggles
Indian golfer Veer Ahlawat returned an impressive three-67 in the opening round to be tied eighth but Shubhankar Sharma stumbled to a three-over 73 to be placed tied 110th after the opening round of the Austrian Alpine Open presented by SalzburgerLand in Salzburg.
Ahlawat trailed the leader, Marcel Schneider of Germany, by four shots after the first round on Thursday.
Ahlawat, who earned his DP World Tour card by topping the Indian PGTI Tour, has had a mixed season, making five cuts and missing as many in 10 starts this season.
His best has been tied 17th at his home event, the Hero Indian Open.
– PTI
Ranveer, Krish finish fifth in boys team competition; Saanvi, Kashika end eighth in girls event
Indian amateurs Ranveer Mitroo and Krish Chawla registered a fifth-place finish in the boys’ team competition after posting a combined total of four-over 430 in the Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation (APGC) Junior Championship in Hong Kong.
In the individual girls’ event, Saanvi Somu carded a two-over 74 in the final round to end her campaign in a creditable 10th place. Her compatriot Kashika, still recovering from illness, posted an improved three-over 75 to finish the tournament in 19th position.
The Indian pair of Kashika and Saanvi finished eighth with a combined score of 16-over 448 in the girls’ team event.
In the mixed team event, the Indian duo of Krish and Saanvi ended their campaign in 13th position at 11-over 437.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
TABLE TENNIS
UTT junior tournament: Pune Jaguars beats U Mumba in decisive rubber
Tushti Sood beat Ananya Muralidhar 11-10, 7-11, 11-10 in the decisive rubber to help Pune Jaguars beat U Mumba 5-4 in the league phase of the Dream UTT junior table tennis tournament at the EKA Arena on Friday.
The match was on the balance at 3-3 after Atharva Nawarange had won the boys singles against Prateek Tulsani, but had lost the mixed doubles with Tushti Sood against Prateek and Ananya.
With every rubber being played over three sets, and each contest having nine sets, the results are decided in favour of the team winning more sets rather than matches.
The top four teams among the eight will qualify for the semifinals.
The results (league)
Pune Jaguars bt U Mumba 5-4 (Atharva Nawarange bt Prateek Tulsani 11-8, 11-10, 9-11; Atharva & Tushti Sood lost to Prateek & Ananya Muralidhar 6-11, 11-8, 6-11; Tushti bt Ananya 11-10, 7-11, 11-10).
Kolkata ThunderBlades bt Ahmedabad SG Pipers 5-4 (Ritvik Gupta bt Abheek Kashyap 11-9, 11-6, 11-3; Ritvik & Swara Karmarkar lost to Abheek & Mouboni Chatterjee 7-11, 6-11, 11-10; Swara lost to Mouboni 9-11, 11-8, 5-11).
Jaipur Patriots bt Dabang Delhi 6-3 (Trishal Surapureddy lost to Akash Rajavelu 9-11, 11-9, 7-11; Trishal & Shreya Dhar bt Akash & Dhaani Jain 11-4, 11-9, 8-11; Shreya bt Dhaani 11-10, 11-10, 11-1).
-Kamesh Srinivasan
WRESTLING
Ulaanbaatar Open: Antim clinches championship; India bags four gold
Indian women wrestlers, including World championships bronze medallist Antim Panghal, landed four gold medals in the Ulaanbaatar Open Ranking Series on Friday.
Paris Olympian Antim won all her matches, including the final where she outsmarted Nataliya Malysheva 10-0, convincingly. Neha (57kg), Muskan (59kg) and Harshita (72kg) also secured gold medals, while Neelam (50kg) got a bronze. Greco Roman wrestler Suraj (60kg) bagged a silver.
– Team Sportstar
TENNIS
Aryan Shah enters quarterfinals of ITF men’s tennis tournament in Coquimbo
Aryan Shah got past Thiago Cigarran of Argentina in the quarterfinals of the $30,000 ITF men’s tennis tournament in Coquimbo, Chile. Aryan led 6-3, 3-0 when Cigarran retired.
The results:
$100,000 Challenger, Little Rock, USA
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Niki Poonacha & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt Mac Kiger & Patrick Maloney (USA) 7-5, 6-4.
€54,000 Challenger, Chisinau, Moldova
Doubles (semifinals): Szymon Kielan & Filip Pieczonka (Pol) bt Siddhant Banthia & Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-2, 1-6, [10-3]; Quarterfinals: Siddhant & Ramkumar w.o. Petr Biryukov & Saba Purtseladze (Geo); Aleksandre Bakshi (Geo) & Robert Strombachs (Lat) bt Sai Karteek Reddy & Parikshit Somani 6-1, 6-2.
$30,000 ITF men, Coquimbo, Chile
Singles (quarterfinals): Aryan Shah bt Thiago Cigarran (Arg) 6-3, 3-0 (retired).
$15,000 ITF men, Kayseri, Turkey Doubles (quarterfinals): Georgi Georgiev & Alexaner Petrov (Bul) bt Ali Habib (GBR) & Aryan Lakshmanan 6-2, (reitred).
$15,000 ITF men, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Singles (quarterfinals): Renta Tokuda (Jpn) bt Kriish Tyagi 2-6, 6-3, 6-4; Maxim Shin (Uzb) bt Madhwin Kamath 6-2, 6-3.
Doubles (semifinals): Ishaque Eqbal & Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Grigoriy Lomakin (Kaz) & Zura Tkemaladze (Geo) 6-3, 7-6(4).
$15,000 ITF women, Kayseri, Turkey Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Aleksandra Jankovskaia & Elizaveta Rozhkova bt Kimia Tehrani (Iri) & Sameeksha Shroff 6-1, 4-6, [10-4].
$15,000 ITF women, Monastir, Tunisia Doubles (semifinals): Alicia Dudeney (GBR) & Patricija Paukstyte (Ltu) bt Tanisha Kashyap & Arabella Koller (Aut) 6-0, 6-3.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
