GOLF
Lahiri slips further down, Rahm takes lead in Liv Greenbrier
India’s Anirban Lahiri carded a below-par 1-over 71 in the second round to slip further down at the LIV Golf Greenbrier tournament.
From overnight T-38, Lahiri slid down to T-49 in the field of 54 players. Lahiri had two bogeys against one birdie despite favourable scoring conditions at the Old White Course.
Jon Rahm rose to the top of the leader board on Saturday after a second-round score of 8-under 62.
At 14-under, he leads by two shots entering the final round of what promises to be a shootout in favourable scoring conditions.
Rahm’s focus will be simply to hold off all the challengers on a course that yields low scores.
-PTI
Krawczynska ousts Mannat Brar in semifinals of R&A Girls Amateur Championship
Mannat Brar, the first Indian to reach the semifinals of the R&A Girls Amateur Championship, lost in the last four stage, going down 3&2 to Poland’s Matylda Krawczynska.
Despite the result, Mannat, the top ranked amateur in Indian Golf Union’s Merit list, achieved a new high by becoming the first Indian to reach this far in the event that had a 144-player field.
Sweden enjoyed double delight in finals of the competition winning both boys’ and girls’ titles.
In the girls’ final, Havanna Torstensson beat Mannat’s semifinal conqueror, Krawczynska.
-PTI
MOTORSPORT
Abhay Mohan wins maiden Formula 1600 National Championship
Bengaluru’s Abhay Mohan clinched his maiden national title by winning the prestigious Formula 1600 National championship with 10 consecutive wins after the end of the fourth and final round of the MRF-MMSC Indian National Car Racing Championship on Sunday.
The 2022 junior national karting champion, who graduated to single seater racing this year, took to the powerful Formula cars like a duck to water, with a phenomenal all-win record till the penultimate race of the last round.
The 16-year-old had an impressive unbeaten run of 10 consecutive races and conceded points only after clinching the championship that featured 12 races.
Two Mumbai drivers -- Zahan Commissariat and Raaj Bakhru -- finished second and third respectively in the championship.
“This is my first year in single seater Formula cars, but it has been a memorable season. It feels really amazing to be the National champion and to have 10 consecutive wins,” said Mohan.
-PTI
TENNIS
Balaji loses Challenger tennis tournament final
Second seeds Diego Hidalgo and Miguel Reyes-Varela beat Sriram Balaji and Fernando Romboli 6-7(2), 6-4, [18-16] in the doubles final of the $164,000 Challenger tennis tournament in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
The champion team collected 125 ATP points and $9,350. The Indo-Brazilian team won 75 points and $5,440.
The results:
$164,000 Challenger, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Doubles (final): Diego Hidalgo (Ecu) & Miguel Reyes-Varela (Mex) bt Sriram Balaji & Fernando Romboli (Bra) 6-7(2), 6-4, [18-16].
-Kamesh Srinivasan
CUE SPORTS
Pankaj Advani wins billiards final of Western India Billiards and Snooker Championship
Pankaj Advani crushed S Shrikrishna by a margin of 822-520 in the billiards final to clinch yet another title win here in the Western India Billiards and Snooker Championship on Sunday.
The 27-time world champion Advani had earlier won five consecutive finals in different competitions in Mumbai and his triumph on Sunday was his sixth in a row in summit clashes.
Over the last two years, Advani has recorded title wins in both the classic billiards and snooker tournaments in last two editions of the Cricket Club of India event and earlier this year he had won the NSCI Baulkline 3.0 competition.
Advani was thus awarded the winning prize of Rs 2 lakh while Tamil Nadu’s Shrikrishna got Rs 1.20 lakh as the runner-up.
Dhvaj Haria and Shahyan Razmi, who lost in the semifinal round, got Rs 60,000 each for their efforts.
In the summit clash both Advani and Shrikrishna started tentatively and struggled to stitch together big breaks initially.
The contest also did not rise above expectations as there were just half a dozen substantial breaks in the entire three-hour contest.
Advani compiled a sequence breaks 57, 120, 62, 86, and 56, while Shrikrishna managed a solitary effort 94.
-PTI
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