SQUASH
India men finish sixth, women seventh in World Junior squash team events
India finished sixth and seventh in the men’s and women’s sections respectively in the World Junior Squash Championships held in Houston, USA.
The Indian men lost to England 1-2 in the match for fifth position while their women counterparts beat New Zealand 2-1 in the clash for the seventh on Tuesday.
Both the matches went into deciders.
Results:
- PTI
SAILING
Telangana sailors to represent India at World championships
The Telangana sailors who will be taking part in the British Nationals and the World Championships later this month. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Top Telangana sailors from Hyderabad, who recently won many medals at the Hussain Sagar regattas, will represent India at the British Nationals and World Championships to be held from July 29 to Aug 9 at Plymouth, United Kingdom
The participation is in the memory of Jay Pullur who was a staunch supporter of The YCH Foundation. Jay Pullur was a pioneer in software products and the founder of many software product companies in Hyderabad and the US, according to Yachting Club of Hyderabad President and head coach Suheim Sheikh.
The sailors will be sailing a new class of boats, the Cadet Class double-hander, for the first time. The boat serves as a transition class before the International 420 and the Olympic 470 Class
The team consists of a pair of Deekshita and Govardhan both national champions and Rizwan Mohammad a recent Bronze medallist paired up with Thanuja Kameshwar who won the gold at the 420 Nationals as skipper on two of the boats.
Additionally another medallist Ganesh Peerkatla and Vinodh Dandu have been paired as skipper and crew on a third boat
India is participating in the Cadet World Championships after a gap of 27 years and more than 150 sailors from about 15 countries mostly from Europe while India will be the sole country from Asia.
-V V Subrahmanyam
ATHLETICS
India’s Juby Jose clinches 3 medals at Pan American Masters Games
India’s Juby Jose won three medals, including a silver in the women’s 100m dash event, at the recently-concluded Pan American Masters Games held at the George Finney Athletic Stadium in Cleveland, USA.
Hailing from Palakkad in Kerala, the 42-year-old clocked 15.02s to clinch the silver medal, finishing behind Venezuala’s Xiorelis Pinero Breto (14.56s) in the 100m dash in the 40-44 years division.
Jose, who is a mother of two and a dentist by profession, also bagged the bronze medals in the 200m and 400m dash events in the 40-44 category, making her the sole Indian athlete to achieve such a feat across multiple disciplines at these Games.
- PTI
TENNIS
Sumit Nagal loses in second round of pre-quarterfinals of the €651,865 ATP tennis tournament
Fourth seed Pedro Martinez of Spain beat Sumit Nagal 7-5, 7-5 in the pre-quarterfinals of the €651,865 ATP tennis tournament in Kitzbuhel, Austria, on Wednesday.
The 26-year-old Sumit, who had reached a career-best rank of 68 last week, collected 25 ATP points and €10,165.
The results:
€651,865 ATP, Kitzbuhel, Austria:
€579,320 ATP, Umag, Croatia:
$115,000 WTA, Warsaw, Poland:
€148,625 Challenger, Zug, Switzerland:
$25,000 ITF men, Astana, Kazakhstan:
$15,000 ITF men, Monastir, Tunisia:
$15,000 ITF men, Rognac, France:
$100,000 ITF women, Figueria da Foz, Portugal:
$40,000 ITF women, Dallas, USA:
$25,000 ITF women, Astana, Kazakhstan:
$25,000 ITF women, Casablanca, Morocco:
$15,000 ITF women, Monastir, Tunisia:
- Kamesh Srinivasan
Chennai to host RWD Open tournament for clubs
Chennai is set to host a unique tennis tournament, the RWD Open - a city-based league-cum-knockout tennis championship backed by the Tamil Nadu Tennis Association.
Scheduled to run between August and September, each tie will consist of five double matches -- one 30 + pair, one 35+ pair, two 45 + pairs and one 55 + pair.
The winner of each meeting will be decided by the total number of games won, which is the number of games won in a set.
With 16 clubs participating, the teams will be clubbed into four groups of four sides each, with the winner of each group progressing to the semi-finals, followed by the final.
Among the renowned players to participate in the competition are Somdev Devvarman, G Rajesh, Vinod Sridhar, Vijay Kannan and Sai Jayalakshmi.
The tournament will have a total prize money of Rs 2 lakh, with the winner getting Rs 1 lakh and the runner-up receiving Rs 50,000, while the losing semi-finalists will be getting Rs 25,000 each.
Commenting on this new event, TNTA President Vijay Amritraj said, ”Considering the interest in tennis in Chennai and Tamil Nadu, I am confident the event will grow in the years to come.”
The participating clubs
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GOLF
Hitaashee takes 2-shot lead; Amandeep, Neha close behind in Hero WPGT
Hitaashee Bakshi roared back into form with a 2-under 70 to take a 2-shot lead in the first round of the 10th Leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour here on Wednesday.
Hitaashee, the leader on the Order of Merit, had six birdies but also gave away a double bogey and two late bogeys at the Prestige Golfshire.
She is ahead of two other experienced stars, Amandeep Drall (72) and Neha Tripathi (73) as they form the lead trio.
Four players, including talented amateur Mannat Brar, Khushi Khanijau, Anisha Agarwalla and Jasmine Shekar, are tied for the fourth place with cards of 2-over 74 each.
The winner of the ninth leg Vidhatri Urs (75), whose round had three bogeys and no birdies, shared the eighth spot with Kriti Chowhan, while Rhea Jha, Astha Madan and amateur Keerthana Rajeev shared the 10th place at 4-over 76.
Hitaashee, who was third recently at the Singapore Ladies Masters, had five birdies on the front nine and one more on the 18th.
Hitaashee opened the round with a birdie and added three more from the fifth to the seventh holes. She dropped a double bogey on the eighth and then picked a shot back on the ninth. She turned in 3-under 33.
On the back nine, she bogeyed the 16th and the 17th.
Amandeep had three birdies against three bogeys, while Neha Tripathi, making a return from a back injury, had six birdies. However, she also dropped two doubles and three bogeys to card 1-over 73.
Last year’s Order of Merit winner, Sneha Singh was tied for 13th place with Gauri Karhade, Agrima Manral and Ananya Garg at 77.
-PTI
Jeev, Atwal, Randhawa tee up at Senior Open; Chopra also in field
Three legendary Indian golfers, Jeev Milkha Singh, Arjun Atwal and Jyoti Randhawa, will tee up at the 2024 Senior Open for the second year running with Daniel Chopra, who has played alongside the trio, making his Seniors Major debut.
Chopra, who has played alongside the three stars in India in his formative years before he took a Swedish passport, has won twice on the PGA Tour.
Atwal is the only Indian to have won on the PGA Tour back in 2010, while Jeev has won multiple times in Asia, Europe and Japan. Randhawa has also won numerous titles in Asia.
Last year, Jeev, at T-14, was the only one among the three to make the cut in the tournament for players above 50 years of age.
The 2023 edition, at Royal Porthcawl, Wales, was won by Germany’s Alex Cejka.
Bernhard Langer will look to win a record fifth Senior Open title, having claimed the Senior Open trophy for the fourth time in 2019 at Royal Lytham & St Anne’s.
He is the most decorated over-50s golfer of all time, with 12 Senior Majors to his name, including both previous Senior Opens held at Royal Porthcawl.
Langer is one of 15 Major champions in the field, including Ian Woosnam, Paul Lawrie, Darren Clarke, Michael Campbell, Angel Cabrera, John Daly, Shaun Micheel, Retief Goosen, Justin Leonard, Jose Maria Olazábal, Rich Beem, Vijay Singh, Y.E. Yang and Pádraig Harrington.
Lawrie, Daly and Harrington, all former Champion Golfers of the Year, will bid to join an exclusive club this week as one of the only men to win both The Open and The Senior Open.
Gary Player, Bob Charles, Tom Watson and, most recently, Darren Clarke, are the only players to have previously completed the double.
The last time The Senior Open visited Scotland was in 2022 as Clarke won his maiden Major title at Gleneagles.
This is the third time Carnoustie is hosting The Senior Open. Bernhard Langer and Paul Broadhurst won the previous two editions held at the venue.
-PTI
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