GOLF
Telangana Golconda Masters 2023 to begin from September 27
The Telangana Golconda Masters 2023 will be held at the Hyderabad Golf Club here from September 27 to 30 with a total prize money of Rs 1 crore.
The Pro-Am event of the championship will be held on Tuesday.
The top Indian professionals in the fray include Olympian Udayan Mane (2018 & 2020 winner), PGTI Order of Merit leader Om Prakash Chouhan, Aman Raj and Karan Pratap Singh, Sunhit Bishnoi, Harshjeet Singh Sethie and Gaurav Pratap Singh, to name a few.
The foreign challenge will be led by Bangladeshis Badal Hossain and Md Akbar Hossain, Japan’s Makoto Iwasaki, Andorra’s Kevin Esteve Rigaill as well as Canada’s Sukhraj Singh Gill.
The local challenge will be led by Hyderabad-based players including professionals Haider Hussain, Mohd Azhar and Hardik S Chawda as well as amateurs Vilok Gadwal, Adit Ahluwalia and Tarun Ajay.
“We are happy to host the 9th edition of the Telangana Golconda Masters at HGA. We thank the PGTI and TTDC for hosting this event year on year at the historic picturesque HGA,” Jayant Tagore, President, HGA, said.
“The Telangana Golconda Masters, now in its ninth edition, has grown into one of the most important stops for the PGTI in southern India,” Uttam Singh Mundy, CEO, PGTI, said.
The mission of the project is to set up an international standard golf course, a golf training academy and to put Hyderabad on the International Golfing map.
- Team Sportstar
FOOTBALL
St. Patrick School beats Home Mission School in Subroto Cup semifinals
A goal each from Binita Horo and Allpha Kandulna helped defending champion St. Patrick’s School, Gumla, beat Home Mission School, Aizawl, Mizoram, 2-0 in the semifinals of the 62nd Subroto Cup junior girls football tournament on Monday.
In the other semifinal, former champion Government Senior Secondary School, Alakhpura, beat Ananda Purna School of Science, Thoubal, Manipur, 1-0 thanks to a free kick goal in extra time by Rishika.
The final will be played at the Ambedkar Stadium at 4 p.m. on Tuesday.
The results (semifinals):
- Team Sportstar
TENNIS
Fenesta National tennis championship to begin from October 2
Vaidehi Chaudhari will attempt to defend the women’s title in the Fenesta National tennis championship scheduled to be staged at the DLTA Complex from October 2.
Shrivalli Bhamidipaty, Sandeepti Singh Rao, Smiti Bhasin, Vaishnavi Adkar, Sharmada Ballu, Kashish Bhatia, Sahira Singh, Sai Samhitha and Yubrani Banerjee are some of the other leading women players entered for the event.
In the men’s section, SD Prajwal Dev is likely to be the top seed. Karan Singh, Manish Sureshkumar, Siddharth Vishwakarma, Nitin Kumar Sinha, VM Ranjeet, Oges Theyjo, Vishnu Vardhan and Ishque Eqbal are some of the leading players scheduled to compete in the championship which offers Rs.3,00,000 each for the men’s and women’s champions. The runners-up will get Rs.2,00,000.
The under-18 boys and girls event will be held concurrently in the first week of the championship.
The following week will feature competition for the under-16 and 14 boys and girls .
- Team Sportstar
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