SQUASH
Anahat, Bawa in World Junior squash quarters
Anahat Singh superior to the World Junior Squash Championships quarterfinals for the third straight yr in Houston on Sunday.
The 16-year-old ladies’s Nationwide champion, seeded 5/8, beat Japan’s Akari Midorikawa (9/16) 11-6, 13-11, 11-2 within the fourth spherical and can tackle Egypt’s Nadien Elhammamy (3/4) subsequent.
In the meantime, Shaurya Bawa (17/32) moved to the boys’ singles quarterfinals with a 11-9, 5-11, 11-5, 13-11 win over Segundo Portabales (17/32) of Argentina. The Indian will meet Malaysia’s Low Wa-Sern (17/32) within the last-eight stage.
That is the primary time two Indians function within the quarterfinals of the competitors in the identical yr.
– Staff Sportstar
GOLF
Randhawa tied seventh in Swiss Senior; Jeev finishes tied twentieth
Jyoti Randhawa ended a creditable tied seventh, whereas Jeev Milkha Singh signed off tied twentieth after a roller-coaster closing spherical within the Legends Tour’s Swiss Senior Open right here.
Jarmo Sandelin of Sweden ended an extended look forward to his second Legends Tour win as he gained the event with a closing spherical of 67 and a complete of 10-under 200.
Randhawa, enjoying his rookie season on the Tour for Over 50s in Europe, added a 3rd spherical 69 to his first and second spherical efforts of 66-69 for a six-under whole that fetched him a top-10 end.
Randhawa had three birdies and two bogeys in his closing spherical.
India’s different star in discipline, Jeev (69-72-68) was at two-under. Jeev had 5 birdies in opposition to three bogeys.
Former Ryder Cup participant Sandelin’s solely different win got here within the 2019 MCB Tour Championship in Mauritius.
– PTI
Forward of The Open, Sharma finishes T-39 at Genesis
Indian golfer Shubhankar Sharma, warming up for the ultimate Main of the season, completed T-39 on the Genesis Scottish Open right here.
Sharma, who turns 28 on the ultimate day of the 152nd Open on Sunday, was 8-under by means of 17 holes and nearly contained in the Prime-10 when he triple bogeyed the 18th to card 5-under 65 and totalled 8-under 282 to complete T-39.
Scotsman Robert MacIntyre birdied the final to say an emotional dwelling victory and win his first Rolex Collection title. He shot 67 and totalled 18-under for the week and was one away from Adam Scott (67).
Indian-American Sahith Theegala carded a closing spherical 69 and at 14-under, he was tied fourth with Aaron Rai, defending champion Rory McIlroy (68), in a single day chief Ludvig Åberg, South Korea’s Sungjae Im (69) and American Collin Morikawa (69).
The house favorite produced a shocking end 12 months in the past at The Renaissance Membership solely to see McIlroy take the title however he wouldn’t be denied once more in entrance of his adoring followers.
It was additionally his second PGA Tour win because the Scottish Open is co-sanctioned with the PGA Tour.
– PTI
Atwal finishes 67th in US
Indian golfer Arjun Atwal shot 7-over 77 on the ultimate day to complete T-67 on the Kaulig Corporations Championship, one of many Majors on the Senior Champions Tour in the USA.
Atwal had rounds of 74-71-73-77 as Ernie Els gained his first Senior Main on the Champions.
Atwal made a horrible begin from the tenth on a difficult closing day. He had 5 bogeys and a double on his first 9 after which had all pars in the remainder of the 9 holes on the Firestone Nation Membership’s South Course in Akron, Ohio.
Els, a winner of 19 PGA TOUR titles, together with two U.S. Opens and two Open Championships, is enshrined within the World Golf Corridor of Fame. However what was lacking in his checklist was a Senior Main.
Els, who turns 55 in October, by no means had gained a significant championship among the many over-50 golfers. He did that this week.
He had a bogey on the par-5 sixteenth gap after which two sturdy closing pars. Els shot 2-under 68 on Sunday to complete at 10-under 270, edging YE Yang by a shot.
The victory was Els’ sixth on PGA TOUR Champions. He grew to become the primary participant to get to 3 victories this season. The win took him to No. 1 within the season-long Charles Schwab Cup standings.
– PTI
Lahiri stumbles in closing spherical, Garcia rallies to win play-off in Spain
The title slipped by means of Anirban Lahiri’s palms because the Indian was unable to carry on to his four-shot lead earlier than being outwitted by seasoned native favorite Sergio Garcia within the play-offs to complete second at Liv Golf Andalucia right here.
As Lahiri shot two-over 73 on the ultimate day, Garcia, who began the day seven photographs behind the Indian, carded five-under 66 and reached a five-under whole for a play-off, which the Spaniard gained.
Garcia began the day at even par, seven photographs behind in a single day chief Lahiri.
However the Spanish star performed flawless golf for 17 holes, posting six birdies and making use of strain on Lahiri, who was making an attempt to interrupt his personal winless drought of 9 years.
Whereas Garcia suffered his solely bogey of the day with a three-putt on the par-three third to wrap up his five-under 66, Lahiri birdied the par-five seventeenth. That put the event in Lahiri’s palms going to the par-four 18th, essentially the most tough gap on the course this week.
Lahiri discovered the center of the inexperienced along with his strategy shot and rolled his birdie try to 3 toes to arrange the potential successful par.
However with an opportunity to win the person title and safe the staff title for the Crushers, he missed the putt for a final-round 73 to drop again to 5 beneath and arrange the double playoff.
For Garcia, the script couldn’t have been written any higher, as he gained for the primary time after three earlier playoff losses.
For Lahiri, the winless run since his 2015 win at Hero Indian Open at dwelling, continues regardless of shut finishes in Liv golf.
– PTI
HOCKEY
Odisha ladies, Jharkhand males file wins in junior East Zone hockey
Odisha ladies’s and Jharkhand males’s groups recorded wins of their respective matches of the Hockey India Junior East Zone Championship right here on Monday.
Odisha ladies crushed Manipur Hockey 5-0, using on targets from Priyanka Kujur (20), captain Amisha Eka (30, 36), Anushka Bhawre (39) and Drupati Naik (55).
Assam Hockey ladies defeated Hockey Bihar 4-0 with objective from Ashmita Tigga (17), Sumitra Swargiari (23), Ritu Bawri (29) and Reshma Jagat (60), whereas Hockey Jharkhand obtained the higher of Hockey Bengal 4-1.
Within the males’s part, Jharkhand produced a ruthless present to hammer Assam Hockey 13-1 as Jolen Topno netted 5 instances within the thirteenth, seventeenth, twenty sixth, forty eighth and 59th minute.
Hockey Bihar registered a 4-3 victory over Manipur Hockey, who opened the scoring and remained in management for a very long time.
Odisha defeated Bengal 7-2. Odisha constructed a strong lead by means of targets from Abhisek Topno (24), Deepak Pradhan (26, 47, 51), Karan Lakra (27, 59) and Deonath Nanwar (37).
-PTI
SHOOTING
Bhavtegh Singh wins silver medal at Junior Shotgun World Cup
Bhavtegh Singh Gill bagged the silver medal in skeet within the Junior Shotgun World Cup in Porpetto, Italy, on Monday.
Going into the gold combat within the 60-shot closing, Bhavtegh was on par with the eventual gold medallist Benjamin Keller of the USA, however ultimately misplaced by a four-point margin. It was a commendable fare as Bhavtegh pushed Jordan Sapp of the USA, who had shot a world file 125 out of 125 in qualification, to the bronze medal.
With Sabeera Haris successful the junior ladies’s lure bronze earlier, it was a wholesome fare by India, to be third within the medals desk behind USA and Italy.
The outcomes:
-Kamesh Srinivasan
SWIMMING
Delhi State Swimming Championship: Prateek Singh wins gold in under-17 boys 100m freestyle
Prateek Singh of Flying Fish Academy gained the under-17 boys 100-metre freestyle gold within the 58th Delhi State swimming championship on the Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Pool.
Prateek gained the 50-metre butterfly gold as nicely. Veer Chawla did nicely to win the 200-metre breaststroke and 400-metre medley occasions within the under-14 boys part.
Virat Vardhan was dominant within the under-11 boys part, successful three gold medals.
Titiksha Rawat gained the 100-metre and 800-metre freestyle gold within the under-17 ladies part. Saumya Sachdeva, Superior and Mayra Singh had been the others to win two particular person gold medals every within the ladies occasions.
The outcomes:
-Kamesh Srinivasan
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