TENNIS
The India U-14 Women’s Team will compete in the ITF World Youth Tennis Finals, to be held in Prostejov, Czech Republic from August 1 to 6.
The three-member team consists of Aishwarya Dayanand Jadhav, Sohini Sanjay Mohanty and Sai Janvi Talari. Namita Bal will be the team captain at the event.
The team earned a place in the tournament by winning a bronze medal at the ITF Asia/Oceania World Junior Championship Qualifiers in Delhi in April earlier this year.
However, the men’s team failed to make it through, having finished fifth in the qualifying event. Only the top four teams made it to the Finals.
– Team Sportsstar
Ramkumar lost in the first round at Indianapolis
Ramkumar Ramanathan was defeated 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 by Yasutaka Uchiyama of Japan in the first round of the $53,120 Challenger in Indianapolis.
In the $15,000 ITF women’s event in Tunisia, Jennifer Luikham defeated fifth seed Elena Milovanovic of Serbia 6-4, 6-2 in the first round.
Result:
$53,120 Challenger, Indianapolis, USA
Singles (1st round): Yasutaka Uchiyama (Jpn) bt Ramkumar Ramanathan 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.
Challenger $53,120, Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan
Singles (1st round): Yanki Erel (Round) beat Prajnesh Gunneswaran 6-3, 6-3.
$25,000 Men’s ITF, Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal
Singles (1st round): Rio Noguchi (Jpn) lost to Rishab Agarwal 2-6, 6-4, 6-3.
15,000 USD Men’s ITF, Seremban, Malaysia
Singles (1st round): Krittin Koaykul (Tha) bt Muthu Aadhitiya Senthilkumar 7-6 (2), 6-2; Madhwin Kamath bt Naufal Siddiq Kamaruzzaman (Mas) 7-6 (8) 1-6, 6-3; Mitsuki Wei Kang Leong (Mas) bt Aryan Sshah 6-3, 6-4.
Doubles (before quarterfinals): Patrick Edward Toman (USA) & Vishnu Vardhan bt Muhammad Aiman Hamdan & Naufal Siddiq Kamaruzzaman (Mas) 6-3, 3-6, [10-2]; Ryuki Matsuda & Hikaru Shiraishi (Jpn) bt Kenny Bun (Orange) & Parth Aggarwal 6-4, 6-2; Shinji Hazawa & Kento Takeuchi (Jpn) bt Bharath Kumaran & Muthu Senthilkumar 6-2, 7-6 (6).
15,000 USD Men ITF, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Singles (1st round): Quentin Folliot (Fra) bt Rushil Khosla 7-5,6-0; Rishi Reddy bt Tushar Madan 7-5, 6-4; SD Prajwal Dev bt Ashen Minoj Julan Silva (Sri) 6-2, 6-0; Mao Takada (Jpn) bt Shahbaaz Khan 3-6, 6-4, 6-0; Karan Singh bt Hanival Kahssay (Aus) 6-3, 6-1; SimoneAgostini (Ita) bt Siddharth Vishwakarma 5-7, 7-6 (3), 6-2.
Doubles (before quarterfinals): Adil Kalyanpur & Digvijay Pratap Singh bt Siddhant Banthia & Paras Dahiya 2-6, 6-2, [10-8]; Parikshit Somani & Manish Sureshkumar bt Mohit Bhardwaj & Shahbaaz Khan 6-3, 6-3; Lohithaksha Bathrinath & Tushar Madan bt Gourav Gulia & Fardeen Quamar3-6, 6-3, [16-14]; Jagmeet Singh & Karan Singh bt Ashen Minoj JulanSilva & Guyanga Weerasekera (Sri) 6-0, 6-2.
15,000 USD Men ITF, Caloundra, Australia
Doubles (before quarterfinals): Ryotaro Matsumura (Jpn) & Nishant Dabas bt David Barclay (Auss) & Colin Sinclair (Nma) 6-4, 1-6, [10-7].
60,000 USD female ITF, Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan
Doubles (before quarterfinals): Ekaterina Maklakova & Aleksandra Pospelova bt Anna Ureke & Sowjanya Bavisetti 6-1, 6-2.
15,000 USD female ITF, Monastir, Tunisia
Singles (1st round): Jenniffer Luikham bt Elena Milovanovic (Srb) 6-4, 6-2.
– Kamesh Srinivasan
WEIGHTLIFTING
Indian fast lifter Harshada Garud won gold in the women’s 45kg at the Asian Youth and Youth Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent.
The 18-year-old claimed the yellow metal with a total weight of 157kg (69kg + 88kg) on Monday. The total effort is 4 kg higher than the 153kg (70kg + 83kg) lift she won this past May.
Soumya Dalvi won bronze in the youth 45 kg category.
The bronze medal of the World Youth Championship reached 145kg (63kg + 82kg) to step onto the podium.
In the men’s 49 kg event, L Dhanush won bronze in the 85 kg jerk.
However, the Indian tennis player finished 4th overall with a record of 185kg (85kg + 100kg).
Medals are awarded separately for the recoil, clean and jerk, and advanced totals in the Continental and World Championships. However, only one medal – for total lift – was awarded during the Olympics.
– PTI
Asian Youth and Youth Weightlifting Championships – Nikita Kamalakar wins silver
Nikita Kamalakar won a silver medal in the women’s 55 kg event at the Asian youth and youth weightlifting championships in Tashkent on Tuesday.
Nikita lifted 55kg in the recoil and 95kg in the jerk for a total of 163kg.
-YB Sarangi
GOLF
Pranavi reaches fifth title at WPGT
Pranavi Urs will seek further glory as she flourishes this week at the 10th stage of the Heroine Professional Golf Tournament at Prestige Golfshire.
Pranavi, who won last week’s championship at Bangalore Golf Club, has won four times this season and another success this week will bring her half of the 10 completed events this weekend. .
She was also the runner-up in two other events. It’s an extraordinary achievement for golfer Mysore, who was at one point on the bench due to injury, although she is now fully fit.
Sher Atwal will be looking to end the series in second place. Another notable one will be Hitaashee Bakshi, who finished last Tuesday, and was the winner of the third and sixth stages of the WPGT.
Sneha Singh, who made her professional debut last week, Neha Tripathi, who has just kicked off Europe on the Ladies European Tour, Gaurika Bishnoi and Afshan Fatima will be the others to watch out for.
This is the fourth consecutive event in Bengaluru, two of which, the seventh and now the 10th, have been held in Prestige Golfshire.
– PTI
BADMINTON
Taipei Open: Tanisha-Ishaan pair enters first round
India’s mixed doubles Tanisha Crasto and Ishaan Bhatnagar overcame Svetlana Zilberman and Misha Zilberman to advance to the quarterfinals ahead of Tuesday’s Taipei Open Super 300.
The world No. 47 duo, who won the Syed Modi International Super 300 title earlier this year, easily beat their 95th-ranked Israeli opponent by winning 21-15, 21-8 in the battle. only lasted 26 minutes.
London Olympics bronze medalist Saina Nehwal, who finished fourth in the women’s singles event, withdrew from the event while her husband Parupalli Kashyap will open his campaign against local rival Chi Yu Jen.
Two other Indians in the conflict – S Sankar Muthuswamy Subramanian and Keyura Mopati – lost in their respective qualifiers.
Subramanian stretched Jhuo-Fu Liao of Chinese Taipei before knocking out 17-21, 23-21, 17-21 in a battle that lasted over an hour.
Keyura on the other hand lost to Indonesia’s Koman Ayu Cahya Dewi 13-21, 14-21 in a tie-in battle.
– PTI
