Indian sports wrap, December 20: Jyoshna Sabar sets new Youth Asian record in total at Asian Youth Weightlifting Championships
WEIGHTLIFTING
Asian Youth Weightlifting Championships 2024: Jyoshna Sabar creates new Youth Asian record in total
Jyoshna Sabar created a New Youth Asian record in total with a lift of 135kg in the 40kg Youth Girls weight category at the 2024 Asian Youth (Boys & Girls) Weightlifting Championships in Doha, Qatar, on Friday.
Overall, Indian athletes won two gold and two bronze medals on the opening day.
RESULTS
Jyoshna Sabar (40kg Youth Girls): Snatch – 60kg, Clean & Jerk – 75kg, Total – 135kg, Position – 1 (New Asian Youth record in total)
Payal (45kg Youth Girls): Snatch – 70kg, Clean & Jerk – 85kg, Total – 155kg, Position – 1
Preetismita Bhoi (45kg Youth Girls): Snatch – 60kg, Clean & Jerk – 85kg, Total – 145kg, Position – 5
Payal (45kg Junior Girls): Snatch – 70kg, Clean & Jerk – 85kg, Total – 155kg, Position – 3
Akanksha Vyavahare (45kg Junior Girls): Snatch – 68kg, Clean & Jerk – 83kg, Total – 151kg, Position – 5
Babulal Hembrom (49kg Junior Boys): Snatch – 88kg, Clean & Jerk – 109kg, Total – 197kg, Position – 3
– Team Sportstar
TENNIS
74th Inter-Services tennis championship: Sriram Balaji wins singles title
Olympian Sriram Balaji asserted his supreme fitness and singles prowess yet again as he raced past second seed Manish Ganesh for the title in the 74th Inter-Services tennis championship at the DLTA Complex in New Delhi on Friday.
After having lost the team championship final to Indian Navy, it was redemption for the strong Army team to capture to the individual title through Balaji.
A top doubles player who had reached the third round of French Open this year, Balaji dropped 16 games in winning four matches. He got a walkover from another former National champion like him, Mohit Mayur, in the semifinals.
RESULTS
Final: Sriram Balaji bt Suraj Prabodh 6-3, 6-3
Semifinals: Balaji w.o. Mohit Mayur; Suraj bt Manish Ganesh 6-3, 2-0 (retired).
– Team Sportstar
Mayank wins Rajesh Patel memorial AITA tournament
Mayank Sharma with the winner’s trophy at the 7th Rajesh Patel memorial AITA men’s ranking tennis tournament in Gurugram on Friday.
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Mayank Sharma with the winner’s trophy at the 7th Rajesh Patel memorial AITA men’s ranking tennis tournament in Gurugram on Friday.
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Mayank Sharma emerged the champion in the 7th Rajesh Patel memorial Rs.100,000 AITA men’s tennis tournament at the Tennis Vidyalaya, Sector-61, Gurugram, on Friday.
Mayank led 6-0, 2-0 when the top seed Parth Agarwal retired.
It was a fine run for Mayank as he beat a series of tough opponents – Udit Gogoi, Bushan Haobam and Bhicky Sagolshem – and dropped one set along the way.
Equally, it has been a commendable exercise by tennis coach Ankit Patel to host the event in his father’s memory. Rajesh Patel was a renowned basketball coach who helped the Chhattisgarh girls dominate the national scene, at times beating the might of the Railways.
– Team Sportstar
ITF Women, Navi Mumbai: Reyngold knocks out Sahaja in quarterfinals
Ekaterina Reyngold stopped the fine run of second seed Sahaja Yamalapalli with a 7-6(5), 6-3 victory in the quarterfinals of the $40,000 ITF women’s tennis tournament at the Ganesh Naik Complex on Friday.
Sahaja did have her chances as she fought back from 2-4 to 5-4 in the first set, and later did lead 5-4 in the tie-break. Sahaja led 3-1 in the second set before Reyngold ran away with the match, sweeping the next five games.
Sahaja converted all the three break points that she forced, but Reyngold prevailed by converting four of nine break points.
In the semifinals, Reyngold will play Priska Nugroho of Indonesia, while the other semifinal will be between Thasaporn Naklo of Thailand and Tian Fangran of China.
There was some cheer for the Indian camp, as Riya Bhatia and Zeel Desai made the doubles final. The top seeded Indian pair of Ankita Raina and Prarthana Thombare bowed out as Ankita has been grappling with a stomach infection that saw her retire midway through her singles second round earlier.
Riya and Zeel, who beat the second seeds Shrivalli Bhamidipaty and Zhibek Kulambayeva, will play the Japanese duo of Kanaka Morisaki and Naho Sato in the doubles final.
RESULTS
Singles (quarterfinals): Thasaporn Naklo (Tha) bt Zuzanna Pawlikowska (Pol) 7-5, 7-5; Tian Fangran (Chn) bt Punnin Kovapitukted (Tha) 6-2, 6-4; Priska Nugroho (Ina) bt Zhibek Kulambayeva (Kaz) 6-4, 6-4; Ekaterina Reyngold bt Sahaja Yamalapalli 7-6( 5), 6-3.
Doubles (semifinals): Kanaka Morisaki & Naho Sato (Jpn) bt Ankita Raina & Prarthana Thombare 6-2, 6-3; Riya Bhatia & Zeel Desai bt Shrivalli Bhamidipaty & Zhibek Kulambayeva (Kaz) 6-3, 3-6, [10-5].
– Team Sportstar
GOLF
Avani stays in top-20, Hitaashee fights back to stay alive at LET Qualifiers
Avani Prashanth stayed in the top-20 to keep alive her hopes of the Category 12 Ladies European Tour card as she shot 2-under 71 in the Final Qualifiers in Marrakech, Morocco.
Avani, whose four rounds have been 69-69-73-71 is 8-under and Tied-13th as the top-20 get the Category 12 status for 2025.
The next best Indians are Amandeep Drall (70-71-72-72) and Sneha Singh (73-70-72-70) who are both at 5-under.
Among other Indians in the Final Qualifiers, Hitaashee Bakshi, who began the Qualifiers slowly with 76-77 continued her fight back as she shot 67-68 in the next two rounds to make the subsequent cuts and will have a further chance to improve from her current T-51st place.
Vani Kapoor (72-73-75-73) was T-78th and missed the fourth round cut. Also missing out was Vidhatri Urs (77-68-78-71) as she was T-86.
Avani, who had a bogey-bogey start in the fourth round rallied superbly with five birdies against just one bogey for a 71 that kept her hopes alive.
Bakshi had five birdies against one bogey in her fourth round and will seek a final big surge to try and get into Top-20 with a very low round.
The 29-year-old Ecuador’s Daniela Darquea fired a round of 66 (-7) to hold a two-shot lead at the 72-hole mark of the Final Qualifier of Lalla Aicha Q-School.
The Ecuadorian went bogey-free on day four as she teed it up at Al Maaden Golf Marrakech for the second time.
Germany’s Polly Mack produced a bogey-free round for the third day in a row carding a 66 (-7) at Al Maaden.
Two players are in a tie for third place with Wales’ Darcey Harry (67) and Spain’s Teresa Toscano (69) both on 15-under-par. Ireland’s Anna Foster produced a round of 70 (-2) at Royal Golf Marrakech to be in solo fifth place on 13-under-par.
The cut fell at +1 with 70 players making it through to the final round which will be played at Al Maaden Golf.
– PTI
Ninth-placed Ajeetesh Sandhu lone Indian in hunt for Asian Tour card
India’s Ajeetesh Sandhu continued his quest for an Asian Tour card, adding an even-par 71 to be the only Indian to get past the fourth-round cut, which fell at 4-under in Hua Hin, Thailand, on Friday.
The fifth and last round of the Final Stage of the Asian Tour Qualifying School will determine the Top-35 and ties who will get the Tour card for 2025.
Sandhu, who won last week in his home Tour in India, has played rounds of 63-70-68-71 to be 12-under and is tied-ninth after being joint leader on day one.
After four days of intense golf, 73 players have made it to the final round of the Asian Tour Qualifying School.
The others Indians who fell by the wayside are Karandeep Kochhar (67-73-69-72) at T-74, Arjun Sharma (73-70-70-68) T-74.
S Chikkarangappa, Pukhraj Gill and Rashid Khan (T-88), Aryan Roopa Anand (T-101), Anshul Kabthiyal (T-136), Honey Baisoya (T-142), Syed Saqib Ahmed and Khalin Joshi (T-144), Dhruv Sheoran and Aman Raj (T-170) also missed the cuts, which were applied after the second and fourth rounds.
Japan’s Takumi Murakami carded a six-under-par 65 to move to 19-under, while South Korean Kyungnam Kang shot a 70 to be two behind the leader.
Japan’s Yosuke Asaji (67) and Taiki Yoshida (69), and Korean Doyeob Mun (67) are joint third, four behind the leader.
Australian Jack Thompson (69), the winner here two years ago, is one shot further behind along with countryman Lawry Flynn 68.
– PTI