Indian sports wrap, February 15: Jeev off to fast start with 68 in Marbella Legends event in Spain

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Marbella Legends 2025: Jeev off to quick start with 68 in Spain

India’s Jeev Milkha Singh got off to a fine start on the 2025 Legends Tour season with a superb 4-under 68 in the first round of the Staysure Marabella Legends event in Marbella, Spain.

Jeev was lying tied 12th and his round included a superb eagle on the front nine and a hat-trick of birdies on the back.

Overall, he had an eagle, four birdies and two bogeys.

For Jeev it was his second Seniors event this year as he finished tied 28th at the Trophy Hassan II, an event on the Champions Tour PGA.

Jeev, who was 26th on the Legends Tour rankings last year, started on the tenth with a bogey. He rallied with three birdies in a row from the 14th, but dropped another shot on the 18tth.

On his second nine, he landed an eagle on Par-5 fifth and added a birdie on the eighth for a 68 while playing with Scott Hend, a former colleague from both DP World Tour and Asian Tour.

There are 11 former Ryder Cup players on the field. Among them, four-time European team member Jimenez and Legends Tour debutant Stephen Gallacher signed for rounds of 69 to sit in tied 16th.

-PTI

Aditi lone Indian to make cut, as Pranavi, Diksha and Tvesa miss out

Aditi Ashok was the lone Indian to make the cut after she carded an even-par 72 in the penultimate round of the PIF Saudi Ladies International held at Riyadh Golf Club.

She shot an even par 72 to be 3-under for 36 holes. At T-33, she was among the top 60 and ties who qualified for the final round.

Among the other Indians Pranavi Urs (70-73) was 1-under but missed the cut which fell at 2-under 142, Diksha Dagar (75-69) also exited as did Tvesa Malik (73-73).

-PTI

BASKETBALL

NBA expands content partnership with YouTube to live-stream games and marquee events in India

The National Basketball Association (NBA) announced an expansion of its existing content partnership with YouTube that will see NBA games and marquee events live-streamed to fans in India on the NBA’s global YouTube channel through the remainder of the 2024-25 season.

Live coverage will include weekly regular-season games, NBA All-Star 2025, a selection of NBA Playoff games, and the 2025 NBA Finals presented by YouTube TV.