Indian sports news wrap, September 4
BOXING
Asian Games 2023: Indian boxing contingent to attend 17-day camp ahead of Asiad
The Indian boxing Contingent for the Asian Games left for Wuyishan city, China on Sunday for a 17 day long International boxing training camp ahead of the Asian Games 2022 in Hangzhou, China. The contingent includes 13 boxers and 11 support staff members. The training camp, is scheduled from September 3 to September 20, 2023, Post that, the team will leave for Hangzhou to participate in the Asian Games, which is scheduled to be held from September 23 to October 8.
Indian Squad for the Asian Games 2023:
Men: Deepak (51 Kg), Sachin (57 Kg), Shiva Thapa (63.5 Kg), Nishant Dev (71 Kg), Lakshya Chahar (80 Kg), Sanjeet (92 Kg) and Narender (+92 Kg)
Women: Nikhat Zareen (50 Kg), Preeti (54 Kg), Parveen (57 Kg), Jaismine (60 Kg), Arundhati Choudhary (66 Kg), Lovlina Borgohain (75 Kg)
-Team Sportstar
GOLF
Diksha finishes 7th in Irish Open, rises to 3rd on Order of Merit
Indian golfer Diksha Dagar squandered a promising start to the tournament as she shot a 2-under 70 in the final round to sign off at sole seventh place at the KPMG Women’s Irish Open.
It was the 22-year-old’s sixth Top-10 finish of the year.
In a tournament where the leaderboard was extremely tight, Diksha had a total of 13-under and lost by three shots.
The seventh place finish also pushed Diksha up into the third on the Race to Costa Del Sol, the Order of Merit for the Ladies European Tour. She overtook compatriot Aditi Ashok, who has been dividing her time between the LET and the Ladies PGA in the US. The Top-4 at the end of the season will earn a card into the Ladies PGA Tour.
Diksha, who led the field after the first and second days, had slipped to T-3 after the third round.
Smilla Tarning Soenderby fired the round of her life, a 10-under 62, to post the clubhouse lead and was later joined by Sweden’s Lisa Pettersson and Anne Van Dam of the Netherlands. Soenderby then secured a dramatic playoff victory.
Diksha missed a few short putts and her two bogeys on the 18th, on the third and the final day, proved costly as she came close to victory but could not close it.
– PTI
TAEKWONDO
Second leg of Taekwondo Premier League season 1 to be held from December 5 to 7
The second leg of the inaugural Taekwondo Premier League will be held from December 5 to December 7 in Mumbai.
The organisers made the announcement on the occasion of International Taekwondo Day on Monday.
For the first time in the history of the sport, the teams will also have men and women in the mix.
“The second leg of TPL-1 will see competition among players in the weight category of 55.1 to 60.9 kgs for men and 48.1 to 53.9 kgs for women,” Duvvuri Ganesh, Founder-Director of the Taekwondo Premier League, said.
-PTI
TENNIS
AITA women’s tennis tournament: Vanshika beats Divya in first round
Vanshika Choudhury beat sixth seed Divya Bhardwaj 7-6(4), 6-4 in the first round of the Rs.100,000 AITA women’s tennis tournament at the Joygaon Academy on Monday.
The results (first round)
Sahira Singh bt Omna Yadav 7-5, 6-2; Sreenidhi Amreddy bt Breshna Khan 6-2, 6-1; Shefali Arora bt Ritu Rai 6-2, 7-6(5); Shruti Gupta bt Ritu Ohlyan 7-6(2), 6-2; Lakshmi Prabha bt Gauri Mangaonkar 6-2, 6-1; Sowkhya Gaddam bt Tamanna Takoria 6-4 (conceded); Ishwari Matere bt Mushrath Shaik 6-3, 6-2; Vanshika Choudhary bt Divya Bhardwaj 7-6(4), 6-4; Rachita Talwar bt Muskan Prajapat 6-2, 6-2; Pragati Solankar bt Siri Patil 6-2, 7-5; Nemha Kispotta bt Prathiba Narayan 6-2, 7-6(1); Kavya Khirwar bt Arthi Muniyan 6-2, 6-3; Sejal Bhutada bt Pavithra Reddy 7-6(4), 6-4; Mirudhulla Palanivel bt Samaira Malik 6-4, 6-2; Diya Malik bt Poorvi Bhatt 6-2, 6-0; Kashish Bhatia bt Tanushri Pandey 6-1, 6-0.
– Team Sportstar