Indian sports wrap, September 7: Pranavi Urs makes cut at Houston Championship
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Pranavi makes cut at Houston, lies 26th
India’s Pranavi Urs got off to a flying start with four birdies in five holes on way to a solid 3-under 69 in second round to make the cut at tied 26th place at the Aramco Houston Championship.
Pranavi has so far had rounds of 72 and 69.
Avani Prashanth (73-73) and Tvesa Malik (73-77) missed the cut, which fell at even par and 61 players made the cut at the Golfcrest Country Club.
– PTI
Talwar endures tough day in Poland
Indian golfer Saptak Talwar carded 2-over 72 on the third day of the GAC Rosa Challenge to move up one place to tied-47 in Konopiska, Poland.
The third round produced one birdie and three bogeys as Talwar is now placed at even par with one day to go.
The sole birdie was on the second hole while the bogeys came on the first, seventh and 15th holes.
– PTI
MOTORSPORT
Sarthak Chavan bounces back with a brilliant win
A set of new tyres and supreme effort helped Pune teenager Sarthak Chavan (Petronas TVS Racing) to snatch a brilliant win in the premier Pro-Stock 301-400cc category to finish the third round of the MRF MMSC FMSCI Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship 2025 on a successful note at the Madras International Circuit in Chennai.
The third win of the season took Sarthak within nine points of yesterday’s Race-1 winner Rahil Pillarisetty (RACR Castrol Power1) who, recovering from an off-track incursion following a contact with another rider, managed to finish second ahead of team-mate Rajini Krishnan.
Meanwhile, Md Samrul Zubair (Hyderabad, Motul Sparks Racing) scored his second win in four races in Super Stock 165cc Intermediate category while Chennai’s Jagathishre Kumaresan (One Racing) completed a double in the Girls (Stock 165cc) class with a hard-fought win over former National champion Ann Jennifer (Motul Sparks Racing).
The results (Provisional – all 6 laps unless mentioned):
National Championship:
Pro-Stock 301-400cc Open (Race-2): 1. Sarthak Chavan (Pune, Petronas TVS Racing) (11min, 03.548sec); 2. Rahil Pillarisetty (Hyderabad, RACR Castrol Power1) (11:03.658); 3. Rajini Krishnan (Chennai, RACR Castrol Power1) (11:07.874).
Pro-Stock 200cc Open (Race-2): 1. Savion Sabu (Bengaluru, Mad Rabbit Raicng) (11:47.829); 2. Sachin J (Hosur, Mad Rabbit Racing) (11:58.070); 3. Navaneeth Kumar (Puducherry, Chandra LGE Racing) (11:58.218).
Super Stock 165cc Intermediate (Race-2): 1. Mohammed Samrul Zubair (Hyderabad, Motul Sparks Racing) (12:43.520); 2. Raj Kumar (Coimbatore, Motul Sparks Racing) (12:43.780); 3. Vysak Shoban (Chennai, Speed-Up Racing) (12:44.091).
Stock 301-400cc (Novice) (Race-2): 1. Mohamed Mikail (Thiruvallur, Mad Rabbit Racing) (12:08.333); 2. Jagadeesh Nagaraj (Bengaluru, Motul Sparks Racing) (12:08.531); 3. Kamal Navas (Chennai, Rockers Racing) (12:19.501).
Stock 165cc (Novice) (Race-2): 1. CS Kedarnadh (Tirupati, Motul KTM Gusto Racing) (13:06.401); 2. Lal Nunsanga (Aizawl, Motul Sparks Racing) (13:06.516); 3. Rajender Beedani (Hyderabad, MAI Racing) (13:06.644).
Girls (Stock165cc) (Race-2, 5 laps): 1. Jagathishree Kumaresan (Chennai, One Racing) (10:51.939); 2. Ann Jennifer AS (Chennai, Motul Sparks Racing) (10:52.051); 3. Rakshitha Dave (Chennai, RACR Castrol Power1 (11:01.581).
Petronas TVS One-Make Championship:
Expert (Apache RR 310) (Race-2): 1. G Balaji (Chennai) (11:45.444); 2. Mohan Babu P (Chennai) (11:45.628); 3. AS James (Bengaluru) (11:50.074).
Rookie (Apache RTR 200) (Race-2): 1. Hari Haran R (Coimbatore) (13:09.614); 2. Joshua A (Bengaluru) (13:21.839); 3. Akarsh Jangam (Vijayawada) (13:28.145).
Electric RTE (4 laps): 1. Sarthak Chavan (Pune) (07:24.627); 2. Chiranth Vishwanath (Bengaluru) (07:29.158); 3. Mohamed Mikail (Chennai) (07:29.234).
Media (Apache RTR 200): 1. Arezwa Engineer (Pune) (13:35.106); 2. Nijin A (Pathanamthitta) (13:35.273); 3. Basu Sivaraj H (Chennai) (13:51.797).
Idemitsu Honda India Talent Cup (Honda CB 300F) (Race-2, 8 laps): 1. Raivat Dhar (Jammu) (16:48.170); 2. Solomon R (Chennai) (16:54.217); 3. Tejash BA (Tumakuru) (16:57.409).
– Team Sportstar
Published on Sep 07, 2025