GOLF
Ahlawat produces another steady round to be tied 11th at Austrian Open
India’s Veer Ahlawat played a steady second round to follow up on his good first round to sit tied 11th at the halfway stage of the Austrian Alpine Open.
With rounds of 67-68 at the par-70 Gut Altentann GC. Ahlawat was 5-under and six shots behind the leader, Marcel Schneider (63-66) at 11-under.
Ahlawat’s colleague Shubhankar Sharma played a much better second round for one under par, but it was not enough to keep him in the tournament.
The difficult first day came back to haunt him as it left him quite a bit short of the cut, which was set at one under par while his total score was four over par. This is the fifth straight missed cut for Sharma.
Ahlawat had four birdies and two bogeys. The birdies came on the third, fifth, ninth and 18th holes and the bogeys came on the second and 15th holes.
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Saptak Talwar misses cut as Quim Vidal continues to lead
Saptak Talwar failed to make the cut at the Challenge de Cadiz as he shot one-over par 73 on the second day.
With a total score of five-over par at the end of the second round Talwar was left well short of the cut that was set at par.
Talwar had a strong front nine as he birdied the third and sixth holes and dropped a shot on the ninth hole.
The back nine would prove to be Talwar’s undoing as he started with a birdie on the 10th before dropping two shots with a double bogey on the 11th.
He picked up a shot on the 13th only to drop two more shots with consecutive bogeys on the 14th and 15th holes for an early end to the week in Spain.
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Rayhan Thomas likely to miss cut on Korn Ferry
India’s Rayhan Thomas is likely to miss the cut at the UNC Health Championship on the Korn Ferry Tour after a disappointing second round at the Raleigh Country Club.
Thomas, who shot 2-under 68 on the first day was 4-over through 17 holes in the second when play was suspended due to lightning.
Thomas is now 2-over and with the cut likely at 3-under, he will miss the cut at the Raleigh Country Club in North Carolina.
Sudarshan Yellamaraju, who has previously won on the Korn Ferry Tour, withdrew after the first round.
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Steady Amandeep wins first title of the season at 7th Leg of Hero WPGT
Amandeep Drall, one of the most successful players on the domestic circuit, carded a third straight round of one-over 71 to win the seventh leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour, breaking almost a 15-month wait for a title on Saturday.
Amandeep, whose last win came in March 2024, has now won at least once each year since 2015 and that makes her one of the most consistent players on the Hero Tour.
She is the fourth different player to win his season after Vani Kapoor (3 times), Sneha Singh (2) and Rhea Purvi Saravanan.
Amandeep totaled three-over 213 and won by two shots over Ridhima Dilawari, who despite a one-under 69 fell short at the at the Jayachamaraja Wadiyar Golf Club.
Ridhima’s 69 was one of the few under par rounds recorded during the week, which saw a lot of rain and tough conditions for scoring.
Vani Kapoor, who had won the fourth, fifth and sixth legs of the Tour, finished in a tie for the third place alongside the second-round leader, Rhea Purvi Saravanan.
Vani carded 71-72-73 and Rhea had rounds of 72-68-76.
Amandeep, a former runner-up at the Hero Women’s Indian Open, is trying to get back to the Ladies European Tour after losing her card a year ago.
Ridhima finished second and there was a tie for the third place between Vani and Rhea.
Khushi Khanijau (69) and Jasmine Shekar (71) were tied for fifth place as Ananya Garg (70) and Vidhatri Urs (75) were tied for the seventh place. Lavanya Jadon (72) was sole eighth and Astha Madan (74) and Neha Tripathi (75) completed the Top-10.
Vani, who has three wins, two second places and one third place in six starts, stays on top of the Order of Merit, while Sneha Singh is second and Amandeep is third with Jasmine Shekar and Lavanya Jadon at fourth and fifth spots.
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TENNIS
Balaji and Reyes-Varela bow out of French Open
India’s N. Sriram Balaji and his Mexican partner Miguel Reyes-Varela’s French Open journey came to an end with the second round defeat against fourth seed Italians Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori on Saturday.
Balaji and Reyes-Varela lost 3-6, 4-6 in the second round match that lasted one hour and 24 minutes at Court 7.
Reaching the pre-quarterfinals of the Clay Court major last year remains Balaji’s best show at Grand Slams.
India’s other contenders are still alive in the competition with Yuki Bhambri and Rohan Bopanna reaching the pre-quarterfinals with their respective partners.
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Aryan Shah loses semifinals
Fourth Luciano Ambrogi of Argentina beat seventh seed Aryan Shah 7-5, 6-4 in the semifinals of the $30,000 ITF men’s tennis tournament on clay in Coquimbo, Chile.
THE RESULTS
$100,000 Challenger, Little Rock, USA
Doubles (quarterfinals): Niki Poonacha & Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt Finn Reynolds ( James Watt (Nzl) 2-6, 6-2, [11-9].
$30,000 ITF men, Coquimbo, Chile
Singles (semifinals): Luciano Ambrogi (Arg) bt Aryan Shah 7-5, 6-4.
$15,000 ITF men, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Doubles (final): Sergey Fomin (Uzb) & Vladyslav Orlov (Ukr) bt Ishaque Eqbal & Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-2, 6-4.
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TABLE TENNIS
UTT Juniors: Mumbai beats Chennai
Ananya Muralidharan beat Divyanshi Bhowmick 11-3, 11-10, 2-11 in the girls match to eke out a 5-4 victory for U Mumba TT over Stanley’s Chennai Lions in the Dream UTT juniors table tennis tournament at the EKA Arena on Saturday.
Prateek Tulsani had beaten Siddhanth Dhariwal in the first rubber to put Mumba ahead. Chennai Lions bounced back by winning the mixed doubles through Siddhanth and Divyanshi.
After having played three league matches, U Mumba was on top of the table with 16 points.
Kolkata Thunder Blades lost 4-5 to Pune Jaguars, but found itself as the second best team after three league matches with 14 points.
All the eight teams will play five league matches each, and the top four will make the semifinals.
THE RESULTS (LEAGUE)
U Mumba TT bt Stanley’s Chennai Lions 5-4 (Prateek Tulsani bt Siddhanth Dhariwal 11-7, 11-7, 8-11; Prateek and Ananya Muralidharan lost to Siddhanth & Divyanshi Bhowmick 10-11, 11-9, 8-11; Ananya bt Divyanshi 11-3, 11-10, 2-11).
Pune Jaguars bt Kolkata ThunderBlades 5-4 (Atharva Nawarange lost to Ritvik Gupta 11-8, 7-11, 6-11; Atharva & Tushti Sood bt Ritvik & Swara Karmakar 11-8, 11-2, 11-8; Tushti lost to Swara 9-11, 11-8, 5-11).
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POWERLIFTING
56-year-old Indian powerlifter Lalit Patel wins three gold at IBBF World Championship
Lalit Patel, a 56-year-old powerlifter from Gujarat, won three gold medals at the IBBF World Powerlifting Championship held in Pattaya, Thailand.
Competing in the Master Two category (83-93kg), Patel topped the podium in the bench press, deadlift and squat events in the competition held between May 10 and 12.
Patel has been training intensively for the past eight months to prepare for the global event. He took up powerlifting just five years ago and follows a strict vegetarian diet.
“Age and diet are no barriers to success,” said Patel.
Over the years, Patel has bagged 16 district-level, 18 state-level and 12 national-level medals. With this international feat, he now plans to guide young athletes and explore competitive bodybuilding.
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WRESTLING
Ulaanbaatar Open: Reetika Hooda wins gold
Indian wrestlers collected five more medals, including a gold by Olympian Reetika Hooda (women’s 76kg), in the Ulaanbaatar Open Ranking Series event on Saturday. Pushpa (55kg) and Shiksha (65kg) claimed silver medals. Deepak Punia (92kg) took a silver and Jaideep (74kg) a bronze in men’s freestyle competitions.
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