Indian golfer Aditi Ashok continued to remain in medal rivalry within the particular person occasion as she was only one shot behind the chief at tied second within the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Friday. In the method, she additionally stored the Indian girls’s group within the race for an additional medal on the West Lake International course. Aditi (67-66) was one behind Thailand’s Arpichaya Yubol (67-65) whereas the Indian girls’s group is mendacity third behind China and Thailand. India has by no means received an Asian Games medal within the girls’s part.

Pranavi Urs added a positive 68 to her first spherical 71 to enhance to T-10 at 5-under, whereas newbie Avani Prashanth (72-69) was T-15.

Things didn’t go as effectively for the lads, as Anirban Lahiri (65-67) was nonetheless T-9, whereas Shubhankar Sharma (68-65) rose one locations to T-21. SSP Chawrasia (67-72) slipped 10 locations to T-19 alongside Khalin Joshi (70-69) who rose two locations.

The males are positioned T-6 within the group standings, which is led by Korea, adopted by Hong Kong and Japan.

The fourth-place finisher on the Tokyo Olympics, Aditi improved upon her first spherical 67 by one shot so as to add a 66, that included 5 birdies, an eagle on a Par-4 and only one bogey.

Yubol had rounds of 67-65 for a complete of 12-under 133. Yubol was bogey free within the second spherical.

Aditi had an excellent begin with birdies on the primary and the second holes after which eagled the Par-4 fifth gap to get to 4-under.

The putter cooled off after that and he or she turned in 4-under. On the again 9, she birdied eleventh, fifteenth and seventeenth, however dropped her first bogey of the week on the par-3 sixteenth.

Pranavi added a bogey-free 68 to her first spherical 71 to enhance to T-10 at 5-under, whereas newbie Avani Prashanth (72-69) was T-15.

Avani had one birdie and one bogey on the entrance 9 however had an action-filled again 9 with 4 birdies in opposition to two bogeys.

Tied with Aditi is Yin Ruoning, the primary Chinese participant to win on the LPGA who later grew to become the primary Major winner from her nation.

Yin, a bronze medallist from 2018 Asian Games and World No. 1 until final week, has not dropped any bogeys in her rounds of 67-66.

The three Chinese gamers, all of whom play on the LPGA Tour, occupy three of the Top-5 positions with Lin Xiyu (67-67) fourth and Liu Yu (67-68) fifth.

Aditi’s positive spherical of 66 additionally took India up into the third place, behind favourites China (21-under) and Thailand (20-under).

The Indian group is at 16-under with Japan shut behind at 15-under. Korea (11-under) are mendacity fourth and Chinese Taipei (10-under) Each day, the highest two scores from every group are counted in direction of group scores and for India, each days the counting scores have come from Aditi and Pranavi.

In the lads’s group standings, India is T-5 however are 18 photographs behind agency favourites Korea, who’re fielding two PGA Tour gamers, Sungjae Im and Si Woo Kim.

Korea are means forward at 45-under. Interestingly, Korea’s two newbie gamers Jang Yubin (T-2) and Cho Wooyung (T-3) have outdone their better-known skilled colleagues. The Hong Kong males’s group, spearheaded by the superb 22-year-old Taichi Kho (62-60), at 38-under is second however seven behind Korea.

Japan (35-under) and Thailand (31-under) are third and fourth, whereas India (27-under) is a distant sixth.

In the lads’s particular person part, Taichi Kho at 22-under leads by six photographs and the primary spherical chief, Jang Yubin (61-67) at 18-under is 4 behind. Thailand’s Atiruj Winaicharoenchai (67-63) was third at 16-under. Lahiri is the very best Indian at 12-under.

Lahiri had six birdies in opposition to only one bogey, however that didn’t appear sufficient as he slipped barely on a course, which has been yielding low scores. (Medals Tally | Asian Games 2023 Full Schedule)

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