BASKETBALL

Hanssraj Prahakar basketball event: Montfort School win senior boys and under-15 boys titles

Montfort School was dominant because it gained the senior boys and under-15 boys titles within the thirty fourth Hanssraj Prahakar basketball event on the Oxford School courts, E-Block, Vikaspuri, on Tuesday.

Bal Bharati School gained the under-16 ladies title, beating Apex School 52-42 within the ultimate.

Bhaskar Mahor, Griyansh Tyagi and Diya Sehrawat have been adjudged the ‘best players’ within the three completely different sections.

Vikrant, coach of Apex School, gained the free throw competitors with 13 throws in 30 seconds. Three pointer competitors was gained by Soham Sharma of Oxford School. Chaitanya Choudhary was adjudged the ‘most promising player’.

Ranbir Kohli of Bal Bharati was the best scorer of the event with 96 factors.

The outcomes (finals):

Senior boys: Montfort School 57 (Shubham 15, Chetanya 14) bt Bal Bharati School 40 (Prateek 15, Ranveer 12)

Under-15 boys: Montfort School 53 (Madhav 18, Griyansh Tyagi 13) bt SD Public School 37 (Naitik Dhaka 20, Naitik Sharma 10).

Under-16 ladies: Bal Bharati School 52 (Diya Sehrawat 31, Yuvika Maan 10) bt Apex School 42 (Khushi 19, Shumaylla 10).

-Kamesh Srinivasan

TENNIS

ITF Masters: Pawan Kapoor beats prime seed Chandra Bhushan

Pawan Kapoor beat prime seed Chandra Bhushan 6-3, 7-5 to win the over-55 title within the ITF Masters tennis event on the clay courts of the Joygaon Academy.

The outcomes (finals):

Over-50: Narendra Kankaria bt Bal Krishan Bhatia 7-6(5), 6-4.

Over-55: Pawan Kapoor bt Chandra Bhusshan 6-3, 7-5.

Over-60: Nagaraj Revanasiddaiah bt Sharad Tak 6-1, 6-2.

Over-65: Ajeet Bhardwaj bt Lalit Sharma 6-1, 6-0.

Over-70: George Thomas bt SJS Randhawa 6-3, 6-0.

Over-75: Ashok Jindel bt Ramakrishna Sudagani 6-0, 6-0.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

Asian under-16 tennis championship: Shivtej Shirfule beats Prakaash Sarran in pre-quarters

Shivtej Shirfule beat third seed Prakaash Sarran 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 within the boys pre-quarterfinals of the Asian under-16 tennis championship on Tuesday.

The outcomes (pre-quarterfinals):

Under-16 boys: Hruthik Katakam bt Eshan Khadeer 6-1, 6-2; Arjun Veluri bt Devendra Kulkarni 6-3, 6-2; Shivtej Shirfule bt Prakaash Sarran 5-7, 6-4, 6-3; Fazal Ali Meer bt Daksh Mudunoori 6-3, 6-3; Aditya Acharya bt Shashank Karnati 6-4, 6-0; Nived Konerira bt Yahsraj Jarwal 6-3, 6-2; Krishank Joshi bt Kabir Jaitly 6-0, 6-0; Ayush Poojary bt Sahil Kothari 6-0, 6-2.

Under-16 ladies: Parthsarthi Mundhe bt Kavya Deshmukh 6-1, 6-1; Dhanashree Patil bt Mishka Tavade 6-0, 6-2; Twisha Nandankar bt SR Dakshanasree 4-6, 6-0, 6-0; Dia Agarwal bt Ishwari Markande 6-3, 6-2; Riya Pudiyokkada bt Prutha Rao 6-0, 6-1; Riddhi Shinde bt Madhumita Ramesh 4-6, 6-3, 6-3; Bhakti Tajne bt Ananya Yadav 6-4, 6-1; Vrandika Rajput bt Meha Patil 6-2, 6-3.

-Kamesh Srinivasan

GOLF

Jeev Milkha Singh Invitational golf event to tee off on November 2

Indian golfers, together with former Asian Tour winners Rashid Khan and Khalin Joshi, will probably be vying for honours when the sixth version of the Jeev Milkha Singh Invitational event tees off right here on Thursday.

The predominant occasion will probably be preceded by the Pro-Am occasion on November 1. The event had been collectively launched by TAKE Sports and TATA Steel PGTI in 2018 as a gesture to honour Indian {golfing} nice Jeev.

The event is being staged at Jeev’s residence course, the Chandigarh Golf Club, for the sixth yr in succession and provides a good-looking prize purse of Rs 1.5 crore. The discipline will function 130 members, together with 127 professionals and three amateurs.

The enticing discipline for the event this yr will function occasion host Jeev together with India’s worldwide winners equivalent to Rahil Gangjee, Rashid, TATA Steel PGTI rating chief Om Prakash Chouhan, Khalin Joshi, Yuvraj Singh Sandhu, Sujjan Singh and Himmat Singh Rai.

Other main Indian gamers embrace Aman Raj, Olympian Udayan Mane and final week’s winner Jairaj Singh Sandhu.

The overseas problem will probably be led by Sri Lankans N Thangaraja, Mithun Perera, Anura Rohana and Okay Prabagaran, Bangladesh’s Jamal Hossain, Badal Hossain and Md Akbar Hossain, American Varun Chopra, Nepal’s Sukra Bahadur Rai, Canadian Sukhraj Singh Gill and Andorra’s Kevin Esteve Rigaill.

“It’s one of the most eagerly awaited weeks of the year for me as hosting an event named after myself is always special,” mentioned Tournament host Jeev, who has gained a number of titles on the DP World Tour, Japan Golf Tour and Asian Tour and has 14 Major appearances to his credit score.

“The first tournament on the PGTI to be named after a player, has gone from strength to strength over the years and I expect the sixth edition of the event to be another memorable experience for the players and golf fans alike.

“The tournament has all the makings of a classic contest with a top-class field vying for the coveted trophy at my home course, the Chandigarh Golf Club, which has provided immaculate playing conditions and has a history of producing nail-biting finishes.”

-PTI

NATIONAL GAMES

Chinmaya upsets second-seed Sudhanshu in National Games TT

Second-seeded Sudhanshu Grover, who was in purple sizzling kind and led Delhi males to the group championships gold, bowed out of the singles occasion within the second spherical, happening 2-4 to Maharashtra’s Chinmaya Somaya in a thriller within the National Games on the Campal Indoor Stadium right here on Tuesday.

Besides the Delhi paddler, fairly a number of prime and minor seeds didn’t sprout on the primary day of the singles occasions.

They included Wesley Do Rosario of Haryana (9), Ronit Bhanja of West Bengal (8), Aadarsh Om Chhetri of Delhi (11), Sourav Saha of West Bengal (6), and Abhishek Yadav of UP (10). Abhishek conceded the match due to an harm.

Sudhanshu was in serious trouble in opposition to Chinmaya after shedding the primary three video games. But the Delhi paddler fought again to take the subsequent two to provide some worries to his Maharashtra rival.

But Chinmaya’s agony ended within the sixth prolonged sport when he clinched the final two factors after deuce.

There have been different winners like Jash Modi, Agniv Bhaskar Gohain, Divyansh Srivastava and Jubin Kumar, who needed to try laborious in opposition to their opponents earlier than advancing to the pre-quarterfinals.

-PTI