GOLF
Manu Gandas cards five-under 31 on day one at Gujarat Open Golf Championship
Manu Gandas of Gurugram set the bar with an error-free five-under 31 to take the lead on day one of the Gujarat Open in Ahmedabad on Tuesday.
Yuvraj Sandhu of Chandigarh, the winner of the PGTI season-opener in Kolkata last week, as well as Om Prakash Chouhan of Mhow were tied for second place with scores of four-under 32.
Karnal’s Rohit Narwal and Hyderabad-based Mohd Azhar were tied for fourth with scores of three under 33. Defending champion Abhinav Lohan returned a two-under 34 to be placed tied sixth.
The first two rounds of the event comprise nine holes each. After 18 holes, the cut will be applied. The third and fourth rounds will then comprise 18 holes each.
The tournament will be played over a total of 54 holes. The par for the course in the first two rounds is 36.
-PTI
TENNIS
Jigyasa beats Soni in HPCL-Mittal AITA ranking tournament
Jigyasa Narsinghani fought her way past Soni Prapti 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 in the women’s pre-quarterfinals of the HPCL-Mittal AITA ranking tennis tournament at the CLTA Complex on Tuesday.
The results (pre-quarterfinals):
Men:
Vatsal Manikantan bt Aditya Kothari 6-3, 6-0; Jatin Nain bt Vansh Nandal 6-3, 6-4; Moksh Puri bt Svarmanyu Singh 6-0, 7-5; Omar Sumar bt Mayank Sharma 6-3, 6-2; Mukul Ramanan bt Arntya Ohlyan 6-4, 6-4; Dalwinder Singh bt Lokesh Pun 6-2, 6-2; Yash Yadav bt Tirth Doshi 6-2, 4-6, 3-2 (retired); Sarthak Suden bt Deep Munim 6-1, 6-2.
Women:
Jasmine Rawat bt Anjali Dalal 6-3, 6-1; Suhani Gaur bt Shagun Kumari 1-6, 6-4, 6-2; Saily Thakkar bt Reet Arora 6-7(2), 6-0, 6-4; Jaya Kapoor bt Ayush Tanwar 6-2, 4-6, 6-3; Divya Bhardwaj bt Jeetesh Kumari 6-2, 6-4; Vidula Amar bt Himanshika Singh 6-4, 6-2; Jigyasa Narsinghani bt Soni Prapti 4-6, 6-4, 7-5; Rutuparna Choudhary bt Ruma Gaikaiwari 7-6(6), 7-5.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
