Indian Sports Wrap, July 23: Pranavi Urs returns to action at Scottish Open

GOLF

Pranavi back from an injury at Scottish open

After repairing an injury in May, the Indian golfer Pranavi Urs returns to action at the USD 2 million ISPS Handa Women’s Scottish Open starting at the Dundonald -Links here on Thursday.

Other Indians in the field are the in-shape Diksha Dagar and TVesa Malik. Rookie Avani Prashanth and Hitaashee Bakshi did not make the field.

Pranavi, who won the Hero Women’s Order of Merit in India in 2022 with five wins in one season, has been a fixture on the Ladies European Tour, where she was the best Indian in 2024.

This season, after a number of good finishes in the Top-15 at the Ford NSW Open in Australia and Investec Sa Women’s open, she played and made the cut an Aramco Korea, but hurt her wrist.

It became so bad that she withdrew after the first round in the following week with the Dutch ladies open. That was mid -May and she has not played since. She is now 81st in the order of merit.

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Late Birdies helps Neha take a lead

Two sets Back-to-Back Birdies and another Late Birdie saw a revival of Neha Tripathi take a lead of one shot in the 10th stage of the Women’s Pro Golf Tour on the Zion Hills Golf County Course.

Neha, who was second in the ninth leg last week, had five Birdies against two bogeys in a round of 3-under 69 that gave her a one-shot ahead of Durga Nittur (70).

The only other player other than Neha and Durga to get a score of par or better was Ridhima Dilawari, who even shot par 72 and it included two birdies in the last four holes in the first round.

Neha, who has just returned to form after he has driven injuries in the past year, had back-to-back birdies on the second and third, and parred the other six holes on the front nine.

She started the rear nine with two straight bogeys, but chose three birdies on the 14th, 15th and 17th.

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Mahreen, Arshvant Lead Indian Challenge A US Kids World Teen Golf C’Ship

Two of the most decorated teenage golfers from India, Mahreen Bhatia and Arshvant Srivastava, will lead the Indian challenge at the US Kids World Teen Championship of this week in the iconic Pinehurst, North Carolina.

The American Kids India team has six players in this year’s edition of the annual World Teens event. There are two players in the boys 15-18 and four in girls 15-18 and all have good experience in and from India.

Mahreen was third in the 2024 edition and second in 2023 and wants to reach the top.

In the past year, her performance also includes a victory over the Shubhankar Sharma Invitations from 2024 and she came in second on the 2024 in the Tommy Fleetwood International Pathway Series Pres by DP and also won the FCG Callaway World Juniors in the US in July last year.

She was also in the top 5 of the Faldo series Asia Grand Final.

Arshvant has come with a lot of experience of American children’s events in recent years and has two good victories in Domestic Circuit in 2024 at the NCR Cup Juniors and the Greens to Glory event and was second in the American Kids Indian Championship.

This season he had top 5 finishes in American children China, American children Thailand and the Faldo series Asia Grand Final and was seventh in American children.

Vihaan Jain played the 2024 US Kids World Teens in 2024 and was T-13 with Arshvant also in the field.

Asara Sawhney was T-7 in 2024 American children, while Anushka Gupta and Ayesha Gupta also entail many promises.

The week after the US Kids Teen Championship, India will be a team of 14-person on American children in the field of 6 years and older and the event will be held in Pinehurst.

BADMINTON

Tanvi Sharma, Vennala and Tanvi Reddy Advance at Asia Junior Badminton Championships

The rising Indian shuttler Tanvi Sharma stormed in the third round of the ladies’ snacks and Headliner with a strong day for India on the Asia Junior Badminton Championships, here on Wednesday.

The second placed Sharma, which was second earlier this month on the 2025 US Open Super 300 in Iowa, surpassed Vaidehi Kalidasan 21-6, 21-6 in the second round after receiving a day in the opening round.

The 16-year-old Sharma will face the Chinese Shi Si Chen in her next game.

Vennala Kalagotla and Tanvi Reddy Andluri also progressed to the third round with convincing victories.

Kalagotla wiped Kazakhstan’s Alissa Kuleshova 21-6 aside, 21-10 before taking a 21-18, 21-16 victory over Auberta Zerlina in Indonesia. She will then be confronted with the 10th Seed Eng Ler Qi from Malaysia.

Andluri, who also received a bye in the first round, drove past Macau’s Ung Cheok Ian 21-9, 21-10. She will assume the third seed of Thailand Yataweemin Ketklieng in the third round.

In Heren Singles, Ansh Negi and Pranauv Ram Nagalingam made the third round.

Negi, who received a bye in the first round, defeated Singapore’s thing Han Jin 21-16, 21-15. Pranauv, who also got a bye, defeated Myanmar’s Lal Zuidika 21-15, 21-7 in straight matches.

Negi will be confronted with Minh Son Le van Vietnam in the third round, while Pranauv Hoorns will lock with T -shirt Kai them in Singapore.

In mixed Doubles, the Indian pair of Vishnu Kedhar Kode and Kerthy Manchala went to the third round with a heavily fought 22-20, 16-21, 21-19 victory over Hong Kong’s Cheng Ying Kit and Hung Ho Yan.

In Herendubbel, top seeds Bhargav Ram Arigela and Viswa Tej Gobburu, together with the pair of Bhavya Chhabra and C Lalramsanga, Byes received in both the first and the second round.

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TENNIS

Aryan Shah reaches the quarterfinals of Segovia Challenger

Aryan Shah defeated Saba Purseladze from Georgia 6-4, 6-4 in the pre-quarterfinals of the € 91,250 Challenger Tennis Tournament in Segovia, Spain, on Wednesday.

The 19-year-old Aryan, who had defeated the best seed duje Ajdukovic of Croatia in three sets in the first round, plays the sixth seed Oliver Crawford of Great Britain in the quarterfinals.

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FOOTBALL

FC Goa announced on Wednesday that the Spanish midfielder Borja Herrera has extended his contract with the club for a year, so that he held in Orange until the end of the 2025-26 season.

The 32-year-old will serve his second full year in the club this season, after he had signed for a short-term loan in January 2024 for the first time and then played the entire season of 2024-25, recorded six goals and four assists.

He also took four goals during FCG’s The Kalinga Super Cup Triumph, including a double in the final.

Borja shares a good relationship with head coach Manolo Marquez, who played under him under him at Hyderabad FC in the 2022-23 season, and to spend time together in Spain playing for UD Las Palmas in the 2017-18 season.

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Snooker

Mehta, Advani in the quarterfinals of IBSF World 6-Red Snooker Championships

Down and out for the count against the Ahsan Ramzan of Pakistan, the second placed Aditya Mehta of India, organized a great comeback to go into the quarterfinals of the IBSF World 6-RED Snooker Championships here on Wednesday.

The seasoned campaigner was 2-3 Down in the best-of-Seven Frame Pre-Quaraal, and kept his rival remotely with solid safety game to draw level at 3-3 and then made a beautiful 71 approval for a brilliant victory of De Kom.

The 4-3 verdict helped Mehta, a former gold medal winner of the world games, to set up a quarter-final meeting against fellow India Manan Chandra, who has thwarted Ahmed Saif from Qatar.

Chandra, who conquered in the round of 32 Saudi Arabia, jumped to a fast 3-0 lead. But Saif, who had overcome another Indian in the previous round, had to fall into concentration, Brijesh Damani, to organize a fightback.

But the Indian raised his game to get away a 4-2 winner.

However, reigning champion Kamal Chawla breathed away a 3-2 advantage in a round of 32 match against Fung Kwok Wai from Hong Kong.

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Archery

Parneet, Kushal, Sahil in semi -final

Parneet Kaur, Kushal Dalal and Sahil Jadhav reached the Compound Individual semi -finals and stayed in Medaille -Statement in Sagitty matches of the World University Games in Essen, Germany on Wednesday.

In the ladies’ part, the TopParneet received a first round bye and Aizhan Seidhmetova 146-145 from Kazakhstan, Singapore’s Low Ellie Teng 148-144 and the Alyssia Chambraud 144-141 from Singapore to reach the last four. She will meet Korean Kim Sooyeon.

Second ranked Kushal received two Byes before he passed the Frenchman Victor Bouleau 148-147, Turkey’s Yunus Arslan 148-148 (shoot-off: 10-9) and Germany’s Ruven Fluss 148-146 to enter the semi-finals.

Sahil also received two Byes and defeated Huang Jin Le 145-143 from the Chinese Taipei, Aljaz Brenk 148-147 from Slovenia and Finlay Clark 146-142 from Great Britain to set up a full Indian semis-clash with Kushal.

Among remarkable artists, Avneet Kaur (composition) and Basanti Mahato (Recurve) have been abandoned in the quarterfinals.

None of the Indian recurve archers, including Olympian Bhajan Kaur, could reach the medal rounds.

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