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GOLF
Diksha, Tvesa, and Avani lead India’s problem at LET Opener
The skilled Diksha Dagar and Tvesa Malik will likely be joined by rookie Avani Prashanth because the Indian girls’s marketing campaign on the Girls European Tour (LET) kicks off this week on the Lalla Meryem Cup in Royal Golf Dar Es Salam.
Avani makes her skilled debut after coming by LET Q-College. In the meantime, Pranavi Urs, India’s highest-ranked participant in final 12 months’s LET Order of Benefit (seventeenth), will start her season subsequent week on the Aramco Collection in Riyadh, becoming a member of Diksha, Tvesa, and Aditi Ashok. Pranavi, Diksha, and Avani will then head to Australia for a three-event stretch.
Diksha, who secured a top-10 end on the 2024 Lalla Meryem Cup, will goal to enhance on that consequence. Notably, Pranavi, tied-fifth final 12 months, is skipping the occasion this time. Tvesa returns after an extended absence, having final competed in 2019 when she completed T-41.
Avani, a winner on the Hero Ladies’s Professional Golf Tour and the LET Entry Collection whereas nonetheless an novice, now embarks on a full LET season. She would be the first Indian to tee off from the tenth alongside Spain’s Blanca Fernández and Thailand’s Aunchisa Utama.
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Ahlawat gaining in confidence on DP World Tour, set for Qatar with Sharma
India’s Veer Ahlawat on Wednesday mentioned he’s discovering his ft on the DP World Tour as he bought able to play for the fourth week in a row on the Industrial Financial institution Qatar Masters 2025.
The opposite Indian within the discipline is the extra skilled Shubhankar Sharma.
Ahlawat, who began the 12 months at Hero Dubai Desert Basic however missed the reduce, has since figured within the weekend rounds of the Ras Al Khaimah Championships and the Bapco Bahrain Championships. He was T-27 in Ras Al Khaimah and T-49 in Bahrain.
Saying he’s bettering and gathering expertise with every spherical, Ahlawat is focussed on making the very best use of the chance he has bought on the DPWT, the place he reached by topping the Indian PGTI Tour.
The 2 Excursions have an alliance by which the OOM (Order of Benefit) winner in India will get a card to DPWT.
The earlier two gamers who got here to DPWT through this route have been Manu Gandas and Om Prakash Chouhan, however they did not retain the cardboard.
“I want to play as much as I can and ensure I am back,” mentioned Ahlawat, who performed a whole lot of golf with Sharma, who has been on the DPWT Tour since 2018.
An attention-grabbing characteristic is the consistency Ahlawat is making an attempt to get into his sport. After lacking the reduce in Dubai, six of his final eight rounds have been below par and the 2 instances he went over, he shot 1-over 73.
“I am learning each day,” mentioned Ahlawat, who trains on the DLF Golf Academy and performs at DLF Golf and Nation Membership, the place he completed T-2 on the 2024 Hero Indian Open.
Ahlawat performs his first spherical with China’s Jin Zihao, with whom the Indian performed the final two rounds in Bahrain. Since they are going to be collectively within the second spherical, too, that may make it 4 in a row.
The third participant within the group is England’s Calum Fitzgerald they usually tee off within the morning at 7.25 am from the primary.
Sharma’s begin to 2025 has been disappointing having missed the reduce in Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah. He returns to Qatar after having missed the reduce in 2024. In his 5 earlier begins in Qatar he has made the reduce solely twice with T-28 in 2021 as his greatest.
The sphere contains former champions Ewen Ferguson (2022), Antoine Rozner (2021), Jorge Campillo (2020), Justin Harding (2019), Eddie Pepperell 2018), Chris Wooden (2013), Alvaro Quiros (2009) and Darren Fichardt (2003).
Final week’s winner Laurie Canter is within the discipline after overhauling Tyrrell Hatton within the Worldwide Swing Rankings, with Daniel Hillier, Alejandro del Rey, Marcus Armitage, Dan Brown and Pablo Larrazábal all in a position to declare the highest spot this week.
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BADMINTON
Gnana to guide 17-member junior squad for badminton meets
Nationwide U-17 champion Gnana Dattu T will lead India’s 17-member squad on the the Dutch Junior Worldwide and German Junior badminton tournaments to be performed in February and March this 12 months.
The squad additionally contains junior world quantity six Raunak Chouhan, Adarshini Shri and doubles specialists Bhavya Chhabra and Param Chaudhary, amongst others.
India squad:
Boys Singles
Rounak Chouhan, Gnana Dattu TT, Suryaksh Rawat, Pranauv Ram N
Ladies Singles
Adarshini Shri, Tanoo Chandra, Rujula Ramu, Tanvi Reddy Andluri
Boys Doubles
Bhavya Chhabra/Param Chaudhary, Mithilesh PK/Vishnu Kedar Kode
Ladies Doubles
Pragati Parida/Vishakha Toppo, Anaya Bisht/Angel Punera
Blended Doubles
Bhavya Chhabra/Angel Punera, Lairamsanga C/Vishakha Toppo.
The Dutch Junior Worldwide will likely be performed in Haarlem, Netherlands from February 26 to March 2, whereas the German Junior will likely be held in Mulheim an der Ruhr from March 5-9.
The Indian contingent consists of 4 girls and boys singles gamers every, two boys doubles and two ladies doubles mixtures, and two blended doubles pairs.
The squad was chosen primarily based on the BAI choice committee’s tips, granting direct entry to winners of the All India Junior Rating Match (U-19) in Hyderabad, whereas the remaining spots have been stuffed by choice trials held in New Delhi, that includes top-ranked gamers and semifinalists from the Hyderabad occasion.
Surya Charisma Tamiri had bagged the women’ singles bronze medal within the 2024 German Junior, whereas Ayush Shetty had gained the boys’ singles bronze medal a 12 months earlier earlier than happening to clinch the 2023 world junior bronze.
RMV Gurusai Dutt is the one Indian boy’s singles participant to win the Dutch Junior Worldwide gold medal again in 2008 — the identical 12 months he additionally clinched the Commonwealth Youth Video games gold and the world junior bronze medal.
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GOLF
IGF objects to IOA’s interference in IGU polls, says it recognises Brijinder Singh faction
The Worldwide Golf Federation (IGF) has strongly objected to Indian Olympic Affiliation’s interference within the Indian Golf Union elections, and recognising the rival faction led by Harish Kumar Shetty, saying the IOA has “no jurisdiction” over the federation’s ballot course of.
The IOA had given recognition to the IGU led by Shetty whereas declaring the opposite physique, headed by Brijinder Singh, void in a letter issued on December 30.
In a strongly-worded letter to IOA president PT Usha, IGF govt director Antony Scanlon, mentioned the world physique absolutely helps the election gained by the Singh faction held on December 15.
Shetty and Singh held separate elections and AGMs below completely different Returning Officers (ROs).
The election of Shetty’s faction was performed by retired Allahabad Excessive Courtroom choose OP Garg, whereas Singh was re-elected in polls performed by retired Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom choose, Rameshwar Malik.
“We write to object in the strongest terms to your interference and that of the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) in the recent Annual General Meeting and election of office bearers of our National Federation member, the Indian Golf Union (IGU),” Scanlon wrote in his letter.
“The IGF have found no reason to question the legitimacy of the IGU Annual General Meeting and election of the office bearers held on 15 December 2024 at Tamarind Hall, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi (where Singh was elected president) and believe they were held in accordance with their constitution and the procedures of the National Sports Development Code of India, 2011.
“As such, we recognise and fully support the office bearers announced by the Returning Officer HJ Rameshwar Singh Malik and ratified by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. We contend that neither the IOA nor you as President of the IOA has any jurisdiction over the IGU Annual General Meeting nor its electoral process.” The Sports activities Ministry has additionally pulled up the IOA for recognising IGU elections gained by the Shetty-led faction.
Scanlon mentioned the Shetty-led faction’s election was “non-constitutional and invalid”.
“We find it extraordinary that the IOA would actively undermine the IGU electoral process and facilitate a faction holding a non-constitutional and invalid alternate Annual General Meeting and elections at the premises of the IOA.
“Additionally, that your interference then extended to wrongly recognising this faction’s elections and in turn to undermine the credibility of the constitutionally and fairly-elected IGU executive,” the letter learn.
“Therefore, the IGF-recognised executive body of the IGU, in accordance with Article 28 of the Olympic Charter, remains the member body for golf affiliated to the IOA. As such to recognise another executive body, not affiliated to the IGF, is in direct contravention of the Olympic Charter. We strongly implore you to immediately rectify this matter.” Scanlon additionally hit out on the IOA for eradicating golf from the continued Nationwide Video games roster.
“Notwithstanding your spurious intervention in the electoral process of the IGU, we are also extremely disappointed with your decision to remove golf from the programme of sports at the 38th All India Games.
“It is regrettable that your actions serve to punish the athletes for political purposes and in direct conflict with Article 27.2.2 of the Olympic Charter whereby the role of an NOC is ‘to encourage the development of highperformance sport …’ “This decision does nothing but discourage high-performance golf athletes in India. As such, the IGF implores you to reconsider this decision and to place the athletes’ interests above those of personal and political interests,” he wrote within the letter, which was additionally marked to the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC).
“The IGF is guided by and believes strongly in the values of Olympism and as such it is regrettable that we find ourselves in disagreement with the IOA and that you choose to act without mutual understanding and respect for the Olympic Charter and for our athletes and National Federation.
“As such we have been compelled to copy the International Olympic Committee on this letter so as they are aware of your inappropriate actions,” Scanlon added.
– PTI
CRICKET
Telangana CM felicitates G. Trisha after U-19 World Cup heroics
Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy felicitating G. Trisha, participant of the event and participant of the ultimate within the Ladies’s World Cup (under-19) cricket championship in Hyderabad.
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Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy felicitating G. Trisha, participant of the event and participant of the ultimate within the Ladies’s World Cup (under-19) cricket championship in Hyderabad.
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Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy introduced a money incentive of Rs 1 crore to G. Trisha, who was the ‘player of the tournament’ and ‘player of the final’ within the recently-concluded Ladies’s World Cup (under-19) cricket championship which India gained in Kuala Lumpur.
This gesture was made when Trisha referred to as on the Chief Minister at his Jubilee Hills Residence right here on Wednesday.
Revanth Reddy congratulated Trisha and hoped she would proceed to carry laurels to the nation.
The Chief Minister additionally introduced a money incentive of Rs 10 lakhs every to Dhruthi Kesari, who was additionally a member of the victorious Indian crew, coach Shalini and head coach Nooshin Al Khadeer.
Telangana Ministers P. Srinivas Reddy, Chief Secretary to the State Authorities Mrs Shanti Kumari, Advisor to Telangana Authorities (Sports activities) A. Jitender Reddy have been additionally current.
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