Diksha Dagar held the overnight lead but didn’t get off to the best start with a bogey on the first at Dromoland Castle. However, she soon found a rhythm rolling in back-to-back birdies on five and six before another dropped shot on 14.
As India assumed the Presidency of the prestigious G20 this year, the Indian Navy's Inter School Quiz competition--THINQ-- has become an international event and rechristened “G20 THINQ”, the Defence Ministry said in a press note on Saturday.
India are in Group A of the Asian qualifiers, alongside Qatar, Kuwait, and the winners of the Preliminary Joint Qualification Round 1 fixture between Afghanistan and Mongolia
Seeded sixth at the year’s fourth and final tennis Grand Slam, Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden took a little over an hour to beat the unseeded pairing of Roman Safiullin of Russia and Andrey Golubev of Kazakhstan 6-3, 6-3 in the second round
Over 38,458 candidates applied for the spot round. Over 65,900 of a total of 71,000 undergraduate seats have been filled at Delhi University till last week.
Diksha Dagar fired an opening round of 65 (-7) to set the pace on the first day of the Women’s Irish Open at Dromoland Castle. The other Indians had mixed luck. Ridhima Dilawari shot even par 72 and was T-47 and was the second-best Indian after Diksha.
Ukraine's Elina Svitolina progressed to the next round after defeating Russian player Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 in the second round of the US Open.
In Winston-Salem last week, the Draper withdrew in the second round of his first tournament back on the Tour after missing three months due to a shoulder injury.