After missing the season-opener, Vani, who won five times last year while topping the Order of Merit, will feature in the event alongside some of the other leading names.
Sneha Singh was in shared lead with Rhea Purvi Saravanan and Durga Nittur at the end of the opening round of the first leg of the 2025 season on the WPGT
The new season gets off in Jamshedpur with 28 professionals, who will play for a purse of Rs. 12 lakhs and there are also two amateurs, Anaahat Bindra and Saanvi Somu. Saanvi has in the past come close to winning on the HPWGT and she was runner-up in the ninth leg in 2024
Vani started the final day three shots behind the overnight leaders, Hitaashee Bakshi and Vidhatri Urs. Playing one group ahead of the leaders, Vani was one-under for the front nine, but still trailed Hitaashee who was 2-over for the front nine and Vidhatri, who was even par
Vidhatri, who trailed Hitaashee by one shot after the first round, carded 2-over 74 to Hitaashee's 75 to be tied for the top spot at 1-over 145 after 36 holes
All four Indians are winners on the domestic WPGT. However, Tvesa and Pranavi have shown better form and will be looking to build on ahead of the Women's Indian Open
Vidhatri, who won the ninth and 10th legs of the Tour, added a third title as she scored 1-under 35 on yet another day hit by inclement weather when the final round was reduced to nine holes. The second round had also been reduced to nine holes because of weather
Vidhatri Urs started almost two hours later than her original tee time as play was pushed back on account of the weather and forecast of heavy rain and wet conditions. She opened with a bogey on Par-5 first but birdied the second, fifth and seventh for a 2-under 34 that took her 27-hole tota
Vani Kapoor was among the four players in the shared lead at the end of the first round at the Swiss Ladies Open. Among other Indians, Tvesa Malik Sandhu, who was tied third when she finished was tied ninth at the end of the day, while Ridhima Dilawari and Amandeep Drall were tied 57th with