City’s upcoming golfer Yashas Chandra of JWGC, representing India in the Sanlam South African Amateur Golf Championship held Port Elizabeth in South Africa entered the quarter-finals in the Match Play event held recently. In the two-day qualifying round, he returned with a card of (72, 67) 5 under the course to qualify for the match…
Somdev inaugurates Sports Management course at SDM-IMD
February 28, 2017Somdev Kishore Devvarman, former Indian tennis player, who is the brand ambassador for the Sports Management course offered by the Centre for Sports and Management Studies (CS & MS) of SDM-IMD inaugurated the course by launching the website at SDM-IMD auditorium here yesterday. Later, SDM-IMD Deputy Director Dr. H. Gayathri, CS&MS Founder Enrico Piperno, JSW…
Farokh Engineer to deliver MAK Pataudi Memorial Lecture
February 28, 2017Former Indian wicket-keeper Farokh Engineer will deliver the fifth MAK Pataudi Memorial Lecture 2016-17 lecture during the BCCI Annual Awards function to be held in Bengaluru on March 8. Known for his sharp reflexes, agility behind the stumps and his aggressive batting, Mr. Engineer represented India in 46 Test matches and five ODIs. The lecture…
Vasisht, Prajwal Dev duo go down in pre-quarters
February 28, 2017Mysuru lads C. Vasisht and S.D. Prajwal Dev representing India and taking part in the India F3 Futures $15,000 Tennis Tournament at Guwahati, went down in the pre-quarterfinals in the men’s doubles event yesterday. Second seeds N. Vijay Sundar Prasanth and Sanam Singh combined well to beat C. Vasisht and S.D. Prajwal Dev 6-2, 6-4…
Mustafa wins yet another AITA title
February 27, 2017City’s upcoming tennis player Mustafa M Raja clinched his 8th Under-10 AITA Nationals Title at the tournament held at Transform Tennis Academy, Bengaluru. This is also his fourth consecutive tournament win. Mustafa had to go through a tough draw as 64 players were participating from all over the country. Mustafa kept his cool at crucial…
Intl. School Sports Federation of India’s Athletics City’s Himani shines
February 27, 2017Mysuru girl Himani Hegde, a 4th standard student from St. Joseph’s Central School, Vijayanagar, Mysuru representing her school in the International School Sports Federation of India Athletic Meet at Lake Mount Fort High school, Bengaluru ,won the gold medal in the U-10 girls 100 mts event and also won the second prize in the 50…
Scott MTB Championship Mysuru – 2017 Paigambar bags top honours
February 27, 2017Paigambar won the 39km men’s Elite category cycle race and won a cash prize of Rs.10,000 in the Scott MTB Cycle Championship 2017, conducted jointly by the Cyclopedia and Mysore District Cycling Association at the race which was flagged off from Lalitha Mahal Helipad yesterday. A total 159 cyclists took part in different categories. Cyclists…
NR Golf Championship winners
February 27, 2017The following are the winners of the two-day NR Open Golf Championship held at Jayachamaraja Wadiyar Golf Club (JWFC) in city. The event witnessed around 200 golf enthusiasts participating across 15 categories. R. Guru, Chairman, NR Group and Dr. P. Sridhar, Ranga Family Member, presented the trophies to the winners. Dr. M.S. Ranganath, President JWGC,…
India 3 ITF Futures Tennis Tournament
February 27, 2017Mysuru lads C. Vasisht and S.D. Prajwal Dev entered the main draw in the men’s singles event in India 3 ITF $15,000 Futures Tennis Tournament at Guwahati yesterday. In final qualifying round, Vasisht beat fourth seed P. Vignesh 7-5, 6-2 to enter the main draw of the tournament. In the first round of qualifying, Vasisht…
TechNIEks Run for a cause
February 26, 2017Nearly 1,000 enthusiasts took part in the TechNIEKs Run organised by the city’s National Institute of Engineering (NIE) as part of its TechNIEks-2017 in city this morning. The event featuring 10K run and 5K run was organised in aid of special children and was held under three categories — Men, Women and Veterans (above 50…
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