Indian sports news wrap, May 18
The HinduGOLF Aditi to battle LPGA stars in the LET event in Florida Aditi Ashok, who has had top-5 finishes in her last four starts on the Ladies European Tour, will tee up at The Aramco Team Series – Florida this week. | Photo Credit: Getty Images via AFP Indian ace Anirban Lahiri will return to Major action after a full year as he tees up at the PGA Championship at Oak Hill Country Club this week. Fellow Korean Sungjae Im, who missed last year’s PGA due to Covid-19, will tee up at Oak Hill in good form following a home victory on the Korean PGA Tour last week. -PTI Nishna Patel misses Asia Pacific Junior title by one shot, finishes tied second Indian amateur golfer Nishna Patel missed the title by just one shot as she finished tied second at the 2023 Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation Junior Championships in Manila on Thursday. $15,000 ITF men, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Singles : Digvijay Pratap Singh bt Ishaque Eqbal 1-6, 6-3, 6-4; Guy Iradukunda bt Rishab Agarwal 6-3, 6-0; First round: Nicolas Valdes bt Nitin Kumar Sinha 3-6, 6-3, 7-6; Rishab Agarwal bt Dev Javia 6-3, 7-6; SD Prajwal Dev bt Ben Weintraub 6-2, 6-0; $100,000 ITF women, Madrid, Spain Doubles : Oksana Kalashnikova & Katarzyna Piter bt Conny Perrin & Prarthana Thombare 6-3, 6-3; Eleni Christofi & Despina Papamichail bt Lucia Llorca & Vasanti Shinde 6-3, 6-1.