Wakeful for feature event
The Hindu
Wakeful, who is in fine nick, may score in the first division of the Welcome Cup (1,200m), the main event of the opening day’s races to be held here on Wednesday (April 14).1. ARTS HANDICAP (1,200m),
Wakeful, who is in fine nick, may score in the first division of the Welcome Cup (1,200m), the main event of the opening day’s races to be held here on Wednesday (April 14). (1,200m), 6-y-o & over, rated 20 to 45, 10-30 a.m.: 1. Full Bloom (4) Nakhat Singh 60, 2. Victoria’s Secret (9) Surya Prakash 60, 3. Rosebrook (2) Iltaf Hussain 59.5, 4. Red Hot Jet (5) Kuldeep Singh 58.5, 5. Palsy Walsy (7) P. Koushik 57, 6. Song Of Glory (8) B.R. Kumar 57, 7. Daring Dancer (3) Irshad Alam 56, 8. Platini (6) P. Sai Kumar 55.5 and 9. Highland Light (1) R. Manish 50.5.He has worn India’s blues, albeit in an Under-19 World Cup, with K.L. Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Harshal Patel and Jaydev Unadkat as his teammates. He has proudly adorned the Lion’s Crest — the famed Mumbai cricket logo — in all three formats. He has played with Yuvraj Singh, against Virat Kohli and Rahul Dravid and has the likes of Rahul and Joe Root in his illustrious list of dismissals. He is also a software developer for an IT giant, based in California. Virtually every middle-class Indian over the last three decades at some stage dreams of being either a cricketer or an IT professional. Saurabh Netravalkar has been combining two dreams, even after relocating to USA to pursue academics at the prestigious Cornell University in 2015.
Unlike most of the Olympic-bound athletes, who opt to train abroad before the big event, boxer Amit Panghal prefers training in home conditions prior to Paris 2024. A former World championships silver medallist and a World No. 1, Panghal won the 51kg quota place in the only chance he got. He wants to follow his own plans to script success in Paris.
The other men’s semifinal Friday is Norway’s Casper Ruud, twice the runner-up in Paris — to Rafael Nadal in 2022 and to Novak Djokovic in 2023 — against Germany’s Alexander Zverev, a finalist at the 2020 U.S. Open, an Olympic gold medalist and into the final four at Roland Garros for the fourth consecutive year.