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Kamali Moorthy won the Women’s Open tile and the Surfing Juniors U-18 Girls rubric successful the 7th variation of NMPA Indian Open of Surfing.
Tamil Nadu surfers Kamali Moorthy and Kishore Kumar won the Women’s Open and Men’s Open titles astatine the finals of the seventh NMPA Indian Open of Surfing, held astatine Tannirbhavi formation successful Mangaluru connected Sunday.
Ms. Moorthy besides clinched the U-18 Girls title, portion Mangaluru’s Pradeep Pujar won the U-18 Boys category. Harish P. and Dhamayanthi Sriram secured the titles successful the recently introduced U-14 Boys and U-14 Girls categories respectively.
Ms. Moorthy defended her Open Women’s rubric from the 2025 edition. In the last connected Sunday, she topped the class with a people of 13.17. Sugar Shanti Banarse finished 2nd with 11.73, portion Shrishti Selvam placed 3rd with 8.50. The last saw a adjacent contention betwixt Ms. Moorthy and Ms. Banarse, with Ms. Moorthy holding her nervus to nutrient a decisive precocious scoring thrust and clasp her crown.
Excited astir winning the Women’s Open and U-18 Girls titles, Ms. Moorthy said she volition enactment hard to gain a spot successful Team India for the Asian Games.
Meanwhile, Kishore Kumar topped the Men’s Open class with a people of 15.20. Ramesh Budihal finished 2nd with 12.87, portion Sivaraj Babu scored 11.90 and Srikanth D. secured 9.93. Mr. Kumar said helium is focused connected representing India astatine the Asian Games.
Pradeep Pujar said helium was excited to triumph his archetypal nationalist rubric successful beforehand of his location crowd. The contention was tough, and each the finalists pushed each different to execute astatine their best, helium said. The 7th variation of the Indian Open Surfing Championship was organised by the Mantra Surf Club and the Surfing Swami Foundation nether the aegis of the Surfing Federation of India, with enactment from the State authorities and the Karnataka Surfing Association.
