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Dutch Ladies Open: Vani Kapoor was the best Indian of the three golfers who teed up at the 2024 Dutch Ladies Open. She shot 2-under 70 and was tied-20th while the other two Indians Tvesa Malik (73) and Ridhima Dilawari (73) were both tied-64. Vani’s round included three birdies and a lone bogey on Par-3 10th, while Tvesa Malik had two bogeys against one birdie on the fourth for a 1-over 763, and Ridhima Dilawari (73) had two birdies and three bogeys was also T-64.

Vani began on the tenth with a bogey but after that, she had three birdies and no bogeys.

The 29-year-old Kim Metraux fired an opening round of 65 (-7) to take the lead. The Swiss golfer holed back-to-back birdies on holes two and three before adding another on the seventh.