Aditi sixth after second round in LPGA, two shots behind leader  

Aditi Ashok.

Khel Today Bureau 

Belmont, Michigan: Aditi Ashok shot 5-under 67 to move to 9-under and was tied sixth place in the Meijer LPGA Classic on the LPGA Tour.

Aditi, 50th in the world, is bogey free in the first two rounds and trails the leader Japan’s Ayaka Furue (67)  by two shots. The Japanese is is 11-under for two rounds and leads by one.

Aditi started on the 10^th and birdied her first hole of the day and added one more on 18^th to be 2-under. On the second nine she added birdies on fourth, sixth and eighth to get to 5-under and a total of 9-under.

Aditi has been runner-up once this year and was T-5 at Cognizant Founders Cup and T-4 at Mizuho Americas Cup.

Furue, 23,  bogey free in the second round after a 66.

Hyo Joo Kim (65), Leona Maguire (65), Carlota Ciganda (66) and Amy Yang (67) were a stroke back. Defending champion Jennifer Kupcho (69) was 9-under along with Manon De Roey (65), Aditi Ashok (67), Minjee Lee (67), Emily Kristine Pedersen (68) and Lindsey Weaver-Wright (69).