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Tuesday, Mar 15, 2005

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Reshma to meet Smitha

BANGALORE, MARCH 14. Reshma Pai of Infosys and Smitha Rao of Thomson went through to the final of the 14th inter-corporate badminton tournament organised by Ventures at the KBA Raheja stadium here on Sunday.

Reshma downed last year's finalist Chandana of GE 11-6, 11-7 while Smitha beat Yasmeen of Infosys 11-5, 11-4.

Reshma also made the final of the women's doubles partnering Yasmeen and the semifinals of the mixed doubles along with Shashwat while Smitha played herself into the mixed doubles semifinals with Hemant.

The results:

Women: Singles: Semifinals: Smitha Rao (Thomson) bt Yasmeen (Infosys) 11-5, 11-4; Reshma Pai (Infosys) bt Chandana (GE) 11-6, 11-7. Doubles: Chandana/Lekha (GE) bt Smitha Rao/Meeliya (Thomson) 15-7, 11-15, 15-6; Reshma/Yasmeen (Infosys) bt Aditi/Tanushree (Oracle) 15-1, 15-0.

Men: Singles: Quarterfinals: Anshuman (GE) bt Rajendra (HP) 21-2; Veerendra (IBM-2) bt Uroja (Sasken) 21-15; Vivek (TCS) bt Naveen (HP) 21-8; Rishi (Oracle) bt Sabu (IBM-2) 21-6.

Mixed doubles: Quarterfinals: Chandana/Anshuman (GE) bt Soumya/Bobby (Bosch) 21-7; Yasmeen/Karthik (Infosys) Aditi/Rishi (Oracle) 21-10; Smitha Rao/Hemant (Thomson) bt Sapna/Vivek (TCS) 21-8; Reshma/Shashwat (Infosys) bt Sandhya/Harish (Symphony) 21-7.

Team event: Pre-quarterfinals: Symphony bt Thomson 2-1; John F Welch bt TCS 2-1; HP bt Gallup 2-0; Siemens-SPCNL bt C.G. Smith 2-1; Oracle bt Proactive 2-0; IBM-2 bt Siemens-SISL 2-0; GE bt Sasken 2-0; IBM-1 bt Infosys 2-1.

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