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Yuvaraj moves up

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BANGALORE: R.V. Yuvaraj rallied to beat Rajwane Shankar 8-7 to move into there third round of the boys' under-18 event in the Mahila Seva Samaj's State ranking tennis championship at the MSS courts here on Wednesday.

Vinod Gowda, who had earlier won the under-12 singles title in the AITA Talent Series here, beat Yatish Anand 8-2 and the hard-hitting Sujith Sachidanand, who was out of circuit for a while, made a welcome return as he outplayed S. Kamal 8-2.

The results: Second round: Under-10: A. Abhijeet bt K.S. Vivek 8-0; Karan Pravinder bt Yash Yadav 8-2; Yeshu Jain bt Chinmay 8-6; Ankit Arvind bt Shankabrata Nag 8-0; Narahari Iyengar bt A. Pushpak Nag 8-2; Manas Shetty bt S. Siddanth 8-7 ; B.S. Rahul bt Sanjith 8-7; Vikas B. bt Nikshep 8-6; Narendra bt Karan Arjun 8-6. Under-12: Varun Satyanarayana bt S. Raghavendra 8-5; Kevin John bt S. Karthik 8-1; Uttram Raju bt Virad S. 8-2; Tejas bt Vinay 8-5; Vinod Gowda bt Yesh Yadav 8-4; Rohit Gowda bt Drithvin 8-5; Shreyas bt D'Souza 8-0; V.K. Sumukh bt Prudhvi 8-0; Rohan Goankar bt Neal Bafna 8-0; Nihal Aga bt Siddarth Dabra 8-7; S. Sagar bt A.R. Suhas 8-5; Rahul Adhikari bt Prajwal Dev 8-3; Shahsank Atreya bt M.S. Rakshit 8-2; A. Kashyap bt Abhilash 8-6; Rohit Dinakar bt M. Madan 8-3; Varun S. bt Kevin John 8-1; C. Manu bt S. Kishan 8-6 ; K. Sriram bt Uttam Raju 8-2; Sharan Patil bt D.P. Tejas 8-0. Under-18: B. Santosh bt Adnan Agha 8-5; R.V. Yuvaraj bt Rajwane Shankar 8-7; Vinod Gowda bt Yatish Anand 8-2; Sujith Sachidanand bt S. Kamal 8-2; Amol Tambe bt bt Siddarth 8-0; Suraj B. bt G. Preetam 8-1; Varun Shetty bt B. Vikram Naidu 8-5; P. Anirudh 8-0; Praveen S. bt Siddarth 8-0.

Bhaskar beats Ajay

Former state champion B. Bhaskar, with two century breaks, outplayed youngster Ajay Bushan 1404-392 in the Super league of the State-ranking billiards tournament at the McDowell Hall of the KSBA here on Wednesday.

Bhaskar had breaks of 190 (21st visit) and 112 (23rd), and a 94 in the 28th visit to cruise to his third win in the super league.

G. Kishore Kumar had a 967-578 victory over Kiran Chawla while D. Rajkumar trounced Mod Arshed 1110-614 and Arvind Savur looked tentative in his 915-694 win over Sunil Sharma.

MSRIT in final

M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology entered the final of the M.S. Ramaiah inter-engineering colleges cricket tournament with an eight-wicket victory over BMS College of Engineering here on Wednesday .

Put into bat, BMSCE, despite a good knock of 86 by Pawan Gargi, could make only 168 for nine in 36 overs. Later, Shrikar Saini (62) and Vijay Karthik (53) guided MSRIT to victory.

The scores: BMSCE 168 for nine in 36 overs (Pawan Gargi 84) lost to MSRIT 171 for two in 22.2 overs (Shrikar Saini 62, Vijay Karthik 53).

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