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Chennai shuttlers reign

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DINDIGUL : Chennai regained the men's team title and retained the women's team by defeating Thiruvallur 3-0 and Coimbatore 2-0 respectively in the finals of the Tamil Nadu State senior inter-District badminton championship here on Wednesday night.

The results:

Men's team: Final: Chennai bt Thiruvallur 3-0 (Siddarth Jain bt Deepak Narayanan 21-6, 21-6; Shyam Sundar bt Sangameswaran 21-16, 21-15; Siddarth Jain & Malik Jalal bt Sudan & Kandavel 21-7, 21-13.

Women's team: Chennai bt Coimbatore 2-0 (Annes Kowser bt Archana 21-17, 21-18; Annes Kowser & A. Priya bt Lakshmi Priya & Rama Prabha 21-12, 21-17.

Men's singles (first round): R. Mahendran (Pkt) bt C. Prakash (NLG) 21-17, 21-11; Siddarth Jain (Che) bt V. Sivakumar 21-7, 21-7; Karthik (Pkt) bt Rajeswaran (RMP) 21-16, 21-9; Bharath Arun (MDU) bt A.S. Fernands (K.K) 21-19, 21-21(retd.); Kannan (Erode) bt M. Vijay Anand (Cud) 21-12, 14-21, 16-6 (retd.); M. Manoj (DGL) w/o Md. Irfan (Erd); Muthuram (Cbe) bt Farook (Mdu) 21-11, 21-6; R. Vijay Anand (Cud) bt D. Hemlin (K.K) 21-15, 21-10; Subramanian (Mdu) bt Vijay (DGL) 21-15, 21-6; Aditya Elango (Che) bt Varun (VGR) 21-8, 21-10; Avinash (Che) bt Shanmugam (Cud) 21-17, 21-12.

Women singles (pre-quarterfinals): Annes Kowser (Che) w/o Deepika (Che); Sabitha (Mdu) w/o Janani (DGL); Lakshmi Priya (Cbe) bt Krithika (Nkl) 21-11,21-9; Abirami (Mdu) bt Akila Devi (Cbe) 21-10, 21-10; Amreen Mubarak bt Radha (Nkl) 21-14, 21-4; Ramya (Cud) bt Sathya (Mdu) 21-5, 21-10; A. Priya (Che) bt Bhuvaneswari (Dgl) 21-5, 21-7.

IOB keeps winning

At Nagercoil, Indian Overseas Bank registered its second successive win defeating Rajiv Gandhi Basketball Academy 74-40 in the four-team Pool A league in men's section in the second annual IOB-Bharat Ratna Rajiv Gandhi all India basketball tournament at Anna Stadium on Wednesday night.

In the women's four-team super league, South Central Railway, Bilaspur bt Western Railway, Mumbai 74-60.

The results: Men: IOB, Chennai 74 (Dinesh 23, Chandrasekar 13) bt Rajiv Gandhi Basketball Academy 40 (Vishanth 16).

Women: South Central Railway, Bilaspur 74 (Anjulakra 22, Seema 19) bt Western Railway 60 (Lincy 20, Menaka 22).

Karnataka runs riot

In Madurai, Karnataka thrashed Kerala 6-0 in the four-team league of the Employees Provident Organisation South Zone football tournament, organised by Madurai Regional Office, at Madura College ground on Thursday. Srinivasan, Abbose (two each), Vasu and Prakash scored.

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