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Jeyanth in last four

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Madurai: Top seed M. Jeyanth Jeyaraman of Namakkal entered the boys U-12 singles semifinals in the TNTA-State-ranking tennis tournament defeating V.S. Vignesh of Neyveli 6-3, 6-0 at the Union Club Courts here on Tuesday.

Others to reach the semifinals were C. Thulsiram of Coimbatore, Nikki K. Poonacha of Neyveli and Himaysu Sagar of Chennai.

Boys U-12 (Quarterfinals): M. Jeyanth Jeyaraman (Nam) bt V.S. Vignesh (Nly) 6-3, 6-0; C. Thulsiram (Cbe) bt M. Lakshmi Rajan (Mdu) 6-0, 6-0; Nikki K. Poonacha (Nly) bt S. Ganesh 6-3, 7-6; Himaysu Sagar (Che) bt Srinivas Arunachalam (Mdu) 6-3, 7-6.

Boys U-14: First round: Simansu Sagar (Che) bt R.K. Tarun (Mdu) 6-0, 6-0; Akshay (Nly) bt M. Deva Barathi (Nly) 6-4, 7-6; Tennison (Tuty) bt R. Pradeepan (Trcy) 6-0, 6-0; Nirmal Gautham (U.C. Mdu) bt Ajay Prased (Nly) 7-5, 6-2; Anuraj Balasubramanian (Che) bt V. Swaminathan 6-1, 6-0; Nikki K. Poonacha (Nly) bt Rahul Manoah (Che) 6-3, 6-2; A. Prasanth (U.C. Mdu) bt Vivek Rajan (Che) 6-4, 6-1; Dig Vijay Pandian (Svg) bt Sudhir Santhosh (Nly) 3-6, 6-1, 6-3; Prajvan (Nly) bt Md. Robbani (Tvly) 1-6, 6-4, 6-3; Pradeep Roshan (Che) bt G. Ramanan (Svg) 6-0, 6-0; Sivabala Shanmugam (Tuty) bt M. Natarajan (Mdu) 6-4, 2-6, 6-2; L. Srinivas Arunachalam (U.C. Mdu) bt Md. Hussain (Mdu) 6-3, 6-1; G.S. Vignesh (Nly) bt A. Arunachalam (Svg) 6-4, 6-3; M. Jeyanth Jeyaraman (Nam) bt Poonacha (Nly) 6-3, 6-4; Nirmal Gautham (U.C. Mdu) bt Dig Vijay Pandian (Svg) 6-1, 6-0; Anuraj Balasubramanian bt P. Prajvan (NLY) 6-0, 6-1; C. Thulsiram (Cbe) bt Tennison (Tuty) 6-1, 6-1.

St. Joseph's triumphs

St. Joseph's College (Trichy) lifted the KSS memorial trophy defeating host Gandhigram Rural University 71-55 in the final match of the semifinals round robin league in the State-level inter-collegiate basketball tournament at GRU ground on Monday night.

St. Joseph's emerged winner with an all-win record and Sethu Institute of Technology, which beat Annamalai University 70-58 for its second win in another match, finished runner-up.

The results: St. Joseph's 71 (R. Nataraj 24, B. Sreedhararajan 10) bt GRU 55 (Jeyachandran 22, Jeganath Kaushik 10); S.I.T. 70 (A. Dominic Joe 28, P. Devendra pandian 17) bt Annamalai University 58 (R. Muthu Gunasingam 20, D. Suresh 19).

Ramesh wins title

Ramesh of Erode won the men's singles title defeating Kalyanaraman of Madurai 11-7, 11-8, 11-7 in the final of the two-day State-level table tennis tournament organised by Dindigul District Table Tennis Association, in association with Rotary Club of Dindigul Queen City and Doctors T.T. Club at Dindigul on Sunday.

Other results (All finals): Junior boys: M. Mukund (Mdu) bt B. Prahlad (Erode) 11-8, 11-9, 8-11, 11-9.

Sub-junior boys: M. Riaz (Mdu) bt G. Varun Chakravarthy (Erode) 11-6, 11-9, 9-11, 11-9.

Junior girls: P.D. Subhadhra (Hos) bt S. Dharsinika (Mdu) 11-8, 11-9, 11-9.

Sub-junior girls: P.D. Subhahra bt S. Ilakiya (Erode) 11-8, 11-9, 11-9.

Cadet girls: S. Sehaankittaa bt S. Dharshanika (Mdu) 11-7, 11-8, 11-7.

Mini cadet girls: S. Snehaankitta bt R. Kavya (Erode) 11-6, 11-8, 11-9.

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