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Madura overcomes Chirashanthi

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Madura Ranganathan staved off Chirashanthi Rajur's stiff challenge 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 to make progress in the qualifying rounds of the Kerala Open ITF women's tennis tournament at the TTC courts here on Saturday.

In another match, Stephanie MacFarlane (Australia) crushed Pallavi Sharma 6-0, 6-1 to move into the second round.

Main draw

The main draw of the $ 25,000 tournament, sponsored by LIC, State Bank of Travancore and Kerala Tourism, is slated to start on Monday. Eight qualifiers will join 20 direct entrants and four wild cards in the main draw.

The results (Indians otherwise specified):

First round qualifying: Shweta Gadigeeppa Kakhandki bt Bhavani Ravisankar 6-2, 6-0; Asha Sarvana Mohan bt Shivani Sreekantiah 6-2, 6-4; Stephanie MaCfarlane (Aus) bt Pallavi Sharma 6-0, 6-1.

Shahin Ansari bt Smita Jain Rani 6-2, 7-5; Rashmi Teltumbde bt Madulika Sharma 6-0, 6-0; Deepna Vazirani bt Ayush Sinha 6-0, 6-0; Madura Ranganathan bt Chirashanthi Rajur 7-5, 4-6, 6-3.

Easy win for Palakkad

Palakkad crushed Pathanamthitta 3-0 in the Western Union State inter-district football championship at Palakkad on Saturday.

Abdul Hakkim (fourth), Abdul Noushad (seventh) and Faizal Rahman (27th) did the scoring.

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