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Sethuraman clinches championship on progressive score

daikanal: Fourteen-year-old S.P. Sethuraman of Chennai became the youngest-ever champion in the 55th State chess championship organised by Mount Chess Academy and Indian Chess School here on Wednesday.

Sethuraman and Arun Karthik, also of Chennai finished on top with nine points each, but Sethuraman emerged champion on progressive score and bagged the prize money of Rs.30,000. Karthik had to be content with runner-up spot.

Ram S. Krishnan of Chennai and S. Nitin of Salem finished third and fourth respectively with 8.5 points each. The top four will represent TN in the National `B' championship at Dindigul from June 10.

Final Placings: 1. S.P. Sethuraman (9); 2. R. Arun Karthik (9); 3-9. Ram S. Krishnan (BSNL), S. Nitin (Slm), G.B. Prakash (Indian Bank), R. Premnath (Kanchi), P. Phoobalan (Cbe), P. Saravana Krishnan (Kan), P. Shyam Nikhil (Mdu).

Important results: 11th and final round: S.P. Sethuraman (9) drew with Ram S. Krishnan (8.5); S. Nitin (8.5) drew with P. Shyam Nikil (8.5); R. Arun Karthik (9) bt Merryston David Scanny (8); M. Dusthageer Ibrahim (7.5) lost to G.B. Prakash (8.5); P. Saravana Krishnan (8.5) bt V.A.V. Rajesh (7.5); R. Premnath (8.5) bt Uttam Sharma (7.5); R.A. Pradeep Kumar (7.5) lost to P. Phoobalan (8.5); C. Praveen Kumar (7) lost to K. Chakravarti (8); M. Shyam Sundar (8) bt R.K. Ranjith (7); H. Venkatesh (7) lost to P. Karthikeyan (8); Tejas Ravichandran (7) lost to K. Priyadharshan (8); S. Ganesh Babu (8) bt R.P. Senthil Kumaran (7); Vishnu Prasanna (8) bt R.V. Sathiyanarayanan (7); S.G. Sarvana Kumar (7) lost to V. Haribalu (7.5); K.C. Krishna Prasad (6.5) lost to Mithrakanth Poorna Sharma (7.5); V. Subramanian (6.5) lost to Vijaya Sarathi (7.5); G. Santhosh Kumar (7) drew with M. Kunal (7); Srikanth Ajay (6.5) lost to T.R. Shanmuganathan (7.5); R. Pounraj (7.5) bt R. Ananth (6.5); Bavankumar (6.5) lost to K.V. Venprakash (7.5).

Karthik posts win

At Madurai, M.H. Karthik of Billiards Kingdom defeated Vicky of Pot Black Centre 59-25, 30-50, 50-35 in the third annual district-level snooker tournament on Wednesday.

Other results: Safeer (PB) bt Dr. Nivian (PB) 60-26, 48-38; M.H. Karthik (BK) bt Vicky (PB) 59-25, 30-50, 56-35; Kaja (PB) bt Nathan (PB) 81-18, 64-19; Prakash (PB) bt Vishnu (PB) 53-30, 13-44, 60-29.

Joint winners

At Dindigul, the final between City Police (Chennai) and host Indus Hockey Club in the sixth annual Antony Memorial Trophy State-level hockey tournament was abandoned due to light failure 10 minutes from close at the GHSS ground, Panjampatti.

At that time, Indus Hockey Club was leading by a solitary goal scored by Vijaya Kumar in the 13th minute. However, the teams were declared joint winners.

In the third place match, Thirunagar Hockey Club (Madurai) defeated St. Mary's Hockey Club (Dindigul) 5-4 in sudden death. At the end of regulation time, the teams were level 1-1. In the tie-breaker, the teams scored three goals each.

Sanjana in semifinals

At Coimbaotre, Top seed S.A. Shree Sanjana reached the under-14 and 16 girls' singles semifinals in the CDTA-AITA Talent Series tennis tournament at the CDTA courts in R.S. Puram here on Wednesday.

The results (quarterfinals): Boys: Singles: U-16: R. Vigneshwaran bt Harish Ramakrishnan 6-2, 6-2; M. Senthil Kumar bt Surjit Singh 6-2, 6-2; A. Veerabadran bt G. Rakesh 6-4, 6-3; V. Senthil Kumar bt Vishnu V. Raj 6-4, 7-6 (2). Doubles: Pre-quarterfinals: Ganga Singh/ Surjit Singh bt Praveen Raj/ Niral Shah 8-1; V. Aditya/ Ram Rochan bt Jayanth Jayaram/ Harsh Vardan Raj 8-3; P. Venkat Ramanan/ K. Raghavasimhan bt Vishnu V. Raj/ Aravind V. Raj 8-6; M. Senthil Kumar/ G. Rakesh bt M. Naveen/ S.D. Gowtham 8-5; S.A. Venkatesh Krishna/ Dharmaraj bt S. Gowtham/ Adithya Bhat 8-5.

U-14: R. Vigneshwaran bt Niral A. Shah 6-1, 6-1; Adhithya Bhat bt S. Dharmaraj 3-6, 6-3, 7-5; A. Veerabadran bt Avinash Ramanathan 6-3, 6-3; S.A. Venkatesh Krishna bt A. Praveen Raj 6-7(8), 7-5, 6-3.

Girls: U-16: S.A. Shree Sanjana bt S.S. Deepika 6-3, 6-3; Shreya Ravichandran bt Roma Chandran 6-3, 6-1; S. Swetha bt Mahashri 7-5, 6-2; Anusha Singla bt K.S. Sangitha 6-4, 6-4. Doubles: Semifinals: Anusha Singla/ Shreya Ravichandran bt Devika Choudhary/ Prithika Rani 6-0, 6-0.

U-14: S.A. Shree Sanjana bt S.G. Abhinaya 6-1, 6-0; Shreya Ravichandran bt Sumalya Hariharan 6-1, 7-6; Mahasri bt Ashwini Suresh 6-3, 6-4; S. Swetha bt K.S. Sangitha 3-6, 6-1, 6-3.

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