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Record entries for St. Paul’s table tennis tournament

HYDERABAD: A record 689 entries were confirmed for the annual St. Paul’s High School State-ranking table tennis tournament, sponsored by K.S. Raymond (Malakpet), to be held at its premises here from August 2 to 5, Ibrahim Khan and Nagender Reddy, co-ordinators, St. Paul’s Academy, said.

The academy produced two internationals in the last five years — G. Jitendra, who was India No.2 in 2005-06, and Shubham Sharma, now ranked No.1 among the juniors in India.

Nagender was the Indian team coach in the World junior circuit championship at Quazvin (Iran) in 2005 when the team won three gold, two silver and a bronze.

Ibrahim Khan was the coach of Indian team for international events in Korea, Brazil, Chile and Poland.

“We believe that this edition will also throw up new talent which can be groomed into champion players,” they said.

The seedings: Men: 1. G. Jitendra, 2. Shubham Sharma, 3. B. Manohar Kumar, 4. Karan Mutha. Youth: 1. Shubham Sharma, 2. Karan Mutha, 3. M. Krishna Kiriti, 4. A.V. Anish. Junior boys: 1. P. Vignay R eddy, 2. Ch.S.S.V. Ramana, 3. T. Sai Praneeth, 4. Harsh Atul Shah. Sub-junior boys: 1. C.H.S.S.V. Ramana, 2. V.S.S. Kaushik, 3. D. Sai Kumar, 4. J. Sravan. Cadet boys: 1. Purna Srivastava, 2. Anas Ali, 3. D. Rahul, 4 . C.V. Srikar. Inter-school events: Boys: 1. St. Paul’s HS, 2. Little Flower HS, 3. Chirec Public School , 4. Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. Women: 1. Nikhat Bhanu, 2. Sri Lakshmi, 3. Anupa Ruth, 4. S.Prasanna Devi. Youth girls: 1. K. Amulya, 2. K. Samhitha, 3. K. Priyanka, 4. Ramneek Kaur. Junior girls: 1. Nikhat Banu, 2. K. Bhavana, 3. S. Akshi, 4. Aisha Afzal. Sub-junior girls: 1. K. Bhavana, 2. M. Mrudula, 3. K. Harthishta, 4. K. Spoorthy. Cadet girls: 1. S. Akshi, 2. K. Spoorthy, 3. S.K. Saira Banu, 4. P. Dharshana. Inter-schools girls: 1. Rosary School, 2. Nirmala School, 3. Little Flower HS, 4. St. Paul’s HS. Padma Priya advances
A.R. Padma Priya of Karnataka defeated Statemate Rachita Sarada 4-2, 4-1 in the girls’ singles second round of the VITS National Series under-16 tennis tournament in Kavali on Wednesday.

The results: Second round: Boys: Rupam Gogoi (Asm) bt Surya Pavan (AP) 4-1, 1-4, 4-2; Ashish Rana (Dli) bt S. Rithvik (Dli) 4-1, 4-1; Surat Desai (Guj) bt M. Naveen Sai (Kar) 5-3, 4-1. Pradeep Reddy (AP) bt Niranjan R. Rao (TN) 4-1, 4-0; N. Yeshwanth (AP) bt S.M. Abdullah (AP) 4-1, 4-0; Vaidik Manshar (Guj) bt Sirsala Surya (AP) 4-0, 4-1. Ahuja Sagar (Mah) bt A. Abhishek (AP) 5-4, 5-3; Samip Mehta (Guj) bt Suraj Konvar (Guj) 4-1, 5-4(4); Vinayak Sharma (AP) bt Bharat Bharadwaj (U.P.) 5-3, 4-0; S.V. Abhishek (AP) bt Saurabh Singh (Dli) 4-1, 4-5, 4-1; Chetan Pandit (TN) bt Vijay Bharadwaj (U.P.) 4-1, 5-4 Girls: A.R. Padma Priya (Kar) bt Rachita Sarada (Kar) 4-2, 4-1; Natasha Palha (Guj) bt Sanchita Nandakar (TN) 4-5 (2-5), 4-1, 4-2; Arush Sharma (Dli) bt Rachna R.Gowda (Kar) 4-0, 4-0; Ankitha Raina (Guj) bt Shivani Singh (AP) 4-0, 1-4, 4-0. Tennis tournament
Advantage Tennis Academy will organise junior tennis tournament for boys’ and girls’ in the age group of 10 to 14 years from August 11 to 15 at St. Thomas High School (Neredmet).

For details, contact ph: 9885187847 or 9391170377.
State sub-juniors chess

The 33rd State sub-junior boys’ and the 24th sub-junior girls’ chess championship will be held from August 4 to 5 at Town Hall, Bhimavaram, West Godavari. For details, call 9948399896.
Bridge tournament

The Fateh Maidan Club will conduct a master pairs bridge tournament on August 5 from 10 a.m. at its premises. For details, contact 098480 81692.

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