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Ambika Pande enters semifinals

Chennai: Ambika Pande came back from a set down to beat Priya Selvakumar 1-6, 7-6, 6-2 in the girls’ under-14 quarterfinals of the AITA National-ranking tennis tournament at the S.R. Sports School.

Other results:

Singles: U-14: Boys: Quarterfinals: Sabareesh Hariharan bt Athreya Vishal 6-1, 6-4; Neeraj Elangovan bt Sarthak Sidharth 6-1, 6-0; Rithvik Anand bt V. Vishal 6-2, 6-1. Pre-quarterfinals: Sabareesh Hariharan bt Madan Mohan 7-5, 6-3; Athreya B. Vishal bt B. Anurag 6-1, 6-1; Sarthak Sidharth bt Abhinav Surya 6-0, 6-0; Neeraj Elangovan bt Gokul 6-1, 6-0; Siddharth Reddy bt R. Vivek 6-0, 6-2; Subash Kaushik bt Ashwin Srivathsav 6-4, 6-2; V. Vishal bt M. Deva 6-1, 6-3; Rithvik Anand bt Keerthi Rangan 7-5, 6-0.

Girls: Quarterfinals: Sai Samitha bt Janani 6-1, 6-2; Sharmila bt Madhumitha 6-2, 7-5; Kavya Bharat bt S. Lavanya 6-0, 6-1. Pre-quarterfinals: Priya Selvakumar bt Anjana Sundaran 6-0, 6-1; Ambika Pande bt Prithika Rani 6-4, 6-4; Madhumitha bt Devki Pande 6-0, 6-0; Kavya Bharat bt Uthra Venkatesh 6-0, 6-1.

Doubles: Boys: Quarterfinals: Siddharth Reddy & Subash Kaushik bt Mada & Sanjay Mohan 6-1, 6-1; Ashwin Srivathsaav & V. Vishal bt B. Anurag & R. Raghavendra 6-1, 5-7, 10-2; M. Deva & S. Gokul bt Abhinav Surya & Amruth Ganesh 6-2, 6-0.

Praveen shines

Praveen (35 points) shone in Sports Hostel of Excellence’s 70-50 victory over Nellai Youth BC in the men’s section of the AllStar Trophy basketball tournament here.

The scores: Men: Sports Hostel of Excellance 70 (Praveen 35, Lingeshwaran 14) bt Nellai Youths BC 50 (Saravana Muthukumar 14, Deepan 12, Raja Prabu 10, Socretis 14).

Women: IOB AllStar BC 42 (Vishnupriya 17, Jeyachitra 10) bt Physiocare BC 29 (Divya 12, Sangeetha 10).

Cricket tournament

South Madras Cricket Association will conduct a league tournament for the SMCA Trophy from the first week of February in Chennai.

For details contact V. Vasudevan, Ph: 9884302787.

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