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Selena Deepthi hogs the limelight

CHENNAI: Unseeded S. Selena Deepthi of CCTC was the centre of attention on Saturday in the ongoing Jiwan Mal Nahata Memorial State-ranking table tennis tournament here.

The daughter of table tennis players J. Selvakumar and Arul Selvi, who herself is participating in the women’s section, Deepthi, playing in the girls’ cadet category, showed glimpses of her growing talent by beating top seed V. Deepika (VVV) after being two games down.

Deepthi won 5-11, 5-11, 11-7, 11-8, 11-9 to reach the semifinals.

Other results: Sub-junior boys: Quarterfinal: D. Sameerakumar (NLC) bt V. Shanmugam (Akg) 11-9, 11-6, 11-3, 11-8; R. Anand Raj (Akg) bt S. Bhargav (VVV) 11-8, 11-6, 11-8, 11-4; Sachin Vishwanath (Ransa) bt M. Kalaivanan (Akg) 11-9, 11-6, 11-7, 14-16, 5-11, 7-11, 11-9; Shashank S. Yogesh (Ransa) bt M. Jagadish (Akg) 11-9, 11-3, 10-12, 11-8, 9-11, 11-6.

Sub-junior girls: Quarterfinal: S. Narasimha Priya (PSBB) bt S. Lalitha (VVV) 11-9, 11-6, 9-11, 11-4, 11-2; Amrutha Pushpak (Akg) bt C. Antara (Akg) 11-9, 11-8, 11-7, 11-1; V.T. Anubharathi (NLC) bt J.P. Roshini (Akg) 11-9, 11-9, 11-5, 11-7.

Cadet girls: Quarterfinal: Abinaya Ramesh (Erd) bt Aishwarya Ravi (PSBB) 11-8, 11-8, 11-8; R.S. Mythili (ICF) bt Sanjana Pattabiraman (YMCA K) 11-5, 11-6, 11-8; Krithika Rajaj (KGI) bt Mahima Jain (KTTC) 9-11, 11-8, 13-11, 11-7.

Easy for Irudayam

Former World champion A. Maria Irudayam scored a comfortable 25-6, 25-0 win over S. Subramaniam in a first round match of the KCG College of Technology-PAALAM State carrom championship, which began on Friday.

The tournament was earlier inaugurated by Varaprasada Rao, Vice-Chairman, Science City, Dept. of Higher Education.

Anand Jacob Verghese, Director, Hindustan Group and Chairman, Hindustan Sports Foundation presided over the function.

Other results: M. Praveen bt R. Karthikeyan 9-25, 25-18, 25-0; Satish Kumar bt G. Jeyabalan 14-16, 20-7; P. Anandaraj bt T. Anbalagan 25-6, 25-5; G. Chandrasekar bt Lenus Paulraj 25-19, 5-18, 25-5; K. Ramesh Babu bt Santosh Kumar 14-10, 25-1, 25-0; A. Lavankumar bt John Isaac 25-12,11-25-13 ; A. Devakumar bt V. Krishnakumar 25-4, 25-14; M. Karizalan bt P. Balaji 25-17,25-6; V. Umashankar bt M. Amulraj 25-0, 25-5; A. Sagayanathan bt Saheel Hameed 25-0, 25-0; T.J. Thianga Kumar bt J. Srinivasan 25-7,17-4; K. Premkumar bt A. Shankar 25-7, 17-4; Kanagaraj bt V.P. Dinesh 25-0, 25-0; E. Balaguru bt K. Balamurugan 24-18, 20-11; A. Chittibabu bt Bhaskar 25-5, 20-22, 25-1.

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