The Hindu : Sport : Neethu wins under-19 title

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Sunday, Jul 20, 2008
ePaper | Mobile/PDA Version

Sport

Sport - Sports : General

Neethu wins under-19 title

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Neethu Ninan won the girls’ under-19 singles title in the Thiruvananthapuram District badminton championship at the Sri Moolam Club here on Saturday. In the final, Neethu overcame Prija Chandran 16-21, 21-18, 22-20.

Top seed Govind Sivan breezed into the quarterfinals in the men’s section after scoring 21-8, 21-8 win over A. Sunil. The second seed Tony Abraham also had it easy in the pre-quarterfinals winning 21-5, 21-6 against S. Sumesh.

The results:

Men: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Govind Sivan bt P. Sunil 21-8 21-8; Jaya Krishna bt Girish Sankar 21-15, 21-15; R.J. Anand bt V.S. Chandu 21-6, 21-10; Manoj Sahibjan bt Nidhin Rehman 21-13, 21-12; Bala Subramaniam bt R.Deepu 21-15, 19-21, 21-13; Tony Abraham bt S. Sumesh 21-15, 21-16. Doubles (semifinals): Rakesh Sekar/Rajeev Sekhar bt Satheesh Kumar/Raj Kumar 21-13, 21-15; Santosh Kumar/Lal Money bt Madhu/Vinod 21-11, 15-21, 21-15.

Boys: Under-16 (quarterfinals): Mithun Jayakumar bt Sai Krishnan 21-15, 21-9; S. Bichu bt Bala Subramaniam 22-20, 9-21, 21-18; Vishnu Rajendran bt Prejith John 21-11, 21-5; Jithin Suresh bt Adarsh Mahadevan 21-11, 21-10. Under-13 (semifinals): S. Bichu bt Vishnu Suresh 21-6, 21-5; Adarsh Mahadevan bt Aal Brito 21-9, 21-10.

Girls: Under-19 (final): Neethu Ninan bt Prija Chandran 16-21, 21-18, 22-20.

Rich haul by Daya

Daya Elsa Jacob had a rich haul in the Ernakulam District badminton championship at Kochi on Saturday.

Daya, daughter of former State and Railway star Suresh Thomas, won three singles titles — women’s, junior and sub-junior girls — at the Rajiv Gandhi indoor stadium, virtually her home court.

Anthony K. Jacob won his maiden district men’s crown defeating K.S. Hersen while international Sanave Thomas and K.A. Anish won the men’s doubles title.

Renjith Koshy, Joint Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise, distributed the prizes.

The results (finals):

Men’s singles: Anthony K. Jacob bt K.S.H ersen 21-13, 21-12. Doubles: Sanave Thomas/K.A. Anish bt K.S. Hersen/Arjun Prasad 21-16, 16-21, 21-12.

Under-19 boys singles: Ravisanker bt K.Dishad 11-21, 21-14, 23-21. Doubles: Dilshad/Ravisankar bt Sharon Raphael/Arun George 21-18, 21-12.

Under-16 boys singles: V.H. Bharath bt Sharon Raphael 21-12, 21-15. Doubles: Sharon/Arun George bt V.H. Bharath/Pranav Satheesh 21-16, 21-14.

Under-13 boys singles: M.B. Arjun bt Aarush Setia 21-10, 21-9. Doubles: M.B.Arjun/Rohit K. Victor bt Aarush Settu/S. Dhanush 21-7, 21-9.

Masters men’s singles: Joemon George bt Srikanth Vasudevan 21-13, 14-21, 21-13. Doubles: Joemon/Raviprasad bt Bose Ninan/M.F.Johnson 21-10, 21-12.

Women’s singles: Daya Elsa Jacob bt Anjali Maria Sunil 21-8, 21-8.

Under-19 girls singles: Daya Elsa bt P.S. Linimol 21-16, 21-12.

Stephy, Smruthi felicitated

Kerala’s Stephy Nixon and R.K. Smruthi, both members of the Indian under-16 team which won the girls’ basketball title at the fourth Children of Asia International Sports Games at Yakutsk in Russia last week, were given a warm welcome at the Kollam Railway Station on Friday.

The two are trainees at the Kerala Sports Council’s Centralised Sports Hostel in Kollam.

Kollam District Collector A. Shajahan and KSC Vice-President K. Thankappan were among those who felicitated the girls at the station.

India defeated the host Sakha Republic 98-65 in the final. The team had beaten Thailand and Mongolia in the league phase and Irkutsk 97-53 in the semifinal.

Chhattisgarh’s L. Deepa was adjudged the tournament’s best player, while Kavita was named best in the Indian team.

Another win for KSEB

KSEB defeated Black Arrows 2-0 to record its second consecutive win in the Thiruvananthapuram district super division football league at the Chandrasekharn Nair stadium, Thiruvananthapuram on Saturday.

Girish (10th) and Ramesh (50th) scored the goals for the winner. In another match, St. Mary’s FC held Travancore Titanium to a goalless draw.

Arun Kumar, Sonia win

In Chennai, U.N. Arun Kumar of Government HSS and P.M. Sonia of St. Anne’s School, both from Kottayam, emerged the boys’ and girls’ 800m winners respectively on the first day of the St. Joseph’s inter-school athletics meet on Saturday.

In all 65 schools from Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Puducherry are taking part in this mega festival.

The results:

Boys: 800m: 1. U.N. Arun kumar (Govt. HSS, Kottayam) 2:03.9s; 2. S. Dharma (Pachaiyappa’s HSS, Chennai); 3. T. Nethaji (Pachaiyappa’s HSS).

Girls: 800m: 1. P.M. Soniya (St. Anne’s HSS, Kottayam) 2:26.7s; 2. M. Nithya (Karnataka Sangah HSS, Chennai); 3. Aleena Thomas (St. Annse, Kottayam).

Printer friendly page
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Sport