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MCC-Murugappa Gold Cup from Sept. 3

Chennai: The MCC-Murugappa Gold Cup hockey tournament, which could not be conducted last year, is being revived, and will now be held at the Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium from September 3 to 14.

The tournament committee, consisting of members from the Murugappa Group and Madras Cricket Club, has obtained permission to go ahead with the conduct of the tournament from the ad hoc committee.

The event, much to the chagrin of the hockey community in and around Chennai, could not be held last year owing to the difficulty in getting the dates from the Indian Hockey Federation.

The tight schedule of competitions and training of the national teams came in the way of the tournament authorities maintaining the continuity of the event, the only competition in the region offering the highest prize money.

Efforts are now afoot to get the best possible national level teams for this year’s tournament.

It is gathered the ad hoc committee has also promised to look into the request of fielding the national junior team which retained the Asia Cup at Hyderabad recently.

Ashwin advances

N. Ashwin defeated Rahul Raj 6-1, 6-1, in the second round of the boys’ under-14 draw in the Lemuria Tennis Academy tennis tournament.

Other results: Boys’ under-14: Second round: M. Fahad bt Ilaya Devan 6-3, 6-0; Rahul Manoah bt Arjun Ramakrishnan 6-4, 6-1; A. Naveen Kumar bt Akhil Kanakaraj 6-3, 6-0; Farhan Siddique bt T. Vignesh 6-1, 6-4; Keerthi Rangan bt Vishnu J.J. Shree 6-0, 6-1.

First round: N. Ashwin bt Lokesh Kumar 6-1, 6-3; Rahul Raj bt Atul Raman 6-4, 6-2; Ilaya Devan bt N. Shri Shravan 4-6, 6-2, 6-1; M. Fahad bt R.S. Mohit 6-0, 6-0; Anmol Sagar bt Vasudev Vijayaraman 6-3, 6-3; Mahesh.K. Viswanathan bt Siddarth Goel 6-1, 6-2; Manikandan bt Balaji 6-3, 6-3; Nipun Bajaj bt Adarsh 6-4, 6-4; Arun Ramakrishnan bt Parikshit 6-0, 6-2; Rahul Manoah bt Badrinath 6-0, 6-0; Akhil Kanakaraj bt Vivek Kuppurajan 6-0, 6-0; A. Naveen Kumar bt V. Aiyappan 6-1, 6-1; Farhan Siddique bt Sooraj Narayan 6-2, 6-1; T. Vignesh bt Kapish 7-5, 3-6, 6-4; Edwin Moses bt Vishnu J.J. Shree 6-3, 6-2; Keerthi Rangan bt Naitrav Srinivasan 6-0, 6-1.

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