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Viswajith and Bhuvana clinch titles

Young champions: The winners of the Lanson Toyota-UC MAS Singaram Pillai AITA National junior tennis tournament, with the chief guest J. Ravi , MD, Jaya Group of Companies.

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu’s Viswajith Tirumurthi and Bhuvana clinched the boys’ and girls’ under-16 titles respectively in the Lanson Toyota-UC MAS Singaram Pillai (AITA Talent Series) National junior tennis championship at Singaram Pillai MHSS, here on Saturday.

J. Ravi, Managing Director, Jaya Group of Companies, gave away the prizes.

The results (finals): Boys u-16 (singles): Viswajith Tirumurthi (TN) bt C. Ravishankar (TN) 6-1, 6-2. Doubles: Soorya Prasad & Thomas Prem Kumar bt RajVishnu & Tushar 7-6(5), 2-6, 10-5. U-14: Keerthi Rangan (TN) bt Sai Reddy (AP) 7-6(6), 5-7, 6-2. U-12: TNTA State-ranking event: Arjun Ramakrishnan (TN) bt Rohan Sagar (TN) 6-2, 6-0.

Girls: U-16: Bhuvana (TN) bt A. Sharmila (TN) 6-2, 6-2. U-14: Kavya Bharat (TN) bt A. Ankita (TN) 3-0 (retd.). U-10: A. Shameena (TN) bt T.G. Janani (TN) 7-6(5), 7-6(5). Children (U-10): M. Devanand (TN) bt Gowtham Muthalagan (TN) 8-7 (3).

Badminton tournament

YMCA Kilpauk will organise the annual members’ badminton tournament from August 20 to 23 at its Courts, in the men’s singles, doubles and veterans’ singles and doubles categories. Entries close on August 14. For details call R. Richard Ezekiel (26472231).

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