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Arjun beats Taha

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MADURAI: Arjun Ramakrishnan eased past seventh seed Taha Kapadia 6-1, 6-1 in a boys’ under-14 singles first round match of the R. Ramachandran Memorial AITA junior championship series tennis tournament, organised by Madurai Union Club, here on Monday.

Important results (first round): Boys: Under-16: Subash Kaushik (TN) bt Harish Chakkravarthy (TN) 6-0, 6-2; Sharthak Siddarth (TN) bt Yuvaraj Venkatesh (TN) 6-3, 6-0; Prajwal Dev (Kar) bt I. Akhil (TN) 6-1, 6-4; I.B. Akshay (TN) bt L. Akash (TN) 6-0, 6-2; Harsha Manjunath (Kar) bt S. Srijith (TN) 6-1, 6-1; Nikki Poonacha (TN) bt Lakshmi Rajan (TN) 6-3, 6-0; Siddarth Reddy (TN) bt Mathew T. Lathra (Ker) 6-4, 6-2; Venkata N. Ramanan (TN) bt Vasudev Vijaya Raman (TN) 6-4, 6-4.

Under-14: Prajwal Dev (Kar) bt Varun Nair (Ker) 6-1, 6-3; I.B. Akshay (TN) bt Rehan Kumar (TN) 6-0, 6-2; Jayanth Jayaraman (TN) bt Anirudh Jaindan (Ker) 6-4, 6-1; S. Kishen (Kar) bt Adarsh Srinivas (TN) 6-2, 6-1; Gokul (TN) bt Balaji Samyuth (TN) 7-5, 7-5; Rahul Manoah (TN) bt S. Srijith 6-0, 6-4; Arjun Ramakrishnan (TN) bt Taha Kapadia (AP) 6-1, 6-1; I. Akhil (TN) bt Preet Kumar (TN) 6-0, 6-1.

All-round show

R. Sajin’s all-round show (83 n.o. & three for 34) was the highlight of Marthandam CC’s eight-wicket win over Packer CC in a TNCA-Kanyakumari DCA first division league cricket match in Nagercoil.

The scores: First division: Marthandam Friends 225 for nine in 40 overs (D. Vijayanand 108, Z. Frajil 40, M. Anish Kumar three for 36) lost to Vantage CC 226 for nine in 39.5 overs (M.G. Prashanth 80, T. Gireesh 51, Santhosh three for 50).

Packer 144 in 28.3 overs (Thalal Ahmed 34, Bajan three for 27, R. Sajin three for 34) lost to Marthandam 148 for two in 29 overs (R. Sajin 83 n.o.).

Four-wicket win

Majestic CC defeated Theni CC by four wickets in a first round encounter of the Venhu Trophy State-level Twenty20 cricket tournament, organised by Nehru CC, in Ramanathapuram on Monday.

The scores (first round): Theni CC 137 in 19.3 overs (Arun 63, Kishore Kumar 25, Muthukumar two for 18) lost to Majestic CC 140 for six in 18.4 overs (Ganesamoorthy 28, Nagaraj 28, Sudesh three for 22).

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