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Indian Gym records two wins

BANGALORE: Indian Gymkhana registered two victories in the Gopal N. Chugh inter-club handicap snooker & billiards tournament 2011 at the Bowring Institute hall here.

KSBA teams too recovered some lost ground with ‘A' and ‘C' teams recording wins.

The results:

KSBA ‘C' bt Bangalore Club ‘' 2–1 (Sajan Bopanna lost to Nirau Parekh 39–96; Amit Bhushan bt Shekar Nath 100–88; Hariharan bt Y.K. Parekh 70–58); Indian Gymkhana bt KSBA ‘D' 2–0 (Deepak bt Arjun.A.R 98–80; Chandrashekar bt B.S. Suresh 100–37); KSBA ‘A' bt Bangalore Club ‘A' 2–1 (Nadeem Azeez lost to Neville. P 62–72; B. Bhaskar bt Suresh Vaswani 100–46; Chitra. M bt Maneesh Vaswani 84–41); Bangalore City Inst. bt KSBA ‘B' 2-0 (Kushal Agarwal bt Satish 83–20; S.N. Nagesh bt Vinay Katrela 100–74); KSCA ‘A' bt Century Club 2–1 (Dayanand lost to Anand H.E 55–73; Bharati Chugh bt Sharan Rajani 100-48; Sandeep Sodha bt Sharan Chugh 81–44); Indian Gymkhana ‘A' bt BEL Officers Club 2–1 (Sagai Cruz lost to Mohan 50–57; Naveen Kumar bt Sanjan 100–34; M.R Ramesh bt Nagaraj 62–28); Indiranagar Club bt Vijayanagar 2–0 (Manju Kiran bt Chandrashekar 74–64; Goutham bt Mohan Gowda 100–73); Malleswaram Association bt Sadashivanagar ‘C' 2–0 (Santosh bt Rahul Sodha 75–36; V.P. Raju bt Keshav Murthy 100–74).

Vijay posts win

Wild card Vijay Kannan toppled third seed Lakshit Sood of U.P. 6-2, 6-7(5), 6-3 in the men's encounter in the Enerzal Open senior National ranking tennis tournament at the Tennis Excellence courts here on Wednesday.

There was upsets galore in the women's singles second round too as top seed Sheethal Goutham, second- seeded Prarthana Pratap and fifth seed Prerna Pratap fell by the wayside to little known players. Isha Lakhani accounted for Sheethal while Archana Venkatraman downed Prarthana.

However former Davis Cupper and National champion Vijay Kannan displayed tough nerves and crafty game to tame UP's Lakshit Sood in three games at 6-2, 6-7(5), 6-3.

Second-seeded Mithun Murali, also from Tamil Nadu, survived some anxious moments against Karnataka's Vishnu Arvind before eking out a 6-2, 4-6, 6-4 win to advance into the quarterfinals.

The results:

Men´s singles (Second round): Vijay Sundar Prasanth (TN) bt Sagar Manjanna (Kar) 6-2, 6-4; Elwin Antony (TN) bt Chandril Sood (UP) 7-6(4), 0-6, 6-4; Vijay Kannan (TN) bt Lakshit Sood (UP) 6-2, 6-7(5), 6-3; Vinod Sridhar (TN) bt Aaditya Tewari 6-2, 6-0; Ajai Selvaraj (TN) bt Rynold Timothy (Ker) 7-5, 7-5; Shahbaaz Khan (Mah) bt Sujith Sachidanand (Kar) 7-6(9), 6-1; Neeraj Elangovan (TN) bt Kunal Anand (Dli) 2-6, 6-4, 6-3; Mithun Murali ( TN) bt Vishnu Arvind Bestha (AP) 6-2, 4-6, 6-4.

Women´s singles (Second round): Isha Lakhani (Kar) bt Sheetal Goutham (Kar) 6-4, 6-0; Archana Venkatraman (Kar) bt Prarthana Pratap (Kar) 6-2, 6-1; Sindhu Nila Partheepan (TN) bt Krutika S. Raj (Kar) 6-1, 6-0; Susuhma Gutta (AP) bt Sowmya Pulumati (AP) 6-2, 6-1; Parija Maloo (Mah) bt Liza Viplav (Kar) 6-0, 6-2; Seelulee Upadhyaya (Ors) bt Rachita Sarda (Kar) 6-4,7-5; Sharon Paul (TN) bt Amala Warrick Amol (Kar) 6-1, 6-2; Sowjanya Bavisetti (AP) bt Prerna Pratap (Kar) 6-3, 6-0.

Men's doubles (Quarterfinals): Mithun Murali/ Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Khan Shabhaaz/ Kumar Suresh 6-3, 7-6; Vinod Sridhar/ Ajai Selvaraj bt Adit Jain/ Abhilash Srivastav 6-2, 6-0; Lakshi Sood/ Chandril Sood bt Elwin Antony/ Neeraj Elangovan 7-6(5), 7-6(5); Aaditya Tewari/ Anand Kunal bt Vishwanath Savadi/ Sujith Sachidanand 7- 6(1), 6-1 .

Ashwini felicitated

The RNS Institute of Technology on Wednesday felicitated Commonwealth and Asian Games gold-medallist A.C. Ashwini with a cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh, at a ceremony here.

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