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Angad, Kanishk in the van

NEW DELHI: Angad Cheema and Kanishk Madan shared the lead with a three-round total of 225 in the NCR Cup at the Delhi Golf Club here on Thursday.

Cheema, tied third overnight, scored a two-over 74 while Madan, who was at the second slot at the halfway mark, returned with a four-over.

After leading the pack for two days, Simarjeet Singh slipped to tied seventh following his nine-over in the third round.

The scores: Angad Cheema (78, 73, 74) and Kanishk Madan (76, 73, 76) 225; Honey Baisoya (80, 76, 71) 227; Gagan Verma (79, 76, 73), Samaresh Sardar (80, 73, 75) and Siddharth Semwal (75, 77, 76) 228; Mohd. Wazir (76, 78, 75) and Simarjeet Singh (74, 74, 81) 229; Subhankar Sharma (78, 76, 76) 230; Ashbeer Saini (80, 77, 74) and H.S. Kang (75, 77, 79) 231; Arshad Ali (75, 82, 75) and Rahul Bajaj (82, 71, 79) 232; Jasjeet Singh (80, 74, 79) 233; Rakesh Kumar (74, 77, 83) 234; Manav Das (83, 76, 76), Sidharth Seth (81, 77, 77) and Surya Prakash (79, 76, 80) 235 .

Devvarman signs with Globosport

Double gold medallist of the last Asian Games in Guangzhou, the country's No.1 tennis player Somdev Devvarman has signed with Globosport, and would be professionally managed by multiple Grand Slam champion Mahesh Bhupathi.

WCGC from today

The regional round of the TAKE Solutions World Corporate Golf Challenge (WCGC) will be held at the Jaypee Greens, Greater Noida, on February 18 and 19.

The top two teams from each day of the regional rounds will go on to compete at the National final in Bangkok, Thailand, on April 4 and 5. The winning team will be eligible to participate in the World final, to be staged at the Oubaai Golf Course in Garden Route district, South Africa, from May 3-8.

Sharmada in semis

At Aurangabad, Sharmada Balu knocked out the top-seeded Sung-Hee Han of Korea 6-3, 6-4 to move into the semifinals of the Endurance $10,000 ITF women's tennis tournament at the EMMTC Complex on Friday.

In her maiden semifinal at this level, Sharmada will take on Vlada Ekshibarova of Uzbekistan.

The results (quarterfinals): Singles: Sharmada Balu bt Sung-Hee Han (Kor) 6-3, 6-4; Vlada Ekshibarova (Uzb) bt Kanae Hisami (Jpn) 6-2, 6-4; Varatchaya Wongteanchai (Tha) bt Ai Yamamoto (Jpn) 6-1, 6-0; Nicolo Clerico (Ita) bt Anja Prislan (Slo) 6-4, 6-4.

Doubles: Nicole Clerico and Maria Masini (Ita) bt Li Ting and Pang Yang (Chn) 6-2, 6-1; Natasha Palha and Prarthana Thombare bt Etsuko Kitazaki and Ai Yamamoto (Jpn) 3-6, 6-4, 10-8; Varatchaya Wongteanchai and Varunya Wongteanchai (Tha) bt Anja Prislan (Slo) and Shivika Burman 6-7(8), 7-6(4), 10-4; Kanae HIsami (Jpn) and Trang Huynh Phuong Dai (Vie) bt Prerna Bhambri and Ashvarya Shrivastava 6-3, 6-4 .

Maiden title for BP ‘A'

At Miramar (Goa), Bharat Petroleum ‘A', led by Grandmaster P. Hari Krishna, won the Petroleum inter-unit chess title for the first time, ahead of traditionally strong teams from Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) on Thursday.

The team comprising Hari, Parimarjan Negi, G. N. Gopal and Abhijeet Gupta, aggregated nine match-points from five outings. ONGC ‘A', spearheaded by K. Sasikiran, scored eight.

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