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Synthetic flooring at table tennis hall

CHENNAI: In a welcome development, the SDAT-AKG Table Tennis Development Centre at the Nehru Stadium, has laid a permanent synthetic flooring in the playing area.

At the launch here on Friday, A. Srinivasa Rao, chief coach of the Club, said “such flooring is normally used in Table Tennis Federation of India-organised tournaments like the National zonal tournaments and the National championships but only temporarily. It is better than the wooden flooring from the players' point of view, as it is softer and therefore reduces stress on ankle and knee. The bounce of the ball, he stressed, will be even.

Satyabrata Sahoo, Member Secretary, SDAT, was the chief guest. Other dignitaries present were D.V. Sundar, Secretary, Tamil Nadu Table Tennis Association, G. Jagannath, former National champion, V. Chandrasekar, three-time National champion and India's top paddler Sharath Kamal.

Tejasvi leads

Tejasvi Murugavel led the table in the girls' section with 5.5 points after the sixth round in the Jawahar Engineering College's TN State under-9 (B&G) chess championship here on Thursday.

The results: Round six (Boys): P. Iniyan (5.5) bt R. Prajesh (5); M. Varun (4.5) lost to R. Dileep Kumar (5.5); V.S. Raahul (4.5) lost to C.S. Ashwath (5.5); R.P. Jayanth (4) lost to Sadhu S. Adithya (5); Sai Krishna (4.5) drew with P Yutesh (4.5); S. Rahul (5) bt Andrew Diravia Raj (4); Prasant N. Nayagam (4.5) drew with S. Aswin (4.5); A. Abhishek (5) bt R. Charan Bharadhwaj (4); Tarun V. Kanth (4.5) drew with P. Dharshan (4.5); G.B. Harshavardhan (4.5) bt P. Vishnu Viswanathan (3.5); Girls: Tejasvi Murugavel (5.5) bt V. Keerthi (5); B. Kiruthika (4.5) lost to C. Lakshmi (5); S. Pooja (5) bt M. Elakkeya (4); K.R. Kruthika (5) bt P.T. Tharshika (4); K. Shivani (4.5) drew with N. Natha Mayil (4.5); Rakshitta Ravi (4) lost to C.R. Reshma (4.5); R.B. Leka (3.5) lost to R. Srimathi (4.5); V.S. Maithreyi (3.5) lost to S. Snekha (4.5); R. Madhumitha (4) bt S. Aishwarya (3); Akila Tharini Sivakumar (4) bt B.S. Samyukta (3) .

Camp

St. Michael's Cricket Academy will conduct a coaching camp beginning on June 11 for those in the age group of six -18 years. For further details contact ph: 98400 83311 / 2491 5331.

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