The Hindu : Sport : Vijay Sundar is champion

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Sunday, Jun 26, 2011
ePaper | Mobile/PDA Version

Sport

Sport - Sports : General

Vijay Sundar is champion

CHENNAI: Top seed Vijay Sundar Prashanth won the Hande Medical Centre State-ranking tennis tournament with a 6-2, 6-3 verdict over Mohit Mayur in the final here on Saturday.

Vijay Sundar set the tone with a break in the first game of the match.

He rolled out an aggressive brand of tennis, the down-the-line backhand being his staple stroke.

Even as wildcard entrant Mohit struggled to hold serve, his opponent maintained his composure in long rallies. Vijay Sundar broke again in the seventh and served out the set in the following game.

The second set witnessed an even contest despite Mohit being stretched to deuce in all his service games.

Vijay Sundar secured a crucial break in the seventh game and, by winning two more games on the trot, clinched the issue in style.

The men's winner received Rs. 30,000 while the runner-up was richer by Rs. 15,000.

The winners and runners-up in the boys' and girls' categories received gift vouchers worth Rs. 5,000 and Rs. 2,000 respectively.

Krishna Hande, Director, Hande Medical Centre, Indira Hande, Medical Superintendent, Hande Medical Centre, T.D. Mohan, Joint Managing Director, CavinKare, and Hiten Joshi, CEO, TNTA, gave away the prizes.

Other results (finals):

Men: Doubles: Mohit Mayur & Md. Ashraf bt Vijay Sundar Prashanth & Navneeth Bhaskar 6-1, 6-2.

Boys: Under-16: M. Fahad bt Sidharth Reddy 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 .

Easy for MAS

Half centuries from B. Ilayamurugan and Vijaya Narasimhan helped MAS register a 93-run win over Athiths in a match of the TDCA Gopu memorial T20 tournament, here on Saturday.

The results:

MAS 195 for six in 20 overs (B. IIayamurugan 67, L. Vijaya Narasimhan 60, Vijay Anand three for 26) bt Athiths 102 for eight in 20 overs (B.M. Balu Rajkumar 34, R. Jesuraj three for 15).

Standard Ambattur 122 for six in 20 overs (S. Dinesh Kumar 63) lost to Fine Star 123 for five in 18.4 overs (P. Shijith Chandran 38).

Ashwin shines

R. Ashwin (five for 19) set up a six-wicket win for India Cements over TSC in the all-India YSCA Trophy cricket tournament.

The scores:

Loyola College 90 for nine in 15 overs (Bharathram four for 21) lost to Kattankalathur 93 for two in 13.5 overs (R. Chandrasekar 39, D. Deepak 35).

TSC 108 in 27.4 overs (R. Ashwin five for 19, S. Suresh Kumar three for 22) lost to India Cements 109 for four in 23.3 overs (K.B. Arun Karthik 41, K. Purushottam three for 28).

TCC 112 in 25.4 overs (Arul 34 n.o., Kiran Kashyap five for 25, V. Aditya four for 15) lost to RKM Vivekananda College 113 for five in 19.2 overs (Ganga Sridhar 52, R. Rohit 30).

Gurunanak College ‘A' 193 for five in 30 overs (S.S. Ponn Xavier 92, M.K. Arjun 33) bt Chennai Telephones 65 in 21.4 overs (Vijay Anand three for 13).

Printer friendly page
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Sport