Gayatri loses grip over sole leadership after defeat

MUMBAI, NOV 13: Gayatri Velu of St Louis Convent was shocked by Kavya Pai of SES School, Thane, in the eighth round of the under-8 girls'...

MUMBAI, NOV 13: Gayatri Velu of St Louis Convent was shocked by Kavya Pai of SES School, Thane, in the eighth round of the under-8 girls’ category of the Bournvita Inter-school chess tournament, organised by the Kalina Recreation and Sports Club and the Bombay Chess Association at the Prabodhankar Thackeray Krida Sankul.

This enabled Diddhali Shetye of Queen Mary, Peddar Road, to catch up with Gayatri after beating Purwa Pawaskar of Dhamdhere IES (Matunga). Sai Ghate of Swami Vivekananda (Chembur), Macrina Lobo of Canossa Convent (Andheri), Abigail Fernandez of Fr Agnel (Vashi), Nirali Shah of St Josephs (Malad), Rajvi Mehta of Greenlawns (Warden) join Siddhali Shetye and Gayatri Velu in joint lead with six points each.

Results (of top five boards)

Boy’s under-8 (eighth round): Siddharth Kotian (7.5) bt Meghan gupte (6), Nitesh Bhat (7) bt Nadeem Abdulla (6), Kashi Sah (7) bt Parag Manudhane (6), Sudarshan Lamture (5.5) lost to Akshat Kundalia (7), Dasmesh Gupta (5.5) lost to Karan Ajinkya (6.5).Under-12: Aditya Vora (7) drew Vinaykkumar M (7.5), Sameer Thakkar (7) bt Nikhil Kamat (6), Rohil Bhat (6) lost to Ashwin Ganapathy (7), Anirudh Unni (6.5) defeated Vishal Satra (6), Akash Khalwadekar (6) drew with Ashay Awate (6).

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Girls’ under-8 (seventh round): Kavya Pai (5.5) bt Gayatri Vely (6), Siddhali Shetye (6) bt Purwa Pawaskar (5), Sai Ghate (5), bt Ruchi Shah (4), MeetaliSawant (4) lost to Macrina Lobo (5), Apurva Thipsay (4) lot to Abigail Fernandez (5). Under-12 (seventh round): Niharika Thakkar (6.5) bt Prajakta Yeole (5), Mrudula Nambiar (5.5) drew Priyanka Punjabi (5.5), Vaishali Kulkarni (5.5) drew Purva Variyar (5), Steesha Bhojwani (4) lost to Vrushali Kulkarni (5.5), Mugdha Vriyar (5) bt Gauri Deo (4).

Mann, Mahtani top

Last minute entry Capt Kuku’ AS Mann and Raj Mahtani aggregated 12-under nett to claim the inaugural Nike Indo-American Partnership Series golf for the Ambit Cup at the par-70 Bombay Presidency Golf Club course, Chembur, on Saturday.

The pair, whosecombined handicap was 11, grossed one-under 69 over 18 holes (34, 35) for a winning net score of 12-under 58.

Semi-finalists spotted

Arun Agarwal, Yasin Merchant, JS Dawer and Dhruv Sitwal qualified for the senior billiards semi-finals of the Khar Gymkhana billiards tournament.

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Results: Snooker (round robin league): Yasin Merchant bt Nichic Ootam 5-1, DS Joshi bt Amit Saboo 5.2. Billiards (quarter-finals): Arun Agarwal bt Chintan Zaveri 565-490, JS Dawer bt Devang Shah 389-388, Dhru Sitwala bt Sidarth Parekh 636-401. Junior billiards (quarter-finals): Ritesh Shah bt Sagar Madan 419-401, Deepak K bt Aditya Sahah 339-302, Vishal Madan bt Mahesh Jagdall 480-202, A Joshi bt A Dyer 362-268. Senior semi-final qualifiers (billidards): Arun Agarwal, Yasin Merchant, JS Dawer, Dhru Sitwala.

Bhattacharya wins

Ritwick Bhattacharya defeated Manish Chotrani 8-10, 9-2, 9-1, 9-5 in the HSBC Maharashtra State Open squash tournament at the Bombay Gymkhana.

Results
Open: Ritwik Bhatacharyabt Manish Chotrani 8-10, 9-2, 9-1, 9-5; Under-19: Junaid Nathani bt Mihir Kapor 5-9, 9-6, 9-5, 9-2; Under-17: Junaid Nathani bt Neerav Tomar 5-9, 9-6, 9-6, 9-5; Under-15: Mihir Sheth bt Gaurav Nandrajog 7-9, 9-7, 9-6, 9-2; Under-13: Imran Khan bt Gautam Kalani 4-9, 9-4, 9-5, 9-4; Under-11: Jay Bhagat bt Naishad Lalwani 9-1, 9-3, 9-1.
Professionals: Balamurugan bt Santosh More 4-9, 9-1, 8-10, 10-8, 9-0.
Over-35: Maj R Brar bt Vaman Apte 9-1, 5-9, 9-0, 9-4.
Women: Mekhala Subedar bt Deepali Anvekar 9-5, 9-6, 9-7.
Mahadevan in shock win

Sujay Mahadevan stunned top seed Chatwinder Singh in the under-14 semi-finals of the Yonex Open All-India Ranking tennis championships sponsored by Sunrise Sports (India) Pvt Ltd at Practennis (Andheri) today. Mahadevan, seeded No 6, won 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 to set up a title clash with Karan Rastogi who beat P Vikas 7-6 (7-5), 6-2.

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Results (All-India semi-finals)
Boys under-16: Amarjyot Singh (Chd) bt Rohan Gajjar (Mah) 5-7, 6-1, 7-5; Chatwinder Singh(Chd) bt AR Anandkumar (AP) 6-3, 6-2. Under-14: Sujay Mahadevan (Mah) bt Chatwinder Singh (Chd) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; Karan Rastogi (Mah) bt P Vikas 7-6, (7-5), 6-2.

Girls under-16: Megha Vakharia (Mah) bt Liza Pereira (Mah) 6-4, 6-4; Samrita Sekhar (TN) bt Isha Lakhani (Mah) 4-6, 7-6, (8-6), 6-3. Under-14: Isha Lakhani (Mah) bt Anuja Parikh (Mah) 6-3, 7-5; Kartiki Bhat (Mah) bt Krushmi Chheda (Mah) 6-2, 6-1.

State results: Boys under-18 (semis): Abhijit Muzumdar bt Arpan Lakhani 6-4, 6-4; Kunal Bhojwani bt Jai Arora 6-4, 3-6, 6-1. Under-12 finals: Kusav Narasimhan bt Krishank Shah 7-5, 6-4. Under-10 (semis) Arnav Jain bt Anirudha Kowta 9-6, Agnil Gladwin bt Debendra Das.

Girls under-18 (final): Sonal Phadke bt Liza Pereira 6-2, 6-4. Under-12 (semis): Kartiki Bhat bt Nalini Mallaya 9-2, Sagarika Phadke bt Kanisha Mehta 9-4. Under-10 (semis): Parija Maloo bt Ayush Sinha 9-3, Roshini Luthara bt Daksha Mulay 9-3.