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Paes-Bhupathi enter semisNEW DELHI: Top seeds Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi entered the semifinals beating Jacco Eltingh and Sjeng Schalk...

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Paes-Bhupathi enter semis

NEW DELHI: Top seeds Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi entered the semifinals beating Jacco Eltingh and Sjeng Schalken 6-4, 6-2 in the US 975,000 Qatar Open according to information reaching here.

The Indians will meet Kevin Marc-Goellner and Richey Reneberg in the semi-finals which could not be held as scheduled on Friday night because of rain. In the first round, Leander and Mahesh beat Karim Alami and Hicham Arazi 6-3, 6-7, 6-4. Paes did not play the singles as he did not get a wildcard.

Sethi triumphs

CALCUTTA: Defending champion Geet Sethi lived upto his awesome reputation to trounce B Bhaskar of Karnataka and retain the title in the Senior National Billiards Championship at the Calcutta Club. Sethi toned up his game by several notches to trounce Bhaskar 1787-781 in a totally lop-sided contest.

Sethi, who has won the seventh national title, compiled a mammoth break of 854 on his 5th visit to open up a seizable lead early in the proceedings and then fired a plethora of century breaks to leave his opponent in a daze.

Mumbai in trouble

NAGPUR: Sunil Chaudhary8217;s four wickets in 21 balls put Mumbai on the verge of a defeat on the second day of their three-day semifinal against Haryana in the All-India Vijay Merchant Trophy under-16 Cricket Tournament being played here today.

Brief scores: Haryana 363 Ganda 94, Ratra 96, Nishant Goyat 49, M Sodhi 39 n o; Shakti Prasad 8-64 vs Mumbai 126-6 Vinayak More batting 61; S Choudhary 4-1.

Mallika loses

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NEW DELHI: Mallika Parekh of Maharashtra lost to top seed Mouma Das in the sub-junior girls final 21-13, 21-15, 21-17 as Bengal paddlers made a clean sweep of the 59th National Sub-Junior National Table Tennis Championship which concluded at Patel Indoor Stadium in Ajmer today.

 

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