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Laad stuns Sunil
CHENNAI: Reigning National champion Sunil Kumar of Chandigarh crashed out of the Indian Oil Servo-Millennium tennis tournament organised by the Krishnan Training Centre (KTC).

Sunil lost the pre-quarterfinal contest to Vijendra Laad of Maharashtra 3-6, 7-6 (7-3), 6-2.

Sai advances
CHANDIGARH: Top seed Katarine Daskovic of Yugoslavia, second seed Manisha Malhotra and third seed J Sai Jayalakshmy moved into the second round of the $ 10,000 ITF women’s circuit tennis tournament at the Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association Stadium.

Results (first round): Katarine bt RathrineTurinsky (Germany) 6-1, 6-4; Vishika Chhetri (Ind) bt Nikita Bhardwaraj (Ind) 6-4, 6-3, 5-3 conceded; Urska Vesenjak (Slo) bt Arthi Venkatraman (Ind) 6-1, 6-0; Isha Chopra (Ind) bt Keiko Tameishi (Japan) 6-1, 5-1 (conceded); Rushmi Chakravarthi (Ind) bt Anna Anikhanova (Ukr) 6-3,0-1; Radhika Tulpule (Ind) bt Ayako Suzuki (Jpn) 6-4, 6-0; Syetlana Mossiakova (Rus) bt Yamini Thukkaiandi (Ind) 6-1, 6-3; Olga Kaliojnaja (Rus) bt Jasleen Randhawa (Ind) 6-2, 6-2; Anna Nefedova (Rus) bt Harsimran Bedi (Ind) 6-3, 6-4; Maria Kondratieva (Rus) bt Simmi Rani (Ind) 6-0, 6-2; Antonia Matic (Cze) bt Krishma Patel (Ind) 6-3, 6-2; J Sai Jayalakshmy (Ind) bt Nandini Perumal (Ind) 6-0, 6-1; Archana Venkatraman (Ind) bt Tara Kanbargimath (Ind) 6-1, 6-1; Masa Vesenjak (Slo) bt Stuttismit (Ind) 6-1, 6-0; Shalini Thakur (Ind) bt Geeta Manohar (Ind) 6-4, 6-1; Manisha Malhotra (Ind) bt Sheethal Gautham (Ind) 6-4, 6-4.

Easy for seeds
AURANGABAD: Most of the top seeds, barring three, sailed into the third round of theXIIIth National Children’s Chess championship. The exceptions were Ankita Patnaik, Sriya Bhattacharya and Utkal Kumar Dash.

No test for Jadeja
MUMBAI: India’s deputy skipper Ajay Jadeja will not be going through any fitness test before the National selectors pick the one-day squad for the tri-series in Australia on Thursday.

West win
CHENNAI: West Zone scored a six-wicket victory over East Zone in the under-19 inter-zonal CK Nayudu Trophy limited overs cricket match.

Brief scores: East Zone93 in 40.4 overs (Mahendra Dhani 32, Jolly Jobem Putra 3-18, Rakesh Dhurv 2-7) lost to West Zone 81-4 in 27.3 overs (Prashan Joshi 25; Mihir Diwakar 2-7).

South Zone 257-5 in 50 overs (Y Venugopala Rao 107 not out, Arjun Yadav 100; S Srivastava 2-42, Maninder Singh 2-42) bt Central Zone 202 in 46.4 overs (Amit Deshpande 29, M Tripathi 29, Sameer Khare 29 not out; Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan 3-38, CM Shyam 2-51).

Pillay walk-out
NEW DELHI: Rumblings within the Indian hockey team threatenedto erupt once again with veteran Dhanraj Pillay staging a “walkout” from the ongoing National camp at Jammu following “differences” with chief coach Vasudevan Baskaran.

Pillay met the Indian Hockey Federation chief K P S Gill here to voice his grievances. Gill denied there was any major problems within the team and that seniors Pillay and winger Mukesh Kumar had any tiff with Baskaran, but said, “This is a deliberate mischief being played by someone from outside."

Dagar steals show
CHENNAI: As the curtain rang down on the final day of the 11-day United India National Equestrian Championships at the Mohite Stadium (OTA) here on Monday, Rohit Dagar won gold in the One-Day Event. He was also declared the overall champion (juniors).

Results: NEC One-Day Event Juniors (under 21 years): Rohit Dagar(OTA) on Trinity 77.2 penalties, Ravi Rathore (IMA) on Mansoor-77.8, Freanka Dhanuk (ARC) on Sheraton-78.3. Overall Junior Champion Rider: Rohit Dagar (OTA). Overall Sub-junior Champion Rider: AmarSarin (Pegasus). Overall Children’s (12-14 years) Champion Rider: Ashwin Reddy (NPA). Overall Children’s (8-12 years) Champion Rider: Raj Rattan Gautam (ASC).

— ENS and Agencies