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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 women8217;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 Children8217;s Chess championship. The exceptions were Ankita Patnaik, Sriya Bhattacharya and Utkal Kumar Dash.

No test for Jadeja
MUMBAI: India8217;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 8220;walkout8221; from the ongoing National camp at Jammu following 8220;differences8221; 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, 8220;This is a deliberate mischief being played by someone from outside.quot;

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 DagarOTA 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 Children8217;s 12-14 years Champion Rider: Ashwin Reddy NPA. Overall Children8217;s 8-12 years Champion Rider: Raj Rattan Gautam ASC.

8212; ENS and Agencies