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Men fourth, women finish fifth
SINGAPORE: Indian men struggled against Canada to cling to fourth spot while the women’s team came in fifth among 14 nations competing in the final round of team events at the 14th Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships. The women’s team reached fifth after beating Canada 4-1 in their last match, improving by one place over last year. The men’s team beat Australia 4-1. But it was overwhelmed 0-4 soon after by Canada.
Results (men): Against Australia: S Raman lost to Simon Gerada 19-21, 10-21, 21-23; Chetan Baboor bt Trevor Brown 19-21, 21-11, 21-10; Arup Basak bt Brett Clarke 14-21, 21-16, 21-13; Raman-Baboor bt Gerada-Brown 21-9, 21-19. Against Canade: Kurt Liu bt Arjun Dutta 21-16, 21-13; Homayoun Kamkar-Parsi bt Arup Basak 21-19, 17-21, 21-16; Horatio Pintea bt Roy Soumadeep 21-13, 21-14; Johnny Huang-Kurt Liu bt Basak-Soumadeep 21-11, 21-8.

Bikram, Tricia take honours
CHENNAI: Bikram Uberoi won $ 250 and the India Cements Asian Junior squash circuit invitation tournament at the ICSA courts on Sunday. He beat Yan Ka Ho (Hong Kong) 9-5 9-2 9-0. In an all-Malaysian girls’ final, Tricia Chuah scored a 9-0, 9-2, 9-4 win over Cheryl David.
Final placings boys: 1 Bikram Uberoi (India), 2 Yan Ka Ho (HK), 3 Marcus Yeap (Mal), 4 Kelvin Ho (Mal), 5 Kenny Ng (Mal). Girls: 1 Tricia Chuah (Mal), 2 Cherly David (Mal), 3 Elise Ng (HK), 4 Daphine Ting (Mal), 5 Akanksha Hazari (HK), 6 Kong Yi Zhen (Mal), 7 Vaidehi Reddy (India).

Paes plays Uzbek in ATP Challenger
CALCUTTA: Top seed Leander Paes will take on Dmitri Tomashevich of Uzbekistan in the opening round of the ATP Challenger tennis tournament beginning on Monday. Paes’ match is on Tuesday. Prahlad Srinath, Vishaal Uppal, Mustafa Ghouse and Syed Fazaluddin received wild cards.

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Vijayan floors Biju to claim gold
PUNE: AC Vijayan of Army Green floored Biju of Indian Air Force in the first round to bag the gold medal in the super heavyweight class of the 49th Senior Inter-Services boxing championship.
Final results: Fly weight: Ramu Parajuli (Army Red) bt Bhola Murmu (Navy) on points. Light welter weight: A Dollar Singh (Navy) bt Kiran Mane (Army Red) points. Light middle weight: Hayat Singh (Army Red) bt Satish Kumar (Army green) points. Middle weight: Jeevan Fernandes (Army Red) bt DL Kumar (Indian Air Force) RSC. Light heavy weight: G Periyar (Army Red) bt Hardeep Singh (Navy) points. Heavy weight: Satpal Singh (Army Red) bt Ram Chandan (Army Green) points. Super heavy: AC Vijayan (Army Green) bt Biju (Indian Air-Force) RSC.

Railway women pip Kerala
PAYANNUR, KERALA: National champion Railway women defeated Kerala 3-2 in the playoff match to decide the top spot in the Group Two leg of the National Volleyball League Railways won 25-13, 21-25, 25-18, 19-25, 15-8.