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Wills Trophy from Jan 11NEW DELHI: Board President's XI will take on Delhi Guwahati, Bengal face Tamil Nadu Calcutta and Madhya Prade...

Wills Trophy from Jan 11

NEW DELHI: Board President8217;s XI will take on Delhi Guwahati, Bengal face Tamil Nadu Calcutta and Madhya Pradesh play Wills XI Agartala in the three quarter-finals of the Wills Trophy to be held at East Zone from January 11 to 17. Last year8217;s winners Mumbai have been given a bye into the semi-finals. The semi-finals, to be played on January 14, will be held at Jamshedpur and Cuttack while the final, slated for January 17, will be played at Calcutta.

Sweep by India

NEW DELHI: Vikrant Sane won the boys title while Sasha Abraham took the honour in the girls when they won their respective finals in the under-13 ITF South Asia tennis tournament being held in Colombo. Both finals were all-India affairs where Sane defeated DS Bhusari in straight sets 6-3 6-1 in the boy8217;s and Sasha made short work of Ankita Bhambri to record a 6-3 6-3 win on the distaff side.

Natekar to lead

MUMBAI: Former Indian Davis Cupper Gaurav Natekar of Pune and K Janaki of Mumbaiwould lead the Maharashtra State men8217;s and women8217;s tennis teams respectively at the National Games to be held at Imphal from Feb 15-20.

Teams
Men: Gaurav Natekar captain-cum-manager, Asif Ismail, Vijendra Laad and Mustafa Ghouse. Women: K Janaki captain, Sonal Phadke, Radhika Tulpule and Radhika Mandke. Manager: Hema Phadke.

Mumbai triumph

HYDERABAD: Mumbai University registered a seven-wicket victory over University of Gujarat in the third-round of the All-India inter-university women8217;s cricket championship.

Brief Scores

Gujarat University 151 in 46.4 overs Payal Panchal 70, Ameeta Sawant 2-27 lost to Mumbai University 153-3 in 29.2 overs Sunetra Paranjpe 70 n.o., Bharati Parub 35 n.o.,; MDS Ajmer 301-4 in 46 overs Anju Sharma 108, Surinder Soni 43, Monika 49 bt SRT Marathwada, Nanded 78 in 36 overs Surinder Soni 5-14.

Pallavi to play

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THALASSERY: Defending champion Pallavi Shah is expected to take part in theNational junior girls chess championship which commences here on Wednesday.

Over 30 players including the new International Woman Master Swati Ghate of Maharashtra, International Woman Master Nisha Mohota and Swati Mohota of West Bengal have already confirmed their participation. Tamil Nadu8217;s S Meenakshi who was the runner-up last year is not likely to take part this year.

Sole leader

HYDERABAD: J Ramakrishna of Andhra Pradesh emerged sole leader with seven points at the end of the 7th round of GTB-Fide rated All-India chess tournament.

Results: R K Mishra 6 lost to J Ramakrishna 7; NK Mishra 6.5 bt Vishal Sareen 5.5; N Sanjay 5 lost to Lanka Ravi 6; Gurpreetpal Singh 5.5 drew with Rahul Shetty 5.5; P Mitrakanth 6 bt Chandrasekhar Sahu 5; K Visweswaran 6 bt D K Sharma 5; Jayant Suresh Gokhale 6 bt S K Sinha 5; Rishipal Singh 5 lost to P D S Girinath 6; S Vijayalakshmi 6 bt Amardeep Bartakke 5.