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Boris, Filip in all-Slovak finalAhmedabad: The hot heads blew their tops and the ice cool Slovaks made most of it. On a day when mercury ...

Boris, Filip in all-Slovak final

Ahmedabad: The hot heads blew their tops and the ice cool Slovaks made most of it. On a day when mercury rose at the AGETA courts compatriots Boris Borgula and Filip Kaskak kept their cool to make the final of the Gold Flake Aces ITF Futures Tennis Tournament an in-house affair here today.

Results semi-final: Men singles: Boris Borgula Slovakia bt Amir Hadad Israel 6-3 6-7 1 6-4; Filip Kaskak Slovakia bt Filipo Messori Italy 7-6 6 6-1; Doubles: Simon Larose amp; Jocelyn Roubichaud bt Amir Hadad amp; Jonathan Erlich 7-5 7-6 4; Todd Meringoff amp; Andrew Rueb bt Marcus Hilpert amp; Filippo Messori 6-3 6-3.

Jeev repeats par

Chandigarh: India8217;s professional golfer Chiranjeev Milkha Singh carded another par round on the second day of the Mercedes-Benz-Vodacom South African Open at the 71-par 7112-yard Stellenbosch Golf Club, according to information received here today. At the end of second round, Jeev was sharing 24th position with 11players.

Award for Cairns

Mumbai: Chris Cairns has been chosen named the BPL player of the week January 15-21 by judges Sunil Gavaskar, Vivian Richards and Tony Grieg. Cairns was chosen ahead of contenders like England8217;s Graeme Hick, South Africa8217;s Mark Boucher and Australia8217;s Mark Waugh due to his blistering knock of 115 runs in 80 balls in the final One-dayer against India in Wellington. Cairns will receive 500 as the prize.

Bihar girls on fire

Vijayawada: Bihar girls, who excelled in the Indian round on the first day were too good again, winning 15 off 16 medals in FITA round of the junior National archery championship. Robin Handsa Bihar, the 70m gold medallist, and UP8217;s Vishwash 50m winner broke National records.

Youth Nationals

Surat: The 15th National Youth Basketball Championship starts tomorrow at the newly-constructed air-conditioned indoor stadium of the Surat Municipal Corporation.

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46 teams will take part in the four-day league. The knockout tournamentwill be held from January 27-29.

Madras third

Gulbarga: Madras defeated Devi Ahilya by 29 runs to earn the third spot in the all-India Inter-university cricket tournament today. Brief scores: Madras: 321-6 in 50 overs Hemanth Kumar 51, Vasanth Saravanan 76, Sunil Vishwanathan 93 bt Devi Ahilya 292 in 47.3 overs Shadab Ali 59, Vinish Sharma 101, Gajendra Patidar 53 n.o., Khader Basha 3-35