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Joshna champ at Scottish
CHENNAI: Joshna Chinappa, the 13-year-old schoolgirl from Chennai, won the under-15 title in the Scottish Open squash championship at Edinburgh on Wednesday, according to reports reaching here. Joshna beat Emma Barnett of England 9-2, 9-4, 5-9, 9-5 in the semi-finals and Kristy McFee, also of England, 9-8, 9-5, 5-9, 10-8, in the final.
Manisha exits
CHANDIGARH: Unseeded Europeans Urska Vesenjak and Antonia Matic set up a summit clash — outsmarting Indian opponents Rushmi Chakravarthi and Manisha Malhotra — in the semi-finals of the $ 10,000 ITF Women’s Circuit tennis tournament.
Second seed Malhotra lost to Croatia’s Matic 7-6 (8-6) 6-7 (5-7) 2-6 while Rushmi surrendered to Slovenian Urska 6-0 6-0.
Panja tops
CHENNAI: Saurav Panja won the IndianOil Servo Millenium Tennis Tournament beating top seed Nitin Kirtane 7-5, 6-2 at the KTC Courts.
His victory ensured him a berth in the qualifying round of Gold Flake Open 2000. Leander Paes took the exhibition match with National champion Sunil Kumar as a practice match, winning 6-4, 6-2.
Central, North win
CHENNAI: Central Zone, thanks to Anshil Kapoor (87: 8×4) and Vineet Saxena (60: 4×4, 2×6), scored a 47-run win over West Zone in the Under-19 inter-zonal C K Nayudu cricket tournament.
Brief scores: East Zone 210-7 in 50 overs (G Manish Kumar 67, Subhamoi Das 59, R R Das 41) lost to North Zone 214-3 in 43.4 overs (B Sharma 77, Gautham Thambir 59). Central Zone 253-8 in 50 overs (Anshil Kapoor 87, Vineet Saxena 60, Parwinder Singh 54 not out) bt West 206 in 45.2 overs (S Manjrekar 86, Rishikesh Parab 43; Surender Singh 5-52).
Harika leads
AURANGABAD: At the end of the fifth round, D Harika of Andhra Pradesh (5) emerged clear leader among the under-9 girls in the XIIIth National Children’s Chess Championship.
Results (at the end of fifth round): Under-9 boys: Waman J Virgaonkar 4 bt Soummya Thakurta (WB) 3, Sameer Majumdar (Mah) 4, bt Dediya S Biswas 3, P Ghosh (WB) 4 bt Dayal K A Aditya (TN) 3, Dasari Manoj (AP) 2.5 lost to Dasari Sai Srinivas (3.5), Mekala Abhinav (AP) 4 bt V Guna (TN) 3. Under-7: Karan R Ajinkya (Mah) 4 bt Y Srikant (AP) 3, Balkishna (Kar) 3 lost to A K Singh (MP) 4, Parimarjan Negi (Del) 3 lost to M Muthu Alagappan 4, Vishal Thakre (Mah) 3.5 drew S Mishra (Orr) 3.5, Navneet Sharma (Del) 3 lost to Y Joykumar 4.
Under-9 girls: Priya Ratnam (Bih) 3.5 drew P Uthra (TN) 3.5, Shivali Dandekar (Mah) lost to Ankita Patnaik (Orr) 3.5, K Vaishnavi (AICF) 3.5 bt C S Nandnidevi (TN) 2.5, Mohta Agarwal (Mah) 3.5, bt Sonam Shah (Guj) 2.5, Payel Bhattacharya (WB) 2.5 lost to Sriya Bhattacharya (WB) 3.5.Under-7: Priya Sandhiya (Chr) 4 bt Thokchom Tejranidevi 3, M Khushbu (TN) 4 bt C H Gavetha (TN) 3, Amrutha Varshni 4 bt K Bhavna (AP) 3, M Rishika (TN) 2.5 lost to Pooja Shah (Guj) 3, Akshata R Bhat (Kar) 3 bt Swetha R (TN) 2.
FC Kochin edge SBT
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Ram Rai’s 40th second goal turned State Bank of Travancore’s millennium dreams into a nightmare, and earned Hi-Power FC Kochin their maiden win in the Coca-Cola National Football League on Thursday. It was the local side’s fourth successive defeat in as many matches.
Punjab in semis
NEW DELHI: Parminder (Sr) came to the rescued holders Punjab who beat Rajasthan 74-56 to move into the semi-finals of the Pepsi 50th Senior National Basketball Championship. Punjab will take on Tamil Nadu in the semi-finals on Friday
Results: Men’s quarter-finals: Punjab 74 (Parminder Sr 37, Parminder Jn 11) bt Rajasthan 56 (Ashok Kumar 22). Bihar 70 (Desraj 22, Jaideep Dhaliwal 14, Nishant Kumar 12) bt Andhra Pradesh 50 (Rajesh 12).
Womens (semi-finals): Railways 54 (Geo Jose 22, Jiji Jose 9) bt Punjab 38 (Mandeep Brar 18, Savitri Guleria 7), Delhi 74 (Mandeep Kaur 21, Shivani Gupta 20, Nishita Chaudhary 12, Prabjot Gill 12) bt Tamil Nadu 42 (N Shyamala 14, P Anitha 11, P Preethi 7).
