Neelkantan clinches FIDE-rating title

Manish Kumar came second garnering seven points after defeating Ketan Boricha in the last round. Pankaj Joshi (6.5) came third.

FIDE Master Avinash Awate, who had started off in a whirlwind fashion winning five matches in succession ended up fourth with six points. Interestingly, Awate had tamed Neelkantan in the fourth round.

Mahindras struggling

Mahindra and Mahindra after bowling out Air-India for 203 were struggling at 33 for three when stumps were drawn on the opening day of their Mahindra Invitational Cricket Tournament here today.

Brief Scores: Air-India 203 in 75.3 overs (ArjunMistry 51, Amol Rane 26; Anand Yalvigi 4-17, Pradeep Kasliwal 2-37) vs Mahindra & Mahindra 33-3 in 14.5 overs (Ashutosh Dubey 3-21)

Raunak shines

Raunak seth was stretched to the limit in the first round of the boys’ under-12 category of the Bhatija Open junior tennis tournament at the Khar Gymkhana today.

Seth won in the tie-breaker 7-4 to advance to the next round.

RESULTS (1st round)

Boys under-16: Akshay Tanna bt Aashvir Khurana 8-1; Rushang patel bt Tarang Bhargav 8-5; Rohan Gajjar bt Imran Allana 8-2; Amit Karunakaran bt Aditya Deshpande 8-1; Mehul Kamdar bt Anirudh W 8-2; Pratim Parikh bt Ajay Waswani 8-0; Sujay Mahadevan bt Niel Mundara 8-3; Ankit Doshi bt Keith Gomes 8-1; Rishi Behl bt Rewant Dutta 8-1; Gavryl Fernandes bt Nilesh Kapoor 8-7; J Mehta bt Hozefa Poonawala 8-2; Gaurav Kumar bt Krishne Tanna 8-6; Saurabh Kohli bt Monil Batra 8-1; Vivek Jhaveri bt Pavan Bhargava 8-0

Under-14: Rohan Gajjar bt Rewant Datta 8-3; Aashvir Khurana bt Rohan Shevakramani8-3; Imran Allana bt Siddarth Cheddha 8-3; Saurabh Kohli bt C Akshay 8-2; Vikrant Sane bt Alon Moses 8-2; Rishi Behl bt R Ramanth 8-0; Salil Walawalkar bt Aniket Pawanoji 8-2; Krishne Tanna bt Aditya Madgekar 8-2; AMit Karunakaran bt Aditya Raddi 8-4; Rushang Patel bt Pankeel Solanki 8-3; Jay Mehta bt Tarang Bhargava 8-5; Sujay Mahadevan bt Vivek Menon 8-2; Aditya Naik bt Kshitij Gujarati 8-6; Ankit Doshi bt Aditya Paranjpe 8-0; Karan Rastogi bt Keith Gomes 8-2

Under-12: Karan Rastogi bt Rohan P Shah 7-1, Alon Moses bt Akbar Ali 7-2, Sidharth Chheda bt Tejas Kapadia 7-2, Ayush Wadhwan bt Rohit Paranjpe 7-1, Rohan Shewakrami bt Agnel Gladwin 7-3, Sean Mathews bt Ankesh Bhargav 7-0, Karan Jhaveri bt Bhawik Khandhar 7-0, Sidhant Sane bt Pulkit Singhal 7-4, R Ramnath bt Irshad Alana 7-1, Avneesh K bt Akshay Joshi 7-3, Harsh Mehta bt Neel Patel 7-0, C Akshay bt Kennith Quodros 7-1, Vivek Menon bt Karan Mordani 7-3, Aaron Fernandes bt Bhargav Selarka 7-6 (10-8), Raunak Seth bt Dhruval Kothari 7-6 (7-4),Keshav Narsimhan bt Soumil Zaveri 7-0.

Boys under-10: Manikala Janmali bt Zaryan Patel 7-4, Pranav Gandhi bt Viraj Shah 7-6 (7-5), Kaushal Mahale bt Khelan Unadikat 7-2, Keegan Quardos bt Anuj Arora 7-0, Bhavik Selarka bt Ali Alana 7-3, Pranav Gokhale bt Mihir Dalvi 7-6 (7-3), Shantanu Sahay bt Kartik Rao 7-1, Bhargava Selarka bt Nakul Nansi 7-2, Vignesh Mehta bt Mirang Manek 7-5, Gaurav Agarwal bt Harsh Parekh 7-0, Debendra Das bt Anirudh Kowtha 7-0, Tejesvi Rao bt Dev Mehta 7-5, Marlon Coelho bt Aditya Mehta 7-1, Arnav Jaw bt Aditya Chheda 7-1, Agnel Gladwin bt Nikhil Samtani 7-1.

Ace XI win

Ace XI defeated Black Hawks 2-0 in the Don Bosco Challenge Cup for Seniors, organised by the Don Bosco Youth Centre (Kurla) at their home ground at Kurla.

Ace XI started off well and scored in the 15th minute when a corner kick taken by Manuel D’Souza was neatly tapped home from close by Alex D’Souza.

Ace XI’s struck again in the 45th minute. A good combination between Alex D’Souza and JaideepSarkar saw the latter beat two defenders and an onrushing goalkeeper and place the ball in the untenanted net.