Top seeds make easy progress

MUMBAI, Aug 30: Top seed Karan Kapoor of Jai Hind and second seed Sagar Yadav of Mithibai continued their victory march in the Inter-Juni...

MUMBAI, Aug 30: Top seed Karan Kapoor of Jai Hind and second seed Sagar Yadav of Mithibai continued their victory march in the Inter-Junior Collegiate Table Tennis Tournament being conducted at the University Pavilion today.

Kapoor outplayed A Kulkarni Ruia 21-5, 21-8 while Yadav defeated A Deshpande Khalsa 21-12, 21-17.

RESULTS

Boys8217; singles third round: Karan Kapoor Jai Hind bt A Kulkarni Ruia 21-5, 21-8; S Goregaonkar Siddharth Commerce bt B Dodhia MVLU 21-12, 21-9; A Deshmukh Mulund Commerce bt A Shrivastava A Energy 21-13, 21-16; Karan Anand MMK bt R Sinha Raheja 21-18, 21-16; N Borkar NM Commerce bt P Agrawal SIWS 21-15, 11-21, 21-19; N Bhandodkar Podar bt A Chalunke Khalsa 21-19, 7-21, 24-22; S Kapur HR Commerce bt a Tamhane MLDC 21-14, 21-19; Gunjan Wagle Vaze bt P Katakam Dyana Sadhana 21-16, 21-12; V Srinavas A Energy bt R Jilla Somani 21-14, 21-10; N Vasa Cathedral bt A Joshi Ruia 21-16, 13-21, 23-21; N Naik Chetana bt J Reshmiya PD Lions 21-11, 21-17; Ashwin Nayak Vaze bt S Sinha Xavier8217;s 21-16, 21-15; M Abhishek Mulund Com bt S Chakraborty DAV 21-11, 21-13; Sagar Yadav Mithibai bt A Deshpande Khalsa 21-12, 21-17.

Team championships 2nd round: Mulund Commerce bt Tolani 2-1; Bhavans bt Rajeha 2-1; HR Commerce bt A Marathe 2-1; Vaze bt MVLU 2-1; Podar bt BES Bhandup 2-0; Jai Hind bt A D8217;Silva 2-0; PD Lions bt Dayanand 2-0; Khalsa bt Somaiya Arts 2-0; Atomic Energy bt Sidharth Commerce 2-1; Ruia bt St. Andrew8217;s 2-1; KC bt Vivekananda 2-0; MMK bt Somani 2-1.

Kashelkar leads

Ramkrishna Kashelkar of Mulund Commerce College continued to lead the field of 36 players with 4.5 points at the end of the fifth round of the Mumbai University Chess selection trials at the Zandu Pharmaceutical Works Canteen, today.

Only half a point behind the leader are Yashraj Aidasani Chetna, Rashmin Pulekar Podar, D Ravishankar and Ashish Thatte both of MCC, Sushant Banerjee Pendharkar and Sunil Sharma MGM, Kalamboli.

Shaikh moves up

Unseeded Sallauddin Shaikh shocked sixth seed Amod Gangal 25-10, 25-10 to make the quarter-finals of the first Thane District Ranking carrom tournament, organised by Sainath Seva Mandal Bhayander, today.

RESULTS

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Priyang Vaidya bt Raghunandan Bhide 25-16, 25-8; Vijay Koli bt Vishal Wagale 11-25, 25-11, 25-13; Prasad Shembekar bt Navin Chitre 25-20, 20-25, 25-24.