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Rafath Habib posts a come-from-behind win over Loganathan

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THE WINNER: Rafath Habib in action.

CHENNAI: Rafath Habib (SRSA) completed an at-times tense, come-from-behind win over R. Loganathan to win the inaugural MCC-S.A. Faheem Memorial invitation snooker tournament. Habib won six frames to three: 35-59, 40-76, 74-40, 64-30, 65-53, 22-60, 78-31, 69-49, 65-56.

After Loganathan took the second frame, aided by a break of 70, Habib summoned his experience to post a crucial break of 47 and reduce the margin; he rode the momentum to take the next two frames and went up 3-2.

In a match characterised by piecemeal breaks, both players were induced into making errors — some minor with no repercussions, others that blew a frame.

Rafath took the seventh frame with a crucial break of 43, which would prove the turning point of the final. In the eighth, Rafath cleared up all the colours and took a 5-3 lead. A desperate Loganathan took a positive approach and looked set to reduce the lead, until a crucial error with a safety shot allowed his opponent to pot the brown with a long shot, and then the blue and the pink to sew up the championship.

The result: Final: Rafath Habib (SRSA) bt R. Loganathan (SVS) 6-3; 35-59, 40-76, 74-40, 64-30, 65-53, 22-60, 78-31, 69-49, 65-56.

Ashwin advances

Ashwin Nambi overcame V. Senthil Kumar 7-5, 6-0 in a boys’ under-18 pre-quarterfinal match of the ABI-Showa Tech-TNTA-KTC junior under-18 tennis tournament at KTC courts, Kottivakkam here on Tuesday.

Other results: Boys u-18 (pre-quarterfinals): Siddharth Kaushik bt Tanvir Hassan 6-0, 3-0 (conceded); Vishwajit Tirumurti bt Mohd. Asharaf 6-1, 6-3; S. Prashanth bt Adil 6-3, 6-2; Mubeen bt R. Vivek 6-0, 6-0; Arul Mozhi Selvan bt Elwin Antony 6-4, 7- 5; Vivek Sasidhar bt Ajay Sundar 6-0, 6-2; Mohd. Niyaz bt R. Ragavendra 6-0, 6-0.
Karthick excels

L. Karthick’s unbeaten 55 and three wickets for 19 runs took Sivaswamy Kalalaya SSS to a 28-run win over St. John’s SSS in the Dr. G. Rajakumar memorial State-level inter-school under-14 cricket tournament, here.

The scores: Jawahar Vidyalaya SSS 90 in 29.4 overs (G. Veda Vyas 25) lost to Santhome HSS 91 for three in 19.4 overs (Jayachandran 48 n.o., S. Selva 27 n.o.); Vyasa Vidyalaya MHSS 79 for seven in 30 overs (Sathish 34) lost to Hindu SSS 80 for three in 21.5 overs; Sivaswamy Kalalaya SSS 117 for two in 30 overs (L. Karthick 55 n.o.) bt St. John’s SSS 89 in 18.3 overs (Anand 56, L. Karthick three for 19).
Big win

American College School (Madurai) trounced MCC Matric HSS 5-0 on Tuesday in the Rev Anderson state-level inter-school football tournament being organised by the Madras Christian College Higher Secondary school here.

Prasanth, Angela Magin, Srinivasan, Sajahan (two) were the scorers.

Other results: RKM Matric school HSS 3 (Thanjam Ragul 2, K. Sarath Kumar) bt Union Christian MHSS 2 (Jasper, Aswin); Margoschis HSS, Nazareth 4 (Belton Abraham 2, Sathish, Abraham Gnanasingh) bt Don Bosco, Egmore 1 (Aaqil) (via tie-bre aker).

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