Date:14/08/2004 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2004/08/14/stories/2004081405161700.htm

Sport - Badminton

Easy for Chennai

COIMBATORE, AUG. 13. Chennai men and women continued to rule the roost in the singles events defeating their opponents with relative ease in the Tamil Nadu senior inter-district and State badminton championship here on Friday.

The results:

Men's singles: N. Venkatesh (Madurai) bt Dharman (Tirunelveli) 15-6, 15-2, Niranjan (Chennai) bt Raman (Madurai) 15-3, 15-1, Muralidaran (Chennai) bt P. Rajan 15-11, 17-14, Malik Jallal (Chennai) bt Vijay (Dindigul) 8-15, 15-9, 17-16, Siddarth Jain (Chennai) bt Vysac (Madurai) 15-1, 15-2, Aditya Elango (Chennai) bt Murali Shankar (Coimbatore) 15-1, 15-4, S.S. Kannan (Madurai) bt Manoj (Chennai) 15-1, 15-6, C. Sharath (Coimbatore) bt Subramaniam (Madurai) 15-8, 15-4, Karthikeyan (Chennai) bt Ilayaraja (Madurai) 15-11, 15-5, R. Vijay Anand (Cuddalore) bt Sabarinathan (Coimbatore) 15-0, 15-1, Muralikrishnan (Tirunelveli) bt Mahendran (Madurai) 15-9, 15-10, K.R. Shivakumar (Chennai) bt Ashrafdeen (Coimbatore) 15-8, 15-0.

Women's singles: A. Priya (Chennai) bt Amrin Mubarak (Chennai) 11-3, 11-8, Gowtami Nithya (Coimbatore) bt Karthiki Selena (Nilgiris) 11-3, 11-1, Aswathy (Chennai) bt Kavinnilavu (Chennai) 11-1, 11-1, V. Nithya (Chennai) bt P. Navaneetha (Nilgiris) 11-1, 11-4, Archana (Chennai) bt Apeksha Appaya (Nilgiris) 11-3, 11-0.