Date:18/08/2004 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2004/08/18/stories/2004081811951700.htm

Sport - Sports : General

Niyaz cruises past Javed

CHENNAI, AUG. 17. Md. Niyaz (Muslim) defeated Javed (Md. Sathak) 6-0, 6-1 in a tennis singles second round contest of the Bertram memorial tournaments at the Loyola courts on Monday.

In chess, Ram S. Krishnan (Guru Nanak), Venkat Sundaram (Loyola), Utham Sharma (Guru Nanak) and Ganapathy Krishnan (Loyola) shared the lead with one point after the opening round.

Other results:

Ball badminton (first round): Madura College (Madurai) bt Patrician College (Chennai) 29-3, 29-7; Vivekananda bt St. Joseph's College (Cuddalore) 29-3, 29-4; M.Ct.M. School (Chennai) bt Pachaiyappa's College (Kancheepuram) 29-10, 29-13; St. Peter's HSS `B' (Chennai) bt Thiruthangai Nadar College (Chennai) 29-22, 29-15; St. Joseph's College (Tiruchi `B') bt MCC (Chennai) 29-11, 29-6; YMCA (Chennai) bt Loyola `B' 29-7, 29-3; St. Joseph's College of Engineering (Chennai) bt Sacred Heart College (Tiruppattur) 29-13, 29-17.

Tennis: Singles (second round): Ambarish Vardhan bt Vivek (Loyola) 6-1, 6-2; Ravikrishnan (SSN) bt Preetham Karthik (SBOIA) 6-1, 6-1; Salman Yasser (Loyola) bt D. Arumugam (DGV) 6-1, 6-0; Chandresh (SBOIA) bt W.J. Peter (Loyola) 6-1, 6-2.

Doubles (second round): Ajai/Ashwin (Loyola) bt Chandresh/Karthikeyan (SBOIA) 6-0, 6-0; Preetam/Sudharsan (SBOIA) bt Bhuvanasundar/Vinod (Loyola) 6-1, 6-0; Vikram/Vijay (Loyola) bt M. Fariz/M. Niyaz 6-1, 7-6.

Table tennis: Singles (fifth round): Ganesh Kumar (SSN) bt C.R. Prasanth (DB, Egmore) 9-11, 3-11, 13-11, 11-4, 11-6; S. Rajkumar (St. John's) bt K.D. Kannan (PSBB, KKN) 4-11, 11-1, 11-2, 11-3; Manikandan (St. John's) bt A. Balaji (Loyola) 11-8, 15-17, 11-7, 12-10; Manoranjan (Loyola) bt R. Sriram (Loyola) 11-3, 11-6, 11-9; Rishvant (Loyola) bt Nikhil (PSBB, KK Nagar) 11-7, 11-5, 11-2; Prasanna (PSBB) bt Vikrant John (DB, Egmore) 12-10, 9-11, 11-7, 13-10.