Date:26/08/2005 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2005/08/26/stories/2005082609672000.htm

Sport - Badminton

Easy for Aditya, Hamsika

Sports Reporter

Coimbatore: It was smooth sailing for Coimbatore players S.C. Aditya and Hamsika on the opening day of the under-19 singles first round of the Yonex Tamil Nadu junior State badminton championship at the Officers Club courts here on Thursday.

Aditya walloped Ishant of Pudukottai 15-9, 15-3, while Hamsika drubbed M. Kirthika of Namakkal 11-2, 11-2. J. Niranjan of Chennai also had an easy outing defeating Tamil Mani of Pudukottai 15-2, 15-2.

The results:

Boys (first round): Subikshan (Che) bt Satish (Nam) 15-4, 15-2; A. Prakash (Cbe) bt Venkatesh (Nam) 15-6, 15-2; S.C. Aditya (Cbe) bt Ishant (P'kottai) 15-9, 15-3; Adithyya (Cbe) bt Senthil Raja (Ramnad) 15-4, 15-3; Karthik (P'kottai) bt Kulandaivel (Ero) 15-3, 15-4; Surendar (Cud) bt Meyanbu (Cbe) 15-3, 15-10; Swaroop (Che) bt Vinod Kumar (Sal) 6-15, 17-15, 15-13; Sakthivel (Nam) bt V. Saravan (Cbe) 3-0 (concd.); Nishanth (Mdu) bt B. Shareet (Ero) 15-2, 15-1; Prasanna Aditya (Sal) bt M. Mahesh Kumar (Kar) 15-13, 15-4; Md. Ameer (Che) bt P. Rajasekar (Kar) 15-4, 15-5; Vikram (Sal) bt J. Jitesh (Nil) 15-10, 10-15, 15-7; Subikshan (Che) bt S. Kannan (Ero) 15-4, 15-4; Rohit Murthy (Sal) bt A. Anvar Raja (Ramnad) 15-4, 15-0; Subramani (Mdu) bt M. Rajesh Kumar (Cud) 15-9, 15-3; Md. Zameer (Che) bt B. Saravana Kumar (Ero) 15-3, 15-1; V. Sriram (Cbe) bt Joseph Prasad (Cud) 15-3, 15-0; Navin Prasad (Sal) bt R. Srijith (Karur) 15-1, 15-2; S.C. Adithya (Sal) bt Deepak Narayan (T'veli) 15-6, 15-8; R. Sivamurugan (Cud) bt Michael James (Che) 17-15, 15-8; V. Karthik (Sal) bt Kilkamesh (Ero) 1-50, 15-4; Bharath Arun (Mdu) bt P. Muthu Kumar (Cbe) 15-5, 15-2; R. Vignesh (Mdu) bt R. Singaravelan (Cud) 15-4, 15-4; Md. Irfan bt J. Sudarsan (Sal) 15-1, 15-0; J. Niranjan (Che) bt Tamil Mani (P'kottai) 15-2, 15-3.

Under-13: Jerfin (Mdu) bt Shankar Narayan (Cbe) 15-1, 15-0; Arun Brun (Cbe) bt S. Akash (Mdu) 15-1, 15-3; H. Anand (Cud) bt M. Siddarth 15-3, 15-5; A.K. Sudarsan (Virud) bt Athimulam (Mdu) 15-0, 15-0; A.M. Gautam (Cbe) bt Siddarth (Nam) 11-15, 15-10, 17-15; Manoj Kumar (Mdu) bt M. Balaji (Cbe) 15-1, 15-1; K.R. Ashwin Kumar (Kar) bt Nikhil Kamath (Cbe) 15-9, 15-5; P. Navin (Virud) bt E. Gautaman (Cbe) 15-5, 15-2; Surya Prakash (Mdu) bt K. Adithya (Che) 13-15, 15-10, 15-9; B. Raj Bharath (Virud) bt Sri Vishnu (Cbe) 15-1, 15-1; Yaswanth (Mdu) bt B. Nitesh 15-6, 15-0; Bobby Broos (Nil) bt P. Ranjith (Cbe) 6-15, 15-8, 15-13; Easwar (Nam) bt R.N. Harshav (Cbe) 15-6, 15-1; Siddarth Rajan (Che) bt Lokesh Viswanath (Ero) 15-9, 15-4.

Girls: Under-19: K. Vidya (Cbe) bt M. Miriyam (Nil) 11-3, 11-1; Akila Devi (Cbe) bt Srisuba Vinothini (Cud) 13-10, 11-3; Archana (Cbe) bt Nivedita (Sal) 11-1, 11-3; Shruthi (Cbe) bt Komala Bharathi (Ramnad) 11-2, 11-3; Hamsika (Cbe) bt M. Kirthika (Nam) 11-2, 11-2; Darshini bt Pooja Sha (Cbe) 11-3, 11-4.

Rajesh in semifinals

At Tiruchi: Defending champions, R. Rajesh of Chennai (South Zone) and Avanti Sinha of Eastern Zone have entered the semifinals for individual championships of the 39th LIC All India table tennis tournament.

The results:

Men's quarterfinals: R. Rajesh (SZ) bt Prabir Dutta (EZ) (11-6, 11-7, 11-9, 11-8), Zabarjeet Singh (NCZ) bt Malay Thakkar (WZ) (5-11, 11-6, 3-11, 10-12, 11-4, 10-9). Match conceded by Malay Thakkar. Parag Agarwal (NCZ) bt Ranjan Chakraborthy (EZ) (12-10, 2-11, 11-3, 9-11, 5-11, 11-7, 11-7). Vinay Baiswade (CZ) bt Satnam Singh (NZ) (11-9, 11-1, 11-4, 11-7).

Women's quarterfinals: Avanti Sinha (EZ) bt Simin Dastini (SCZ) (11-5, 8-11, 11-9, 11-7, 11-7) Chandrani Dey (EZ) bt S.N. Kamat (WZ) (11-9, 11-8, 11-4, 9-11, 11-4) Sharmila Mouskar (WZ) bt Deepali Chakradev (NCZ) (13-11, 11-8, 7-11, 1-11, 11-2, 5-11, 11-7) Deepali Ranghshahi (CZ) bt S.V. Mogre (WZ) (13-11, 7-11, 11-7, 11-5, 9-11, 9-11, 11-7)