Date:05/08/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/08/05/stories/2006080507751800.htm

Sport - Badminton

Sanave advances

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Top seeded Sanave Thomas made short work of R.J. Anand 21-11, 21-8 and entered the third round of the 22nd T.K.V. Memorial all-Kerala ranking badminton tournament at the Sree Moolam club courts here on Friday.

Second-seeded Joy T. Antony too had it easy as he defeated Tony Mathew 21-8, 21-11 to make the same grade.

The results:

Men's singles (second round): Sanave Thomas bt R.J.Anand 21-11, 21-8, Anu Lal bt Pradeep 12-4 (concd), Allwyn Francis bt K. Madhu 21-7, 21-14, Sidharth Saboo bt Muralikrishnan 16-21, 21-12, 21-10, Ayyappan Krishnan bt Madhav S. Nath 21-9, 21-9, K.S. Gauthaman w/o Xavier Raphael, Jamshid bt Midhun Chithrasenan 21-16, 21-8, Anil Kishore bt A. Praveen 21-13, 21-14, Tariq Mohammed bt P. Anand 21-16, 21-19, C.K. Rajesh bt S. Manoj 14-21, 21-13, 22-20, H.S. Prannoy w/o B. Ranadev, Antony K. Jacob bt Govind Sivan 21-2, 21-8, V. Arun bt Jithin K.Basil 21-9, 21-9, Sankar P. Gopan bt Tobi Mathew 21-8, 21-5, Aravind Shankar bt Amit N. Kamath 21-0, 21-14, Joy T. Antony bt Tony Mathew 21-8, 21-11.

Women's singles (quarterfinals): Merit George bt Neha Narendran 21-5, 21-8, Nima Lakshmi bt Prija Chandran 2-12, 18-21, 21-14, M.Sruthi bt Nandita Krishnan 21-9, 21-11, Miral George bt Chinthana 22-20, 21-13.