Date:23/09/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/09/23/stories/2007092356691600.htm

Sport - Tennis

Jaco, Rynold in quarterfinals

KOCHI: Ernakulam’s Jaco T. Mathew and Rynold Timothy posted comfortable wins and entered the men’s quarterfinals of the Sree Chitra Kerala State ranking tennis championship at the Regional Sports Centre here on Saturday.

The results (pre-quarterfinals):

Men: Rynold Timothy (Ekm) bt G.Ramamurthy (Ekm) 6-1, 6-3; Jaco T. Mathew (Ekm) bt Sanjay Bhat (Ekm) 6-2, 6-3; G. Chandu (Tvm) bt Sherif (Klm) 6-2, 6-0; Binu Mani (Tvm) bt Sanjo T. Mathew (Ekm) 6-2, 6-1; Binoj Mani (Tvm) bt Mansingh Thapa (Ekm) 3-6, 6-2, 6-2; Sanjay M. Cherian (Ekm) bt C.S. Shiju (Ekm) 6-1, 6-2.

Under-16 boys (best of 15 games): Pritish Kishore (Tvm) bt Arjun Kumar (Pkd) 8-1; Kartik Narayan (Tvm) bt Ananthu Shubas (Tvm) 8-3; Harsh Sangvi (Ekm) bt Jacob Jeeson (Ekm) 8-6; Paul Wilson (Pkd) bt Sarat Babu (Tvm) 8-2; Sachin Antony (Ekm) bt Rayan Varghese (Ekm) 8-2; Swathy Kanth (Tvm) bt Nitish Gopi (Ekm) 8-5; Anand Nandakumar (Tvm) bt Peter John (Ekm) 8-2; S. Aravind (Tvm) bt Sachin Vinod (Tvm) 8-2.

Under-14 boys: Aditya Bhat (Ekm) bt Jaikrishnan (Tvm) 8-3; Jaiveer Mariwala (Ekm) bt Ashik Hussain 8-6; Govind Venugopal (Ekm) w/o Harikumar (Tvm); Mohammed Hamraz (Tvm) bt Vishnu R. Nair (Tvm) 8-3; Arjun Raj (Tvm) bt B. Abhijith (Pkd) 8-1; A.C. Vipin (Pkd) bt S. Kiran (Tvm) 8-2; Rijul Rauf (Ekm) bt C.K. Thejas (Pkd) 8-4; Anand George (Tvm) bt Blubin Varghese (Pkd) 8-0. – Principal Correspondent