Sport - Tennis

Sanjay jolts Binoj

KOCHI: Ernakulam’s unseeded Sanjay Cherian jolted Thiruvananthapuram’s Binoj Mani, the fourth seed, and entered the men’s singles semifinals of the Sree Chitra Kerala State-ranking tennis championship at the Regional Sports Centre here on Sunday.

However, the top two seeds — local lads Jaco T. Mathew and Rynold Timothy — came up with comfortable wins on their way to the last-four stage.

The results (quarterfinals):

Men: Jaco T. Mathew (Ekm) bt Reejo Varghese (Pta) 6-1, 6-1; Binu Mani (Tvm) bt G. Chandu (Tvm) 6-3, 6-3;

Sanjay Cherian (Ekm) bt Binoj Mani (Tvm) 7-6 (8-6), 6-3; Rynold Timothy bt S.L.Arun (Tvm) 6-0, 6-0.

Under-18 boys: G.L. Vivek (Tvm) bt Tarun Geroge (Ekm) 8-0; M.R. Rajendran (Tvm) bt Asif Taj (Tvm) 8-2;

S. Ramanath (Tvm) bt Rifas Ali (Pkd) 8-0; Shyam Babu (Tvm) bt M.R. Sivakumar (Tvm) 8-1.

Under-16 boys: Pritish Kishore (Ekm) bt Karthik Narayan (Tvm) 8-4; Paul T. Wilson (Pkd) bt Harsh Sanghvi (Ekm) 8-2; Sachin Antony (Ekm) bt Swathikanth (Tvm) 8-2; S. Arvind (Tvm) bt Anand Nandakumar (Tvm) 8-5.

Under-14 boys: Aditya Bhat (Ekm) bt Jaiveer Mariwala (Ekm) 8-0; Mohammed Hamraz bt Govind C. Venugopal

(Ekm) 8-0; T.S. Arun Raj (Tvm) bt A.C.Vibin (Pkd) 8-1; Anand George (Tvm) bt Rijul Rauf (Ekm) 8-1. — Principal Correspondent

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