Date:07/12/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/12/07/stories/2007120759832400.htm

Sport - Sports : General

Raju surprises Ballal

HYDERABAD: Seventh-seeded C.B. Raju (AP) surprised the fourth seed H.D. Ballal (Karnataka) 6-2, 6-3 in the 65 years & above singles’ quarterfinal of the 12th GVK-AISTA senior nationals (veterans) tennis tournament here on Thursday.

The results (quarterfinals):

45 years & above: S. Narendranath bt R.V. Rama Raju 6-1, 6-2; Yogesh Shah bt K. Mehar Prakash 6-3, 7-6(0); V. Shankar bt K.R. Puneet Gupta 6-1, 6-1; R.E. Sudarshan Rao bt V.T. Ranganath 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.

55 years & above: V. Ram Mohan Rao bt B. Ankaiah 6-0, 6-1; Pushpa Raj bt C.R. Gangadharan 6-2, 6-7(8), 6-2; K. Radhakrishnamurthy bt C.B. Ramachandra 6-2, 6-3; Arvinder Chatwal bt T.A.P.N. Rao 6-2, 3-6, 6-0.

Doubles: Pushpa Raj & D.S.N. Raju bt A.S.N. Raju & V. Rammohan 1-6, 6-2, 6-3; Madan Singh & K. Venkatachalam bt A.R. Rao & V.R. Kulkarni 6-1, 6-1; A. Ram Babu & A. Chatwal bt Gururaj & Gajapathi 6-1, 6-3; T.A.P.N. Rao & K.R.K. Murthy bt C.B.S. Vara Prasad & S. Ramakrishna 6-1, 6-2.

65 years & above: S. Parekh bt Nagaraja Rao 6-0, 3-1 (conceded); C.B. Raju bt H.D. Ballal 6-2, 6-3; T. Sreedhar bt Goutham Ramesh 6-1, 6-4; C. Radhakrishnan bt G. Kesav Perumal 6-2, 6-1.

Doubles: C.B. Raju & S. Parekh bt N.N. Reddy & B. Somalingam 6-3, 6-4; C. Radhakrishnan & V. Chiranjeevi bt Ch. Naidu & A.J.K. Kumar 2-6, 6-0, 6-2; H.D. Ballal & Kesav Perumal bt T.N. Laxmanan & M.K. Swamy 7-6(1), 6-3; T. Sreedhar & Ramesh Goutham bt B.S. Krishna Reddy & Prem Chand 6-2, 6-2.

Easy for Hyd. Bottling

Hyderabad Bottling recorded a 117-run win over HMWSSB in the A-Institution league cricket championship match here.

The scores:

A-Institution league: Hyd. Bottling 281 for four (Sohail Khan 75, Rajnikanth 57, Sidhu 56) bt HMWSSB 164 (Ravi 52, Ananth five for 50).

B-Division (knock-out): Shamnagar 143 (Irfan 50, Altaf Younus five for 15) lost to Satya CC 144 for six (K. Madan 70). D-Division one-day (knock-out): RR District 220 (Bhimesh Yadav 77) bt Lucky XI 151 (Md. Ali Basith 40, Khaizer five for 26).

Sporting beats Loyola

Sporting Football Club recorded a 2-0 win over Loyola XI in the Susai memorial football tournament at Trimulgherry Village grounds here.

After a barren first-half, Sporting took the lead in the 47th minute through A. Khader. In the 65th minute, a solo effort by Salaam completed the tally for the winner.

Artillery in final

Artillery Centre scored a 3-0 win over Mohammadan Sporting to enter the final of the M.A. uddus memorial invitation hockey tournament at the Gymkhana grounds here.

The winner led 3-0 at the break.

For Artillery, centre-forward Osman Bin Abdullah struck twice, and left-out Junas Ekka completed the tally.

Easy for AOC Centre

In the other semifinal, AOC Centre defeated Nav Bharat Club 5-0 with centre-forward Ramaswamy (2), Manoj Singh, Somra Hero and L. Ramesh scoring.