Sport - Badminton

St. Joseph’s triumphs

Chennai: St. Joseph’s College of Engineering made a sweep of the winner and runner up trophies in the inter-collegiate tournament conducted by Sivaganga District Badminton Association between February 29 and March 2. Vijay Anand and Aloysius Vijay, representing the ‘A’ team won against Subikshan and Aditya Elango who constituted the ‘B’ team in the final.

The score read 21-18, 21-19. The winning pair received a cash award of Rs. 5,000, while the runner up was richer by Rs. 3,000.

Earlier, St. Joseph’s ‘A’ beat St. Michael’s College, Kalayarkoil 21-5, 21-7 while the ‘B’ team accounted for AC Tech, Karaikusi 21-3, 21-5.

Other results: Semifinals: St. Joseph’s ‘A’ bt SRM (Chennai) 21-10, 21-11; St. Joseph’s ‘B’ bt Loyola College 21-13, 24-22. Quarterfinals: St. Joseph’s ‘B’ bt Walkford College, Madurai, 21-10, 21-11.

Kumar and D. Vijay won the T. Nagar Social Club open pairs bridge event held here on Tuesday with a score of 66.19 per cent sitting East-West.

R.N. Subramanian and R. Sree Krishnan won in the North-South direction with score of 62.82 per cent.

Other results: North-South: 2. Sushi and Alka (57.53 per cent), 3. V. Gowri Shankar and T.T. Chari (54.81 per cent). East-West: 2. Sherien Ryan and Lakshmi Chari (63.94 per cent), 3. Subba Rao and R.V.S. Manian (57.85 per cent).

Former India coach Greg Chappell will be in the city on March 10 for the Reebok Cricket Star Twenty20 nationwide talent hunt programme for the Jaipur Royals IPL team.

SPIC-YMCA will be the venue. Those interested can register at the venue before 7.30 a.m. on March 10.

For details, contact Sushil Tulaskar (98208-39813).

SRM Engineering College defeated the host Sri Venkateswara Engineering College by 53 runs in the final of the Dr. A.C. Muthiah Rolling Trophy cricket tournament.

The scores: SRM EC 122 in 19.4 overs bt Sri Venkateswara EC 69 for nine in 20 overs.

S. Muthukrishnan was elected Chairman of the Madras Motor Sports Club in its annual general body meeting held here recently.

Other office-bearers: President: Ajit Thomas; Vice-President: Vicky Chandhok; Secretary: Rajan Syal; Jt. Secretary: S. Parasuram; Treasurer: R. Lakshmi Ratan; Committee members (elected): Ashish Gupta, Bipin A. Bhatia, C.D. Vivekanandan, Kamlesh Patel, K. D. Madan, M. Sivaramakrishnan, P. Vetriivel, R. Ravikrishnan; Committee members (co-opted): Akbar Ebrahim, Amit Arora, Farhan Vohra, J.D. Madan, Manoj P Dalal. Chairman (finance committee): Anil J Bhatia; Executive Secretary: Pramod Kumar.

Presidency ‘A’ beat Madras Club ‘A’ 2-1 in the SANMAR-TNTA ‘B’ zone tennis league, here.

Other results: ‘A’ zone: MCC-B w/o NTC-‘A’. ‘B’ zone: Besant Nagar ‘B’ bt RANSA ‘A’ 3-0. ‘C’ zone: YMCA Kilpauk ‘A’ bt Indira Nagar ‘B’ 3-0; MCC ‘M’ bt Besant Nagar ‘C’ 2-1. ‘D’ zone: NTC ‘C’ bt Muthukrishnan Memorial Club A 3-0; Cosmo ‘B’ bt Muthukrishnan Memorial Club ‘A’ 3-0.

The Tiruvallur District badminton tournament will be held at Ambattur Badminton Association Indoor Stadium (near TI Cycles) on March 15 and 16.

The events are under-10, 13, and 16 (boys and girls singles and doubles) and men’s singles and doubles. For details contact Vijay Dayanidhi at 9941502811 / 04426247562. The tournament is sponsored by Fire Ball Fitness Club (Mogappair).

R.V. Rama Raju (AP) beat A.S. Khan (AP) 7-5, 6-2 in the above-45 pre-quarterfinals of the Raju Vegesna-AISTA senior national ranking veterans’ tennis tournament on Wednesday.

Other results (pre-quarterfinals): Above-45: Vivek Reddy (TN) bt Srinivasa Reddy (AP) 6-1, 6-3; R. Sudersan Rao (AP) w/o Arun Kumar (AP); Nagaraj (Kar) bt V. Shankar (Del) 6-2, 6-2; Yogesh Shah (Guj) bt M.V. Swami (AP) 6-2, 6-0; Paul Manohar (AP) bt Basappa (Kar) 6-2, 6-1; M. Suresh (AP) bt P. Janarthana (AP) 6-2, 7-5; Karthik Kailash (TN) bt Maruthi Mohan (AP) 6-2, 6-4.

Above-55: K. Radhakrishna Murthy (AP) bt M.S. Prakash (AP) 6-2, 6-2; V. Ram Mohan Rao (AP) bt A. Baskar Reddy (AP) 3-0 (conceded); K.A.P.N. Rao (AP) bt Azeeullah (AP) 6-1, 3-0 (conceded); Abdul Azeez (AP) bt B.G. Reddy (AP) 6-0, 6-3; Gangadharan (Del) bt C.S. Rajan (Kar) 6-4, 6-1; S. Settu (TN) bt S. Ramakrishanan (AP) 6-1 (conceded); Venkatachalam (TN) bt Dhavel Patel (Mah) 6-2, 6-2; A.R. Rao (AP) bt Varaprasad (AP) 6-2, 6-4.

Above-65: S. Parekh (Mah) bt H.S. Sharma (AP) 6-1, 6-1; Chiranjeevi (AP) bt D.D. Rao (AP) 6-3, 6-0; C. Radhakrishnan (AP) bt N. Narappa Reddy (AP) 6-3, 6-0; Keerthi Kumar (TN) bt D. Madhava Murthy (AP) 6-2, 3-6, 7-6(1); T.N. Laxmanan (TN) bt C.H. Naidu (TN) 6-3, 0-6, 7-6(4); Ramesh Gautham (UP) bt D.R.V. Prasad (AP) 6-1, 6-0; K.K. Aravind (TN) bt Muthu Kumaraswamy (TN) 6-2, 3-0 (conceded); T. Sreedhar (AP) bt V.R. Kulkarni (Kar) 6-3, 6-4.

The Sri Lankan Galle Basketball Association junior boys (under-18) team has been in the city for the last few days playing some matches.

Galle BBA — consisting of young players from almost all parts of Sri Lanka — has already played two matches — against Loyola and St. Joseph’s Engineering College.

On March 6 (Thursday), it will play SDAT Excellence team (at the Nehru Stadium) and then on Friday, the Tamil Nadu junior team (at JJ Indoor Stadium, Kilpauk).

The Sri Lankan Galle BBA team is expected to leave Chennai to Colombo on March 9.

The Tamil Nadu Basketball Association (TNBA) and Basketball Federation of India have jointly hosted the Lankan team on a goodwill visit as part of TNBA’s ‘Go basketball for gold programme.’

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