Delhi, Sonepat schools dominate

MM Public School Pitampura, Delhi, and Little Angels School of Sonepat dominated the semi-finals lineup on the penultimate day of the Central Board of Secondary Education national lawn tennis championship at the Billabong High International School courts in Noida on Sunday.

Both the schools made it to three of the four semi-finals respectively, while hosts Billabong High School also reached the last four stage in two categories.

In the knockout stages held on Sunday, MM Public School beat Mount Carmel Dwarka 2-0 in the boys U-14 category while Little Angels got the better of DPS Noida by an identical margin.

Both the schools also posted victories by identical margins in the boys U-19 knockouts where MM Public School won against DAV Tamil Nadu and the school from Sonipat beat Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan Telengana to storm into the semi-finals.

DPS Hyderabad and Indian High School Dubai were the other two semi-finalists in the boys U-14 while hosts Billabong and St. Jospeh Tonk completed the last four lineup in the boys U-19 category.

In the girls U-14 knockout matches, Billabong School made it to their second semi-final of the day with a 2-1 victory over Little Angels Sonipat. Modern School Delhi, DPS Bangalore and SBOA Chennai were the other semi-finalists in this category.

In the U-19 girls category, it was again MM Public School Pitampura (beat Mount Carmel Dwarka 2-1) and Little Angels Sonepat (won against Birla Public School Qatar 2-0) who found themselves in the semifinals along with DAV School Chennai and Global Edge Telengana.

MM Public School Pitampura, Delhi, and Little Angels School from Sonepat made it to three of the four team semi-finals