SatwikChirag, TreesaGayatri win in their opening round
Mundhe stuns top seed Amodini
MADURAI: Parthsarthi Mundhe stunned top seed Amodini Naik 64, 16, 62 in the girls’ first round of the TVS ITF juniors tennis on Tuesday.
Other results (first round): Boys: Aradhya Kshitij bt Himanshu Benda 60, 60; Anay Kulkarni (USA) bt Parth Deorukhakar 62, 63; Mannan Ashok Agarwal bt Yash
Panchaxari 76(4), 61; Anurag Shourya Kallambella bt Prakash Sarran 62, 62; Shivtej Shirfule bt Vivaan Biasaria 64, 36, 62;
Mahit Mekla bt Akshaj Subramanian 62, 62; Arnav Yadhav bt Harisharan Baskaran 62, 61; Tavish Phawa bt
Debarshi Sen 75, 62; Kevin Titus Suresh bt Rohit Hari Balaji Gobinath 67(5), 76(6), 60; Jason David bt Visal Vasudev 76(3), 76(4).
Girls: Sree Syleswari Velmanikandan bt Saanvi Misra 64, 61; Kashvi Sunil bt Shaivi Gaurav 75, 62; Adiya Omarbek (Kaz) bt Samaira Kholi 60, 76(1); Angel Patil bt Anjhalle Meka 63, 62; Karthika Padmakumar bt Disha Bhera 64, 64; Devashree Mahadeshwar bt Pia Pallav Mistri 62, 61; G.D. Meghana bt Arzan Khorakiwala 62, 63; Dhanashree Patil bt Srinithi Sai Patoju 60,
60; Harshini N. Nagaraj bt Riddhi Shinde 63, 63; Saanvi Reddy Erva bt Anvi Punaganti 30 (retd.);
Rajaguru
(ANJA College, 5/10).
Avani Chitale bt Lanika Ramu 63, 60; Presha Santhamoorthi bt Niyamika Balaji 62, 60; Aditi Paturi bt Shanvitha Reddy Nukala 67(9), 75, 63.
Reshikesh bowls Associated to victory
SIVAKASI: S. Reshikesh claimed seven for 53 as Associated defeated Jasmine by 52 runs in the Virudhunagar DCA first division league.
The scores: I div.: Bharath 174 in 37.4 overs (Kabirthasan 46, Hruday Vikas 4/35, E. Suriya 3/17) bt Kalasalingam Academy 124 in 29.1 overs (B. Desh Deepak 36, Senthilkumar 3/19).
Associated 214 in 38.3 overs (Yuvaramkumar 39, X. Naveen 36, A. Santhosh 3/42) bt Jasmine 162 in 29 overs (V. Ganeh Babu 40, Karthik Raja 30, S. Reshikesh 7/53).
ANJA College 187 in 35.4 overs (Gokul Madhavan 59, P. Naveen Senthilkumar 34) bt Metro 129 in 27.1 overs (Shivram 46, R.
Rajaguru 5/10, P. Naveen Senthilkumar 3/27).
Sivakasi Town 303/8 in 40 overs (Karuppasamy 59, E. Rajesh Kumar 36 n.o., Rohith Pranav 34, K. Surya Prakash 34, Guru Prakash 32, Vairaprakash 30) bt Srivilliputhur Town 157/9 in 22 overs (Vijay 70).
Associated 274/8 in 40 overs (J. Ahammed Yameen 111 n.o., G. Jones Samraj 63, S. Arjun 3/44) bt Challenge Star 210/9 in 40 overs (S. Arjun 31, S. Reshikesh 4/22).
II div.: Shooters 128/8 in 25 overs (Sakthi Saravanan 36) lost to Mepco Schlenk EC 131/7 in 22.3 overs (A. Gowtham 50, Vijay Prabhu 34).
Nature 121/8 in 25 overs (Gokul 39, K. Nikhil 3/21, Selvaraj 3/26) bt Tamilthai 115 in 18.5 overs (K. Nikhil 45, G. Sankar 3/16).
Elango’s effort in vain
Elango’s five for 25 went in vain for Vijay CC as it lost to Pioneer CC by 38 runs in the TRDCA first division league recently.
The scores: I div.: Pioneer 137 in 38.1 overs (R. Sanjay 33, Elango 5/25) bt Vijay 99 in 32 overs (M. Muthu 33, S. Jawahar 3/20, Abraham David 3/20, Jaya Prakash 3/18).
Monrose 227 in 42.1 overs (S. Risheek Kumar 95, A.R. Rahman 31, Prakash 4/37) bt Emerald 191/9 in 50 overs (Muthu Ganesh 53, Uma Shankar 33, V. Ramesh 3/29).
NHK 197 in 46.3 overs (Prakash 38, Salman 42, Atheeq Ur
Rahman 40, G. Rajesh 4/34) bt RRCF 164 in 43.2 overs (Yuvaraj 35, Atheeq Ur Rahman 4/23, Prakash 3/37).
BBK 274/8 in 50 overs (Prakash Nathan 31, Karthik 59) bt Arcot 263/9 in 50 overs (Varun 32, Babu Kumar 41, E.S. Raghav 33, Yuvaraj 66, Mohanraj 4/45).
II div.: IRI 132 in 26.4 overs (Naresh 4/30) lost to Ideal 134/5 in 23.3 overs (Abinesh Kamalraj 57).
Crecent 161/5 in 26 overs (Rahul Ravi 85) lost to Walaja Knight Riders 163/6 in 23.2 overs (Tamilarasan 31, Guru Prasath 32, Gowtham 71).
Sachin 61 in 16 overs (Sridhar 4/10, Jebanesan 4/9) lost to Miller 62/3 in 6.3 overs (Susil Kumar 41). Youth 113 in 29.3 overs (Chinu Babu 3/24) bt Arakonam 110/8 in 30 overs (Chandra Sekar 5/21).
Sai Sri 183/6 in 30 overs (Hemprasaath 74) bt Friends 109 in 25.3 overs (Santhosh 3/26, M. S. Siva Kumar 3/15, N. Jayachandran 4/35).
Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty advanced to the doubles second round of French Open Super 750 badminton tournament with a hardfought 2113, 2422 win against Malaysia's Ong Yew Sin and Teo Ee Yi here on Tuesday.
Commonwealth Games bronze medallists Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand also progressed to the second round after claiming a 1621, 2119, 2117 victory over Ashwini Ponnappa and Tanisha Crasto in the opening match of women's doubles event.
The two pairs are fighting to qualify for the Paris Olympics.
While TanishaAshwini are ranked 11th, TreesaGayatri are placed at the 14th spot in the Olympic Games qualification ranking.