Tamil Nadu’s wild card entrant Rameez continued his dream run and reached the final in the 45-plus category of the RS Santhanam Memorial National Veterans Tennis Championship at the Mylapore Club here. In the semifinal, he accounted for Delhi’s Gauri Shanker Saini without dropping a game and set up a summit clash with seventh seed Sivakumar Palani, who stopped qualifier Nirmal Kumar’s memorable run in the tournament.
Results (semifinals): +45: (WC) Rameez (TN) bt (3) Gauri Shanker Saini (DLI) 6-0, 6-0; (S7) Sivakumar Palani bt (Q) Nirmal Kumar 6-2, 7-5; +50 singles: KR Madhukar Kumar (TN) bt (S1) Murali Padmanaban 7-6 [8], 6-4; EPS Meghanathan (TN) bt MP Shankar TN) 2-6, 6-4, 6-2; +55 singles: (S1) M Suresh (AP) bt (S4) PK Gupta (UP) 6-1; 7-6 [5]; (S3) Arun Khanna (DLI) bt Narayanan Bhat (TN) 6-2;7-5; +60 singles (S1 AJS Chatwal (DLI) bt (S6) TN Prasad (TN) 6-1; 6-2; (S2) MS Venkatachalam (TN) bt (S8) MD Franklin (TN) 6-2; 6-4; +65: (S3) KK Aravind (TN) bt (S6) Kaimal Arvind (KAR) 6-0; 6-1; T Subramanian (TN) bt T Balachandar 6-2, 6-2.
Anirudh scalps 4
K Anirudh snared four wickets for 22 runs to set up King Star’s two-wicket win against AVM CA in the Skylab CAC Under-14 Cricket Tournament held at Tube Products Cricket Ground on Friday.
Brief scores: Budding Star CA 131 for 6 in 25 overs (S Akshay Kumar 40) bt MAS CA 100 for 9 in 25 overs; AVM CA 103 for 9 in 25 overs (A Vinod 25, Anirudh K 4/22) lost to King Star CA 104 for 8 in 22 overs (Aswin T Neelakandan 37); Skylab CA “A” 140 for 8 in 25 overs (J Leo Daniel 25, M Hemachandran 26) lost to Chennai Star CA 141 for 4 in 24 overs (M Panchal 58); Oceanic CA 79 in 24 overs (Hareesh 25, K Shrijith 3/12) lost to King Star CA 80 for 3 in 10 overs (Ashwin T Neelakandan 43 no); Budding Stars CA 168 for 2 in 25 overs (D Prashanth Prabhu 68, S A Kumar 53) bt Stumped CF 158 for 2 in 25 overs (S Santhosh Kumar 81, V Akshay 34); Chennai Stars CA 118 for 4 in 25 overs (S Joel Roshan 37, A Das Gupta 34) lost to Stumped CF 119 for 3 in 18.3 overs (Kumar DV 72 no).
Harish Shines
Harish Ranganathan’s dream spell of 4 for 2 enabled St Patrick’s, Adyar to defeat Vidya Mandir, Mylapore by 10 runs in the TSN Trophy T20 cricket match.
Brief scores: St Patrick’s A I Hr Sec School, Adyar 126-8 in 20 overs (CB Rajasekar 43, Ramesh Raja 46, A Kumar 5/17) bt Vidya Mandir Sr Sec School, Mylapore 116 in 20 overs (S Vignesh 28, CS Narayanan 26, V Aravind 33, H Ranganathan 4/2). MoM: Harish Ranganathan; Nellai Nadar Hr Sec School, Kottivakkam 152-6 in 20 overs (K Veera Jayachandran 27, V Prabakaran 29, P Kumar 46, M Sidharth 3/18) bt Chettinad Vidyashram, R A Puram 108 in 17.3 overs (V Umamaheshwaran 32, M Sheik Mohamed Ismail 3/13). MoM: M Sheik Mohamed Ismail.
Abhilash Advances
M Abhilash of PSBB beat G Adithya of Chettinad 11-3,11-8,11-5 in the Jussportz–Gymnco Republic Day Cup 2013 Tanveer Memorial-SDAT AKG inter-school table tennis tournament.
Results: Boys Junior: Quarterfinals: M Abhilash (PSBB) bt G Adithya (Chettinad) 11-3, 11-8, 11-5; AK Aravind (BVM) bt U Gokul (NPS) 14-12, 14-12, 12-10; P Deenadayalan (St Joseph) bt V Narayanasamy (PSBB) 9-11, 11-8, 8-11, 11-9, 11-3; F Sebastian (St Joseph) bt K Harish (Princess) 9-11, 11-5, 8-11, 11-4,12-10.
Pre-quarterfinals: M Abhilash (PSBB) bt Livington (DB-P) 11-7,11-6, 11-7; G Adithya (Chettinad) bt M Christopher (UC) 3-11, 11-7, 11-8, 15-13; AK Aravind (BVM) bt P Abhishek (Chinmaya) 11-2, 11-8, 11-6; U Gokul (NPS) bt N Aravind (PS Sr) 11-13, 11-7, 11-6, 6-11, 11-7; V Narayanaswamy (PSBB) bt A Akash (St Paul’s) 13-11, 12-10, 3-11, 11-7; P Deenadayalan (St Joseph) bt Sanketh (Chinmaya) 11-6, 8-11, 11-4, 11-6; K Harish (Princess) bt S Veera (SBOA) 11-7, 4-11, 11-7, 11-6; F Sebastian (St Joseph) bt S Sohit (MVM) 12-10, 11-9, 11-4.