Surat: Top seed Chetan Baboor and S Raman bagged the first and second places respectively in the all-India prize money invitational table tennis tournament here, as the final round robin league matches today were called off as a mark of respect to a city municipal councillor who died yesterday.Baboor had emerged as the leader in Group A, while Raman was ranked first in Group B. In the women's section, M Arul Selvi came first and MS Mythili second.

Two share lead

Hyderabad: RK Mishra and J Ramakrishna shared the lead with 6 points each after the 6th round of the 3rd GTB-FIDE-rated all-India open chess championship today.

Results of 6th round: J Ramakrishna 6 bt Gurpreetpal Singh 0; Amardeep Bartakke 5 lost to RK Mishra 6; DK Sharma 5 drew with N Sajyan 5; Vishal Sareen 5.5 bt Saritha Reddy 4.5; GB Joshi 4.5 lost to N Deraj Kumar Mishra 5.5; CS Gokhale 5 drew with K Visawesaran 5; Lanka Ravi 5 bt Roy Chowdhary 4.5; Ravi Bhave 5 bt K Murugan 4; RahulShetty 5 bt Deepak Rajput 4; LV Shiva Kumar 4 lost to P Mitrakanth 5; Dilip das 4 lost to Jayant Suresh Gokhale 5; PDS Girinath 5 bt SVC Chakravarthy 4; MY Raju 4 lost to S Vijayalakshmi 5; N Ravikanth 4 lost to Sriram Jha 5; TS Ravi 5 bt Shirish Kumar 4; Chandrasekhar Sahu 5 bt KN Gopal 4; SK Sinha 5 bt MR Venkatesh 4.