Chirag stuns seventh seed

Chirag stuns seventh seed
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MUMBAI, FEB 2: Chirag Mehta (GD Somani) shocked seventh seed Rewant Dutta 6-4 in a boys under-16 pre-quarter-final tie of the MSSA-Colgate Inter-School tennis tournament at the Garden Tennis Academy MSSA-Castrol court, Azad Maidan, on Wedensday.

Chirag played a mixture of good attack and defence game and outmanouevred his opponent with deft placements and finishing points every time he was in a good position.

Other results: Boys u-16 (pre-Q-F): Rohan Gajjar (Jasudben) bt Nihal (Learners) 6-2; Amit Karunakaran (Lady Ratanbai) bt Y Gautam 6-0; Krishne Tannu (Cathedral) bt Rohan S (Learners) 6-0; Tridip Choudhary (Don Bosco) bt Rikin K (Campion) 6-1; Jay Mehta (Cathedral) bt Pratik Makkad (Don Bosco) 6-1; Imran Allana (St Mary's) bt Mohit J (St Mary's) 6-1; Abishek Nayak (Rajhans) bt Karan K (Rajhans) 6-1.

Boys u-14: Keshavan Narasiman (St Theresa) bt A Gupta (Atomic E) 6-1; Vivek Menon (St Stanislaus) bt Irshad A (St Mary's) 6-1; Sidharth Chheda (Don Bosco) bt Allan M (Learners) 6-2;Kenneth Quadros (J Narsee) bt Ankit G (Atomic Energy) 6-1; Krishank Shah (St Xavier's) bt Goldie G (Vrajlal Parekh) 6-1; Aniket Ghaskavdi (Bal Mohan) bt Dhruval Kothari 6-1; Rohan Sewakramani (Bombay International) bt R Makharia (Campion) 6-1; Siddharth Sane (IES) bt Rohan Shah (AVM Juhu) 6-4.

Boys u-12: Arnav Jain (Jasudben) bt Shantanu Sahey 6-0; Hryday Chheda (St Joseph's) bt Keegan Quadros (J Narsee) 6-3; Kaushal Mahale (M Cooper) bt Mirang Manek (Jasudben) 6-0; Pranav Gandhi (AVM, Juhu) bt Bhavik S (Jasudben) 6-4; Jairaj Desai (Rajhans) bt Anuj Arora (AVM Juhu) 6-1; Manikala Janmali (J Narsee) bt Anirudh (Campion) 6-1; Viraj Shah (J Narsee) bt Shantanu E (Campion) 6-0; Gaurav Agarwal (Cathedral) bt Tejasvi R (Rajhans) 6-2.

Boy u-10: Debendra Das (Marble Arch) bt Mohit (Swami V) 6-0; Madhavan Narasiman (St Theresa) bt H Sharma (M Arch) 6-0; Sairam Iyer (Gokul) bt Aditya Shah (AVM Juhu) 6-2; Aniruddh Sood (Cathedral) bt Ameya D (Campion) 6-4; Gurjot Marwah (St Dominic) bt Devak (StXavier's, Fort) 6-3; Mikhail Shetty (OLPS) bt Mikhail Saldhana (M Cooper) 6-2; Nehal Gaokar (St Dominic) bt Rohan B (Don Bosco) 6-0; Vivaan Shah (Learners A) bt Elton L (St Dominic) 6-1.

Girls u-14: Lizenka Pereira (Lady Ratanbai) bt Shru (Gokuldham) 6-0; Divya Gopal (St Louis) bt Hardini G (Maneckji Cooper) 6-0; Priyanka Vengurlekar (St Louis) bt S Paradkar 6-0; Kanisha Mehta (Convent) bt Akshata N (Rajhans) 6-4; Pantki Chheda (J Narsee) bt Manjot M (Canossa) 6-4; Tulsi Mehta (Bombay International) bt Natasha S (Rajhans).

Sangeeta-Parimi top

Sangeeta Chandorkar and Parimi Nirmala beat Sneha More and Madhuri Taishetye 25-0, 25-14 in the women's doubles final of the ninth District carrom champioship, co-sponsored by Amco, BoI, BoB, HP, Saraswat Bank and Mumbai District Central Bank, at the Sharda Mangal Kriyalaya, Naigaon, on Wednesday.

Other results: Open singles (pre-Q-F): Nagsen Etambe bt Suryakant Bairaloo 13-17, 25-0, 25-9; Vinayak Humre bt Ramesh Pusal 10-25, 19-18, 25-23;Sangam Wasave bt Narsingrao Sakari 24-7, 8-25, 25-8; Nityanand Dontul bt Mahesh Sandis 25-3, 11-25, 25-0; Dilip Sosa bt Allwyn D'Souza 25-7, 14-16, 25-7.

Boys doubles (semis): Suraj Kajrolkar/ Anant Gyatri bt Shailesh Rathod/ M Solanki 25-14, 25-12; Vinod Chawda/ Prakash Baria bt Snehal Mahude/ Nilesh Kori 25-16, 25-22.

Ilyas nets winner

A penalty stroke conversion by Ilyas Khan in the 40th minute, enabled Fr Agnel Gymkhana beat Central Bank of India 1-0 in the Bombay Hockey Association Senior Division hockey league at the Mahindra Stadium, on Wednesday.

Hindu Gym on top

PJ Hindu Gymkhana scored 122-1 in reply to hosts Bombay Gymkhana's total of 150 on the first day of the two-day final of the BICHIP under-22 cricket tournament, on Wednesday.

Brief scores: Bombay Gymkhana 150 (Satyajit Seshadri 33 n.o.; Yogesh Kaudhare 3-53, Swapnil Hazare 3-27) vs PJ Hindu Gymkhana 122-1 (Sachin Sawant 58, Milind Tamhane batting 53).