Gajjar, Medini best among under-16s

Gajjar, Medini best among under-16s

MUMBAI, FEBRUARY 5: Rohan Gajjar (Jasudben) swamped third seed Jay Mehta (Cathedral) 6-1, 6-3 in the MSSA-Colgate Inter-school tennis final at the Garden Tennis Academy at Azad Maidan on Saturday.

Medini Sharma (Gyan Kendra) won the girls' under-16 crown beating Johann Fernandes (St Theresa's) 6-4, 6-2.

Final singles results (seedings in prefix, names of schools in parenthesis)

Boys' under-16: 1-Rohan Gajjar (Jasudben) bt 3-Jay Mehta (Cathedral and John Connon) 6-1, 6-3. Under-14:

3-Krishank Shah (St Xavier's) bt 1-Keshav Narsimhan (St Theresa's) 6-1, 1-6, 6-1. Under-12: 1-Arnav Jain (Jasudben) bt 5-Janmali Manikala (Jamnabai Narsee) 6-0, 6-1. Under-10: 1-Debendra Das (Marble Arch) bt 2-Nehal Gaokar (St Joseph's, Vikhroli) 6-4, 6-4.

Girls under-16: 1-Medini Sharma (Gyan Kendra) bt 4-Johann Fernandes (St Theresa's) 6-4, 6-2. Under-14: 2-Nidhi Shah (AVM, Juhu) bt 1-Lizenka Pereira (Lady Ratnabai) 6-4, 6-2. Under-12: 2-Moneeza Kalkan Siddique (St Anne'sFort) bt Neena Sharma (St Joseph, Vikhroli) 6-4, 2-6, 6-1. Under-10: 3-Sonia Dayal (Lady Ratnabai) bt 1-Surubi Varma (Dr S Radhakrishnan) 9-8 (7-4).

Andrew's slam 14

St Andrew's A swamped St John Bosco, Vikhroli, 14-0 on the opening day of the MSSA-Colgate Schools Walter D'Souza (u-12) hockey tournament at the St Stanislaus ground, Bandra, on Saturday.
Results

St Andrew's A 14 (Joshua D'Abreo 3, Pranay Daniel 3, Sheldon Fernandes 3, Hyson Joseph 2, Shiraj Khan, Roshan Rizvi, Gagan Datta) bt St John Bosco 0; St Andrew's B drew goalless with Holy Family, Andheri; St Stanislaus A 7 (Joel Saldanha 4, Craig Pereira, Kirk Pereira, Deep Dogra) bt Sacred Heart 0; Don Bosco, Matunga A 7 (Altino Rodrigues 2, Hormuz Bana 2, Noble Jacob 2, Appachu Cadanda) bt Bombay Scottish A 0; Don Bosco B 3 (Pranav Pandey 2, Myron Noronha) bt St Francis D'Assisi 0; St Anne's, Orlem 4 (Darren Lobo, Nayay Desmond, Austin Pereira, Joel Castellino) bt Our Lady of Remedy 0; St Joseph's, Malad 3 (Raj Doshi 2,Skeet Braganza) bt Fatima, Vidyavihar 0.

Anaheeta dazzles

Anaheeta Dhalla of Jaihind College gave the Grand finals of the Air-India SRAM Junior squash tournament the perfect start when she pulled off a sensational 3-1 win over fancied Rachita Vora to enter the girls' under-19 semi-finals at the CCI court, on Saturday.

Anaheeta, who took to squash only seven months ago, won her quarter-final at 9-7, 9-3, 3-9, 10-8 for her first major victory on the domestic circuit.

Other results (all Q-F):

Boys u-17: Supreet Singh bt Bipin Batra 9-1, 9-1, 9-0; Mihir Sheth bt Anurag Gill 9-4, 9-3, 9-4. U-15: Vikas Jangra bt Dhiraj Nagpal 9-3, 9-0, 9-0; Yogin Thakur bt Rushabh Vora 9-2, 9-1, 9-1. U-13: Sandeep Jangra bt Manoj Dhoria 9-0, 9-4, 9-5.

Girls u-19: Priyanka Yadav bt Monika Premnarayan 9-0, 9-0, 9-2. U-15: Liana Deboo bt Nikita Emanuel 9-0, 9-0, 9-1.

Bala XI triumph

Bala XI, Kurla, drubbed BMC 7-0 in a first-round tie of the Don Bosco Challenge Cupfootball tournament, conducted by Don Bosco Youth Centre, at the St Joseph's Technical ground, Kurla, on Saturday.

Kailash Thakur (2), Suresh Chinkate (2), Raj Watukula, Babala Jena and Mohan Aela netted for Bala XI.

Dixit stuns Saxena

Amit Dixit shocked second seed and FIDE-rated Vaibhav Saxena (ELO 2158) in the first-round of the Mumbai Division Selection chess tournament, conducted by the Bombay Chess Association, at the Zandu Pharmaceutical Works canteen, on Saturday.

The eight top players from the 113 participants, in this nine-round Swiss league event, will qualify for the forthcoming State Selection tournament to be held at Nagpur.

MLWB, Naigaon best

MLWB, Naigaon A drubbed Ganesh CC 3-0 in the team championship final of the ninth Mumbai District carrom tournament, co-sponsored by Amco, BOI, BoB, HP, Saraswat Bank and Mumbai District Central Bank, at the Sharda Mangal Kriyalaya, Naigaon, on Saturday.

Result: Team championship (final): MLWB bt Ganesh 3-0: (SandeepDeorukhkar bt Nandkumar Mhatre 25-1, 25-0; Ramesh Deokule bt Pravin Janak 25-17, 12-25, 25-13; Anant Gayatri bt Vilas Dalvi 25-19, 8-25, 25-17). Third place: Boricha Club A bt MLWB B 2-1.

Easy for Hindalkar

Uday Hindalkar trounced Kiran Barve 25-0, 25-0 in a first-round tie of the first Thane District Ranking carrom tournament, conducted by Mukand Sports Club, on Saturday.

Other results:

Men's singles (1st round): Sandesh Patel bt Narendra Patil 25-0, 25-5; Sameer Wankhede bt Santosh Mane 25-1, 25-5; Sunny Solanki bt Mahesh Kokil 25-16, 25-10; Rangnath Shetty bt Onkar Khalap 25-5, 25-2.