Samarth stuns top seed Behl

Samarth stuns top seed Behl
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MUMBAI, FEBRUARY 17: Unseeded Gautam Samarth toppled top seed Rishi Behl 6-2, 7-5 in the fourth Wodehouse Gymkhana junior open under-16 tennis quarter-finals.

Results: Boys under-16 (quarter-finals): Gautam Samarth bt Rishi Behl 6-2, 7-5; Sham Pednekar bt Saurabh Kohlli 6-2, 6-0; Akshay Chellapa bt Kenneth Quadros 6-2, 6-4. Under-14: Keshav Narsimhan bt A Moses 6-2, 6-3; Akshay Chellapa bt Rohan Gide 6-0, 6-0; Vedant Bhagwat bt Kenneth Quadros 2-6, 6-2, 7-6 (7-3). Under-12: Arnav Jain bt Anuj Arora 9-1, Agnel Gladwin bt Tejaswi Rao 9-2. Under-10: Varun Vasant bt Karan Jhaveri 8-5, Debendra Das bt Samir Paranjpe 8-2.

Girls under-16: Krushmi Chheda bt Anuradha Gurang 6-0, 6-2; Saumya Kautha bt Jharna Nancy 6-3, 6-2; Kartiki Bhat bt Sonali Sanap 6-1, 6-1; Anuja Parekh bt Nidhi Shah 6-1, 6-2. Under-14: Kartiki Bhat bt Moneeza Siddique 6-0, 6-0; Sagarika Phadke bt Divya Gopal 6-3, 6-1; Nidhi Shah bt Nalini Malaya 6-7 (3-7), 6-4, 6-2; Shraddha Lodha bt Manisha Mehta 6-3, 6-3. Unde-12: Parija Maloo bt Shfra Fernandes 8-0, Moneeza Siddique bt Hritika Shah 8-0. Under-10: D Vazirani bt S Dayal 8-6, Prachi N bt Sweta Hegde 8-2.

Ruparel on top
DG Ruparel were in command against RA Podar at the end of the penultimate day of the four-day Inter-collegiate cricket final at Elf Vengsarkar Cricket Academy, Oval Maidan, on Thursday.

Ruparel, after taking a 286-run lead, had Podar tottering at 130 for five wickets, needing 156 more to avoid follwo-on.
Brief scores: Podar 252 and 130-5 vs Ruparel 538 (Sudesh Nayak 49, Abhijit Shetye 81, Amit Mungekar 101, Ravikant Chavan 64).

L&T in final
Larsen and Toubro beat BPCL by 10 runs in the Indian Airlines cricket semi-finals. Man-of-the-match Uday Bangar scored 29, took two wickets while affecting a run-out and taking a catch.
L&T meet IDBI in the final.
Brief scores: Larsen and Toubro 189-8 in 50 overs (Dilip Kambli 32; S Raikar 3-9) bt BPCL 179 in 44 overs (P Lotankar 67; Bhagwan Sanap 4-31).

Qualifiers spotted
Vinod Solanki, Prakash I, Nitin Nawar, Amit Dixit, DK Golwankar, Subhash Honmurgi and Vaibhav Saxena qualified to play the state selction chess tournament to be held at Nagpur. They joined N Singaravelan, winner of the Mumbai Division selection tournament that concluded on Wednesday. The seven seeded players of the meet had qualified earlier.

Laher flows
HT Laher came back from behind to defeat G Sarkar in the Catholic Gymkhana open handicap snooker tournament for the Anthony D'Souza trophy. Laher won 100-112, 108-71, 125-81.

Results: G Narang bt J Menezes, HT Laher bt G Sarkar, A Agarwal bt P Mathur, DS Rao bt R Bajora, H Mehta w/o P Shah, A Pachapute bt F Cordello, SK Mehta bt P Shah.