The Hindu : Sport : Easy win for Leela Krishna

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006

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Easy win for Leela Krishna

Principal Correspondent

HYDERABAD: Leela Krishna defeated Vedanth Agarwal 8-0 in the boys under-12 first round of the AP State-ranking tennis tournament organised by Sree Ganesh Raman Tennis Centre (Bowenpally) here.

The results (1st round):

Boys Under-12: Sachin Jai Kumar bt Ishaan N.N. Joshi 8-2; S.Mohit bt V. Vishal Gupta 8-4; P. Ashish Rao bt K.V.S. Anudeep 8-0; Prayag Rao bt Jai Sachdev 8-2; Mir Khasim Ali bt K. Ujwal 8-2; T. Sai Praneeth Reddy bt Jitesh Swamy 8-2; Leela Krishna bt Vedanth Agarwal 8-0; Akhil Verma bt Avinash Murthy 8-7 (7-3); Nikhil Arora bt Sohan Reddy 8-1; S.M. Osama bt Vidhit Agarwal 8-3; Yash Puri bt Md. Human Hyder 8-2; P.K. Aditya bt Varun Reddy 8-2; K. Rawal bt Sai Tarun Anirudh 8-4; A.L. Anirudh bt Aditya Shah 8-0.

Rajiv Singh wins

Rajiv Singh of Nizam Club got the better of Shabana Banu (APBSA) 91-100, 100-93, 100-81 in the preliminary round of the inaugural Nizam Club inter-club billiards tournament for Tarachand Bhagwandas Solanki memorial rolling trophy here.

The results: Ashish Kumar (NCS) bt Ismail Ibrahim (NCH) 101-64, 101-41; K. Venkatesham (SCR) bt Rajiv Singh (NCH) 100-8, 100-22.

Charan, Kamal win titles

Charan Kumar and Kamal Hassan won the seniors and juniors titles respectively in the Golf Association of Andhra Pradesh's annual summer coaching camp tournament held here. G.J. Dawson, organising secretary, hoped that the young talent would continue to show the same interest in the sport in the long run and make optimum use of the facilities available. K.V. Brahmananda Reddy, special secretary, Government of AP, gave away the prizes.

Srikanth shines

Good knock by Srikanth (73) helped The Hindu score a four-wicket win against State Bank of Hyderabad `B' in the SBH day-and-night corporate cricket tournament here.

The scores: Aegis BPO 176 for seven (Raj Kumar 70) lost to CSC 178 for four (Rajat 56 not out, Ram Sarma 43).

SBH `B' 144 for five lost to The Hindu 145 for six (Srikanth 73, Shylender 45).

Capco Capacitors 140 lost to Kun United `A' 143 for five (Manoj 69, Sridhar 42).

ICICI Bank 95 (Prakash four for seven) lost to NMDC 96 for six.

MCH-HUDA 102 (Balbir four for 13) lost to Tata Indicom 103 for two.

Vasant Scribes 148 for nine (Pavan 62, Kaundhanya four for 35) bt Apollo 113 (Prasad four for 15).

ADF India 167 for six (Vishwanath 66 not out) bt HDFC Life 110.

HSBC 196 for six (Shashi 53) bt Tata Consultancy 113 (Rohit 47).

APHC members for

West Indies

Four players of Andhra Pradesh High Court will represent Indian Advocates Cricket Association team on its twin tour of West Indies and England for invitation matches.

The team will play two matches in Trinidad, one in Barbodas and three in London and will leave on May 24.

The APHC members: P. Suresh Kumar, K. Suryanarayana, Raja Sripathi Rao and Jokka Vijay Kumar.

Chaitanya to lead

Chaitanya Bhatnagar will lead Loyola Cricket Academy in the All India Pepsi cricket tournament for under-17 in Bangalore from May 24 to 30.

The team: Chaitanya Bhatnagar (capt), Chandrakanth Rao, Aditya Nair, P.Nitin George, Abhishek, Sai Saravan, V.Vasu, Harish, Munish Chand, Rajesh, I.Shravan, B.V.Harish, M.Nikhil, Chandra, R.Saravan Kumar, Raj R.Saraiya.

Amalraj is captain

Victor Amalraj will lead Andhra Pradesh veterans football team in the South Zone championship to be held in Chennai from May 27 to 28.

The team: Victor Amalraj (capt), M.K. Kumar, Giri, P.P. Raj Kumar, Akmal Ahmed, Ran Som, Syed Hussain, Akthar Ali, Syed Muzaffar, Christopher, Syed Arif, Mohd Moosa, Krishna, Aleem Khan, Chandra Sekhar, Prakash, Naseer Ahmed, Sai Baba and S. Tony.

Akbar Ali nets winner

Bharat Dynamics Ltd scored a solitary goal win against State Bank of India in the A-Division Rahim league football championship here on Monday. Akbar Ali scored the goal.

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