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Adidas-MCC junior National tennis

Chennai: The adidas-MCC National junior clay-court tennis championship will take place under the auspices of AITA and TNTA at MCC and five other venues from August 13 to 18.

The tournament will be held in the boys’ and girls’ under-18 and under-14 (singles and doubles) categories.

“Twenty states will be represented in this edition,” said Tournament Director Hiten Joshi, at a press conference, adding that a total of 597 entries have been received.

The draw size for the boys’ and girls’ singles events will be 64 and 48 respectively.

The qualifying rounds will take place on Saturday and Sunday.

Some of the prominent boys’ under-18 players include Vijayant Malik (Chandigarh), Abhijeet Tiwari (Chattisgarh), Ronak Manuja (Maharashtra), N. Sriram Balaji and Priyank Gangadhran (Both Tamil Nadu). V. Archana (AP), Gopika Kapoor (Delhi), Tanvi R. Shah (Maharashtra), Rashmi Teltumbde (Maharashtra), Kelsey Sundaram and Nandita Krishnan (Both Tamil Nadu) will be the prominent under-18 girls in the fray.

Sixteen wildcards have been awarded overall, for the various singles categories.

St. Jospeh’s scores win

St. Joseph’s Engineering A beat Nazareth College, Chennai 43-24 in the St. Joseph’s Sree Raghavendra All India inter-collegiate basketball tournament for men and women.

The results:

Men: Gandhigram Rural University (Harishankar 18, Dinesh Kumar 16) bt St. Joseph’s Engineering ‘B’ 56 (Barath Raj 22, Vivek 17); Nazareth College 24 (Allen 8) lost to St. Joseph’s A 43 (Nikhil 12); GRD College, Kovai 49 bt Bishop Appasamy College, Kovai 24.

Kho-kho tournament

CBSE Cluster V inter-school kho-kho tournament will be held at Jain Vidyaashram from August 23 to 25.

Entries close on August 13 (before 4 p.m.) with L. Sarumathy, Principal, Jain Vidyaashram, No.150, Othawadai Street, Puzhal, Chennai-600 006. Ph: 26590111/ 26590661.

Athletics competition

SDAT will organize the ranking competition in athletics for three age categories at SDAT Jawaharlal Nehru stadium on Saturday.

The athletes will be ranked according to their performances; the first three places will be awarded with prizes and certificates.

For further details contact Ph. 2836 4322 / 2836 0226.

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