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Battle for supremacy
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Sikh Regiment outstroke Tatas |
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City boy is national champion NEW DELHI, Oct 9 — Sixteen-year-old Chandigarh giant- killer Sunil Kumar today won the National Hardcourt Tennis Championship, beating seventh-seeded Mustafa Ghouse of Maharashtra 7-5, 6-0, 5-7, 6-2. 6 meet
records established Gopi Chand, Aparna in q-finals
Ramgarhia college eves finish on
top Myanmar, Korea share lead Srinath, Fazaluddin get direct
entries Rios dominates Bjorkman
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Battle for
supremacy begins today SAS Nagar, Oct 9 — Onus will be on newcomers Debang Gandhi, M.S.K. Prasad and Vijay Bhardwaj to repay the trust reposed in them by the selectors when India clash with New Zealand in the opener of the three-Test series at the Punjab Cricket Association ground here tomorrow. Bhardwaj, who has been included in the squad in place of former skipper Mohammed Azharuddin will comparatively be a bit relaxed having already one ‘man of the tournament’ award under his belt in the just-concluded Nairobi four-nation tournament in which he displayed sound temperament and looked a solid middle-order batsman, besides being successful as an off-spinner. Wicketkeeper Prasad has, on occasions, looked quite impressive behind the stumps as well as as a batsman — the catch he took diving full-length to his left to dismiss West Indian Brian Lara in the second match of the Toronto Cricket Festival and a valuable knock of 63 runs against South Africa in the Nairobi tournament final when India were in all sorts of trouble, being the high points of his fledgling career so far. Perhaps this was the sort of beginning he needed but he has to go a long way before he is able to displace Baroda’s Nayan Mongia in Tests. Mongia is superb as far as the prowess behind the stumps is concerned and this factor will definitely be there in Prasad’s mind as the play starts tomorrow. Ironically, Prasad’s career virtually came to a premature end in the recent Singapore Challenge cricket tournament when the team management in all its wisdom dropped him from the squad and asked middle order batsman Rahul Dravid to take the responsibility of standing behind the stumps in addition to his primary responsibility as a key batsman for the sake of providing ‘balance’ to the team. Gandhi, who was earlier selected in the team for the Asian Test Championship final but could not get a chance to bat as India failed to make the grade, would only be too eager for making most of the opportunity knowing full well that Rajasthan’s Gagan Khoda and Mumbai’s Wasim Jaffer are also waiting in the wings. Gandhi, who has been a prolific scorer in the recent past, is likely to open the innings in the company of Sadagopan Ramesh, who, in a brief period of time, has established himself as a dependable opening batsman in both versions of the game. Focus, however, will undoubtedly be on the Indian skipper and the world’s best batsman Sachin Tendulkar who will take charge of the team after he was forced to skip Toronto series against the West Indies and the Nairobi tournament on account of his back problem.Expectations from the little champion are always sky high and the cricket buffs would be too keen to see how he marshalls resources at his disposal under another legend Kapil Dev, whose knowledge and natural acumen for the game should stand the team in good stead. Players should be eager to avenge the humiliation they had to face when the team visited New Zealand during last winter. Seam bowler Simon Doull wrecked havoc on the much-vaunted Indian batting in the second Test after the first Test was completely washed away due to rain as Indians made a disastrous start to the tour. All-rounder Chris Cairns made a mockery of the Indian bowling attack, scoring a scintillating century off just 70-odd balls-seventh fastest in the history of one-dayers and the fastest from any New Zealander — in the last one-day match at Christchurch which effectively nullified India’s chances of winning the one-day series. Cairns, in fact, tormented India with the bat throughout the tour having earlier made a century in the last Test at Hamilton to thwart Indians in their effort to level the series and salvage some pride. Besides Cairns, the visitors have Craig McMillan, deemed a highly promising young batsman who has the reputation of taking the fight to the rival camp due to his aggressive batting abilities. The presence of skipper Stephen Fleming, Matthew Horne,Nathan Astle and wicketkeeper batsman Adam Parore in the batting and Dion Nash, Shayne O’Conners and Daniel Vettori in the bowling department besides, of course, their superb fielding makes the Kiwis a formidable opposition. India with the return of Tendulkar and the likes of Saurav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and Ajay Jadeja in their ranks to take care of batting and a fresh Javagal Srinath and Venkatesh Prasad in addition to the help from veteran Anil Kumble should fancy their chances if they apply themselves well and play to their potential. Kumble, who in all probability, is set to make a comeback will be under pressure to make a fine impression and be among the wickets. But Kumble, once the team’s strike bowler along with Srinath, will go all out to see that the bouncy track with a fair amount of grass on it which has the reputation to be an ally of quick bowlers and not the spinners, except perhaps towards the fag end of the contest, does not turn out to be his nemesis. Teams (from): India: Sachin Tendulkar (captain), Sadagopan Ramesh, Debang Gandhi, Rahul Dravid, Saurav Ganguly, Ajay Jadeja,Vijay Bhardwaj, MSK Prasad (wk), Anil Kumble, Javagal Srinath, Venkatesh Prasad, Sunil Joshi, Harbhajan Singh and Debashish Mohanty. New Zealand: Stephen
Fleming (captain), Matthew Bell, Matt Horne, Craig
McMillan, Nathan Astle, Chris Cairns, Adam Parore (wk),
Dion Nash, Shayne O’Conners, Daniel Vettori, Chris
Drum, Chris Harris, Andrew Penn, C Spearman and Paul
Wiseman. |
Tendulkar
sounds optimistic SAS Nagar, Oct 9 — Indian skipper Sachin Tendulkar sounded quite philosophical when queried at the nets about the absence of former skipper Mohammad Azharuddin. He quipped: “Even great players like Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev had to stop at some stage or the other. However we have to concentrate how to play with the 14 players available. “At times there will be guys who will not be there,” he replied as the former Hyderabad batsman failed to get the nod of selectors after he withdrew from the squad after the World Cup in order to undergo surgery on his injured shoulder. Azharuddin had submitted his fitness certificate to the board duly signed by a doctor in London who performed the surgery. About his back injury the batting maestro replied that he was feeling relieved after the treatment he received in Australia and that he was keen to do well in the current series. He said he had been practising at the nets along with Mumbai players and he felt no discomfort on account of injury. He denied that the team was at any disadvantage as it was playing Test matches after a fairly long break. The visitors are palpably on a high after registering a historic victory over England in Tests in the just-concluded away series. Tendulkar looked satisfied with the appointment of the legendary all-rounder Kapil Dev as the team coach and felt that it would benefit the team. Kapil who kept the players on their toes with the vital net practice ahead of the Test match, looked quite enthusiastic about the new assignment at hand. Tendulkar, however, refused to name the final eleven that will play in the inaugural Test, saying that a final decision would be taken in consultation with the selectors and the coach tomorrow. Rival skipper Stephen Fleming agreed that the tour would be quite tough for the team,saying that the conditions prevalent here were different from those in England. He promised to a tough fight for the Indian team. Fleming looked to have a
lot of faith in the abilities of left-arm spinner Daniel
Vettori, saying that he was his trump card. Vettori,
besides being an impressive spinner, is developing into a
useful batsman down the batting order. |
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NEW DELHI, Oct 9 (UNI) — Sixteen-year-old Chandigarh giant- killer Sunil Kumar today won the National Hardcourt Tennis Championship, beating seventh-seeded Mustafa Ghouse of Maharashtra 7-5, 6-0, 5-7, 6-2. Making it a double for Chandigarh was top-seeded Akshay Vishal Rao who beat local-boy Parantap Chaturvedi 6-2, 7-5 to win the boys under-18 title. Sunil, who finished his amazing run in the tournament on a champion’s note, today had to battle for nearly three hours to win the coveted title. He is the second player, after Zeeshan Ali, to bag the title at the age of 16. In the women’s section, top-seeded Sai Jayalakshmi of the Indian Oil Corporation defeated second-seeded Rushmi Chakravorthi (IOC) to emerge the women’s champion. Sai, who was runner-up to Uzma Khan last year, won 6-2, 2-6, 6-3. The left-handed Sunil reached the main draw after successfully battling six qualifying rounds. En-route to the five-setter finals, he beat the likes of former national champion Asif Ismail and the crafty Saurav Panja. In today’s match, the up-and-coming Chandigarh lad, considered to be a find of the championship, looked confident against his 19-year-old Maharashtrian opponent. However, Mustafa matched him equally and the first set saw both unable to break each other till the 11th game. But Sunil, who managed three break points in the next, converted the last one to win the set 7-5. The second set saw him completely overtaking Mustafa, a doubles specialist, as Sunil broke him in all his serves to easily win 6-0. Just when it seemed that Sunil was going to win the championship without much trouble, came up a rejuvenated Mustafa. He broke Sunil in the first game, and though the players traded a break in the third and the fourth games, Mustafa managed to break Sunil in the 11th game to go up 6-5. He then served out the set (7-5) at love. The fourth set, which was the only chance for Mustafa to stay in contention for the championship, saw him drifting away from his natural game. He seemed to be going more and more away from his natural serve and volley game. Even his serve never seemed in control as he double faulted thrice in this set, out of a total of 12 in the match. But here Sunil proved to be a tough customer and played like a champion. Despite his little experience and a young age, he showed tremendous staying power and grit and never bowed to pressure. He broke Mustafa in the sixth game to go up 4-2. Then retaining his serve, he managed two championship points on Mustafa’s serve. Mustafa, who mentally seemed to have given up the match by this time, saved the first. But he did not prove lucky the second time, as after a long rally he hit a backhand at the nets to give Sunil the championship. Earlier in the women’s final, Sai and Rushmi played mediocre tennis. Both never seemed to rise to the occasion, and made many double faults. Results (finals): Men’s: Sunil Kumar bt Mustafa Ghouse (7) 7-5, 6-0, 5-7, 6-2. Women’s: Sai Jayalakshmi (1) bt Rushmi Chakravorthi (2) 6-2, 2-6, 6-3. Boys (u-18): Akshay Vishal Rao (1) bt Prantap Chaturvedi 6-2, 7-5. Girls (u-18): Radhika Tulpule (3) bt Karishma Patel 7-5,6-4. Men’s doubles: Mustafa Ghouse/Vishal Uppal bt Saurav Puja/Nitin Kirtane 7-5, 7-6 (4). Womens doubles: Arti
Venkatraman/Archana Venkatraman bt Janaki Krishnamurthy
and Radhika Tulpule 2-6, 7-6, 3-1. (Janaki and Radhika
conceded the match in the third set because the former
had a muscle pull). |
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KATHMANDU, Oct 9 (UNI) — Rohtas Singh, the veteran with 27-year playing experience and winner of over 100 professional titles, finally broke his title drought of four years when he won the Rs 5.5 lakh Surya Nepal Masters at the Le Meridien Gokarna forest golf resort, here today. Rohtas entered into a three-way playoff after finishing tied at two-under 142 with colour plus open champion Feroz Ali and Arjuna Award winner and rookie pro Harmeet Kahlon. On the third hole of the playoff, Rohtas sank a 20-footer putt for birdie for his first victory in four years after the 1995 Classic Western Opening in Pune. Kahlon and Feroz tied for the second place and took home Rs 48,125 each. Rohtas was richer by Rs 89,100. In what turned out to be an exciting battle between a rookie, a veteran and the hottest player on the Wills Sport Golf tour. An eagle on par-5 11th put Rohtas back on the rails after two bogies on the front nine looked like pushing him out of contention. “I did nothing spectacular today. Only, when it mattered most, it was I who made the putt,’’ said an extremely satisfied Rohtas, known as ‘Guruji’ on the Wills Sport Indian Golf tour. “It feels great to win again after a gap of four years. But during this time, I never had one negative thought. In fact, I consider myself lucky to have had a career that long. How many sportsmen can boast of playing for 27 years? Also, I realise that the competition is much more intense now with all this young players. I will be happy if I can win one or two titles in two years,’’ he said after the tournament. Feroz came to the final hole of scheduled play leading by one stroke, but his approach shot deposited him on the upper tier of the green, some 15 feet from the Cup. He still had a chance as Kahlon had missed the green and Rohtas was 25 feet short of the Cup. But Feroz three-putted while Kahlon produced a marvellous chip which hit the pin and Rohtas almost birdied with a super putt. That pushed the event into a three-way playoff. Kahlon missed a golden
opportunity to finish the tournament in designated holes
when he was leading by three strokes over Feroz birdies
on the second, third and fifth holes before disaster
struck on the back nine. He made bogies on easy par-5
11th and 15th holes, but the big blow for the Oil India
and India Cement-sponsored pro was on the par-4 14th,
where he went into the right jungle with his tee shot and
ended with a triple bogey. |
Motor
cyclists steal the show MANALI, Oct 9 — In what has to be one of the most amazing coincidences of motor racing, two contestants of the Raid de Himalaya are tying with exactly the same timings for the third leg of the event which went through one of the toughest terrains possible, as competitors raced through from Manali to Kaza and back. Sanjay Sikand and Raj Kapoor, both driving Maruti Gypsies, tied in with exactly the same timings for the third time today, even as the raid lost a car soon after the event was flagged off from Kaza today On Friday, the competitors had to cross the Rohtang Pass at 14,000 feet above sea level in order to get to the competitive stage that started from Gramphoo. On their way to Kaza, they had to cross the Kunzam Pass (15,800ft.). This was day 2 of Leg 2 and it included one of the longest competitive stages, 134 km of rugged boulder and stone-strewn track, which ran through the high-altitude desert. The event, which has been organised by the Himalayan Motorsport Association, became one of the highest motor sport events in the world by crossing the Kunzum Pass in its competitive stage twice in two days. “The Raid has created motor sport history by competing at this height,” said Vijay Parmar, the president of the association who is also the Clerk of the Course. Today was day 3, Leg 3 when the competitors came back from Kaza to Gramphoo. Car No 17 driven by Manoj Khan of Agra overturned on a sharp left hand turn shortly after flag off from Kaza. The competitors following this car helped to set the vehicle back on its wheels, only to see it roll off the cliff. The driver and co-driver escaped unscathed though shattered. They could not take part in the rally any longer Small groups of people in this sparsely populated region of Lahaul –Spiti came out to watch the event. As we were waiting for the Raid cars to show at Chattru, Darshan Kalia, SDM, Kaza, showed us some photographs of what had probably been the other major event in the lives of the local residents, the yak and horse show that was a part of the Independence Day celebrations. The SDM, like his counterparts wherever the event went through, was intimately involved in the event that entails, among other things, blocking traffic en route the competitive stages. The Raid de Himalaya has been jointly sponsored by the Government of Himachal and Shilon Resorts with Maruti Udyog being the major sponsor. As usual the motor cyclists stole the show by racing through the icy mornings and evenings when the temperatures hovered around zero degrees centigrade, with the wind-chill factor making it much worse for these two-wheeler riders. The first to clock in at Manali today was Surhid Sharma, followed by Mohinder Singh. They are both running neck-to-neck at the end of the third day with barely a minute separating them. The third two-wheeler into Manali was Nitin Malhotra who has moved up considerably from his seventh place two days ago. Among the four wheelers, the first car in was B. S. Pruthvi, a surprise because he has been in and out of the race, plagued by drive shaft problems. He was followed by Satkiran Hara who has been leading till now. Both these competitors drive Esteems. The third man in was Sanjay Sikand, in a Gypsy, bits and pieces of which had been left behind in the high-altitude desert. Tying in with him was Raj Kapoor. Mona Desai and Rajni
Nagu comprise the only women’s team in the Raid.
They are doing well and have been showing consistent
progress. Leg 4, the last day of the Raid de Himalaya,
will head back to Shilon Bagh where the event started
from two days ago. The competitive stage will start from
Ghyagi from where the competitors will have to again
cross the Jalori Pass again on the way to Ani. From there
to Kingal is a transport stage and then comes a long and
final competitive from Kingal to Basantpur. Regrouping is
at Naldhera and the finale will be a convoy drive to
Shilon Bagh. |
6 meet
records established LUDHIANA, Oct 9 — Six meet records were rewritten on the second day of the 33rd Punjab State Swimming Championship for men and women at the Municipal Corporation pool here today. In the 4x200 m free style relay, Punjab Police quartet of Tarlochan Singh, Sukhpal Singh, Mohinderpal and Deepak Kumar clocked 9.31.79 secs to set a new meet record erasing 18-year-old record of the BSF team (9.33.00 secs) made in 1981. Hoshiarpur team with timing of 9.42.91 secs finished second while Jalandhar came third with 9.43.22 secs. In the 4x100 m medley relay Punjab Police team created another meet record when Harmail Singh, Mohinderpal, Tarlochan and Sukhpal took 4.47.05 secs to better the previous record of 4.47.74 secs. In the women’s section, Ludhiana rewrote the meet record in 4x200 m free style relay with timing of 11.37.63 secs. Earlier record of 11.56.84 secs was established in 1997. In the 4x100 m free style relay, Sukhmandeep, Vibha Babbar, Bindya Sareen and Anisha Maheshwari figured in Ludhiana’s record-breaking performance. The quartet clocked 5.16.40 secs thus putting to shade the previous record of 5.17.43 secs set by Patiala in 1993. (Men) 100 m free style: 1. Jaspreet Singh (Sng) 00.59.52 secs, 2. Tarlochan Singh (PP) 1.01.25, 3. Assem Parman (Hsr) 1.01.97. 400 m Ind medley: 1. Jaspreet Singh (Sng) 5.29.74 sec, 2. Tarlochan Singh (PP) 5.39.75, 3. Sukhwant Singh (Asr) 5.44.97. 4x200 m freestyle relay: 1. Punjab Police 9.31.79 sec, 2. Hoshiarpur 9.42.91, 3. Jalandhar 9.43.22. 400 m free style: 1. Jaspreet Singh (Sng) 4.46.85 sec, 2. Sukhpal Singh (PP) 5.02.11, 3. Kuldip Singh (Jal) 5.02.88. 50 m back stroke: 1. Madhav Sund (Ldh) 00.30.24 sec, 2. Jaspreet Singh (Sng) 00.32.37, 3. Rajwinder Singh (Rpr) 00.33.47. 50 m breast stroke: 1. Jaspreet Singh (Sng) 00.34.97 sec, 2. Alic Masih (PP) 00.35.21, 3. Harmail Singh (PP) 00.35.91. 4x100 m medley relay: 1. Punjab Police 04.47.05 sec, 2. Jalandhar 05.01.25, 3. Hoshiarpur 05.03.37. (Women) 400 m Ind medley: 1. Kiran Deep Kaur (Rpr) 6.36.23 sec, 2. Neha Bector (Ptl) 6.47.40, 3. Gitinder Kaur (Jal) 7.12.06. 4x200 m free style relay: 1. Ludhiana 11.37.63 sec, 2. Ropar 12.07.19, 3. Sangrur 12.09.62. 400 m free style: 1. Sukhmandeep (Ldh) 05.54.50 sec, 2. Neha Bector (Ptl) 05.55.75, 3. Rupinderjit Kaur (Sng) 05.55.83. 50 m back stroke: 1. Gitinder Kaur (Jal) 00.41.00 sec, 2. Kirandeep Kaur (Rpr) 00.41.55, 3. Harpreet Kaur (Gdr) 00.41.66. 50 m breaststroke: 1. Himanshi Chopra (Sng) 00.42.23 sec, 2. Vibha Babbar (Ldh) 00.43.28, 3. Suneeta (Gdr) 00.44.37. 4x100 m free style relay: 1. Ludhiana 05.16.40 sec, 2. Gurdaspur 05.26.84, 3. Sangrur 05.29.68. Waterpolo league
matches: Punjab Police b Amritsar 22-0, Jalandhar b
Amritsar 15-4. Hoshiarpur b Gurdaspur 11-2, Faridkot b
Patiala 18-1, Faridkot b Sangrur 14-3, and Hoshiarpur got
w/o against Patiala. |
Gopi Chand, Aparna in q-finals BANGALORE, Oct 9 (PTI) — India’s Gopi Chand, Nikhil Kanetkar and Aparna Popat have reached quarterfinals of the German Open Badminton Tournament being held in Duisburg. Kanetkar, ranked no 72 in the world, upset tournament’s number 2 seed Thomas Johannson of Sweden (world no 22) in a one-hour match, while Popat, in another marathon match, beat Hong Kong’s Win Tim Ling. Gopi Chand scored a creditable straight game win over Xinpeng Ji of China, according to a Badminton Association of India release here today. Popat, currently ranked 26 in the world, lost the first set 7-11 to Ling (world no 34), but won the second at 11-7. In the decider, she was down 10-12, but got through 13-12. The match lasted one hour 10 minutes. Popat plays No 2 seed and world No 10 Yasuklo Mizui of Japan for a place in the semis. Gopi Chand, ranked No. 50 in the world, got past Xingpeng Ji of China (world No 19) 15-3, 15-9. The Chinese had reached the finals of the Dutch Open last week. Gopi Chand now plays Mark Constable of England. Kanetkar outplayed the
Swede 15-3 in the first, but lost 15-4 in the second. In
the 3rd, he played patiently and won 15-9. He now plays
Hui Xiao of China who beat Ismail Saman of Malaysia 6-15,
15-8, 15-10. |
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MUMBAI, Oct 9 (PTI) — Sikh Regiment from Ramgarh “stroked” out local giants Tata Sports Club 5-4 via tie-breaker to enter the pre-quarter-finals of the 38th Bombay Gold Cup Hockey Tournament at the Mahindra Stadium here yesterday. After a barren first half in which the Sikhs dominated the proceedings, they took the lead in the 14th minute of the second half through frontliner Rajpal Singh off an indirect penalty-corner try. This was neutralised in the 27th minute by a fine reverse-flicked field effort by Tata’s midfielder Viren Rasquinha leading to the “strokes” duel which the visiting team won 4-3 to earn a meeting with Tamil Nadu XI for a spot in the last eight. Earlier, Bhopal XI edged out Indian Navy (Mumbai) through a lone first half field goal scored by Mohd Faisal in the 31st minute also to enter the last 16 for a clash with former champions Punjab Police. In other matches Bengal XI got past local outfit Western Railway 7-6 via the sudden death after the teams were tied 2-2 at full time. Bharat Petroleum edged out Bombay Customs 4-2 via tie-breaker in a match carried over from the previous day and another top local side Air India thrashed Companeroes 6-0 in an all-Mumbai clash. Tatas applied initial pressure on Sikh Regiment players with their speedy thrusts from the right and the middle which was soaked up well by the latter before the visitors went on the offensive in the first half in which they forced penalty-corners in close succession. But they had to wait till midway into the second stanza to procure a well-deserved lead when Rajpal Singh lay in wait to find the mark with a rising shot following a penalty-corner shot by Satnam Singh (jr) which rebounded off Tata goalkeeper A.P Girish’s pads. The goal had come off Sikh regiments seventh penalty corner and second of the latter half. Stunned by the reverse, Tatas showed a lot of urgency with their frontliners Amjad Khan, Asad Khan and Claes Ferreira galvanised by some superb work in the midfield by Rasqunha, skipper Enrico Fernandes and Vikram Pillay. It was this constant pressure which fetched the equaliser for the local giants. Midfielder Bipin Fernandes broke through the middle but his effort was blocked by Sikh Regiment custodian Jaspal Singh. The rebound was flicked in with the reverse stick in style by Resquinha. In the “stkes” duel, Ferreira’s push was well-saved by Jaspal to give the edge to the visiting team for whom Balijit Singh, Athar Imam, Satnam Singh (jr) and S.S. Gill found the target from the “spot”. For Tatas, Bipin
Fernandes, S. Krishnamurthy and Asad Khan scored while
Ferreira and skipper Enrico Fernandes failed.
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Ramgarhia college eves finish on
top CHANDIGARH, Oct 9 — Ramgarhia Girls College, Ludhiana in the Women’s section and SGGS College in men’s section secured top positions in the Panjab University Inter College Cross Country for men and women held here yesterday. In the women’s section Khalsa College for Women, Ludhiana, MCM DAV College for Women, Chandigarh and SGGS College for Women, Chandigarh finished second, third and fourth respectively. In the men’s section, DAV College, Sector 10, Chandigarh got the second position, SGGS Khalsa College, Mahilpur third while SGHG Khalsa College Gurusar Sudhar finished fourth. Results (individual events); Men- Vikas( DAV-10) 1, Time: 39:03.49 sec: Puran Chand( SGGS -26) 2, Vipin Kumar ( PU) 3. Women- Amarjit Kaur (Ramgarhia, Ldh) 1, (time-19:45.00 sec): Paramjit Kaur ( Ramgarhia, Ldh) 2, Kavita ( MCM DAV -36) 3. In the PU inter zonal basketball tournament for women, GCG, Sector 11, Chandigarh prevailed over PU campus team by 55-30 with half time score of 32-14. In another match, MCM DAV College for Women ousted GCG-42, Chandigarh by 49-08 with half time score of 31-06. In the last match, DAV College Hoshiarpur toppled Guru Nanak Girls College, Ludhiana by 44-08( half time-28-02). In the PU inter college zonal badminton tournament for men, DAV College, Sector 10, defeated SGGS College , Chandigarh by 3-0, GGD SD College, Chandigarh beat Panjab Engineering College, Chandigarh by 3-0. In PU inter college
Kabaddi tournament for men, SGGS College, Sector 26
Chandigarh whipped Government College, Sector 46, 75-30. |
Myanmar,
Korea share lead NEW DELHI, Oct 9 — Asia’s top two players this season, Myanmar’s Kyi Hla Han and Korean’s Kang Wook-Soon, helped their countries into a tie for the lead in the inaugural Asian Nations Cup in Kuala Lumpur today. Han, the current Davidoff Tour Order of Merit leader, and compatriot Soe Kyaw Naing both fired level-par 72s at Kota Permai Golf and Country Club to share the lead with Korea on three-under-Par 285. After a poor day Korea had started the second round in sixth place, but moved to the top of the board after Kang, who is third on the merit list, and Kim Wan-tae both fired 70s. The two nations lead the 54-hole event by one stroke from the Philippines team of Felix Casas and Marciano Pucay, and Thailand, who are represented by Thoungchai Jaidee and Thammanoon Sriroj. Mardan Mamat and Madasamy Murugiah, playing for Singapore, are fifth on one over par. First round leaders Taiwan fell back after an extremely poor day which saw Chen Liang-hsi card a 75 and Tsai Chi-huang a 78. The Taiwanese team were seven under on day one but finished two over for the tournament after the second round and are tied for sixth place with Hong Kong. The Asian Nations Cup is
also doubling as a qualifying event for the World Cup of
Golf to be played next month at the Mines Resort City in
Kuala Lumpur. The top four teams will go through to play
at the Mines where the star attraction will be Tiger
Woods. “It was a tough day,” said Han. “I
made a few bad swings and nearly shanked a nine iron on
the fifth where I made a double bogey. |
Srinath, Fazaluddin get direct entries MUMBAI, Oct 9 (PTI) — As many as 10 Indians, including Davis Cuppers Prahlad Srinath and Syed Fazaluddin, find themselves in the list of direct entries for the Indian ITF Satellite Tennis Circuit to be held in different parts of Maharashtra from October 18 to November 14. Besides Srinath and Fazaluddin, the other Indians for the first leg, slated to be held at the Dr Ranade Tennis Centre here from October 14, are Vinod Sridhar (world ranking 696), Sandeep Kirtane (770), Vijay Kanan (827), Nitin Kirtane (823), Saurav Panja (872), Vasudeva Reddy (872), Vijendra Laad (939) and Mustafa Ghouse (949), a Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association release said here yesterday. Srinath (316) is the highest ranked player in the fray followed by Fazaluddin (419) and Badim Sptko (474) of Czech Republic, the release added. Others who have got
direct entries are Swedens BSL Thornadtsson (507),
American Tom Chicoine (563), Hungarians Zoltan Boroczky
(733) and Balacs Veress (864), Austrian Xbynek Mlynarir
(770), Czech Ondrej Chvapil (977) and Greece’s Niko
Karagiannis (977). |
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SHANGHAI, Oct 9 (DPA) — Marcelo Rios moved a step away from his third title in Asia, beating fifth-seeded Swede Jonas Bjorkman 6-4, 6-1 on the back of a marathon opening game at the $ 350,000 Heineken Open tonight. The match started around
90 minutes late due to rain moving up the East Coast of
China following the landfall of typhoon dan to the south. |
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school placed first PATIALA, Oct 9 — Baba Farid Public School stole the honours by beating Bhiwani Circle Public School, New Delhi , to win the hockey event in the boys section of the inaugural North Zone Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) sports meet, which concluded at the NIS here today evening. In the girls section of the hockey event, Maharaja Agarsain Public School, Sirsa, clinched the first spot, while Saint Thomas Public School, Jalandhar, was placed second. This being the inaugural edition of the games, the organisers included just two disciplines — Hockey and lawn tennis — for both boys and girls. In the boys section, in the lawn tennis event, DAV Public School, Panchkula, were placed first while the second position was taken by S.G.N. Adarsh Nagar School, Jalandhar. In the girls section the first and second positions were bagged by Laurento Convent School, New Delhi, and Satnam Singh School, Sirsa, respectively. As many as 16 schools participated in the lawn tennis event while in hockey 25 schools from the entir northern region took part. Finance Minister, Capt Kanwaljit Singh distributed the prizes. DAVSSS-8
lads enter final CHANDIGARH, Oct 9 — DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8, and Delhi Public School, New Delhi, would vie for top honours in the tomorrow’s final of the SNOSA North Zone Basketball Championship for boys which entered the penultimate day at the Shishu Niketan Sr Sec School, Sector 22, here today. In the first semifinal, DPS, New Delhi toppled DAV Public School, Sector 15, Chandigarh, by 65-30 with half time score of 22-9 in favour of the former. The main scorers for winners were, Hrishant (21) and Sanjeet (16) while Harvinder scored 18 points for the losers. In the second semi final, DAVSS- sector 8, Chandigarh whipped Govt. Senior Secondary School, Gidderbaha (Pb) by 59-32. At half time DAV-8 boys led at 32-18. The main scorers for DAV-8 were Amrish, Harjot and Amit Kakron who scored 18 points each. Akash deep scored 13 points for the losers. The finals will be played tomorrow at 12 noon. |
Sodhi, Garry help Patiala
win PATIALA, Oct 9 — An unbeaten century by Reetinder Sodhi (102 n.o.), his second successive hundred in Katoch Shield matches, paved the way for Patiala’s eight wicket win over Jalandhar in their final league encounter which concluded here today. After having bundled out Jalandhar for 224 on the first day’s play, there was a 127-run second-wicket partnership between Reetinder Sodhi and Gaganinder Garry (62), for Patiala. There was another dashing knock of 52 by Munish Bali. Earlier, Sodhi was in danger of opting out of the match as the Indian team management had called him to Mohali today to provide bowling practice to the Indians. However, after duly completing his century Sodhi left for Mohali. Scores: Jalandhar (Ist innings): 224 all out. Patiala (Ist innings) 228 for 2 (R. Sodhi, Gaganinder Garry 62, Munish Bali 52 n.o., Lalit Kapoor 1 for 25, Vivek Mahajan 1 for 35). Roller
skating trials LUDHIANA, Oct 9 — The Ludhiana District Roller Skating Association will conduct trials to select the Ludhiana team here at the Guru Nanak International Public School, Model Town on October 16 at 9 a.m, according to Mr JS Dhaliwal, general secretary of the association. The selected skaters will represent Ludhiana in the 11th Punjab State Roller Skating Championship slated to be held by Patiala next month. Inter-state
carrom from Oct 25 CHANDIGARH, Oct 9 — The 27th Sub-Junior National and Inter-State Carrom Championship and the VIIth Federation Cup Carrom Tournament will be held at Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) from October 25 to 29, according to Mr Mahesh Sekhri, Joint Secretary of the All India Carrom Federation. More than 400 players from various states and union territories, including the twice world champion and Arjuna Award winner Anthony Mariairudayam, would take part in the tournament. The events to be organised for the sub junior national are team championship for boys and girls, under 14 boys and girls in singles and doubles and cadet (under 12) boys and girls. MCM
DAVC win CHANDIGARH, Oct 9 — Government College for Women, Ludhiana, pipped Government College for Girls, Sector 11 by 61-47 while MCM DAV College for Women, Chandigarh won over DAV College, Hoshiarpur, at 50-33 in the Panjab University Inter Zonal Basketball Tournament for Women being played on league basis here at the PU grounds here today. Results: GCW, Ludhiana b GCG-11 Chd 61-47 (half time 37-19) (scorers- winners: Mandeep Brar 36, Rajni Sahota 19) losers: Sunita 15, Jaspreet 15,) MCM DAV -36 b DAVC Hpr 50-33 (half time-28-12) Scorers-winners-Chinku 14, Amandeep 10, Nivedita 10: losers-Gurminder 19, Meena 12). DAV Hpr b GCG-11 38-37
(half time-16-18): GCW, Ldh b MCM DAV-36 41-40 (Half
time-19-24). |
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