Four lead Chandigarh Chess tournament
Our Sports reporter

Chandigarh, May 24
Naveen Jain, Abhinandan Vohra, Anmol Razdan and Sunil Bansal were leading with four points each at the end of the fourth round of the Chandigarh Chess tournament played here today at the St Kabir School, Sector 26.

Today’s point position at the end of the fourth round: 4 points: Naveen Jain, Abhinandan Vohra, Anmol Razdan and Sunil Bansal; 3.5 points Naveen Bansal. 3 Baijnath Prasad, Nitin, Sanjeev Biswas, Ashwani, S.S. Cheema, Vipnesh Bhardwaj, P.P. Singh, Himal Gusain, Rakesh Singla, Rakesh Singh, Swapan Biswas, Jaskaran , Mohit and SP Singla; 2.5 Anil Raina, Damanpreet and Shrishti. 2 Manmohan Singh, Sahil Dhawan, Kapil Dev, Rashpal kaur, Maneel, Ravjot, A.P. Singh, Vishal, Abha, Tanmay, Prince, Naress, pallak, Shweta, Karandeep, Suresh,Chetan, Devanshu, Rudra, Manoj, Gurtej, Sudeep, Himanshhu, Kawaljeet and Devinder Rawat.

Mandeep, Tanveer surge ahead

Fancied Mandeep Yadav and Tanveer Sandhu, both from Chandigarh, surged ahead on the opening day of the qualifying rounds of the AITA Talent Series Tennis tournament played here on Monday at the CLTA stadium, Sector 10.

The results of the today’s matches are: Boys Under-14 (first round) : Jaskaran Singh b Tushar Jaitely 7-6 (5); Parveen Arora b Barinder Grewal 7-3.

Boys under-14 (second round) : Mandeep Yadav b Tushar Thukral 7-4; Amit Chauhan b Jasjeet Singh 7-3; Munish Bhumk b Jivtesh Kang 7-5; Chetanya Verma b Jivtesh Saini 7-0; Ketan Gupta b Gursimran S. Siniran 7-0; Deepak Singh b Sampuran Singh 7-1; Kanav b Gurasish Shawney 7-4; Rajat Chopra b Vaibhav Gupta 7-4; Sonam Phuntsok b Deepak Garg 7-4; Raghav Singhal b Karan Bhai 7-3; Nitin b Karanvir S. Mggar 7-1; Shikar Gaddh b Dhruv Khanna 7-6 (2); Jassan S. Bhati b Sidharth Mago 7-2; Saurav Sharma b Bharat Ghai 7-0; Balwinder S. Sharan b Jaskaran 7-2; Vishal Suri b Parveen 7-5.

Boys under-18 (first round) : Jaiverdhan Gupta b Deepak Singh 7-4; Gaurav Sharma b Shubham Kamboj 7-2; Vishal Suri b Nishant Kumar 7-5; Satpal Dagar b Bhupinder Singh 7-5; Jasjeet Singh b Kunal Singh 7-0; Shikhar Gaddh b Nitin 7-4; Sidharth S. Baidwan b Chetanya Verma 7-5; Ankush Goel b Rajat Chopra 7-4; Hargobind S. Dhillon b Parveen Arora 7-1; Gurdit Singh b Raghav Singhal 7-0; Sourav Sharma b Akshat Joshi 7-4; Munish Bhumbik b Nikhil Hooda 7-6(8); Tanveer Sandhu b Alankrit Senger 7-0; Dhruv Khanna b Khalendra Kadian 7-0; Raghav Singh b Pawan Kumar 7-0; and Bevesh Babar b Raineet S. Saini 7-3.

Boys under-18 (second round) : Navinder Singh b Jai Vardhan Gupta 7-3; Gaurav Sharma b Gursimran Brar 7-6 (4); Yogesh Phoghat b Vishal Suri 7-2; Satpal Dagar b Fateh S. Ladhar 7-4; Hazary Javed Akbar b Jasjeet Singh 7-5; Sidharth S. Baidwan b Shikhar Gaddh 7-3; Kuldeep Shug b Ankush Goel 7-0; Hargobind S. Dhillon b Gurdit Singh 7-1; Amit Chauhan b Sharanveer Singh 7-1; Devesh Bubber b Garry S. Amor 7-4; Saurav Sharma b Ketan Gupta 7-5; Varun Sharma b Sagar Sharma 7-2; Uday Sadana b Munish Bhumbak 7-2; Mandeep Yadav b Khaliider Khanna 7-6(8); Vikas Sethi b Ragav Singh 7-2; and Tanveer Sandhu b Gaurav Singh Toor 7-6(3).

Bansal selected for camp

Oscar Bansal, a promising badminton player of Chandigarh, has been selected for a three-week sub-junior national camp being held at Ponda, Goa. Puneet Bansal and Mandeep Singh are the other junior players of city who are attending the national camp in Bangalore. All three shuttlers are trainees of the Panjab University coaching centre. Mr Hadiyanto, badminton coach from Indonesia, will be imparting training to the campers specially in doubles alongwith national junior badminton coach Mr Sanjeev Sachdeva.

Kawaljit to train tennis players in Vietnam
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, May 24
Kawaljit Singh, Director of Coaching, CLTA, Sector 10, has been invited to train under-14 tennis players of Vietnam for three months. Kawaljit Singh, who was to earlier accompany Indian players for a French tour, conducted by the All-India Tennis Federation (AITF), will now go to Vietnam. He will be based at Hochiminh city.

Kawaljit, who has coached players like Sunil Kumar, said he would be leaving on May 28. In the first week of June, Prudence Cup Tennis Tournament would be held, where talented youngsters would be selected. Later he would train budding players. In July, three tournaments would be conducted by the Vietnam Tennis Federation.

Kawaljit also worked with the Hong Kong Sports Development Board from January to March last year under the Elite Tennis Programme at the Hong Kong Sports Institute. He also remained an ITF coach for under-16 and under-14 teams to Europe, an ITF coach for the ITF International B team in 2001, and conducted Olympic Solidarity level II coaches course in Bangladesh in December, last year.

MC cracks whip on defaulting units
Our Correspondent

Mohali, May 24
Cracking down on industrial unit owners who have failed to clear outstanding water and sewerage bills, the local Municipal Council is cutting their water connections. Over 22 water connections of the defaulters had been cut till today.

To name a few the council staff had cut the water connection of Surinder Singh, having an industrial unit in Phase VIII. He owed Rs 40,950 to the council. Similarly water connections of Telephone Cables Ltd in Phase VIII (Rs 16,325), Mr Gurinder Singh, Phase IX (Rs 10,281) and Mr Amir Singh, Phase IX (Rs 9,387) had been cut by the civic body.

The civic body had issued notices to 73 defaulters to clear their pending dues at the earliest, failing which the water and sewerage connections would be cut.

However the response to the notices of the council had not been very encouraging. Although a sum of about Rs 3 lakh was lying unrecovered, the civic body could collect only Rs 82,464 from persons who cleared outstanding dues after getting notices.

Earlier the water connections of 90 industrial unit owners had been cut by the council till April 20. The work of water supply and sewerage in industrial area VI to IX is being looked after by the civic body.

Although the council had made a recovery of Rs 10 lakh during the year, Rs 3.23 lakh had been recovered during February and March.

In February the Department of Local Government, Punjab, had directed civic bodies in the state to recover the water supply and sewerage bills by waiving interest and penalty provided consumers deposited the outstanding amounts with the authorities concerned by March 31.