CHESS

NATIONAL U-9 CHAMPIONSHIP

KOZHIKODE, Round II (Boys) — S. Sridev 1 lost to N Srinath (TNCA) 2 - Ankit Rajpara (Guj) 2 bt Viswajeet Avinash Kirane (Mah) - l P.P. Patil (Mah) 1 lost to Prasanna Raghuram Rao (Mah) 2 - N.D. Rakesh Kumar (TN) 2 bt Vishnu Gopakumar (Ker) 1 - Subhra Pratik (Ori) 1 lost to Fenil Shah (Guj) 2 - Sahaj Grover (Del) 2 bt P. Srinivas Varma (AP) 1 - Tanuj S Dayal (Mah) 1 lost to M. Ravi Teja (AP) 2 - Gundala Madhukiran (AP) 2 bt Sayan Mazumdar (WBCA) 1 - S.S. Manikandan 1 lost to Viani Antonio 2 - Pawan Garde (Goa) 1 lost to Samrat Ghorai (WBCA) 2 - R. Eswar (AP) 2 bt Suhail Ahmad (UP) 1 - S. Sunil 1 lost to Shiven Khosla (Mah) 2 - Reshmanth Kolli (AP) 1 lost to S Shashank 2 - Upase Jaydatta Shivaji (Mah) 2 bt Abhishek Reddy (AP) 1 - Ankit Dixit (UP) 2 bt Vasantha Rupa Varman 1 - Prantik Roy (WBCA) 2 bt Rahul Desirazu 1 - Y.V. K Chakravarty (AP) 2 bt R. Ganesh 1 - Poulasta Kar (Alekhine) 1 lost to S.S. Anand 2 - Girls’ Round II: M. Sahaja (AP) 2 bt K Sai Nirupama (AP) 1 - Veena Mounica (AP) 2 bt B. Prathyusha (AP) 1 - G.Agnihotri (Alekhine) 1 lost to V. Aishwarya 2 - J. Saranya (TN) 1 lost to K. Srividya (AP) 2 - S. Sindhuja 1 lost to J. Mohana Priya (TN) 2 - B. Taraaswani 1 lost to S. Chandana Priya Reddy (AP) - G. Abinaya (TN) 1 lost to Padmini Rout (Ori) 2 - Sapnita Shinde (Cha) 1 lost to S. Gayathri (TN) 2 - Swati Majumder (WBCA) 2 bt Priyanka Kumari (Bih) 1 - Soumya Shrivastava 1 lost to Lipsa Mishra (Ori) - Teenu Thomas (Ker) 2 bt R Krishna Ronica (Che) 1 - A Asha Meera 1 lost to Mohana Sengupta (GCA) 2 - Pranathi P. Pai 1 lost to V Malvigha 2 - Krushna Mishra (Ori) 1 lost to Lia George (Har) 2 - Samyukta Devi 1 lost to J. Ramya Sri (AP) 2 - S. Apoorva 2 bt P. Nirupama (Ker) 1 - Akansha Gupta (UP) 1 lost to Y.G. Sreeharika (AP) 2 - Priyanka Kumari jr 2 bt Meghna Roy (Alekhine) 1.

TENNIS

ALL-INDIA RANKING MEET

HYDERABAD, Round II (Men’s singles): Vinod Sridhar (TN) bt Arafat Mohammed Yassar (AP) 6-8, 6-1 - Namesh Bajpai (Kar) bt Viplav Anjan (AP) 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 - Chitlangia Ritesh (Raj) bt Q Syed Rahil (Kar) 6-4, 6-4 - Wakalkar Amod (Mah) bt Mahajan Indra Kumar (MP) 6-2, 6-0 - Rajeet V M (TN) bt Sacheti Shryansh (MP) 6-7 (9), 6-1, 6-1 - Chaturvedi Parantap bt Tejesvi Rao (AP) 6-3, 6-1 - Chowdhary Sandeep (Raj) bt Mishra Girish (Up) 6-1, 6-1 - Kamala Kannan (TN) bt N Kiran Kumar (Kar) 7-5, 5-7, 6-2 - Women’s singles - Anupama Rajur (Kar) bt P.V. Raja Rajeswari (AP) 6-4, 6-0 - Fathima Baig (TN) bt Harpreet Gill (MP) 6-0, 6-3 - Men’s doubles: P Vikas (AP)/Parantap Chaturvedi (Del) bt J. Vishnu Vardan/P. Pavan (AP) 6-4, 7-5 - Vinod Sridhar/Kamala Kannan (TN) bt A.R. Anand Kumar (AP) and M.V. Abhay Prakash (Kar) 6-2, 7-5.

For the book

The 50th all India inter-university hockey meet for women will start at Alagappa university, Karaikudi in Tamil Nadu from December 30. Sixty-two teams, including the last year's winners Punjab University, Chandigarh and runners-up Gurunanak Dev University, Amritsar will vie for top honours for the Ram Lok Malhotra Trophy.