Hardcourt tennis

Zaid Ali Akhtar reached the third round of the boys? under-10 section of the Aarbur Calcutta hard court tennis championship at the Calcutta South Club Monday. Zaid beat Rahul Kumar 7-4. Others into the third round were Sagar Ahuja, Shreedhar Gaggar, Supratik Roy, Akash Bengani and Abhijit Hait.

In the boys? under-12 Vinayak Oleti struggled to beat Shuvo Halder 7-6 (7-4), 3-6, 6-2.

RESULTS

Boys U-10, 2nd round ? Sagar Ahuja bt Rohit Jain 7-4; Shreedhar Gaggar bt Yuvraj Singh Bains 7-1; Supratik Roy bt Shrey Bidasaria 7-1; Zaid Ali Akhtar bt Rahul Kumar 7-4; Abhijit Hait bt Nishant Sharma 7-1, 6-0, 6-0. Boys U-12, 2nd round ? Ayush Bajoria bt Akash Mathran 6-1, 6-0; Anant Kanoria bt Kamran Ali 6-0, 6-0; Rohit Rampuria bt Soham Daga 6-1, 6-0; Ishaan Singh bt Suhrit Majumdar 6-4, 7-6; Manav Agarwal bt Nirmal Kumar Yadav 6-1, 6-2; Rohan Shroff bt Mobasher Alam 6-0, 6-3; Vinayak Oleti bt Shuvo Halder 7-6 (7-4), 3-6, 6-2; Aditya Sinha bt Mriganka Pincha 6-0, 6-1; Rahul Agarwal bt Miraj Bhagat 6-0, 6-3; Shreedhar Gaggar bt Rohan Nagpal 6-3, 4-6, 6-4; Boys U-14, 1st round ? Ayush Dharewa bt Manav Agarwal 6-0, 6-4; Mayank Rai bt Wasim Imran Ali 6-0, 6-0; Ashray Bhasin w/o Ishaan Singh; Sarvesh Agarwal bt Amartya Dutta 6-2, 6-2; Bishnu Pradhan bt Amrit Mukherjee 6-1, 6-0; Prem Singh bt Vineet Rai 6-0, 6-0. Girls U-14, 1st round ? Amrita Mukherjee bt Aandrita Deb 6-0, 6-1.

Table tennis

The 18th edition of the CCD table tennis championships will be held at the Rabindra Sarovar coaching hall from October 6 to 9. Last date of sending entries is October 2.

Varsity soccer

Viswabharati University beat Jadavpur 2-0 in their Vidyasagar Trophy inter-university soccer meet organised by Calcutta University at its Maidan ground Monday. Rajib Dutta scored both goals.

State coach

The IFA will declare the state coach for the Santosh Trophy on September 27 after its meeting regarding that. A lot of names are doing the rounds, but secretary Subrata Dutta said no decision has yet been taken on this. Even the probables? selection will be done after that.

Meanwhile, the foreign team?s complement for the IFA Shield will also be announced later this week, Dutta said.

TODAY IN SPORT

FOOTBALL: Super Division relegation round ? Peerless vs Md. AC (Kalyani), FCI vs CFC (Barasat), Wari vs RFC (Kalyani, Block A). Matches from 3.30pm.