SPORTS

RSB Jaipur bags tennis title
Our Sports Reporter

Chandigarh, November 10
The All-India Civil Services Tennis Meet came to a close today with players from Jaipur walking away with majority of the titles here at the Sector 10 Tennis Stadium. RSB Jaipur bagged the team championship while open singles title also went in favour of Jagdish Tanwar of RSB who also claimed the open doubles title in partnership with Chanderveer.

Mr Rajan Kashyap, President, Chandigarh Olympic Association, gave away the prizes. Mr B.D. Sharma, Secretary, Central Civil Services Control Board, presented mementoes to Mr Kashyap and Mr M. Ramsekhar, DC, UT.

Results: (team events) — RSB Jaipur b Central Sect., Delhi 2-0; (open singles) — Jagdish Tanwar (RSB Jaipur) b Mohd Wahid (RSB, Hyderabad) 6-0, 6-3; (open doubles) — J. Tanwar and Chanderveer b Mohd. Wahid and R Babu (RSB Hyderabad) 6-1, 6-2; (veteran singles) — A. Hanif ( RSB Indore) b G. Pandu Rangaiah (RSB Hyderabad) 6-4, 6-1; (doubles) — Dr Shivpuri (RSB, Jaipur) and SD Yadav (RSB Indore) b A. Hanif and S.L. Yadav (RSB Indore) 6-4,7-6 (4).

Cricket tourney: The Punjab Secretariat Club defeated Gursagar CC by eight wickets on the opening day of the Cable Network Systems (CNS) trophy played here today at Gursagar Grounds today. In another match of the day, Godrej Cricket Club beat Khalsa Cricket Club by 32 runs.

Brief scores: Ist match — Gursagar CC: 120 runs for five wickets (Sachin Preet 36, Bobby 32, Sarjan Singh 29 n.o., Lalit 3 for 29, Paramjit 2 for 14); Pb Sectt: 123 for two wickets (Harpal 65, Harnek 25 n.o.); IInd match — Godrej CC: 174 runs for nine (Arun Tuli 72, Rakesh Jolly 47, Amardeep 25, Radhey 4 for 26, Hardyal 2 for 30); Khalsa CC: 142 runs all out (Ravi Dhaliwal 29, Ajay Manu 29, Amit 3 for 19, Jaswant Rai 2 for 16, RP Singh 2 for 35).

Sports round-up
Haryana’s proud skaters
Arvind Katyal

Chandigarh
Five girl skaters, Priyanka Sharma, Rayasha Rajput, Amrita Singh, Anuja Chauhan and Reetika Sharma, have made Haryana proud. These trainees of the Hansraj Skating Club, Panchkula, were in the Indian roller hockey team which won the bronze medal at the ninth Asian Roller Skating Meet held at Taitung City (Taiwan) recently. These girls are seen practising at the skating rink, among small boys and girls who take lessons from their coach, Balwinder Johal. Priyanka Sharma, who captained the Indian roller hockey team, said it was her second Asian meet. Earlier in the 1999 Asian Meet at Shanghai (China) she had helped India win the bronze medal. Priyanka was also honoured at the Republic Day function last year. Anuja Chauhan took to skating only last year. Earlier she was interested in basketball and judo.

Rayasha Rajput, a student of Class XII, said the rink at Panchkula, where she practises, had the right environment for skating. Rayasha also took to skating late, but though her aim is to go in for a course in Fine Arts, yet she would love to continue with skating. Rayasha said her maiden trip to Taiwan had been very absorbing.

Amrita Singh, another young skater, is now in Class IX and her aim is to help bring gold medal to India in the 10th Asian Skating Meet. She says her recent experience has helped her learn new techniques and now she spends more than five hours at the rink. Amrita, who also took part in the 8th Asian Skating Meet in China, said their main weakness was physical strength which they were trying to improve. Reetika Sharma, a Class XI student, said it was her first trip to Taiwan. She said the Italian coach who remained with the Indian team at Taiwan also helped them in improving some finer points.

Balwinder Johal, the coach, said the school management was also giving all support and their centre had become the hub of roller hockey activity and that skaters from Chandigarh and Mohali were converging on this rink.

Carrom meet: Last week saw the 47th edition of National Carrom which was played at St. Stephen’s School, Sector 45. This school has given a new lease of life to carrom, which has so far been considered a hobby sport. Now this sport is catching up and if all the carrom activities of the past one yea are to be listed, these may surpass many other popular games. Now that the School Games Federation of India had added it to its calendar, it is for the Chandigarh Carrom Association to convince other states to participate in the national meet.

Chandigarh yoga
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 10
Twenty teams from various schools and colleges of Chandigarh took part in the four-day Chandigarh Open Yoga Championship which concluded at the Government Health Centre in Sector 23 here today. The Honorary Secretary of the Chandigarh Amateur Yoga Association, said the prize distribution function would be held on November 11.

School sports meet
Tribune News Service

Panchkula, November 10
The annual sport meet of DC Model Senior Section School was held here today.

The day began with a marchpast. This was followed by a colourful display of PT, dumbbells and yoga display. Students also displayed their martial art skills and different inter house sports events also marked the day. A dandia performance was also performed. Mr K.S. Vasisht, who was the chief guest, gave away prizes to the winners.