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GMSSS-37 girls emerge winners
Our Sports
Reporter
Chandigarh, April 10
Government Model Senior Secondary
School, Sector 37, emerged overall winner in the girls section while
Government Senior Secondary School, Karsan, bagged the overall
championship in boys section in the UT Inter-School Athletics
Championship organised at the Sector 7 Sports Complex. Boys
(under-14) — discus throw-Yesu Raj (St Anee’s-32) (1), Sahib Singh
(2), and Arun (3); javelin throw: Nitin Sharma (GHPS-40) (1), Geetank
(AKSIPS-41) (2), and Sukhwinder (SGHPS-40) 3; 200 metres: Abhilash (Chd
Baptist-45) 1, Sandeep (Chd Baptist) 2, and Arun (GGHS-45) 3; 4x100
metres: Chd Baptist School-45 1, GHS-38 2, and St Anne’s School-32
3. Girls: (under-19) — 4x 100 metres: Sacred Heart School-26 (1),
GGSSS-8 (2), and GMSSS-37 (3); under-19: 4x 400 metres; SGSSS-8 (1),
GMSSS-37 (2), and SGSSS-26 3; under-17: 4 x100 metres: GMSSS-37 (1),
Sacred Heart -26 (2), and St Anne’s -32 (3); 200 metres: Ansnikha
(GMSSS-37) (1), Purnima (GMSSS-37) (2), and Radha (GGSSS-8) 3. Karate
team: As many as 15 boys and three girls have been selected by the
Sports Karate Federation of India for its participation in the 4th WKC
Open World Karate Championship to be held at St Petersburg, Russia,
from June 21 to 23, organised by the World Karate Federation. The
team is : Kiran Shah, Akib Sachha, Anand, Chander, Nandu, Shri Ram,
Manish, Mihir, Ravi, Mohibali, Sahidali, Manmohan, Navneet, Raj Pal,
Amit. girls-Sheetal, Sabina and Sheetal Hansari. Selection trials
:The Chandigarh Football Academy will conduct revised selection
trials for boys to fill vacant seats in the academy on April 23 and 24
at the Sector 42 Sports Complex. Boys born between January 1,1990, and
December 31,1991, are eligible for the said trials. They should have a
minimum height of 150 cm and 35 kg weight. The physical assessment
will be made in skills, playing abilities, anthrometric measurements
and psychological assessment. Tennis tourney:
The second day
of the Fort Total Tennis Tournament, which was being held on the YMCA
Total Tennis Academy premises in Sector 11, Chandigarh, saw almost all
matches going according to form. From tomorrow onwards, the matches
will be played in both morning and evening sessions.In the boys u-10
category, the biggest upset so far of the tournament was the second
seed and the winner of the last leg, Jaivardhan Gupta. He lost in the
second round of this final leg to Fateh Singh in a tough fought
tie-breaker which lasted for over an hour. Both started the match with
hold of their serve till 5-5 and then in the tie-breaker, Fateh played
some great forehand shots to wrap up the match in his favour at 6-5
(7-4). Another tough match of the day was in the boys u-14 category
between Tejeshawar Singh and Raghav Chopra. Raghav started the match
with a bang as he took the early lead of 3-0 but Tejaswhar fought back
well to level the scores at 3-3 and again Raghav break back to lead at
4-3 and lost two games in a row to give Tejeshwar the lead at 5-4. But
in the 10th game of the match Raghav forced Tajeshwar to play the
tie-breaker. In the tie-breaker, Raghav played some poor shots to gift
the match to Tejeswhar at 6-5 (8-6). Tomorrow the matches will start
at 7 a.m. Following are the results: Boys (u-10 pre-quarterfinals):
— Garry A. Singh beat Fateh S. Arora 5-0; Uday S. Mann beat Bidur
5-0; Ankur Diwan beat Rohan Markanda 5-1; Samin Bharghav beat Rahil
Mahajan 5-1; Sanyam Gupta beat Nishchey Rawal 5-3; Manik beat Bipluv
Jhingam 5-3; Karan Sadana beat Raghav Kapoor 5-3; and Fateh Singh beat
Jaivardhan Gupta 5-4. Boys (u-12 second round): — Ankit Badoni beat
Parth Tandon 5-0; Avi beat Arjun Khanna 5-4; Jivtesh Singh beat Sumtra
Roy 5-2; Sonam Puntsok beat Karan Bhai 5-1; Shiv Tandon beat Rahil
Mahajan 5-0; Raghav Singhal beat Vikramjit 5-0; Jaivardhan Gupta beat
Vikrant 5-1; Navkaran Gill beat Rahil Kohli 5-0; Abhairaj beat Harry A
Singh 5-3; Garry A. Singh beat Akshit Bhatia 5-0; Jaiveer Bawa beat
Manik Khanna 5-2; Akshat Joshi beat Nishchey Rawal 5-0; and Vishal
Suri beat Vipul Bhatia 5-0; and Mandeep Gill beat Snehav 5-0. Boys
(u-14 first round): — Anmol Singh beat Jatin 6-0; Abhishek beat
Tushar 6-2; Navkaran beat Sohail Goel 6-1; Deepak Kumar beat Shashank
Gupta 6-1; Arvinder P. Singh beat Arjun 6-3; Manpreet Singh beat Angad
Brar 6-1; Sidharth Chhabra beat Arjun Khanna 6-4; Sidharth Singh beat
Ruben Budwal 6-5 (3); Tejeshwar Singh beat Raghav Chopra 6-5 (6);
Chetanya Verma beat Bhaanupartap 6-0; and Akshat Joshi beat Arjun
Gabba 6-1.
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