Local League: Thiruvallur DCA, MGCA post wins

Brief scores: Skylab CA 30 in 16.2 overs (Gotam Pratap 3/6) lost to MGCA 31/2 in 3.4 overs; King Star CA 95/8 in 25 overs (K.V. Udit 40*) lost to Thiruvallur DCA 96 for no loss in 12.4 overs (Mohit Singh 52*)

YSCA recorded a thumping 10-wicket win over Servion Global Solutions in the GR Kuppuswamy memorial league cum knockout tournament. Brief scores: Servion Global Solutions 146/8 in 30 overs (Raghunathan 36, Sriram Sangameswaran 40) lost  to YSCA 149 for no loss in 21.2 overs  (P. Raghavendra 76*, G. Nagarajan 49*); IBM 134 in 27.4 overs (Vijay Raja 26, Mobiles 31, C. Kubendran 4/21) lost to Apollo Tyres 138/5 in 24.4 overs (A. Prithviraj 56, Yaar  Ali 28*).

Young Indian table tennis players continued their good run in the SET Thailand Junior and Cadet Open, part of the ITTF World Junior Circuit (Golden Series), adding one more gold and two bronze medals in the singles events late on Sunday in Bangkok. Havish Asrani, spearheading India’s challenge in the Junior Boys’ category, displayed great skill and ability to wallop Kai Shan Man of Hong Kong 3-0 to annex the title. 

Earlier in the Round of Four, he beat Yi Cheng Jaevier Wong of Singapore 3-0. In the Cadet Boys’ singles, Payas Jain walloped Minwoo Kim of Korea 3-2 in a hard-fought match to make it to the medal round. He was up against a formidable Peng Xiang of China in the semis and went down fighting 1-3 to be content with a bronze. In the Girls’ Singles, Suhana Saina beat Natch Supawatanakul of Thailand 3-0 to qualify for the medal round. She, however, capitulated 0-3 against Taemin Kim of Korea in the semis to settle for a bronze.