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Chess
Zhao Xue outwits Kosintseva, takes lead
PANAJI, DEC. 13. Some well-fought matches on the leading boards of the girls' section partly made up for the lack of quality matches in the lacklustre seventh round proceedings of the World junior chess championship on Friday. At the Cidade de ...


Cricket
India back in the hunt
WELLINGTON, DEC. 13. On a Friday of darkness and light, with thick cloud cover and rain during the morning giving way to brightness and sunshine in the evening, India picked itself up from a hole admirably well and is back in the hunt in the ...
Knight's knock in vain
SYDNEY, DEC. 13. England had its best hour of the Australian tour this afternoon, ran up a total of 251 in the first one-day international of the VB series and was then battered to defeat by batsmen so intent on attack that there were five overs ...
Pak fortitude vs. Proteas efficiency
CHENNAI, DEC. 13. A fiercely determined Pakistan will take on a quietly efficient South Africa in the final of the Petro World Cup for the blind to be held here at the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Saturday. If there is one team that has given it ...


Squash
England-Pakistan final
CHENNAI, DEC. 13. Holder England squeezed into the final, edging out last year's runner-up Egypt to set up a title-match on Saturday with resurgent Pakistan, which got past Australia. The absorbing semifinals of the World junior men's squash ...


Tennis
Sania takes on Ankita
NEW DELHI, DEC. 13. Sania Mirza continued her splendid run and reached the final with a 6-3, 6-2 win over the fourth-seeded Yung-Jan Chan of Chinese Taipei in the GAIL Junior Asian tennis championship at the DLTA Complex here on Friday. By ...


National Games
Volleyball: Bengal women avenge defeat
HYDERABAD, DEC. 13. Bengal women avenged their National championship defeat by beating Karnataka 25-21, 24-26, 25-19, 25-19 in Group B and Andhra women defeated Maharashtra, which beat Kerala the other day, 25-21, 25-19, 25-19 in the National ...
Football: Goa downs Maharashtra
HYDERABAD, DEC. 13. Powered by a four-forward frontline, Goa cruised to a 2-0 win over Maharashtra in the men's football competition at the Lal Bahadur stadium here on Friday. In the second match, Services and Bengal were tied in a 1-1 ...
Hockey: Prakash scores a hat-trick
HYDERABAD, DEC. 13. Striker Prakash Choudhary's hat-trick, the first in the competition, fashioned Chandigarh's 3-2 win over Orissa in the women's section of the 32nd National Games hockey competition at Begumpet Police Stadium here this ...
Double for the host
HYDERABAD, DEC. 13. Host Andhra Pradesh started its medal hunt in a grand manner by bagging the men's and women's team golds in the badminton championship of the 32nd National Games here on Friday. In the men's final AP defeated Kerala 3-1 and in ...
Other Stories

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  • Gymnastics: West Bengal women keep gold
  • Assam to host next edition
  • Weightlifting: Keen competition in store


    Bridge
    Kiran and Satyanarayana on top
    KANPUR, DEC. 13. The Delhi pair of Mrs. Kiran Nadar and B. Satyanarayana remained at the top with a tally 195 V.P. at the end of fifth round of matches in the All India Sir Padampat Singhania Memorial bridge tournament at the premises of the ...

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