Sports briefs: CV Anand clinches singles title at Hyderabad Open

Anand defeated Neelkant Dambre, a very popular tennis player from Goa, 6-2, 6-3 in the final

Hyderabad: CV Anand won the men’s singles title in the 55 years and above category of the Hyderabad Open tennis tournament at Jubilee Hills International Centre here on Friday.

Anand defeated Neelkant Dambre, a very popular tennis player from Goa, 6-2, 6-3 in the final.

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The win for Anand has come after a gap of close to four years.

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Radesh smashes ton on day 2

Rahul Radesh cracked a century (141 n.o., 225b, 21×4, 1×6) on the second day in the Col. CK Nayudu Trophy cricket championship on Saturday.

The scores: 2nd day: Hyderabad 384 in 122.1 overs (Rahul Radhesh 141 n.o., Nitin Sai Yadav 32, Prabhat Maurya 3/45, Rohit 3/41) vs Bengal 177/4 in 57 overs (Ayush Kumar 50, Chandrahas Dash 47, Shashank Singh 58 batting).

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Trisha shines with unbeaten century

G Trisha slammed a century (102 n.o., 137b, 13×4, 2×6) in a lost cause. Hyderabad suffered an eight-wicket loss to Delhi in the BCCI Senior Women’s One-day Cricket Championship fifth round match in Ranchi on Saturday.

For the winners, Pragya Rawat hit a splendid unbeaten 104.

The scores: Hyderabad 203/8 in 50 overs (G Trisha 102 n.o., Nazma 3/28) lost to Delhi 204/2 in 43.5 overs (Pragya Rawat 104 n.o., Tanisha Singh 45).

Inter-district under-19 one-day tournament: Final: Karimnagar 260 in 39.5 overs (Thakshil Erroju 145, B Hishanth 4/51) bt Medak 154 in 23.5 overs (K Vignesh 36, Thakshil Erroju 3/34, Syyed Ahmed Aqdaam 3/17).

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BHEL outplays FCI

D-Division Institution one-day league: BHEL 211 in 29.1 overs (R Nagaraju 55, G. Balaji 42, G Sukumar 4/48) beats FCI 157 in 24 overs (D Venkatesh Sagar 31, Kundan Kumar 34 n.o.).

NFC 158/8 in 25 overs (C Siva Krishna 33, K Manikiran 35, Kasireddi Prasad 3/15) lost to CCMB 159/5 in 24.4 overs (Raheem 61, Kasireddi Prasad 37, K Manikiran 3/33)
TGSRTC 191/3 in 25 overs (V Sai Kiran 68, D Anil Kumar 48 n.o., Nagaraju 38no) bt IICT 189/8 in 25 overs (L Hari Krishna 33, Phani Kumar 3/31).

HAL 141/5 in 20 overs (Soumalya Bhattacharjee 45, K Rajender Babu 44 n.o.) bt Midhani 116/10 in 20 overs (L Ganga Nayak 4/10).
HMWS&SB 181/6 in 20 overs (Ankit Bhatnagar 78, S Mahesh Singh 37) bt National Insurance 95/9 in 20 overs (Y Nava Bharath 4/26).