Katrela downs Bopanna
Vinay Katrela overcame first-leg winner Sajan Bopanna 5-3 in the 38th Senior State-ranking snooker tournament at the KSBA Hall in Bangalore on Saturday.
Results: Senior snooker: Vinay Katrela bt Sohail Jairaj 5-2 (18-56, 70-25, 73-7, 45-65, 57-11, 54-42, 56-22); Sajan Bopanna bt Ajay Bhushan 5-3 (79-0, 67-37, 71-36, 69-15, 2-93, 47-52, 54-56, 72-36); M S Arun bt B Bhaskar 5-1 (73-16, 66-45, 43-83, 88-1, 73-41, 55-43); Vinay Katrela bt Sajan Bopanna 5-3 (40-65, 61-24, 10-67, 36-70, 72-1, 58-48, 69-10, 86-43); Ajay Bhushan bt Sohail Jairaj 5-2 (58-5, 67-53, 57-44, 103-0, 21-55, 37-50, 64-5); B V Srinivasa Murthy bt Duncan Mackenzie 5-2 (25-65, 84-56, 58-55, 84-36, 90-23, 77-81, 68-43).
Junior billiards: Amit Bhushan bt Mundir Sherazi 603-589; Balaji Reddy w/o Md Ali.

Prakash enters quarterfinals
Prakash Jolly defeated GK Ashwin 21-9, 21-9 to enter the quarterfinals of the boys under-19 event in The Wearhouse 17th State-ranking badminton tournament at the Sadashivanagar Club courts on Saturday.
Results: Boys: U-19 (pre-quarterfinals): Prakash Jolly bt GK Ashwin 21-9, 21-9; Sonic Prabhu Desai bt TR Jeevan 21-16, 21-17; Prateek Khurana bt Prakyat Naik 21-14, 23-21; Prathap Menon bt RN Suraj 21-16, 14-21, 21-19; Rishiket Yeligar bt LU Chriag 21-13, 21-8; D Sunil Varma bt Adarsh Kumar 21-19, 21-17; MD Anup Kiran bt Abhay Arya 21-12, 21-14.
Girls: U-19 (first round): GM Nischitha bt Cital 21-9, 21-9; Sneha Rao bt Juhi Hegde 21-10, 21-6.
U-13 (first round): Monisha A Gowda bt Parvathy SK 21-11, 21-9; Deepal K bt Drishya B Prasad 21-12, 21-11.
U-10 (PQF): Ashwini Bhat bt Tavee Kommandur 22-24, 22-20, 21-15; Aashi Gupta bt Rithika R 21-1, 21-8; Tanya bt Disha Mittal 21-12, 17-21, 21-13.

Children’s chess tournament
CV Raman Chess Club will conduct their monthly children chess tournament at KNT Art Gallery (A/27, 27th Cross, 7th Block, Jayanagar) on Sunday.
The events will be held in ‘beginner group’, under-8, 10, 12, 14 and open category. For details call on 9945190200 or 98800-21552.