NEW DELHI: Both Indian men and women have been drawn in a relatively easy Group G in the 14th Asian Table Tennis Championship which begins at Osaka, Japan on Monday.

The men's team, led by national champion Chetan Baboor, has been drawn with Pakistan and Brunei while the eves spearheaded by MS Mythili will lock horns with Australia and Thailand. The top teams from each group will advance to the knock out quarter-finals. A total of 35 countries are in the fray.

The teams (Men): Chetan Baboor, S Raman, Arup Basak, Soumyadeep Roy and Deepak Thukral. Women: Mythili, NR Indu, Mantu Ghosh, Kasturi Chakravarthy and Poloumi Ghatak.

Jeev third

CHANDIGARH: Golfer Chiranjeev Milkha Singh once again was in his brilliant best. Playing in the field of 56 golfers in the 12th Mercuries Cup Masters which concluded at Taiwan Golf and Country Club, Tamsui course on Sunday, Jeev Milkha finished a creditable third with a score of seven-under-par 281, two strokes behindwinner Bonchu Ruangit and runner-up Hsiksh Yu.

His third place earned him $ 25,000 US dollars.

Shiv Prakash wins

BANGALORE: Driving and chipping brilliantly, 39-year-old pro from Kanpur, Shiv Prakash added one more feather to his cap winning the McDowell's Centenary Golf Tournament with a cumulative score of 277 at the Bangalore Golf Club course here on Sunday.

Results: (Professionals): 277: Shiv Prakash (66,74,68,69); 281: Arjun Singh (69,70,69,73), Vijay Kumar (69,71,70,71); 282: Ali Sher (76,71,67,68), 285: Feroz Ali (67,68,76,74); 286: Devendra Patel (71,72,68,75); 287: Mohd Islam (72,71,75,69).

Digvijay champ

CHENNAI: Digvijay Singh of Meerut was declared the winner in the AV Thomas Gold Cup Amateur Golf Championship at the Cosmopolitan Club Links here on Sunday. With the rains unrelenting for the better part of the day, there was never any realistic chance of finishing the last round. The final results were based on the cards after the first 54 holes of the 72 holecompetition.

Digvijay had a three-round aggregate score of 215. Delhi's Amit Luthra, a former winner, and defending champion Sheeraz Kalra of Lucknow, who both tallied 217, were joint second.

Book on Azhar

HYDERABAD: A book in Hindi on the Indian skipper Mohammad Azharuddin will hit the stands before the World Cup in May next. The biography Azharuddin is authored by a young Hindi journalist Anas Baqai from Kanpur.

Double for Rishi

CHENNAI: West Bengal's Rishi Kumar Singh completed a double retaining the single sculls title and coxed fours event along with Bannarjee, Samantha and Rajesh trouncing favourites Services Sports Control Board (SSCB) in the 19th National Junior Rowing Championship.

Rishi, who won the single sculls race for the second year in succession by a whisker, winning by virtue of a higher rating, sculling away at the finish. The Bengal boys won the coxed four race in a time of 2m 17 sec. Kerala regained their title in the sculls and pairs events defeating Bengal.