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Top stars for Natl squash
Chennai: Ritwik Bhattacharya and Mekhala Subedar will defend the men's and women's singles titles respectively in the India Cements Senior National Squash Championship from January 7-12.

Cash prizes of Rs 1.20 lakh await the winners and runners-up. A notable absentee in the U-19 girls section is Joshna Chinnappa, who did not send in her entry.

Seedings: Men: 1 Ritwik Bhattacharya (Delhi), 2 Manish Chotrani (Mumbai), 3 Navneet Narayan (SSCB), 4. Anuj Kalia (SSCB), 5 Rajdeep Brar (SSCB), 6 Gajendra Singh Rathore (MP), 7 Dhiraj Singh (Rajasthan). Women: 1 Mekhala Subedar, 2 Deepali Anvekar.

Gopi, Marcos top
VIJAYAWADA: Pullela Gopi Chand (AP) and BR Meenakshi of Karnataka topped the latest all-India ranking released by Badminton Association of India.

Rankings
Men (singles): 1 P Gopichand, 2 Abhinn Shyam Gupta, 3 Nikhil Kanetkar, 4 Siddharth Jain, 5 Ajit Wijetilak, 6 Sachin Ratti, 7 Abhishek Bakshi, 8 Chetan Anand.(Doubles): 1 Marcos Birstow, 2 Jaseel Ismail, 3 Vincent Lobo, 4 Vinod Kumar, 5 Vijaydeep Singh, 6 Ajit Wijetilak, 7 Jose George, 8 Joy T Anthony. Women (singles): 1 BR Meenakshi, 2 Aparna Popat, 3 Trupti Murgunde, 4 Ch Deepthi, 5 PVV Lakshmi, 6 Manjusha Kanwar, 7 Oli Deka, 8 Neelima Choudary. (Doubles): 1 PVV Lakshmi, 2 G Jwala, 3 Shruthi Kurien, 4 Oil Deka, 5 Ch Deepthi, 6 Madhumita Bisht, 7 BR Meenakshi, 8 Parul Priyadarshini.

Srinath wildcard
NEW DELHI: Davis Cupper Prahlad Srinath was given an out-of-turn wildcard entry for the $10,000 ITF Futures tennis at Secunderabad from January 10-15. Rohan Bopanna was the loser.

--ENS & Agencies

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