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Ravikrishna overcomes Parekh

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

October 13: Unseeded P Ravikrishna of Andhra Pradesh ousted fourth seed Pratim Parekh of Maharashtra 1-6, 4-6 in the first round of the boys u-16 section of DSCL National Open Tennis Championship here today.

Boys (u-14) eighth seed Ankit Doshi (Mah) was the other seed to fall today, beaten 3-6, 3-6 by Arif Hyder (AP) as the other seeds advanced to the second round with ease.

Results:

Boys u-16 (first round): Saurav Sakul (WB) bt Ridhiman Dutta (Asm) 6-2 6-4; P Ravikrishna (AP) bt 4-Pratim Parekh (Mah) 6-1 6-4; Shivang Mishra (Del) bt Nishank Mishra (Del) 6-3 6-3; AR Anand Kumar (AP) bt Riaz Ahmed (Raj) 5-7 6-4 6-2, 3-Vinod K Sewa bt Nipun Gupta (Del) 6-1, 6-2; Alok Bhide (Mah) bt CS Mohanty (Del) 6-0 6-2; 2-Sunil Kumar (Chd) bt Sidharth Sudhakar (Kar) 3-6 6-4 6-1; Anant Sitaram bt Rohan Gajjar 7-5 6-3. Under-14 (first round):

Arif Hyder (AP) bt 8-Ankit Doshi (Mah) 6-3 6-3; 7-Rohan Gajjar (Mah) bt Abhinav Subramanium (Del) 4-6 6-4 4-1 (conceed); Saurav Sakul (WB) bt Devanand Jha (Chd) 6-06-1; 5-Devender Singh bt Anup Anand (Chd) 6-0 7-6 (3); 3-Nishank Mishra (Del) bt Ridhiman Dutta (Asm) 7-5 6-1; 2-Vikrant Sane (Mah) bt Tushar Garg (Del) 6-3 6-3.

Girls' U-16 (first round):

Sonal Phadke (Mah) bt Monia Goel (Del) 6-1 6-0; Megha Vakaria (Mah) bt SL Manasa (AP) 6-1 6-3; Nandita C (TN) bt Nandini Pddy Erumal (AP) 6-2 6-2; Lisa Pereira (Mah) bt Shalini Reddy (TN) 6-0 6-1; Y Lakshmi Reddy (AP) bt Poornima Narayanan (Del) 6-3 6-1; Sandhya Kanuri (TN) bt Jitisha Shelrka (Mah) 6-3 6-1; Isha Chopra (Har) bt Sanaa Bhambri (Del) 6-0 6-1; Shreen Yusaf (Kar) bt Ridhina Parekh (WB) 6-2 2-6 6-0; Rani Smita Jain (Raj) bt Raghini Vimal (WB) 6-2 6-3; Rati Kumar (Mah) bt Sania Mirza (AP) 6-2 6-7 (5) 6-3; Geeta Manohar (AP) bt Isha Lakhani (Mah) 3-6 7-5 6-1; Sasha Abraham (AP) bt Lata Assudani (Mah) 7-6 (5) 6-4; T Yamini (TN) bt Samrita Shekar (TN) 6-3 7-6 (6).

Under-14 (first round):

1-Megha Vakaria (Mah) bt Deepa Chakravarthy (Guj) 6-1 6-3; Saranya Pattabi (TN) bt Nikita Singh (Chd) 6-0 6-1;Samrita Shekhar (TN) bt Monia Goel (Del) 6-2 6-4; 5-Preeti Rao (TN) bt Maithri Jagannath (Kar) 6-2 6-2; 7-Sasha Abraham (AP) bt Sanaa Bhambri (Del) 7-5 6-0; Krushmi Chadda (Mah) bt Uttara Rama Rao (Mah) 6-3 6-2; Priyanka Parekh (WB) bt Gayatri Ramesh (Ker) 6-3 6-2.

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