Jilke, Shilpi bow out of Central Excise AITA Open

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Posted online: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 at 01:41:09
Updated: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 at 01:58:44

Kolkata, February 5 Third seeded Jilke Nelord of Delhi and fourth seeded Shilpi Jaiswal of Bihar crashed out of the SPS Elegant Central Excise AITA Open Grass Court Tennis Championship 2008 that started today.

Akshita Basavaraju of Karnataka beat Nelord 6-2, 6-4 to advance to the quarter-finals stage of ladies singles while Tamil Nadu’s Grace Hannah ousted Patna girl Shilpi Jaiswal 6-3, 6-4.

Second seed Ragini Vimal and fifth seed Shivika Burman, both city girls, also advanced to the quarter-finals. Defending champion Ragini took little time in beating Chennai’s B Svarupa Raadhae 6-3, 6-2. Shivika steamrolled Richa Valechha 6-2, 6-0.

In the men’s singles first round matches, two Kolkata lads managed to stay afloat. Harshvardhan Thirani justified his wild card entry by defeating qualifier from Karnataka Rafiq Paruti 6-2, 6-4 and qualifier Vinod Kumar Sewa made the most of wild card too by bulldozing Yashwant Pulumati 6-2, 6-0. Thirani now faces top seed VM Ranjeet, while Sewa will take on second seed Vinod Sridhar.

Today’s results:

Main Draw: Men’s Singles First Round: Harshvardhan Thirani (WC)(WB)(74) beat Rafiq Paruti (Q)(Kar)(78) 6-2,6-4; N. Sriram Balaji (TN)(49) beat Sunil Goswami (Q)(IAF) 6-3,6-0; Yogesh Phogat (HSIIDC)(38) beat Jitin Bishnoi (Q)(HSIIDC)(98) 7-5,7-6(7-2); A.S. Suresh Krishna (AP)(58) beat Kamlesh Kumar Shukla (Q)(UP) 6-1,4-2(Retd.); N. Vijay Sundar Prashanth (4)(TN)(22) beat Aniket Sudhir (Q)(Mah)(66) 6-3,6-4; Yannick Nelord (7)(Dli)(26) beat Javed Akbar Hazary (Q)(Pun)(74) 6-3,4-6,6-3; Rahil Makharia (Mah)(53) beat Ankit Patel (LL)(Cg)(85) 6-1,6-1; Vinod Kumar Sewa (Q)(WB)(66) beat Yashwant Pulumati (WC)(AP)(151) 6-2,6-0; Vinod Sridhar (2)(TN)(14) beat Bharat Bhardwaj (Q)(UP)(78) 6-2,6-0.

Ladies’ Singles First Round: Andrea Das (WC)(WB)(89) beat Mohana Sarker (WB)(57) 1-6,6-2,7-5.

Ladies’ Singles Pre Quarter Finals: Asha Nanda Kumar (1)(Kar)(12) beat Ahana Banerjee (WC)(WB) 6-0,6-0; Anushree Thammanna (7)(Kar)(44) beat Andrea Das (WC)(WB)(89) 6-4,6-3; Akshita Basavaraju (Kar)(52) beat Jilke Nelord (3)(Dli)(31) 6-2,6-4; Rani Smita Jain (6)(IAF)(41) beat Surabhi Gurung (WB) 6-0,6-0; Shivika Burman (5)(WB)(40) beat Richa Valechha (WB)(71) 6-2,6-0; Grace Hannah (TN)(75) beat Shilpi Jaiswal (4)(Bih)(32) 6-3,6-4; Abhilasha Ahuja (8)(Har)(45) beat Prerna Prathap (Kar)(58) 6-4,3-6,6-4; Ragini Vimal (2)(WB)(19) beat B. Svarupa Raadhae (TN)(58) 6-3,6-2.

Men’s Doubles Qualifying Final Round (Best of 15 games) : Deepinder Bains (Chd) & Bharat Bhardwaj (UP)(1) beat Biplab Das (WB) & Bhagirath Kumar (WB) 8-5; Ashmeet Singh & Vishwanath Savadi w/o Rohan Gide (Mah) & Kamlesh Kumar Shukla (UP)(3); Vijayant Malik (Chd) & Jitin Bishnoi (HSIIDC)(4) beat Yashwant Pulumati (AP) & Bharat Srinivasan Parthasarathi (TN) 8-5; Abhijeet Tiwari (Cg) & A.S. Suresh Krishna (AP) beat Rafiq Paruti (Kar) & Ranjit Lal Pasricha (Kar)(2) 8-0.

Men’s Doubles Pre Quarter Finals: Saurav Sukul (WB) & Yannick Nelord (Dli)(3) beat Farid Alam & Robin Das (WB) 6-3,6-3; Rahil Makharia (Mah) & Alon Moses (Mah) beat Yogesh Phogat (HSIIDC) & Jitender Mehlda (Har) 4-6,6-3,(11-9); Fariz Mohammad (TN) & Kaushik Raju (Kar) beat Bhishma Desai (Guj) & Ankit Patel (Cg) 6-2,7-5; Arjun Goutham (Kar) & Vinod Sridhar (TN)(2) beat Vinod Kumar Sewa (WB) & Manoj Kumar Sewa (WB) 6-2,6-2.

Ladies’ Doubles Pre Quarter Finals : Grace Hannah (TN) & Anushree Thammanna (Kar) beat Mokshada Jain (WB) & Richa Valechha (WB) 6-2,7-6(7-1); Asha Nanda Kumar (Kar) & Akshitha Basavaraju (Kar) beat Andrea Das (WB) & Omlata Kumari Rai (UP) 6-3,6-3.

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