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Bibaswan, Shreya in line for double crown

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Posted: Jan 09, 2009 at 0232 hrs IST

Kolkata Bibaswan Deb from Bengal and Shreya Pasricha from UP are in line for a double crown at the AITA — BTA Championship Series 2009 being played in memory of late Dilip Bose at the BTA Complex. All the singles semi-finals played today were lop-sided. In the boys’ under-14 singles, top seed Nishanth Anthony Rebello blanked fourth seed Ishank Ravi of Bihar 6-0, 6-0. Third seed P Vignesh Prabhu defeated eighth seed Rahul Somani Pradesh 6-3, 6-3. The boys’ under-18 singles semi-finals saw top seed Bibaswan Deb drub Ayush Dharewa 6-1, 6-2, while fourth seed Prem Singh won against Om Dalvi 6-4, 6-2 to set up an all Bengal affair in the final. Bibaswan then went on to take the boys’ under-18 doubles title partnering Ranveer Shrivastav. They defeated Prem Singh and Sanjib Regius Kerketta, both from Bengal, 6-0, 6-2.

Aandrita Deb continued with her good form in the girls’ under-14 singles as she toppled top seed Megha Sehrawat of Delhi 6-1, 6-3. Second seed Shreya Pasricha from Delhi defeated fourth seed Devanshi Bhimjyani of Maharashtra 6-2, 6-2.

Top seed Amrita Mukherjee thrashed her doubles partner Megha Sehrawat in the girls’ under-18 semi-finals 6-1, 6-0 to reach the finals. She now faces Shreya Pasricha of Uttar Pradesh. Unseeded Shreya defeated the seventh seed Pamir Gogoi of Assam 6-3, 6-2 in the other semi-final.

Amrita partnering Sehrawat took the girls’ under-18 doubles crown beating the fourth seeded Kolkata pair of Raseena Chablani and Snigdha Kapoor 6-1, 6-1.

The boys’ under-14 doubles title was annexed by the Eqbal siblings, Ishaque and Nishat who defeated the top seeded pair of Nishanth Anthony Rebello from Andhra Pradesh and Kuwar Singh Tater from Assam 4-6, 6-4(10-5).

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