MUMBAI, February 4: Rohan Gajjar had mixed luck today as he lost in the under-16 second round but advanced in the boys' under-14 of the Bhatija Open junior tennis tournament at the Khar Gymkhana today.Amit Karunakaran had a measure of the seventh-seeded Gajjar, beating him 8-7 (9-7) while moving into the next round. Karunakaran had a successful day, notching up a 8-1 win in the under-16 over Rushang Patel.
Gajjar, seeded No 1 this time, romped past Aashvir Khurana 8-1 in the under-14 pre-quarter-finals.
Results
Boys' under-16: Amit Karunakaran bt 5-Rohan Gajjar 8-7 (9-7), 3-Vivek Jhaveri bt Mehul Kamdar 8-7 (7-1), 8-Pratim Parekh bt Jay Mehta 8-1, Ankit Doshi bt Saurabh Kohli 8-5, Gavryl Fernandes bt Rishi Behl 8-2.
Under-14: Rohan Gajjar bt Aashvir Khurana 8-1, Saurabh Kohli bt Imran Allana 8-2, Vikrant Sane bt Rishi Behl 8-2, Krishne Tanna bt Salil Walawalkar 8-1, Amit Karunakaran bt Rushang Patel 8-1, Jay Mehta bt Karan Rastogi 8-3, Sujay Mahadevan bt Aditya Naik 8-1, Ankit Doshibt Keshav Narsimhan 8-0.
Under-12: Karan Rastogi bt Alon Moses 8-2, Siddharth Chedda bt Aayush Wadhwan 8-6, Rohan Shewakramani bt Sean Mathew 8-3, Karan Jhaveri bt Siddhant Sane 8-7 (7-3), R Ramnath bt Avaneesh Krishna Kumar 8-4, C Akshay bt Harsh Mehta 8-3, Vivek Menon bt Aaron Fernandes 8-1, Keshav Narsimhan bt Ronak Seth 8-0.
Under-10: Manikala Janmali bt Ankesh Bhargava 8-4, Kaushal Mahale bt Pranav Gandhi 8-2, Bhavir Selarka bt Keegan Quadros 8-6, Pranav Gokhale bt Shantanu Sahay 8-6, Agnel Gladwin bt Gaurav Agarwal 8-3, Arnav Jain bt Marlon Coehlo 8-3.
Girls' under-16: Kalpita Raje bt Soumya Kowtha 8-1, Medini Sharma bt Anuradha Gurung 8-1, Ridhima Raina bt Jharna Nansi 8-5, Utara Rao bt Dimple Ganjawala 8-4, Kanika Premnarayan bt Gayatri Suvarna 8-1, Sonia Goms bt Krushmi Chedda 8-5.
Under-14: Jharna Nancy bt Dhanushri Pawar 8-2, Kartiki Bhat bt Jasleen Kaur 8-1, Noopur Desai bt Nidhi Shah 8-1, Lizenka Pereira bt Dimple Ganjawala 8-3, Saumya Kowtha bt Anika Arora8-0, Tulsi Mehta bt Anuradha Gurung 8-4, Mayura Bandekar bt Ridhima Raina 8-3, Anuja Parekh bt Kanisha Mehta 8-3, Dionne Appuhamyge bt Pankit Chedda 8-1.
Under-12: Lizenka Pereira bt Tanushri Meshra 7-0, Nalini Mallya bt Ketaki Modak 7-6 (7-5), Tulsi Mehta bt Kanisha Mehta 7-1, Sagarika Phadke bt Pankil Chedda 7-4, G K Swetha bt Divya Gopal 7-2, Kartiki Bhat bt Nidhi Shah 7-0.
Under-10: G K Shweta bt Priya Haldar 7-0, Roshni Luthra bt Jinal Jhaveri 7-4, Akshita Singhal bt Rasika Sankpal 7-1.
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