PUNE, May 5: Giant Killer Gautam Padmanabhan of Pune continued his dream run in the Hero Honda State Ranking tennis tournament when he scored another exiting win to enter the under-18 boys quarter-final round at the PYC Hindu Gymkhana courts, here today. While on the other hand, Pune's Alok Bhide and Mumbai's Keyur Gupta maintained the tempo of the upsets win on the second day of the tournament, when they showed the door to two seeded player in their respective age categories.Unseeded Alok Bhide knocked out his citymate and sixth seed Sangram Chaphekar 9-8 (9-7) in a close contest to advance to the last eight round in the boys under-18 event.
Chaphekar made a valiant attempt to level scores after being 1-5 down and then both players managed to successfully hold their serve till 8-8.However, in the tie-break Bhide hit some adventurous forehands strokes, which found no answer from Chaphekar.
Gautam Padmanabhan, another unseeded player from the city, who had started his campaign with a bright note when he had defeated the second seed Zubin Shetty of Mumbai in the first round of the tournament, continued his superb form, accounting for Abhishek Tamhane also of Pune 9-8 (7-4). Padmanabhan attacked the net at every opportunity and volleyed his way to enter the quarter-finals.
In the boys under-10 section, tiny Keyor Gupta of Mumbai upset the fifth seed Marlon Coetho of Mumbai 8-6.
In the girls main draw which began today, Diane Appohangye of Mumbai gave a tough fight before going down to Ronak Shah of Pune 5-7 into girls under-14 event.
All the other players had an easy win in the event.
RESULTS
Boys under-10 (Pre-quarter): Arnav Jain (Mum) bt Mihir Dalvi (Mum) 8-1; Keyur Gupta (Mum) bt Morton Ceolho (Mum) 8-6; Shantanu Sahay (Mum) bt Tejasvi Rao (Mum) 8-7 (8-6); Gaurav Agarwal (Mum) bt Tejas Chaukulkar (Pune) 8-5; Bhushan Sardesai (Sangli) bt Gaurav Ganpule (Pune) 8-6; Kalyan Sudarshan (Pune) bt Kowtha Anirudha (Mum) 8-1; Ankush Bhargava (Mum) bt Yashodatta Deshpande 8-2; Agnel Gladwin (Mum) bt Pranav Gokhale (Mum) 8-5.
Boys Under-14 (Pre-Quarter finals): Ankit Doshi (Mum) bt Rohan Apte (Pune) 9-2; Shashnak Kulkarni (Pune) bt Arjun Vaidya (Pune) 9-4; Rishi Bhel (Mum) bt Shriwardhan Vaidya (Pune) 9-4; Sourabh Kohli (Mum) bt Ashwir Khurana (Mum) 9-2; Krishna Tanna (Mum) bt Anirudha Kulkarni (Pune) 9-3; Dhanajay Kawde (Pune) bt Kshitij Gujrathi (Pune) 9-3; Jyotindra Kanekar (Pune) bt Siddharth Patil (Pune) 9-4; Vikrant Sane (Pune) bt Shyam Pednekar (Pune) 9-5.
Under-18 (pre-Q/F): Akshay Jagdale (Pune) bt Hrishikesh Mone (Pune) 9-0, Abhijit Muzumdar (Mum) bt Rohan Dalvi (Pune) 9-1, Kedar Tembe (Pune) bt Gaurav Kamar (Mum) 9-1, Alok Bhide (Pune) bt Sangram Chaphekar (Pune) 9-8 (9-7), Dipesh Rao (Mum) bt Jai Arora 9-3, Gautam Padmanabhan (Pune) bt Abhishek Tamhane 9-8 (7-4), Kedar Shah (Pune) bt Niklul Saren 9-1.
Girls Under-12 (1st round): Johan Fernandes (Mum) bt Mrundalini Joshi (Pune) 7-0, Kowtha Soumya (Mum) bt Sheetal Gupta 7-1, Kartiki Bhat (Pune) bt Ridhima Raina (Mum) 7-0, Tulsi Mehta (Mum) bt Janaki Shewale 7-1, Ashlesha Lokhande (Pune) bt Sunaina Sethi (Aurangabad) 7-4, Ronak Shah (Pune) bt Diane Appuchamyge (Mum) 7-5, Nancy Tharna (Mum) bt Preeti Bhatia (Pune) 7-3, Neha Sane (Pune) bt Ketaki Modak (Pune) 7-4, Shradha Lodha (Pune) bt Priya Pachkawde (Mum) 7-0, Ashwini Borhade (Nasik) bt Mithika Gokhale (Pune) 7-3, Noopur Desai (Pune) bt Kalyani Thowar (Pune) 7-1.
Under-14 (1st Round): Ronak Shah bt Diane Appachangye 7-5, Nancy Zharna bt Priti Bhatia 7-3, Neha Sane bt Ketaki Modak 7-4, Ashwini Borhade bt Mithila Boarhade 7-3, Ashlesha Lokhande bt Scinayna Sethi 7-4.
Under-16 (1st round): Shweta Bakre bt Richima Raina 7-3, Dian Appuhamyge bt Payal Sharma 7-4, Kalpita Raje bt Sunaya Sethi 7-4.
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