October 15: It's turning out to be quite a tournament for two talented young kids from down south. Nandita Chandrashekhar and Avinash Reddy, both trainees at the Classic Advanced Tennis Academy, Chennai, stamped their class yet again moving into the semi-finals of the girls and boys under-14 at the DSCL national tennis championships at the Delhi Tennis Association here today.Nandita, who made the headlines yesterday bouncing the top seed, again took the three set route into the semis today. Avinash, meanwhile, had a similar win agianst Vikrant Sane in the boys-14 quarters.
Results: (all quarter-finals)
Singles: Boys-14:
Amanjot Singh bt Rohan Gajjar 2-6, 6-2, 6-1, Dhrub Kumar bt Devender Singh Bhusari 6-2, 6-3, Nishank Mishra bt Nikhil V. Murali 6-3, 6-2, Avinash Reddy bt Vikrant Sane 7-6(6), 6-7(6), 6-4.
Boys-16: Yogendra Naik bt Ashutosh Singh 7-5, 6-2, Anant Sitaram bt P. Ravikrishna 6-3, 7-5, Benjamin Xavier bt Vinod K Sewa 6-2, 6-4, Sunil Kumar bt Harshit Sharma 6-4, 6-0.
Girls-14:Nandita Chandrashekhar bt Shreen Yusuf 7-5, 3-6, 6-2, Samrita Shekhar bt Ankita Bhambri 7-5, 6-2, Preeti Rao bt Sania Mirza 6-2, 7-5, Sasha Abraham bt Isha Lakhani (Mah) 6-4, 0-6, 6-3
Girls-16: Sonal Phadke bt Y Lakshmi Reddy 6-1, 4-6, 6-1, Shreen Yusuf bt Megha Vakaria 6-3, 6-2, Lisa Pereira bt Nandita Chandrashekhar 6-7(4), 6-0, 6-3, Geeta Manohar bt T. Yamini 6-3, 6-0
Doubles (all semis): Girls-14 semis: Sania Mirza/ Sasha Abraham bt Nivedita V/ Saranya P 6-4, 6-2
Boys-14: Nikhil Murali/ S. Abhinav bt V. Vignesh/ Arun Prakash 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-4; Amanjot Singh/ Nishank Mishra bt Ridhiman Dutta/ Dhrub Kumar 6-3, 6-1.
Boys-16: Parantap Chaturvedi/ CS Mohanty bt C. hari / AR Anand Kumar 6-2, 6-1, Benjamin Xavier/ Sunil Kumar bt Harshit Sharma/ Vinod Sewa 6-4, 6-4.
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