January 27: Unseeded Sujai Mahadevan of Garden Tennis Academy caused two upsets in the under-16 and under-14 sections of the 7-Up-sponsored Junior State Ranking Tennis Tournament being conducted by the Garden Tennis Academy at Azad Maidan here today.Sujai knocked out fifth seed Krishna Tanna 9-2 in the pre-quarter-finals of the under-16 section and then defeated third seed Chirag Mehta to move into the quarter-finals.
Results (all pre-quarters)
Boys' under-18 (PQF): Aashay Deshmukh bt Gaurav Kumar 9-2; Pratim Parikh bt Imran Allana 9-0; Dipesh Rao bt Ankit Doshi 9-1; Vivek Jhaveri bt Varun Maghikar 9-1; Arpan Lakhani bt Farhad Gajanwala 9-1; G Fernandes bt Rewant Dutta 9-6; Ajay Waswani bt Shyam Gala 9-6.
U-16:Pratim Parikh bt Rewant Dutta 9-0; Shikur Thakur bt Umang Makharia 9-8 (7-2); Rishi Behl bt Rohan Gajjar w-o; Sujay Mahadevan bt Krishna Tanna 9-2; Sankit Doshi bt Jay Mehta 9-4; Vivek Jhaveri bt Sanjay Salian 9-1; G Fernandes bt Monil Batra 9-2.
U-14:
Rohan Apte btDewang Shah 9-1; Anupam Shanolkar bt Krishna Tanna w-o; Keshav Narasimhan bt Aditya Medkekar 9-7; Sanjay Salian w-o Rohan Sewakramani w-o; Anupam Sonalkar w-o Krishna Tanna; Saurabh Kohli bt Kenneth Quadros 9-3; Rishi Behl bt Alon Moses 9-2.
U-12: Rohan Gide bt Mirang Manek 9-1; Keshav narasimhan bt Marlon Coelho 9-1; Kaushal Mahale bt Sahil Telang 9-6; Siddharth Chheda bt Ankesh Bharghava 9-0; Tejasvi Rao bt Hryday Chheda 8-7 (8-6); Bhavik Shelarka bt Richinder Manda 9-1; Karan Jhaveri bt Siddharth Alapati 9-3; Krushank Shah bt Rishi Patel 9-0.
U-10:Arnav Jain bt Varun Vasant 8-0; Debendru Das bt Akshay Maliwal 8-1; Aniruddha Kowtha bt Anuj Arora 8-5; Rahil Dhruva bt Nehal Gaokar 8-2; Manav Shah bt Karan Jhaveri 8-1; Swapnil Akut bt Sanket Bapat 8-0; Pranav Gandhi bt Aditya Mehta 8-2; Ankesh Bharghava bt Anugrah Chandra 8-2.
Girls' U-16:
Johan Fernandes bt Lizenka Pereira 9-3; Anuja parikh bt Uttara Rao 9-1; Krushami Chhed bt Anuradha Gurung 9-3; Isha Lakhani bt Sonali Sanap 9-1;Vidya Nair w-o Megha Wakharia; Medini Sharma bt Dimple Ganjawalla 9-2; Kalpita Raje bt Nidhi Shah 9-7; Soumya Kowtha bt Dia Mehta 9-0.
U-14:
Dimple Ganjanwalla bt Akshata Nayak 9-3; Kartiki Bhat bt Nidhi Shah 9-0; Soumya Mehta bt Tulsi Mehta 9-1; Isha Lakhani bt Moneeza Siddiqui 9-0; Lizenka Pereira bt Aditi Vasant 9-3; Anuja Parikh bt Akshata Nayak 9-0; Uttara Rao bt Sonia Vajifdar 9-1; Anuradha Gurang bt Sana Ahuja.
U-12:
Jeenal Jhaveri bt Divya Gopal w-o; Aditi Vasant bt Priyanka v 8-2; Roshini Luthra bt Ridhi Bharadwaj 9-1; Moneeza Siddiqui bt Parija Malu 9-1; Sagarika Phadke bt Sachin Generiwal 8-0; Akshata Nayak bt Parab Shruti 8-0; Kartiki Bhat bt Sampada kanade 8-0; Kanisha Mehta bt Kamila Vajifdar w/o.
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