Mahajan, Advani shock seeded players

Mahajan, Advani shock seeded players

Mumbai, May 10: Unseeded players Inder Mahajan of Madhya Pradesh and Nehal Advani of Maharashtra shocked seeded players on their way to the boys' under-16 singles quarter-finals of the SK Pandit Memorial All-India Ranking Junior Tennis Tournament, on Wednesday.

However, other seeded players like top seed Vikrant Sane, second-seeded Rishi Behl, third-seeded Sujay Mahadevan and fifth seed Saurabh Kohli (all from Maharashtra) sailed into the last eight stage quite easily.

In the boys (U-14) singles pre-quarter-finals, unseeded Krishank Shah of Maharashtra caused a mild flutter when he sidelined fifth-seeded Arjun Shekhar of Karnataka 6-2 6-2.

Top-seeded M Vinod of Tamil Nadu had an easy outing, recording a 6-1 6-0 win over unseeded Hryday Chedda of Maharashtra.

Results (seedings in prefix)

Boys u-16 (pre-Q-F): Vikrant Sane (Mah) bt Shashank Kulkarni (Mah) 6-4 7-6 (7-1), Saurabh Kohli (Mah) bt Srivardhan Vaidya (Mah) 6-0 7-5, Sujay Mahadevan (Mah) bt K Narshiman (Mah) 4-6 6-0 7-5, Siddarth Patil (Mah) bt Ajay Selvaraj (TN) 6-1 4-6 6-2, Inder Mahahjan (MP) bt Amit Karunakaran (Mah) 3-6 6-3 6-1, 4-P Vikas (AP) bt Ryan Mendonca (Mah) 6-3 6-4, N Advani (Mah) bt Jay Mehta (Mah) 6-0 6-3, Rishi Behl (Mah) bt Sanjay Salian (Mah) 7-5 6-3. U-14 pre-Q-F: Rohan Gide (Mah) bt J Manikala (Mah) 7-5 6-1, M Vinod (TN) bt Hryda Chedda (Mah) 6-1 6-0, Gautam Samarth (Mah) bt Agnel Gladwin (Mah) 6-1 6-0, Hrishikesh Pataskar (Mah) bt Kenjith Quadros (Mah) 6-3 6-3, Ajay Selvaraj (TN) bt Alon Moses (Mah) 6-4 6-7 (9-11) 6-0, J Vishnuvardhan (AP) bt Arnav Jain (Mah) 7-5 6-0, K Narsimhan (Mah) bt R Sevakramani (Mah) 6-2 6-2.

Girls u-16 (Q-F): Sania Mirza (AP) bt Anuja Parikh (Mah) 6-3 6-3, Medini Sharma (Mah) bt Krushmi Chedda (Mah) 7-5 6-4, Nupur Desai (Mah) bt Radha Devendrappa (Kar) 6-4 6-4, Kartiki Bhat (Mah) bt Lata Asudani (Mah) 6-1 6-3. U-14 pre-Q-F: Diyva Gopal (Mah) bt HK Gill (MP) 6-0 6-0, S Lodha (Mah) bt Priyanka Vengurlekar (Mah) 6-0 6-3, Shravan (AP) bt Parija Maloo (Mah) 6-1 6-0, Liza Pereira (Mah) bt Roshini Luthra 6-0 6-2.

MSLTA ranking events - Boys u-12 (pre-Q-F): Kaushal Mahale bt Akash Wagh 8-1, Hryday Chedda bt S Akut 8-4, M Coehlo bt A Gujrathi 8-5, Keegan Quadros bt Aditya Shroff 8-2, J Desai bt Tarun Khetrapal 8-2, Janmali Manikala bt K Gupta 8-5, T Rao bt U Raghuram 8-3, A Gladwin bt D Das 8-4. U-10 (Q-F): D Das bt Sameer Paranjpe 9-3, Gaurav Walia bt Nehal Gaokar 9-8 (7-5), Sagar Laad bt Vivek Parekh 9-4, Aakash Wagh bt Jay Shah 9-2.

Girls u-12 (Q-F): Nalini Mallaya bt Aastha Choksi 9-5, Parija Maloo bt Ayushi Sinha 9-4, Neena Sharma bt Bhargavi Rao 9-0, Roshni Luthra bt Ananya Muzumdar 9-2. U-10 (Q-F): Supriya Mallaya bt R Behl 8-0, S Dayal bt Adnya Naik 8-5, P Nadkarni bt Rasika Sankpal 8-6, Surabhi Verma bt D Vazirani 8-6.