If Mandeep S Gill's game was ordinary and lacked sting in the qualifying rounds,where he ended up as a lucky loser,then he looked unbeatable during his 6-2,6-2 routing of Saurav Panja in the semi-final of the AITA Men and Women Rs 50000 Tennis tournament at CLTA Complex,Sector 10,on Thursday. Whatever be the reason,he made sure that Chandigarh stay in the medal hunt after city girl Parminder Kaur went down to Gopika Kapoor 4-6,4-6. CLTA trainee Mandeep played some superb shots to overcome Saurav of West Bengal and thus bagged a final spot where he will meet Adit Jain,who scored an easy 6-1,6-1 win over seventh seed Lakshit Sood of Delhi. Meanwhile,Parminder found it hard to find her rhythm against Gopika who placed her shots to perfection. Gopika will now play against Shweta Rana of Himachal,who defeated Garima Vatwani of Delhi 7-5,6-3,for the title. Results:Women (Singles): Shweta Rana (HP) (3) bt Garima Vatwani (DLI) (5) 7-5,6-3,Gopika Kapoor (DLI) (8) bt Parminder Kaur (CHD) (Q3) 6-4,6-4; Doubles: Mehak Singh (CHD)/Shweta Rana (HP) bt Deepna Vazirani (MAH)/Ikttesh Chahal (CHD) (2) 6-1,6-4,Gopika Kapoor (DLI)/Garima Vatwani (DLI) (3) bt Shweta G.K (KAR)/Arantxa Andrady (DLI) (1) 3-6,6-4,10-4; Men: singles: Adit Jain (DLI) (Q4) bt Lakshit Sood (DLI) (7) 6-1,6-1,Mandeep S. Gill (CHD) (CLTA) (LL) bt Saurav Panja (WB) (6) 6-2,6-0; Doubles: Prateek Bhambri (DLI)/ Yogesh Phogat (HAR) (2) bt Robin Das (WB)/Dhruv Kumar (WB) 6-4,2-6,10-7,Lakshit Sood (DLI)/Chandril Sood (DLI) (3) bt Saurav Panja (WB)/Manoj K. Sewa (WB) (1) 6-7 (3),6-2,16-15.
