Tushar and Ikttesh pull-off major upsets

Among the other CLTA trainees Gurinder Singh and Mandeep Singh Gill have made it to the quarterfinals. Mandeep Gill was leading 3-0 against seed eighth Vikas Chauhan of (Haryana) when Vikas Chauhan retired due to injury.

Chandigarh girl Parminder Kaur upset seventh seed Likitha Shetty 6-3,6-2. Men’s top seed Chandril Sood (Delhi) had a long three setter match against qualifier Gurvinder Mann,also of Delhi. Chandril Sood won 5-7,6-2,6-4. Ankit Chopra another qualifier had upset experienced fourth seed Manoj K. Sewa of (WB) 4-6,7-5,6-3. Eighth seed Gopika Kapoor of Delhi had to battle hard to beat local girl Mehak Singh. Gopika won 2-6,6-2,7-5.

Results:

Men (2nd round): Saurav Panja (WB) (6) bt Sagar Ahuja (MAH)(Q8) 0-6,6-4,6-0,Ankit Chopra (CHD) (Q6) bt Manoj Kumar Sewa (WB) (4) 4-6,7-5,6-4,Gurinder Singh (CHD) (Q7) bt Pullok Bhattacharya (DLI) (Q2) 6-4,2-2 (Concd.),6-3,Adit Jain (DLI) (Q4) bt Murtaza Lohani (TN) (LL3) 6-2,6-0.

Women singles(2nd round): Nehal Sahni (DLI) (Q4) bt Noor Paul (CHD) 6-2,6-1,Garima Vatwani (DLI) (5) bt Gundeep Kaur (PB) (Q7) 6-1,6-2,Abhilasha Ahuja (DLI) (4) (LL2) bt Jaanesh Kaur (CHD) (Q8) 6-3,6-4,Shweta Rana (HP) (3) bt Sadhna Athreya (DLI) 6-1,6-1,Smriti Joon (HAR) (6) bt Harnoor Kaur Mann (CHD) (WC) 7-5,6-2.

Men doubles (1st round): Robin Das (WB)/Dhruv Kumar (WB) bt Sagar Ahuja (MAH)/Gurmohit Singh (CHD) 4-1,4-2,Amardeep Singh (HAR) (WC)/Suraj Beniwal (HAR) (WC) bt Vikas Chauhan (HAR)/Ankit Chopra (CHD) Concd. Javed Akbar Hazary (PB)/S. John Carino (KAR) (4) bt Neishit Vakil (MAH)/Chatwinder Singh (PB) 0-4,4-2,12-10,Mandeep S. Gill (CHD)/Gurinder Singh (CHD) bt Tushar Sharma (CHD) (WC)/ Ajay Yadav (CHD) (WC) (CLTA) 4-2,4-2,Chandrasekhar Mohanty (ASM)/Anshuman Dutta (ASM) bt Adit Jain (DLI)/Gurvinder Mann (DLI) 4-2,2-4,10-5,Chandril Sood (DLI)/Lakshit Sood (DLI) (3) bt Pranshu Barthwal (UP)/Kshitij Kamal (DLI) 4-2,4-0.

Women doubles(1st round): Smriti Joon (DLI)/Abhilasha Ahuja (DLI) bt Baljinder Kaur (UP)/Jaspreet Kaur (PB) 4-0,5-4 (6),Nehal Sahni (DLI)/Gundeep Kaur (DLI) bt Jaanesh Kaur (CHD) (WC)/Noor Paul (CHD) (WC) 4-2,5-3,Harnoor K. Mann (CHD)/Ravnoor Kaur (CHD) bt Steffy Sanghani (GUJ)/Monica Sanghani (GUJ) (4) 4-0,4-0,Bhavika Wadhawan (CHD)(CLTA)/Prabhamrit Kaur (CHD) bt Manuela Gomes (MAH)/Lavanya Nath (DLI) 4-0,4-2,Mehak Singh (CHD)/Shweta Rana (HP) bt Shivani M.S (KAR)/Parmin Johar (KAR) 4-0,4-0.