Amanjot, Gavryl set up quarter-final clash

NEW DELHI, OCT 13: Chandigarh seems to be making all the news in the men's sections of the DSCL Open this year. While Sunil Kumar and Aks...

NEW DELHI, OCT 13: Chandigarh seems to be making all the news in the men’s sections of the DSCL Open this year. While Sunil Kumar and Akshay Vishal Rao took the men’s and boys’ under-18 titles last week, this week under-16 top seed Amanjot Singh seems on way to corner glory.

The 15-year-old got through a tough pre-quarterfinal against Delhi’s Nikhil Vijay Murali 4-6, 6-4, 6-1. Amanjot, who has beaten Nikhil in their five previous encounters, was up 3-0 in the first set before his game went haywire as Nikhil took the next five games in a row. Though Amanjot made it 4-5, the Delhi boy held on for the set.

But after that early scare, Amanjot really didn’t have any problem and cruised through to take the next two sets.

Amanjot will next play unseeded Maharashtra youngster Gavryl Fernandes, who beat Somdev K Dev Varman (TN) 6-3, 7-6 (7-4).

Pre-quarterfinal results

Boys’ under-16: Amanjot Singh (Chd) bt Nikhil Murali (Del) 4-6, 6-4, 6-1, Gavryl Fernandes (Mah) bt Somdev K Dev Varman 6-3, 7-6 (4),Rohan Gajjar (Mah) bt Manoj Balaji (TN) 6-3, 6-3, Vikrant Sane (Mah) Wrik Ganguly (Del) 6-4, 6-0, Harshit Sharma (WB) Rishi Behl (Mah) 6-1, 6-3, Pratim Parekh (Mah) bt R Arun Prakash (TN) 6-3, 6-0, T Mathew Jaco (TN) Saurav Sukul (WB) 6-1, 6-1, AR Anandkumar (AP) bt V Vignesh (AP) 6-3, 4-6, 6-2

Under-14: R Arun Prakash (TN) bt Somdev K Dev Varman (TN) 6-3, 6-0, Tushar Liberhan (Chd) bt G Arjun (Kar) 6-3, 7-6 (5), V Vignesh (AP) bt Varun Walia (UP) 6-3, 7-5, Saurabh Kohli (Mah) bt Mayur S Patil (Kar) 6-0, 2-0 conceded, Vikramaditya Menon (TN) bt Preetham R Reddy (AP) 6-1, 6-1, Chatwinder Singh (TN) bt Appineini Somdeep (AP) 6-4, 6-1, Karan Rastogi (Mah) bt VN Ranjeet (TN) 6-1, 6-0, Vikrant Sane (Mah) bt Rishi Behl (Mah) 6-4, 6-3

Girls’ under-16: Megha Vakharia (Mah) bt Lata Assudhani (Mah) 6-2, 6-2, Sania Mirza (AP) bt Ankita Bhambri (Del) 6-4, 7-5, Isha Lakhani (Mah) bt Iciri Rai (Kar) 6-4, 6-3, Samrita Sekhar (TN) bt Krushmi Chheda (Mah) 6-3, 6-1, Priyanka Parekh (WB) bt Naina Karsolia (UP)6-0, 6-0, Liza Pereira (Mah) bt Anuja Parekh (Mah) 6-1, 6-2, Preeti Rao (TN) bt Sanaa Bhambri (Del) 6-1, 6-4, Nandita Chandrashekhar (TN) bt Ragini Vimal (WB) 6-1, 6-2

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Under-14: Isha Lakhani (Mah) bt Nivedita Venkatesh (TN) 6-0, 7-5, Priyanka Parekh (WB) bt Satvika Saboo (Chd) 6-1, 6-2, Lata Assudani (Mah) bt Krushmi Chheda (Mah) 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, Sasha Abraham (AP) bt Sharddha Lodha (Mah) 6-0, 6-1, Sandra Sashidharan (Ker) bt Tara Iyer (Del) 6-2, 8-5, Ankita Bhambri (Del) bt Iciri Rai (Kar) 6-2, 7-5, Sanaa Bhambri (Del) bt Marutha S Devi (TN) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, Sania Mirza (AP) bt Sandri Gangothri (AP) 4-6, 6-1, 6-2.