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Journalism of Courage
CHENNAI, AUG 17: Samrita Sekar Tamil Nadu and Jai Arora Maharashtra shared the day8217;s spoils in the pre-quarterfinals of the India Pistons-KTC AITA Junior Tennis Championship here today.
It was sweet revenge for Samrita over third seed Harsimran Kaur, for the latter had nailed Samrita in a close match in the National juniors recently. However, it was totally a different story today. Samrita raced through the first set without dropping a game. The Chandigarh girl made a match out of it in the second set and made the KTC trainee work hard for victory.
Samrita missed a match point at 5-4, 40-30 to lose her serve. Harsimran8217;s doggedness let her down as she was broken once again in the 10th game and Samrita ended her agony in the next game to win 6-0, 7-5.
Third seed Mukundan showed signs of revival after taking the match into the third set against Jai Arora, but the Maharashtra boy8217;s passing shots found Mukundan8217;s feet time and again. Poor shot selection also led to Mukundan8217;s defeat as he lost tamelyin the third. Arora prevailed 7-6 5, 4-6, 6-1.
Fourth seed Sunil Kumar and seventh seed Kamala Kannan managed to win the big points when it mattered to pull through.
RESULTS
Boys PQF: 1-Kedar Tembe Mah bt Asutosh Singh Del 6-2 6-3; 2-Kedar Shah Mah bt AR Anand Kumar 6-2 6-2; Jai Arora Mah bt 3-N Mukundan TN 7-6 5 4-6 6-1; 4-Sunil Kumar Chandigarh bt Benjamin Xavier Mah 6-3 1-6 6-4; 5-Ravi Kiran Bhat Kar bt Siddarth Sudhakar Kar 6-2 4-6 6-2; 6-Saif Ali WB bt Chatwinder Singh Chandigarh 7-5 6-1; 7-Kamala Kannan TN bt Mithun Murali TN 5-7 6-1 6-4; K Arvind Prakash TN bt Nirmit Shetty Kar 6-3 6-3.
Girls PQF: 1-Sandhya Kanury TN bt Saranya Pattabi TN 6-2 7-5; Samrita Sekar TN bt 3-Harsimran Kaur Chandigarh 6-0 7-5; 4-Nischella Reddy AP bt T Sricharanya TN 6-1 7-6 3; Priyanka Parekh WB bt 5-Kameswari Vadalli AP 6-4 5-7 6-4; 7-Khushchehr Italia Mah bt Alice Joy TN 6-2 6-4; 8-Nandita Chandrasekar TN bt Nandini Perumal AP 6-3 6-2; PreetiRao TN bt Sai Rajalakshmi TN 6-0 6-3; T Yamini TN bt Vishika Chhitri Del 6-3 6-0.
