Chatwinder upset Karan, enters semis

Mumbai, October 26: Seeded players, including top seeds in the boys and girls (under-18) singles Karan Doctor and Medini Sharma (both from...

Mumbai, October 26: Seeded players, including top seeds in the boys and girls (under-18) singles Karan Doctor and Medini Sharma (both from Maharashtra) respectively, bowed out in the quarter-finals stage of the Adidas AITA junior tennis tournament here on Thursday.

Sixth-seed Chatwinder Singh of Chandigarh upset Doctor 6-4, 6-0 in 40 minutes while unseeded Sundri Gangotri of Andhra Pradesh shocked Medini 6-1, 4-6, 6-2 in one hour 50 minutes on way to the last four stage.

Seventh-seed local girl Shradha Lodha too had a good day when she sent third seed Fathima Baig of Andhra Pradesh packing 6-0, 7-5 in one hour ten minutes in the second under-18 (girls) match.

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Results (Quarter-finals)
Boy’s u-18: Sham Abedin (Mah) bt Karan Rastogi (Mah) 6-4, 6-1; Chatwinder Singh (Chd) bt Karan Doctor (Mah) 6-4, 6-0; N Mukundan (TN) bt Tejashwar Cheatri (Kar) 6-2, 6-3; Gavryl Fernandes (Mah) bt Abhishek Tamhane (Mah) 7-6 (7-5), 6-3. U-14: Karan Rastogi (Mah) bt Somdeep Appineni (AP) 6-3, 6-2; NK Narsimhan (Mah) bt Dhruv Sundar (Kar) 6-2, 6-2; Anantha Bhaskar (TN) bt Ajay Selvaraj (TN) 6-3, 4-6, 6-4; Prashant Sundar (TN) bt M Vinod (TN) 6-4, 7-6 (7-5).

Girls under-18: Sundri Gangotri (AP) bt Medini Sharma (Mah) 6-1, 4-6, 6-2; Shradha Lodha (Mah) bt Fathima Baig (TN) 6-0, 7-5; Kartiki Bhat (Mah) bt Toshi Sinha (Mah) 6-0, 6-1; Anuja Parikh (Mah) bt Urmila Ram (AP) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. U-14: Kartiki Bhat (Mah) bt Shradha Lodha (Mah) 6-0,6-2; Urmila Ram (AP) bt K Pooja (AP) 6-4, 6-2; Sundri Gangotri (AP) bt Poonam Reddy (AP) 7-6 (7-3), 6-2; Nidhi Shah (Mah) bt Anjani Kant (Del) 6-1, 7-5.

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