May 12: Seventh seed Akshay Chellapa tamed fourth seed Rohan Sewakramani 6-4 6-4 to enter the last four stage of boys under-14 at the ninth Maharahtra State Junior Ranking Tennis Tournament, sponsored by Sansui and Sony Mony, at the Bhushan Academy courts, Andheri today.Also entered the semifinals of under-14 were top seed Aditya Madekar, Goutham Samarth and Sanjay Salian.Despite being down with fever, Chellapa, showed noo sign of fatigue and pulled out a stunning victory over the higher seed player. The high fever forced him to switch over from over arm service to under arm.Janmali Manikala, a Bhushan Tennis Academy (BTA) trainee, continued his winning streak when he won against the fourth seed Marlon Coehlo 9-5.In boys u-10, Anuj Arora, another BTA trainee, toppled third seed Swapneil Akut 8-4 to enter quarter-finals along with S Agnel Gladwin who got past Akash Wagh 8-0.Jay Arora along with Madkarni also made in to last four stage of under-18 when both scored easy win over their weakopponents.In the girls under-10, Prachi Nadkarni, a third standard student of Queen's Mary school, entered quarter-finals with an impressive win over Riddhi Bharwala 7-4.ResultsBoys u-18 (Q-F): Gaurav Kumar bt Varun Magikar 6-1, 6-0; Arpan Lakhani bt Shashank Bada 6-2, 6-0; Jay Arora bt Aashay Deshmukh 6-1, 6-2; Pratik Sharma bt Shyam Gala 6-1, 6-3.Boys u-14 (Q-F): 1-Aditya Madkekar bt Hrushikesh P 6-0, 6-3; Goutham Samarth bt Vivek Menon 6-2, 6-0; 3-Akshay C bt Rohan Sewakramani 6-4, 6-4; 2-Sanjay Salian bt Kenneth Quadros 6-3, 6-4.Boys u-12 (Q-F): S Agnel Gladwin bt 1-Rohan Gide 9-5; 5-Arnav Jain bt Siddharth Alapati 9-1; 8-Janmali Manikala bt 4-Marlon Coelho 9-5; 2-Hrushikesh Pataskar bt Keegan Quadros 9-2.Boys u-10 (Q-F): Debendra Das bt Abishek Dethan 8-4; 5-Jay R Desai bt 4-Pranav Gandhi 8-5; Anuj Arora bt 3-Swapneil Akut 8-4; S Agnel Gladwin bt 8-Akash Wagh 8-0.Girls u-12 (pre-Q-F):1-Kanisha P Mehta bt Bhavya 7-1; Ayushya Sinha bt 3-Roshini Luthra 7-4; 5-Nalini Mallaya btSonia S Dayal 7-0; Divya Gopal bt Aasta Chokshi 7-1; 4-Jinal Jhaveri bt Surabhi Varma 7-2; 8-Sanchi Ganerwal bt Ananya M 7-1; 2-Sagarika Padke bt Supriya Mallaya 7-0.Girls u-10 (pre-Q-F): Supriya Mallaya bt Shifra Fernandes 7-0; Prachi R Nadkarni bt Riddhi Bharwala 7-4; Nayan Bhushan w/o Rashi Anandl; Surabhi Verma bt Deepna Vajirani 7-1; Sanchi Ganerwal bt Purva S Pawaskar 7-2; Ayushi Sinha bt Ananya Mazumdar 7-2
