MAY 9: Maharashtra's Karthiki Bhatt stormed into the quarter-finals of the under-16 girls singles with a shock straight-set win over sixth seed S Gantotri of Andhra Pradesh in the All-India ranking SK Pandit Memorial junior tennis tournament at the Dadar Club on Tuesday.Karthiki carved out a 6-0 6-2 win over Gangotri to join top seed Sania Mirza (AP), second seed Lata Asudani, third seed Medini Sharma, fourth seed Nupur Desai, fifth seed Anuja Parekh, seventh seed Krushmi Chedda, all from Maharashtra, and eighth seed Radha Devendrappa (Karnataka) in the last eight.Except for Lata, who rallied from a first-set loss to put it across unseeded state rival Anuradha Gurung in three sets, and Radha, who downed Toshi Sinha (Mah) in similar fashion, all others notched up straight-set victories.Results: Boys U-16 (1st round): Vikrant Sane (Mah) bt Jyotidra Kanekar (Mah) 6-0, 6-0; Shashank Kulkarni (Mah) bt Rohan Apte (Mah) 6-3, 6-1; Shivardhan Vaidya (Mah) bt Hrishikesh Patankar (Mah) 6-2, 6-0; Saurabh Kohli (Mah) bt J Jayant (Kar) 6-4, 4-6, 6-3; Sujay Mahadevan (Mah) bt Mayur Patil (Kar) 6-0, 6-4. Keshav Narsimhan (Mah) bt M Kriparkar (TN) 6-4, 5-7 6-2, Sidharth Patil (Mah) bt Rushang Patel (Mah) 3-6, 6-2, 6-3; Ajay Selvaraj (TN) bt (6) Aditya Madkekar (Mah) 7-6 (7-2), 6-4; (7) Amit Karunakaran (Mah) bt Rohan Shah (Mah) 6-1, 6-1; Inder Mahajan (MP) bt Gautam Samarath (Mah) 6-3, 6-2; Ryan Mendonca (Mah) bt Ameya Prabhu (Mah) 6-1. 6-1.Girls U-16 (pre-quarterfinals): Sania Mirza (AP) bt Divya Pratap (Kar) 6-1, 6-0; Anuja Parekh (Mah) bt Renu Jaykumar (Kar) 6-1, 6-0, Medini Sharma (Mah) bt Sagarika Phadke (Mah) 7-6 (7-1), 6-1; Krushmi Chedda (Mah) bt Nancy Jharna (Mah) 6-1, 6-1, Radha Devendrappa (Kar) bt Toshi Sinha (Mah) 3-6, 7-5, 6-3; Nupur Desai (Mah) bt Suman Punjabi (Kar) 5-0 (conc); Kartiki Bhatt (Mah) bt S Gangotri (AP) 6-0, 6-2; Lata Asudani (Mah) bt Anuradha Gurang (Mah) 3-6, 6-2, 6-1.Rebels, Rajput advanceRebels SC and Rajput XI scored first round victories in the Catholic Gymkhana Open rink hockey tournament at the Gymkhana's courts on Monday night.Rebels SC beat Catholic Gymkhana 9-4 with Alex D'Souza (5), Kishore Kumar (3) and Edwin Aranha (1) scoring for Rebels. Ryan Alphonso (3) was the hosts' lone crusader.Rajput XI defeated Khalsa Gymkhana 5-2. Gavin Vandrine (4) and Alistair Fernandes (1) sounded the boards for the winners while Hardeep Singh Saini and Kevin Sequeira beat the Rajput 'keeper.RCF C winsRCF C beat MGMO C 7-6 in a Rotary Club of Mumbai, Shivaji Park-sponsored Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Olympic (MGMO) Water Polo league at the MGMO Swimming Pool, Shivaji Park.Results: RCF C: 7 (Manmeet Patil 5) bt MGMO C 6 (Siddhesh Mhatre 4, Shashank Pilankar 2); ASP C 5 (Pawan Yadav 3, Omkar Phadke 2) bt PM C 2 (Arjun Kawale 2).
