Karthiki enters quarter with a shock win

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...

MAY 9: Maharashtra8217;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 advance
Rebels SC and Rajput XI scored first round victories in the Catholic Gymkhana Open rink hockey tournament at the Gymkhana8217;s courts on Monday night.

Rebels SC beat Catholic Gymkhana 9-4 with Alex D8217;Souza 5, Kishore Kumar 3 and Edwin Aranha 1 scoring for Rebels. Ryan Alphonso 3 was the hosts8217; lone crusader.

Story continues below this ad

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 8216;keeper.

RCF C wins
RCF 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.