Mahadevan survives Rajagopal threat

Akshay Jagdale and Mustafa Ghouse (both Mah), P Chaturvedi (Del), Ravikiran Bhat (Kar) and Avinash Arun (TN) have also made it to the quarter-finals.Vijay Rajagopal, knowing the strong and weak points of Manoj Mahadevan, gave a stiff fight to the latter before losing 4-6, 6-3, 2-6. Mahadevan managed to claim the first 6-4 with a break in the 10th game. But Rajagopal, with an improved percentage of first serves, won the second 6-3. In the decider, Rajagopal made several unforced errors to help Mahadevan win 6-2.

Results

Boys’ singles(pre-quarterfinals): Vijay Kannan (Del) bt Anantha Sitaram (AP) 6-2, 6-4; Avinash Arun (TN) bt Uday Kumar Reddy (TN) 6-7 (5-7), 6-0, 6-2; Manoj Mahadevan (TN) bt Vijay Rajagopal (TN) 6-4, 3-6, 6-2; Ravikiran Bhat (Kar) bt Kedar Shah (Mah) 7-6 (7-5), 6-3; Akshay Jagdale (Mah) bt Akshay Vishal Rao (Chd) 6-4, 6-2; Mustafa Ghouse (Mah) bt Nirmit Shetty (Kar) 6-0, 6-0; Sanzaruz Zaman (WB) bt N Mukundan (TN) 6-3, 7-6 (7-2); P Chaturvedi (Del) bt V Kamala Kannan (TN) 7-5, 7-6 (7-3).
Girls’ doubles (quarter-finals): Shruti Dhawan/G Sheetal (Kar) bt Pooja Deshmukh/Sumitra Rao (TN) 6-3, 6-4; Radhika Tulpule/Radhika Mandke (Mah) w/o Sonia Shellar/Anisha Shellar (Mah); Uzma Khan/Debosmita bt Samrita Shekar/T Sricharanya (TN) 6-2, 6-2; Geeta Manohar/Sandya Kanuri (TN) bt Preeti Rao/Rekha Mohan (TN) 7-6 (7-3), 2-6, 7-6 (7-4).