Natekar breezes into quarters

There was a major upset in the men’s doubles event when third-seeded Tamil Nadu pair of CV Anand and R Balaji were shut out by Prem Prakash (TN) and Ronny Sarkar (Bengal) who won the first set 7-6 (tie-break 7-2) at which stage Anand and Balaji conceded the match.

Aarti Ponappa and Rushmi Chakravarti made the women’s semi-finals with a 6-1, 6-3 win over Priya Wal and K Subhashini while Aparna Srinivasan and Nehal Chopra got the better of Reetu Sethi and Mable Abraham to make the last-four grade. Aparna and Nehal won comfortably at 6-4 6-4.

RESULTS

Men’s singles (PQF): Gaurav Natekar (Mah) bt Jay Patel (Guj) 6-3 6-3.

Men’s doubles (QF): Umang Chadda (Guj) & Amod Wakalkar (Mah) bt Bhaskar Choudhary (Asm) & Vijay Kannan (Del) 6-2 6-1; R G Arvind & DR Jayadeva (Kar) bt Agastya Sigtia & Sikka Singh (Mah) 6-1 6-3; Prem Prakash (TN) & Ronny Sarkar (Ben) bt CV Anand & R Balaji (TN) 7-6 (7-2) (conceded); KV Ganesh (TN) & Chandraveer Singh (Raj) bt Shailesh Dhoble (Mah) & Jagdish Tanwar (Raj) 7-6 (9-7) 4-6, 6-3

Women’s doubles (PQF): Reet Sethi & Mable Abraham (Mah) bt Sai Jailakshmi (TN) & Stutti Smit (Mah) 6-0 6-0; Joy Rodrigues & Pooja Deshmukh (Mah) bt A Shruti & Lakshmi Jayaraman (TN) 6-1 6-2.

QF: Arati Ponnappa (Kar) & Rushmi Chakravarthy (TN) bt Priya Wal & K Subhashini (TN) 6-1 6-3; Aparna Srinivasan & Nehal Chopra (Mah) bt Reetu & Mable 6-4 6-4