Neil records upset win

PUNE, Nov 16: Neil Mundra, Ketan Dhumal and Kartik Gopalkrishnan of Pune scored upset wins to enter the second round in their respective eve...

PUNE, Nov 16: Neil Mundra, Ketan Dhumal and Kartik Gopalkrishnan of Pune scored upset wins to enter the second round in their respective events at the second leg of the Hero Honda Junior State ranking tennis tournament being played at the PYC tennis courts, Deccan Gymkhana.

Neil Mundra displayed excellent tennis to knock out 5th seed Nilesh Kapoor of Mumbai 8-4, while Ketan Dhumal maintained his good form in the tournament as he knocked out 7th seed Rushang Patel of Mumbai 8-7 7/5 to enter the pre-quarter-finals in the under 16 event.

Eighth seat of Rohan Dalvi of Pune had to bite the dust as Kartik Gopalkrishna proved too good for him with his strong baseline returns. Kartik won this under 18 event 9-2.

RESULTS

BOYS: Under 10: Aditya Mehta Bom b Shreyas Kulkarni Pune 8-6; Amrut Sathe Pune b Sahil Bhagawat Ahmd 8-5; Nikhil Puranik Pune b Himanshu Mali Nasik 8-1; Tejas Chaukulkar Pune b Devendra Das Bom 8-2; Kaushal Mahale Pune b Bhushan Sardesai Nasik 8-2, Arnav Jain Bom b Akash Wagh Pune 8-0; Gaurav Ganpule Pune b Ajinkya Shirude Pune 8-2. Under 14: Anupam Sonalkar Pune b Vedang Bhagwat Pune 8-5; Vivek Menon Bom bt Shwetaj Raste Pune 8-5; Anirudha Kulkarni Pune b Sunil Natraj Bom 8-0; Arjun Vaidya Pune b Jyotindra Kanekar Pune 8-5; Ketan Dhumal Pune b Swanand Barve Pune 8-6; Jaideep Rajhans Pune b Amit Phadke Pune 8-2.

Under 16: Aniket Joglekar Pune b Amit Phadke Pune 8-3; Pratik Sharma Pune b Rahul Yadav Pune 8-3; Shyam Pednekar Pune b Siddharth Patil Pune 8-77-4; Neil Mundra Pune b Nilesh Kapoor Bom 8-4, Ketan Dhumal Pune b Rushang Patel Mum 8-77/5.

Under 18: Ist round: Kedar Shah Pune b Chaitanya Bhandarkar Pune 9/1; Devendra Kulkarni Nasik b Anuj Gandhe Pune 9/3; Neil Mundra Pune b Moiz Bohari Pune 9/0; Aniket Joglekar Pune b Aditya Agate 9/5; Sangram Chaphekar Pune b Sushant Kasalikar Mum 9/0; Shashank Bada Mum b Nilesh Kapoor Mum 9/2; Ankush Chhabra Pune b Gurupati Shetty Mum 9/87/4; Kartik GopalKrishnan Pune b Rohan Dalvi Pune 9/2; Abhishek Tamhane Pune b Ajit Kulkarni A8217;nagar 9/4; Akash Kale Pune b Aniket Sonalkar Pune 9/5; Nikhil Sarin Pune b Karan Gandhi A8217;nagar 9/3; Mandar Wakankar Pune b Pruthiviraj Sawant Pune 9/0; Pratik Sharma Pune b Alok Nair Pune 9/2; Aashay Deshmukh M8217;bai b Rahul Yadav Pune 9/3; Varun Magigkar Pune b Shriram Gokhale Pune 9/5; Rohan Bopanna Pune b Abhishek Soman Pune 9/1.

Under 12: Vivek Menon Mum b Rugved Apte Pune 8/1; Rohan Gide Pune b Kaustubh Kamat Pune 8/0; Rohan Shah Mum b Abhishek Wakankar Pune 8/2; Druval Kothari Mum b Irshad Allana Mum 8/2; Aniket Ghaskavdi Mum b Hryday Chheda Mum 8/4; Arnav Jain Mum b Tejasvi Rao Mum 8/1; Tejas Chukulkar Pune b Sahil Dhandi Mum 8/6; Sumit Satorkar Pune b Kaushal Mahale Mum 8/6; Veedang Bhagwat Pune b Vikrant Sankpal Pune 8/0; Harsh Mehta Mum b Rohan Shah Pune 8/1; Gautam Samarth Pune b Nikhil Puranik Pune 8/0; Hrushikesh Pataskar Pune b Rohit Sathye Pune 8/1; Siddharth Chheda Mum b Ankit Jhunjhunwala Mum 8/2; V. Vikas Pune b Ali Asgar Electricwala Pune 8/4.