Ravikrishna overcomes Parekh

October 13: Unseeded P Ravikrishna of Andhra Pradesh ousted fourth seed Pratim Parekh of Maharashtra 1-6, 4-6 in the first round of the b...

October 13: Unseeded P Ravikrishna of Andhra Pradesh ousted fourth seed Pratim Parekh of Maharashtra 1-6, 4-6 in the first round of the boys u-16 section of DSCL National Open Tennis Championship here today.

Boys u-14 eighth seed Ankit Doshi Mah was the other seed to fall today, beaten 3-6, 3-6 by Arif Hyder AP as the other seeds advanced to the second round with ease.

Results:

Boys u-16 first round: Saurav Sakul WB bt Ridhiman Dutta Asm 6-2 6-4; P Ravikrishna AP bt 4-Pratim Parekh Mah 6-1 6-4; Shivang Mishra Del bt Nishank Mishra Del 6-3 6-3; AR Anand Kumar AP bt Riaz Ahmed Raj 5-7 6-4 6-2, 3-Vinod K Sewa bt Nipun Gupta Del 6-1, 6-2; Alok Bhide Mah bt CS Mohanty Del 6-0 6-2; 2-Sunil Kumar Chd bt Sidharth Sudhakar Kar 3-6 6-4 6-1; Anant Sitaram bt Rohan Gajjar 7-5 6-3. Under-14 first round:

Arif Hyder AP bt 8-Ankit Doshi Mah 6-3 6-3; 7-Rohan Gajjar Mah bt Abhinav Subramanium Del 4-6 6-4 4-1 conceed; Saurav Sakul WB bt Devanand Jha Chd 6-06-1; 5-Devender Singh bt Anup Anand Chd 6-0 7-6 3; 3-Nishank Mishra Del bt Ridhiman Dutta Asm 7-5 6-1; 2-Vikrant Sane Mah bt Tushar Garg Del 6-3 6-3.

Girls8217; U-16 first round:

Sonal Phadke Mah bt Monia Goel Del 6-1 6-0; Megha Vakaria Mah bt SL Manasa AP 6-1 6-3; Nandita C TN bt Nandini Pddy Erumal AP 6-2 6-2; Lisa Pereira Mah bt Shalini Reddy TN 6-0 6-1; Y Lakshmi Reddy AP bt Poornima Narayanan Del 6-3 6-1; Sandhya Kanuri TN bt Jitisha Shelrka Mah 6-3 6-1; Isha Chopra Har bt Sanaa Bhambri Del 6-0 6-1; Shreen Yusaf Kar bt Ridhina Parekh WB 6-2 2-6 6-0; Rani Smita Jain Raj bt Raghini Vimal WB 6-2 6-3; Rati Kumar Mah bt Sania Mirza AP 6-2 6-7 5 6-3; Geeta Manohar AP bt Isha Lakhani Mah 3-6 7-5 6-1; Sasha Abraham AP bt Lata Assudani Mah 7-6 5 6-4; T Yamini TN bt Samrita Shekar TN 6-3 7-6 6.

Under-14 first round:

1-Megha Vakaria Mah bt Deepa Chakravarthy Guj 6-1 6-3; Saranya Pattabi TN bt Nikita Singh Chd 6-0 6-1;Samrita Shekhar TN bt Monia Goel Del 6-2 6-4; 5-Preeti Rao TN bt Maithri Jagannath Kar 6-2 6-2; 7-Sasha Abraham AP bt Sanaa Bhambri Del 7-5 6-0; Krushmi Chadda Mah bt Uttara Rama Rao Mah 6-3 6-2; Priyanka Parekh WB bt Gayatri Ramesh Ker 6-3 6-2.