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MUMBAI, APRIL 21: Maharashtra youngster Rohan Gajjar, seeded third, was taken the distance, but the other top seeds in the boys under-16 coasted through to the quarter-finals of the Sadashivanagar Club AITA all India Junior ranking tennis tournament on Wednesday.
Gajjar had to really fight hard before vanquishing his opponent Vivek Bhakuni in three sets this afternoon at the hosts courts. Gajjar, in fact, dropped the first set, 4-6. He, however, waged a hard battle in the second and took it 7-5. The decider was a relative cakewalk for the third seeded Maharashtra player.
Results
Boys under-16 (PQF): CS Mohanty (Del) bt Raghuram (AP) 6-1, 6-3; Vivek Jhaveri (Mah) bt Rohan Kanti (AP) 6-4, 6-3; Nishant Mishra (Del) bt R Raghavendra 6-2, 7-5; PC Tejeswar bt K Raghav 7-5, 6-0; Rohan Gajjar (Mah) bt Vivek Bhakuni 4-6, 7-5, 6-3; Bharati Das (TN) bt Vikrant Sane (Mah) 1-6, 6-3, 6-4; Amanjyot Singh (Chd) bt Karan Rastogi (Mah) 6-1, 6-2; Jaco T Mathew (TN) bt Nikhil Vijay Murali (TN) 7-6 (7-4), 1-6, 7-5
Boys Under-14 (QF): Rishi Behl (Mah) bt Tushar Liberhan (Chd) 7-5, 6-0; Vikram Aditya Menon (TN) bt S Suryacharan (AP) 6-2, 6-2; (PQF): Abhaya Prakash bt Sujay V Reddy 6-4, 6-3; Rohit Raju (Del) bt Sujai Mahadevan (Mah) 4-6, 6-4, 6-2; Karan Rastogi bt Jay Mehta 7-6 (7-4), 6-4; Surya Charan (AP) bt Somdeep Appineni (AP) 6-4, 6-7 (5-7), 6-4; Vikram Aditya Menon bt P Vikas (AP) 6-2, 6-4; Vikrant Sane (Mah) bt M Jaikar (TN) 6-1, 6-4; Rishi Behl bt K Amareesh 3-6, 7-5, 6-0.
Girls under-14 (QF): Sania Mirza (AP) bt Ashel Dimi (TN) 6-2, 6-4; Sanaa Bhambri (Del) bt Ankita Bhambri (Del) 7-6 (7-5), 6-4; Lata Asudani (Mah) bt Krushmi Cheheda (Mah) 6-3, 6-3; Shradda Lodha (Mah) bt Nivedita Venkatesh (TN) 6-2, 6-3.
