Salve stuns Kamil

MUMBAI, January 12: Ganesh Salve upset third seed Akbar Ali Kamil 8-3 in a under-12 first round match of the Junior State Ranking tennis tournament today.

Nilesh Kapoor faced three break points while trailing 3-5 before he pulled through to a 8-6 win over Monil Batra in a under-16 first round match at the Chembur Gymkhana. Another seed to crash out, No 3 Siddhant Sane lost to Phulkit Singhal 8-4.

Results

Boys under-16 first round: Aniket Joglekar w/o A Shah, Inderjeet Joglekar bt Sriram Ramani 8-2, Saurabh K bt Umang Makharia 8-5, Krishne Tanna bt Rushang Patel 8-5, Ankit Doshi bt Arjun Hitkari 8-5, Adhitya Bhave bt Sarosh Ansari 8-4, Sujay Mahadevan bt Jay Mehta 8-1, Aditya Raddi w/o Amit Karunnakaran, Gaurav Kumar bt Saurabh Diwadkar 8-3, Nilesh Kapoor bt Monil Batra 8-6, Anirudha Wakchvre bt Shikha Thakur 8-4, Mehul Kamdar bt Sanjay Salian 8-1, Rish Behl bt Abhishek Pandey 8-3, Purnish Shah bt Chirag Mehta 8-3, Ashvir Khurana bt Raghav Garg 8-4, Vivek Zaveri bt Mendonca Ryan 8-2.