Schoolboy Saxena selected

The others to qualify for the State tourney were AS Awate, Rashmin Pulekar, G Balaji, VN Ghate, R Kashelkar, Ketan Boricha and Uday Karandikar.

Kenneth struggles
FOURTH seed Kenneth Quadros just about beat Karan Jhaveri 9-8 7-4 in a boys under-14 pre-quarter-final clash of the fourth Wodehouse Gymkhana Open Junior tennis.

Results of pre-quarters: Boys U-16: Nehal Advani bt Krishank Shah 9-5; Jay Mehta bt Karan Mordani 9-5; Rishi Behl bt Chirag Mehta 9-3; Saurav Kohli bt Aditya Reddy 9-1. Under-14: Kenneth Quadros bt Karan Jhaveri 9-8 7-4; Vedant Bhagwat bt Arnav Jain 9-8 7-5; Rohan Gide bt Karan Mordani 9-5; Akshay Chellapa bt Gautam Samarth 9-4. Under-12: Agnel Gladwin bt Akshay Gujrati 9-6, 9-5; Anuj Arora bt Anirudh Kautha 9-5; Tejasvi Rao bt Saurabh Muzumdar 9-1; Arnav Jain bt Tarun Ketrapal 9-0. Under-10: Varun Vasant bt Manjay Bidaye 8-6; Samir Parenjpe bt Kunal Desai 8-1; Gaurav Wallia bt Agarkar Chinmay 8-1; Vivek Parikh bt Shiv Nikam 8-1.