Semis slot for Sewa

The only seeded player to enter the boys8217; singles semi-final was fourth seeded Hazut Sofyan of Armenia, who made short work of 1999 junior National champion Kamala Kannan, beating him 6-1 6-0. Sofyan faces unseeded Rajan Luchici of Romania who carved out an easy victory over P Ravishankar 6-1 6-2.

In the girls8217; singles, the only unseeded player to enter the semi-finals was Nandita Chandrasekhar who showed the door to third seeded Aibika Kalsareva 6-3 6-1. Top seed Radhika Tulpule withstood of stiff first set resistance before disposing off sixth seeded Nischela Reddy 7-6 1 6-1.

Second seeded Shuai Peng of Chinaset up a semi-final clash with compatriot Xie Yan Zo after overcoming fifth seeded Geeta Manohar 6-2 6-3 and unseeded Samrita Sekhar 6-1 6-4 respectively.

Chang, Courier advance:
Fourth seed Michael Chang and fifth seed Jim Courier won their opening-round matches in the Sybase Open in San Jose on Tuesday. Andre Agassi withdrew because of injury.

Results prefix number denotes seeding
First round: 4-Michael Chang US bt Paradorn Srichaphan Thailand 7-5 6-4, 5-Jim Courier US bt Eric Taino US 6-3 6-4, Magnus Larsson Sweden bt Martin Rodriguez Spain 6-2 6-1, Xavier Malisse Belgium bt Richard Fromberg Australia 7-6 7-5 0-6 6-4, Paul Goldstein US beat James Blake US 6-3 7-6 7-4, Cecil Mamitt US bt Julian Alonso Spain 6-4 6-4.