Sheshadri qualifies

MUMBAI, May 11: Satyajit Sheshadri made it to the main draw of the boys' under-16 category in the Wockhardt fifth Bombay Gymkhana Junior Ope...

MUMBAI, May 11: Satyajit Sheshadri made it to the main draw of the boys8217; under-16 category in the Wockhardt fifth Bombay Gymkhana Junior Open tennis tournament today.

Sheshadri defeated Jai Mehta in the final qualifying round 9-5 following a heroic third round effort where he came back from 0-7 down to overcome Sujay Mahadevan at the CCI courts.

Mahadevan lead 7-0, 40-15 before losing three match points and with it the match.

RESULTS

Boys8217; qualifiers: Under-18: Neeraj Anand bt Mujib Kamli 8-0, Gautam Padmanabhan bt Pranay F 8-2, Satyajit Sheshadri bt Lakesh Bada 8-1, Kapil Assudani bt Anirudh Dhekne 8-1, Neil M w/o Ajay Vaswani, Pratik Sharma w/o Krishna K.

Under-16: Imran Allana bt Neil Mundra 9-6, Pratik Sharma bt Anirudh Dhakne 9-2, Siddharth Patil bt Jyotinder Kanekar 9-6, Arjun Vaidya bt Chirag Mehta 9-4, Vikrant Sane bt Rushang Patel 9-1, Satyajit Sheshadri bt Jai Mehta 9-5.

Under-14: Anirudh W bt Rahul Manerikar 8-6, Ryan Mendonca bt Sahil Dhandia 8-5, TridipChaudhary bt Ronak Shah 8-4, Yuvraj Patel bt Aditya Naik 8-2, Shyam Pednekar bt Harshad Kshirsagar 8-6, Allan Moses bt Karan Zaveri 8-6.

Under-12: Siddharth Makkar bt Abhishek Mahadik 9-4, Siddharth Alapati bt S Bhumkar 9-7, Karan Pore bt Jairaj Desai 9-1, Rohan G bt Tanuj Mahata 9-3, Karan Mordani bt Rajvardhan Chalukdar 9-0, Marlon Coehlo bt Vivardhan Kanoria 9-3, Agnel Glawin bt Bhavik Selarka 9-3, Albert Aloysius bt Richinder Nanda 9-4.

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Under-14 1st round: Ronak Shah bt Dionne Appumyge 9-7, Anuja Parikh bt Ketki Modak 9-1, Johan Fernandes bbt Tulsi Mehta 9-1, Brinda Dayal bt Avanti Salakhe 9-6, Shradha Lodha bt Uttara Rao 9-2, Jharna Nancy bt Jaslin Rehal 9-2, Lizenka Pereira w/o Kiran Chadha, Priya Panchkawade bt Sonali Sanap 9-8 8-6, Kanisha Mehta bt Anika Arora 9-2, Ridhima Raina bt Dimple Ganjawala 9-0.

Under-12: Poonam Patel bt Sonal Shetye 8-1, Sampada Kanade w/o Junal Jhaveri, Ketaki Modak bt Divya Gopal 8-3, Roshni Luthra bt Neha Agarwal 8-3, Krushmi Chhedabt Anuradha Gurang 8-7 7-2, Kartiki Bhatt bt Sagarika Phadke 9-1.