Shivshankar knocks out second seed Ganesh

Jagsish Tanwar in action against R G Arvind in the first round match at the Shivaji Park Gymkhana. MUMBAI, May 5: The Sterling Resorts Mu...

Jagsish Tanwar in action against R G Arvind in the first round match at the Shivaji Park Gymkhana.

MUMBAI, May 5: The Sterling Resorts Mumbai Hard Court Tournament lost its second seed on the very first day when unseeded S Shivshankar of Karnataka knocked out Tamil Nadu’s KV Ganesh in straight sets 6-4, 6-4 at the Shivaji Park Gymkhana here today.

The match, which was the last scheduled singles match of the day, saw many unforced errors by Ganesh. He was broken in the fifth games of each set, while Shivshankar played a steady, consistent game to wrap up both the sets and book his second round berth.

Also through to the second round were the top eight women’s seeds, led by Tamil Nadu’s Rushmi Chakravarthy, who had recently won the Maharashtra State Hard Court title last week. Second seed Arati Ponappa got a first-round bye.

RESULTS (1st round):

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Men’s singles: S Shivasankar bt 2-KV Ganesh 6-4 6-4, Jay Patel bt Ravi Bhaya 6-1 6-3, Chandraveer Singh bt Shamsul Zaman 6-3 3-6 6-3, 8-R Balaji bt A Sigtia 6-0 6-2, 3-Intikhab Ali bt Bhaskar Chowdhary 6-2 6-1, 5-CV Anand bt Yasser Arafat 6-4 6-0, 6-DR Jayadeva bt Anoop Minda 6-3 6-3, Prem Prakash bt Vijay Kanan 1-6 6-2 7-6 (10-8), Amod Wakalkar bt Ronnie Sarkar 6-2 6-3, 4-Shailesh Dhoble bt Vinay Karia 6-4 6-3, 7-Jagdish Tanwar bt RG Arvind 6-1 6-1, Y Sandeep bt Prashant Sutar 3-6 6-2 1-0 (conceded), Rajesh Vohra bt Sikka Singh 6-2 6-2

Women’s singles: 1-Rushmi Chakravarthy bt Nikhila Palat 6-3 6-3, K Subhasini bt Vishnu Preetam 7-5 6-3, Hrushida Kamthe bt Rekha Natarajan 6-1 6-3, 7-Joy Rodrigues bt Pooja Deshmukh 6-1 6-1, 3-Archana Venkatraman bt Nehal Chopra 6-3 6-2, Shyla Naidu bt Padma Preetam 6-2 6-1, Kuntal Joshi bt Reetu Sethi 6-0 6-4, Stutti Smit bt Lakshmi Jayaraman 6-1 6-2, Priya Wal bt Sonia Fernandes 6-2 6-4, 4-Janaki Krishnamoorthy bt Anisha Shelar 6-0 6-1, 8-Jutika Choksi bt Neeth Devaiah 7-6 (7-1) 6-4, Mable Abraham bt Shobika Badhwar 6-0 6-2, 5-Arati Venkatraman bt Sumitra Rao 7-6 (7-5) 6-2