Shruti upset

NEW DELHI, February 2: Top seed Kedar Tembe defeated wild card Shivang Mishra 6-1, 6-4 to enter the quarter-finals of the ITF Junior Ranking tennis tournament. Qualifier Alok Bhide, No 4 seed Dipesh Rao, Nomi Qamar of Pakistan, Sunil Kumar, qualifier Kedar Shah, No 5 seed Mark Weaver of Great Britain and second seed Akshay Vishal Rao were the other players who made it to the quarterfinals.

Second seed Shruti Dhawan was the day8217;s biggest upset when she went down fighting to Lisa Pereira 5-7, 7-61, 5-7. Top seed Sheetal Gautam, Geeta Manohar, No 4 seed Radhika Mandke, No 7 seed Marya Malinowska of Poland, Sonia Shelar, Olga Dzyuba of Kazakastan and Sonal Phadke were the girls quarterfinalists today.