Sonal, Radhika in semi-finals

Pune girl Tulpule, playing in her first senior tournament, was kept on court for an hour and 35 minutes before settling the issue 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 at the Shivaji Park Gymkhana courts. The country8217;s No 1 under-16 player then rushed to Bombay Gymkhana where she is playing the Maharashtra State Ranking junior tournament in both under-16 and under-18 categories.

Joining her in the semis and also playing both tournaments is Sonal Phadke. Sonal, who has written her SSC exams, demolished Shelar 6-1, 6-1 in just 43 minutes in a match during which Shelar could hold her serve only once.

Facing Phadke in thesemis will be the No 1 seed Uzma Khan who shrugged off initial trouble against Ahmedabad girl Karishma Patel to win 6-3, 6-1 in little over an hour. Patel, with a break in the first game, was up 3-1 before the Hyderabad girl swung things around. A break each in the sixth and eighth games did the trick for Khan.

The last semi-final slot was filled by Krishnamurthy, despite three double faults, against an erratic Juthika Choksi, winning 6-2, 6-3 in just 28 minutes. She faces Tulpule tomorrow.

Semi-final line-up

Uzma Khan vs Sonal Phadke, Janaki Krishnamurthy vs Radhika Tulpule.Results singles quarter-finals: Uzma Khan AP bt Karishma Patel Guj 6-3, 6-1; Sonal Phadke Mah bt Sonia Shelar Mah 6-1, 6-1; Radhika Tulpule Mah bt Aparna Srinivasan Mah 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; Janaki Krishnamuthy Mah bt Jutika Choksi Mah 6-2, 6-3.

Doubles semi-finals: Radhika Tulpule/Radhika Mandke bt Sonia Shelar/Priyanka Contractor 6-2, 6-3; Reetu Sethi/Aparna Srinivasan bt Nehal Chopra/Sadiya Pathan 6-3, 2-6,6-3.

Sham scores upset win

Abedin Sham defeated eighth seed Kunal Bhojwani 9-3 in the boys8217; under-18 second round of the Fifth Bombay Gymkhana Open Maharashtra State Ranking tennis tournament today.

Results

Boys8217; under-18 2nd round: Kedar Tembe bt Aashay Deshmukh 9-1; Dipesh Rao bt Neil Mundra 9-5; Kedar Shah bt Arpan Lakhani 9-3; Abhijit Mazumdar bt Joshua Fonseca 9-6; Abedin Shyam bt Kunal Bhojwani 9-3; Vijendra Lad bt Harshit Sharma 9-3; Pratim Parekh bt Sangram Chapekar 9-8 7-3; Akshay Jagdale bt Karan Doctor 9-7.

Under-14 2nd round: Vikrant Sane bt Jyotinder Kanekar 9-5; Adiya Reddi bt Jay Mehta 9-8 7-5, Ankit Doshi bt Siddharth Patil 9-1; Rishi Behl bt Saurabh Kohli 9-7; Amit Karunakaran bt Anirudh Wachare 9-4; Krishne Tanna bt Arjun Vaidya 9-1; Sujay Mahadevan bt Dhananjay Kawde 9-3; Rohan Gajjar bt Ryan Mendonce 9-0.

Under-12 quarter-finals: Sidharth Chheda bt Rohan Shah 6-1, 6-1; C Akshay bt Dhruval Kothari 6-1, 6-2; R Ramnath bt Sahil Dhandia 6-4, 6-3; KeshavNarasimhan bt Hrishikesh Pataskar 6-3, 7-6 7-3.

Girls8217; under-14 quarter-finals: Megha Vakharia bt Krushmi Chheda 6-2, 6-1; Lata Asudani bt Ronak shah 6-2, 6-4; Johan Fernandes bt Shradha Lodha 6-4, 6-0; Isha Lakhani bt Kartiki Bhat 6-0, 6-2.