Two seeds upset in ITF Circuit

CHANDIGARH, FEB 9: Two seeds in the boys singles tumbled out on the second day of the ITF Junior Circuit Tennis Tournament at Chandigarh ...

CHANDIGARH, FEB 9: Two seeds in the boys singles tumbled out on the second day of the ITF Junior Circuit Tennis Tournament at Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association courts here today. Fourth seed Mark Weaver of Great Britain and seventh seeded Saif Ali of India made inglorious exits, both losing in straight sets.

Kedar Shah of India showed Mark Weaver of Great Britain the exit door with a 2-6 6-1 6-4 verdict. Unseeded Ashutosh Singh ended the challenge of Saif Ali 6-3, 6-4 in an all-India first-round match.

Top seed Kedar Tembe and second seed Akshay Vishal Rao, a Punwire trainee, both having 105 ITF points each, had a smooth sailing in their first-round encounters.

RESULTS

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Boys Singles (1st round): Kedar Tembe (Ind) bt Nishank Mishra (Ind) 6-0 6-1, CS Mohanty (Ind) bt Sarbarinder Singh (Ind) 5-7 6-4 6-4, Jay Arora (Ind) bt Nipun Gupta (Ind) 6-4 6-1, Ahmed Walha (Pak) bt Vinod Sewa (Ind) 6-4 6-4, Kedar Shah (Ind) bt Mark Weaver (Gbr) 2-6 6-1 6-4, Ravi Krishna Palivela (Ind) bt Anand Anoop (Ind) 6-3 6-2, Amanjot Singh (Ind) bt Saurabh Singh (Ind) 6-1 6-4, Ashutosh Singh (Ind) bt Saif Ali (Ind) 6-3 6-4, Vishal Punna (Ind) bt Shivang Misra (Ind) 6-7 (6) 6-1 6-4, Ivan Kovalen (Kaz) bt Akash Sharma (Ind) 6-4 6-4, Ritesh Chitlangia (Ind) bt Nita Stephen (Gbr) 6-1 4-6 6-0, Doctor Karan (Ind) bt Mohd Zia Hai (Pak) 6-2 6-3, Qamar Nomi (Pak) bt Sunil Kumar (Ind) 1-6 6-3 6-4, Alok Bhide (Ind) bt Rahul Rajkhewa (Ind) 6-3 6-3, Sidharth Sudhakar (Ind) bt Arpan Lakhani (Ind) 7-5 6-1, Akshay Vishal Rao (Ind) bt Parantap Chaturvedi (Ind) 6-1 6-0.

Girls (2nd round): Sheetal Gautam (Ind) bt Vishika Chhetri (Ind) 6-0 6-0, Olga Dzyuba (Kaz) bt Sandhya Kanury (Ind) 6-4 3-6 6-4, Radhika Mandke (Ind) bt Yuvika Sharma (Ind) 6-0 6-0, Nida Waseem (Pak) bt Rekha Natarajan (Ind) 6-3 7-5, Marta Malinowska (Pol) bt Isha Chopra (Ind) 6-1 6-4, Radhika Tulpule (Ind) bt Harsimran Kaur (Ind) 6-3 6-2, Veleriya Khazova (Kaz) bt Sonal Phadke (Ind) 7-6 (5) 6-2, Shruti Dhawan (Ind) bt Nischela Reddy (Ind) 6-3 6-1.

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