Vishal shocks Bopanna

NEW DELHI, February 3: It was a day of upsets in the girls' section as five seeds crashed out of the ITF Junior Circuit Under-18 tennis tour...

NEW DELHI, February 3: It was a day of upsets in the girls’ section as five seeds crashed out of the ITF Junior Circuit Under-18 tennis tournament at the DTA courts, here today.

Unseeded Pichaya Laosirichon of Thailand sent Ctvrtnickova Veronika packing in a hard fought battle 7-5, 7-5 in the first round. But she was later shunted out by India’s Trishna Williams in the second round 6-4, 6-3. Among the other seeds to crash out in the opening round were fifth seed Kanbargimath Tara, who lost to Australian Sohm Marion 2-6, 2-6, and No. 8 Radhika Madke, a victim of another Australian Juce Beatrice 4-6, 4-6.

The casualities continued in the second round too as second seed Velts Alisa went down tamely to Meusbaurger Yvonne 2-6, 5-7 and Pakistani Nida Waseem was sent packing by Radhika Tulpule 0-6, 0-6 Top seed Uzma Khan played a balanced game to advance to the quarter-finals with a 7-5, 6-3 win over Shruti Dhawan. In the first set, Shruti went up 4-2 breaking Uzma in the sixth. But the top seed broke back inthe next and then had broke her again in the 11th to serve out the set.

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In the second set, Uzma led 3-2 but Shruti levelled by breaking the top seed in the next. It was curtains for Shruti after that as Uzma took the next three games to close out the match.

Boys’ top seed Zaman Sanzaruz maintained top form while breezing past Sirotin Denis of Kyrgistan 6-1, 6-2. Wild card entrant Punna Vishal upset fourth-seed Rohan Bopanna 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. An aggressive game and perfect serve saw Vishal dominating the show and a break in the sixth game gave Vishal the first set.

Results

Girls: Singles 1st round:

Uzma Khan bt Neha Phalpher 6-0, 6-0; Shruti Dhawan bt Itishri Badu 6-2, 6-2; Sheetal Gautam bt Dinali de Silva (Sri) 6-1, 6-0; Simma Maria (Aut) bt Thiagarjan Sricharanya 6-2, 6-2; Trishna Williams bt Aibika Kalsarieva (Kyr) 6-2, 6-1; Pichaya Laosirichon bt Ctvrtnickova Veronika (Cze) 7-5, 7-5; Sohm Marion (Aut) bt Kanbargimath Tara 6-2, 6-2; Geeta Manohar bt Sangeeta Rajgopalan 6-1, 6-1; JuchBeatrice (Aut) bt Radhika Mandke 6-4, 6-4; Vadali Kameshwari bt Jahnvi Sunderajan 6-3, 6-3; Vishika Chhetri bt Neetu Batra 6-1, 6-2; Tagwercher Tina (Aut) bt Walterova Dominika (Cze) 6-4, 6-3; Nida Waseem (Pak) bt Monika Goel 6-3, 6-2; Radhika Tulpule bt Utkalika Badu 6-2, 6-0; Meusburger Yvonne (Aut) bt Sonia Shelar 6-4, 7-5; Velts Alisa (Kaz) bt Vojtaskova Petra 6-2, 6-1.

2nd round: Uzma Khan bt Shruti Dhawan 7-5, 6-3; Sheetal Gautam bt Simma Maria (Aut) 6-3, 6-2; Trishna Williams bt Pichaya Laosirichon 6-4, 6-3; Sohm Marion (Aut) bt Geeta Manohar 6-0, 6-2; Juch Beatrice (Aut) bt Vadali Kameshwari 6-1, 6-2; Tagwercher Tina (Aut) bt Vishika Chhetri 6-1, 6-0; Radhika Tulpule bt Nida Waseem 6-0, 6-0; Meusburger Yvonne bt Velts Alisa 6-2, 7-5

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BOys: Singles 2nd round: Zaman Sanzuruz bt Sirotin Denis (Kyr) 6-1, 6-2; Jacok Paulsen (Den) bt Shivang Misra 6-1, 6-3; P. Vishal bt Rohan Bopanna 6-4, 4-6, 6-3; Kedar tembe bt Dipesh Rao 6-0, 6-3; Ravi Kiran Bhatt bt Sunil Kumar 7-5, 6-3; Akshay VishalRao bt Ashutosh Singh 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-0; Vijay Kannan bt Akshay Jagdale 6-1, 6-2; Mik Ledvonova (Den) bt Kamala Kannan 6-2, 6-2

Boys doubles 1st round: Rohan Bopanna/ Ravi Kiran Bhatt bt Mik Ledvonova/ Jacob Paulsen (Den) 6-3, 4-6, 7-5; Lalit Mohan Singh/ Rahul Giri bt Ashutosh Singh/ Shivang Misra 7-6 (10), 1-6, 7-5; Sunil Kumar/ A.Vishal Rao bt Kedar Tembe/ Zaman Sanzaruz 6-3, 6-2; Parantap Chaturvedi/ Chandrasekhar Mohanty bt Abhijit Mazumdar/ Khammadov Ilyar (Uzb) 5-7, 6-1, 6-0; Sirotin Denis/ Koifman Eduard (Kyr) bt Punna Vishal/ Aditya Khanna 7-5, 7-5; Sahita Ranavira (Sri). PS Bhattacharya bt Kamala Kannan/ Nirmit Shetty 7-6(5), 7-5; Dipesh Rao/ Kedar Shah bt Sangram Chapekar/ Akshay Jagdale 6-4, 7-6(6); Vijay Kannan/ Saif Ali bt Lahiru Loshan Jayasuriya/ Rajeev Jayprakash (Sri) 7-5, 7-5

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