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This is an archive article published on February 24, 1999

Zhaveri toppled

PUNE, FEB 23: Only one player managed to make an impression on the first day of the Hero Honda Masters at PYC Courts.Kolhapur's Aishwarya...

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PUNE, FEB 23: Only one player managed to make an impression on the first day of the Hero Honda Masters at PYC Courts.

Kolhapur8217;s Aishwarya Jadhav, not playing an aggressive game, certainly gave a hint or two about the sport having reached the grassroots even to places away from the centre of action such as Mumbai and Pune, and to the common public. A healthy sign which signals a good future for tennis, and which was evident when unseeded Aishwarya defeated her Mumbai rival Jinal Zhaveri 9-2 in the girls U-12 section.

RESULTS

GIRLS U-10: Neeraja Hingane Pune bt Anuja Bagal Pune 8-0, Parija Maloo Khamgao bt Devika Chivale Pune 8-1, Nikita Atal Pune bt Rosika Sankpal Pune 8-0, Sonia Patwardhaan Pune bt Vaidehi Patil Pune 8-3, Roshni Luthra Mumbai bt Shweta Marathe Pune 8-2, Sayali Phathak Pune bt Mihika Karve Pune 8-6

U-12: Nidhi Shah Mumbai bt Gayatri Pawar Pune 9-2, Sagarika Phadke Pune bt Preeti Sathe Pune 9-5, Tulsi Mehta Mumbai bt Pankti Chheda Mumbai 9-3,Aishwarya Jadhav Kolhapur bt Jinal Zhaveri 9-2, Kanisha Shah Pune bt Mughda Barve Pune 9-0, Shraddha Lodha Pune bt Kimaya Karve Pune 9-1.

U-14: Priyanka Metha Pune bt Nancy Jharna Mumbai 9-1, Soumya Kowtha Mumbai bt Nandita Paranjpe Sangli 9-1, Namrata Bhosale Pune bt Ekta Shah Pune 9-4, Uttara Rao Mumbai bt Neha Sane Pune 9-0, Isha Lakhani Mumbai bt Jai Chaitanis Pune 9-1.

U-16: Avanee Gokhale Pune bt Preeti Bhatia Pune 9-8 7-3.

Kannan in second round

Top seed Vijay Kannan of Delhi, along with seeded players, Vinod Sridhar TN and Maharashtra8217;s Sandeep Kirtane, moved into the second round of the Gold Flake Aces Tour Tennis Championship first leg being conducted at the Madurai Union Club courts here today.

Results

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Men8217;s singles First round: Anjan Viplav bt S Ganesh 6-3, 6-1, Manoj Mahadevan bt N Mukundan 3-6, 7-5, 7-5, Rishi Sridhar bt R Narendran 6-2, 6-2, Vijay Kannan bt C V Anand 6-0, 6-3, Vinod Sridhar bt Kamlesh Shukla 6-0, 6-3, SandeepKirtane bt Meenakshi Sundaram 6-2, 6-3.

 

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