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Kiran upsets Praveen

Mysore July 8. C.M. Kiran staged a good fight-back, after trailing 5-7, to register the first upset in the tournament when he beat fourth-seeded Praveen Ramaswamy of Bangalore 8-7 (7-5) and entered the pre-quarterfinals in the boys' under-12 section in the Karnataka State-ranking junior tennis championship at the MTC courts here on Tuesday.

Third-seeded Varun Srinath, unseeded M. Sagar, Vikas Hansage, Rohith Srinath, Dheeraj Kumar and S. Jagatheesh have entered the quarterfinals in the under-12 boys' section.

The results:

Boys under-12 (pre-quarterfinals): M. Sagar (Ban) bt Shymaraj (Mys) 8-4; Vikas Hansage (Mys) bt Jeevan Gowda (Mys) 8-0; Varun Srinath (Ban) bt Karthik Durai (Mys) 8-2; Rohith Srinath (Mys) bt Balakeshavan (Cbe) 8-2; S. Jagatheesh (Cbe) bt Arjun Shenoy (Mys) 8-1; Dheeraj Kumar (Mys) bt Vishal V. Shekar (Mys) 8-0.

Second round: C.M. Kiran (Mys) bt Praveen Ramaswamy (Ban) 8-7 (7-5); M. Sagar bt Akash Sharma (Mys) 8-2; Jeevan Gowda bt M.H. Bharatesh (Mys) 8-4; Vikas Hansage bt S. Karan (Mys) 8-2; Arjun Shenoy bt N. Prabhanjan (Mys) 8-0; S. Jagatheesh bt M. Darshan (Mys) 8-2; A. Santhosh (Mys) bt J. Nikhil (Ban) 8-2; Varun Srinath bt N. Ajay Reddy (Ban) 8-1; Rohith Srinath bt Bharadwaj (Mys) 8-0; Balakeshavan bt Chirag S. Igoor (Mys) 8-4; Varun Gopal (Mys) bt S. Darshan (Mys) 8-0; Vishal V. Shekar bt C.S. Vikram Aditya (Mys) 8-1; Prithvik Nagaraj (Mys) bt Sharan Patil (Ban) 8-3.

Under-14 (second round): Vishwas Kumar (Mys) bt Hariprasad (Mandya) 8-2; Vibhav M. Iyengar (Mys) bt Anil (Mys) 8-0; Varun Gopal (Mys) bt Manoj (Mys) 8-3; C.M. Kiran (Mys) bt N. Prithvik (Mys) 8-7 (7-1); M.D. Shreyas (Mys) bt S. Jagatheesh (Cbe) 8-6; H.S. Shravan (Mys) bt Ajay Reddy (Ban) 8-7 (7-4); N. Sumukh (Mys) bt N. Manish (Mys) 8-7 (7-2); Akash Sharma (Mys) bt Arjun Shenoy (Mys) 8-6; Amoolya Chandra (Mys) bt D. Rakshith (Mys) 8-1; Deepak Mohan (Ban) bt Bharadwaj (Mys) 8-3; Subramanya Dutta (Mys) bt A. Santhosh (Mys) 8-6; Nidish (Mys) bt M. Darshan (Mys) 8-2; J. Shreyas (Mys) bt Praveen Ramaswamy (Ban) 8-2; Rohith Srinath (Mys) bt Abhimanya (Ban) 8-2.

Under-18 (first round): S. Sabareesh (Mys) bt K. Srihari (Mys) 8-4; Varun (Ban) bt P.V. Raghavendra (Mys) 8-0; B.A. Abhishek (Mys) bt Karthik S. Anand (Mys) 8-0; N. Manish (Mys) bt Gautham (Mys) 8-4; N. Sunil Kumar (Mys) bt T.M. Rakshit (Mys) 8-1; R. Shravan (Mys) bt Abhiram (Mys) 8-2; C. Praveen (Ban) bt Bruhath V. Raker (Mys) 8-6; Nithin S. Bharadwaj (Mys) bt P. Nithish (Mys) 8-1.

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