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Soumit, Karamveer oust seeds

KOLKATA : Local boys Soumit Dey and Karamveer Dhillon disposed off fifth seed Vedant Kapoor 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 and third seed Dhruv Gurwara 3-6, 6-1, 6-3 respectively in the first round of the boys' singles under-16 section at the Sunfeast junior tennis Super Series here on Wednesday.

Other important results:

Boys' under-16 (first round): Anmol Singh Ladhar (Chd) bt Vaidik Munshaw (Guj) 6-4, 6-2; Varun Anand (U.P.) bt Surya Pavan (AP) 7-6 (5), 6-4; J. Mohit Mayur (TN) bt Kunal Anand (U.P.) 6-4, 7-6 (8); Sai Kartik Nakireddi (AP) bt Rohan Ray (WB) 4-6, 6-4, 6-4; S. Sidharth (AP) bt Pankaj Kishnani (Guj) 6-1, 1-6, 6-2; Deepak Swaminathan (TN) bt Samip Mehta (Guj); Parul Verma bt Sanish Mani Mishra (UP) 6-3, 6-0.

Girls' under-16 (first round): Likitha Devraj (Kar) bt Shweta C. Rana (Del) 7-6 (3), 6-3; C. Mohana Sai Madhuri (AP) bt Apoorva Makan (Mah) 6-3, 6-7 (5), 6-1; Nikkie Gargi (AP) bt Nitha P. Mysore (Kar) 7-5, 6-2; V. Archana (AP) bt Arushi Sharma (Del) 6-2, 6-2.

Boys' under-14 (first round): J. Mohit Mayur (TN) bt S.V. Abhishek (AP) 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-2.

Girls' under-14 (pre-quarterfinals): Arushi Sharma (Del) bt Likitha Devraj (Kar) 4-6, 7-6 (7), 6-4; Nova Patel (Guj) bt Ratnika Batra (Del) 6-2, 6-2 in the pre-quarterfinals. — Our Special Correspondent

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