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Sabyasachi surprises Al Imron

KOLKATA, FEB. 4. Qualifier Sabyasachi Bose of India sprung the biggest surprise of the day downing fourth seeded Al Imron of Indonesia in straight sets in the boys' singles first round of Bharat Petroleum ITF junior tennis here at the DKS courts on Monday.

Rupesh Roy, who earned the main draw berth as a wild- card, produced the other upset of the day scalping another Indonesian - seventh seeded Imanuel Prawobo - to progress to the pre-quarterfinals.

The results (seedings prefixed): Boys' singles (first round): 1-Amanjot Singh (Ind) bt Miki Laser (Isr) 6-0, 6-2; Guo Jie (Chn) bt Punna Vikas (Ind) 2-6, 6-2, 6-3; Amit Inbar (Isr) bt Ajai Selvaraj (Ind) 6-1, 6-4; 6-Divij Sharan (Ind) bt Saurabh Kohli (Ind) 6-2, 6-7 (3), 6-4; 4-Al Imron (Ina) lost to Sabyasachi Bose (Ind) 3-6, 4-6; Dor Werteimer (Isr) bt Abhay Kumar M.V. (Ind) 6-3, 6-3; Chatwinder Singh (Ind) bt Manoj Kumar Sewa (Ind) 6-7 (3), 7-6 (3), 6-1; 7-Imanuel Prawobo (Ina) lost to Rupesh Roy (Ind) 1-6, 2-6; 8-Tushar Liberhan (Ind) bt Arka Mondal (Ind) 6-2, 6-3; V.M. Ranjit (Ind) bt Vikram Aditya Menon (Ind) 7- 5, 6-0; Imanuel Prakoso (Ina) bt Lior Barbash (Isr) 6-4, 6-0; 3- Rishi Behl (Ind) bt Rewanath Datta (Ind) 6-2, 6-4; 5-Somdev K. Dev Varman (Ind) bt Kripakar M (Ind) 6-1, 6-0; Dhrub Kumar (Ind) bt Aziz Abdurazakov (Uzb) 7-5, 7-6 (3); Boris Kurtovic (Cro) bt Nihal Advani (Ind) 6-2, 6-2; 2-Jaco T. Mathew (Ind) bt Harris Emanda Tedjokusumo (Ina) 6-2, 6-2.

Girls' singles (first round): 1-Megha Vakaria (Ind) bt Karina Ahuja (Ind) 6-0, 6-0; Priyanka Parekh bt Sanjukta Barooah (Ind) 6-2, 6-1; Reenu Jaykumar (Ind) bt Sharmistha Chaudhuri (Ind) 6-2, 6-0; 8-Rui Du (Chn) bt Nivedita Venkatesh (Ind) 6-3, 6-1; 3-Sana Bhambri (Ind) bt S. Punam Reddy (Ind) 6-3, 4-6, 6-1; Shivika Burman (Ind) bt Taslima Akhtar (Ban) 6-1, 6-1; Ragini Vimal (Ind) bt Devanshi Rajgarhia (Ind) 6-3, 6- 3.

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