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Easy for Kaushik

BANGALORE APRIL 15. It was pay back time for Kaushik S. Raju.

Only a few days ago, he was at the receiving end against Sujith Sachidanand at the Indian Gymkhana boys under-14 singles final.

But the roles were reversed today, as Kaushik, knocked out the fifth seeded Sujith 6-1, 6-2 in the boys under-16 singles opening round of the Wearhouse Camel-Century Club South Zone sub-junior ranking tennis championship the club court here today .

The results (first round):

Boys (under-16 singles): Farhan Virjee (Kar ) bt Manikanta (Kar) 6-4, 6-3; R. K. Praveen (Kar ) bt Varun Shetty (Kar) 6-1, 6-2; Kaushik S Raju bt Sujith Sachidanand (Kar) 6-1, 6-2; B. Suraj bt Prashanth Madhusudhan (Kar) 6-4, 3-6, 6-0; N. S. Mangal (TN) bt A. Akilan ( TN) 6-4, 6-3; Shishir Patil bt Karthik S. Raju (Kar) 6-7 (3-7), 6-3, 6-2.

Siddarth Hande (TN ) bt karthik Desai (AP) 6-4, 6-0; Dhruv Sundar (Kar) bt Kaustab Inamdar (Kar) 6-2, 6-1; J. Dhritiman (TN) bt V. Vignesh (AP) 6-2, 6-4; Hariprasath (TN) bt R. Rohit 6-3, 6-2; V. Kaushik (Kar) bt Manish Rao (Kar ) 6-3, 6-2; S. Prateek (Kar) bt Gaurav Sundar (Kar ) 7-5, 6-3.

Under-14 singles: R. K. Praveen (Kar) bt M. Fariz (TN) 6-2,6-4; Siddarth Hande (TN) bt Preetham Roy (Kar) 6-3, 6-2; Sujith Sachidanand (Kar) bt Vishnu Rajam (TN) 7-6 (7-2), 6-2; Sriram Balaji (TN) bt V. Kaushik (Kar) 6-1, 5-7, 6-3; J. Sharavan Kumar (TN) bt Kaustab Inamdar (Kar) 6-3, 6-1; Kaushik S. Raju bt S. Abhishek (Kar) 6-0, 6-1.

Karthik Desai (AP) bt M. Kiran Reddy (TN) 6-0, 6-1; Mesheer Vaswani (Kar) bt Niroze (AP) 7-5, 7-6 (7-4); Navaneetha Krishnan (TN) bt V. Siddarth (Kar) 6-2, 6-4; A. M. Suraj (Kar) bt C. Praveen (Kar) 6-1, 6-1; K. H. Praveen (AP) bt Vikram Gautham (TN) 6-0, 6-2.

Girls under-14 singles: C. Lekha (TN) bt Bhavya Desai (Kar) 6-1, 7-6 (8-6); N. Venkatalakshmi (TN) bt Nisha Thamby Chetty (Kar ) 6-2, 6-4; Amoolya Raghunath (Kar) bt K. A. Deepa (TN) 6-1, 6-0; Janani Suresh (TN) bt A. Prerna Mytri (AP) 6-1, 6-0; Janaki S.Rao (TN) bt Ria Francis (Ker) 6-0, 6-0.

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