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Lucky loser Siddharth stuns Sewa

By Our Sports Reporter

CHENNAI AUG. 20. Siddharth Ghulati had lost to Vishnu Vardhan in the final qualifying round of the MCC-TNTA National championship here recently. And in the first leg of the ongoing Adidas-AITA junior tennis championship at the Krishnan Tennis Centre, Siddharth had again gone down to Vardhan in the last qualifying round.

But luck did not desert the Delhi lad. Thanks to R. Arun Prakash's withdrawal, owing to a shoulder problem, he got a new lease of life as a lucky loser. On Tuesday, he made ample use of the given opportunity to rally from a 0-3 deficit in the decider to oust eighth seeded Manoj Kumar Sewa of Kolkata 0-6, 6-0, 6-3 and advance to the second round of the boys' under-18 section.

In another upset of the day, qualifier Inder Kumar Mahajan of Madhya Pradesh entered the second round trouncing sixth seed Dhrub Kumar of Kolkata 6-1, 6-3.

In the girls' under-18 section, though sixth seeded Sandri Gangotri of Hyderabad saved four matchpoints against Statemate K. Pooja — two in the tenth game (40-15), and two in the twelfth game (40-15), the qualifier had the last laugh, as she won the decider in a close tie-breaker, the scoreline being 7-5, 1-6, 7-6 (7-5).

Parul Goswami of New Delhi put it across Karnataka's Swetha Devaraj, the seventh seed 6-1, 6-2, in around 40 minutes. Later in the evening, up-and-coming M. Jeevan committed far too many unforced errors and bowed out to Kolkata's Rupesh Roy 2-6, 4-6 in the first round of the boys' under-18 section.

The two returned on Monday night from Czech Republic, where Indian boys and girls finished seventh in the finals of the World group under-14 championship.

The results (first round):

Boys under-18: 1-Chatwinder Singh (Chd) bt H. Jayakar (TN) 6-2, 6-1; G. Arjun (Kar) bt Sendur Gowtham (TN) 6-0, 6-7 (5-7), 6-0; L.S. Anantha Baskar (TN) bt Ajay Selvaraj (TN) 6-2, 7-6 (7-5); Siddharth Ghulati (Del) bt 8-Manoj Kumar Sewa (WB) 0-6, 6-0, 6-3; 4-M.V. Abhay Prakash (Kar) bt Wrik Ganguly (Del) 6-2, 6-3; S. Prateek (Kar) bt Anshuman Dutta (Asm) 6-3, 6-4; Jitin Bishnoi (Chd) bt M. Vinod (TN) 6-1, 6-0; Inder Kumar Mahajan (MP) bt 6- Dhrub Kumar (WB) 6-1, 6-3; 5-P. Vikas (AP) bt Varun Giri (Del) 6- 2, 6-0; Aditya Madkekar (Mah) bt S. Kishore (TN) 6-3, 6-1; 3- Rupesh Roy (WB) bt M. Jeevan (TN) 6-2, 6-4; 7-V.M. Ranjeet (TN) bt Kiran Kumar (Kar) 6-4, 6-2; Vikram Aditya Menon (TN) bt Honey Rana (Del) 6-2, 6-3; Samrat Ghosh (WB) bt Sujay Mahadevan (Mah) 6-1, 7-5; V. Vignesh (AP) bt Vishnu Vardhan (AP) 7-5, 6-4.

Boys under-14: Akshay Bajoria (WB) bt Masheer Vaswani (Kar) 6-3, 6-1; Siddharth Alapatti (AP) bt Neil Rajpaul (Del) 6-2, 6-1; Ankit Goswami (Del) bt Amrit Garg (Raj) 6-2, 6-3; V.S. Srihari (AP) bt Ankul Agarwal (Del) 6-0, 6-0; Sujit Sachidanand (Kar) bt N.S. Mangal (TN) 6-2, 6-0; Koushik Das (Asm) bt Koushal Mahale (Mah) 6-0, 6-3; Karun Uday Singh (Chd) bt Suman Kumar Debnath (WB) 6-2, 3-6, 6-4; Zen Laliwala (Mah) bt Pankaj Kulthia (Del) 6- 7 (5-7), 6-3, 6-3; 8-Keegan Quadras (Mah) bt Siddharth Hande (TN) 7-5, 7-5; 4-R.K. Praveen (Kar) bt M. Fariz (TN) 6-4, 6-4; G.P. Prajnesh (TN) bt Ankit Sachdeva (Del) 6-1, 6-1; J. Shravan Kumar (TN) bt 6-Agnel Gladwin (Mah) 6-1, 2-6, 6-3.

Girls under-18: 1-Punam Reddy (Kar) bt Fatima Baig (TN) 6-3, 6-2; E. Asmitha (TN) bt Varsha Shivshankar (Kar) 6-2, 6-2; 8-Asha Nandakumar (Kar) bt Gayatri Krishnan (TN) 6-4, 6-4; 4-Sharanya Pattabi (TN) bt Karina Ahuja (WB) 6-2, 6-3; Nivedita Venkatesh (TN) bt Preethi Shravan (AP) 6-4, 7-6 (7-3), Alice Joy (TN) bt Anupama Rajpur (Kar) 6-1, 7-6 (7-3); 5-Preeti Rao (TN) bt Sanjana Gopal (Kar) 6-0, 6-0; K. Pooja (AP) bt 6-Sandri Gangotri (AP) 7- 5, 1-6, 7-6 (7-5); Oormila Ram (TN) bt Shivika Burman (WB) 6-0, 1-6, 6-2; S. Marutha Devi (TN) bt Dhaksa Mulay (WB) 6-2, 6-2; 3- Lata Assudani (Mah) bt Priya Pachkawade (Mah) 6-1, 6-3; Parul Goswami (Del) bt 7-Swetha Devaraj (Kar) 6-1, 6-2; M. Kamini (TN) bt Tanya Ahuja (WB) 6-0, 6-3; Madura Ranganathan (TN) bt Mansi Modi (AP) 6-4, 6-3; 2-Sandra Sashidaran (Ker) bt M.R. Chirashanti (Kar) 6-1, 6-3.

Girls under-14: Pooja Shree (Kar) bt Janaki S. Rao (AP) 6-2, 6-0; Unnati Purushotham (AP) bt Ridhima Barooah (Asm) 6-4, 6-2; 8-L. Kanimozhi (TN) Bt Monica Menon (Del) 6-0, 6-1; Grace Hannah (TN) bt Dhaksha R. Moolay (Mah) 6-4, 6-2; E. Asmitha (TN) bt Shibani Shah (Guj) 6-2, 6-0; Karina Ahuja (WB) bt 6-Parija Maloo (Mah) 6- 3, 7-6 (10-8); 5-Gayatri Krishnan (TN) bt Henna Ahuja (WB) 6-0, 6-0; A. Amita (SL) bt Amoolya Raghunath (Kar) 6-3, 7-5; P.V. Rajarajeswari (AP) bt Jilke Nellord (Del) 6-3, 6-0; 7-Sanjana Kapur (Del) bt Shilpi Jaiswal (Bhr) 6-4, 6-1; Akshita B. Raj (Kar) bt Shivika Burman (WB) 7-5, 6-2.

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