Date:15/06/2003 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2003/06/15/stories/2003061503591700.htm

Sport - Tennis

Sandeep moves up

NEW DELHI JUNE 14. Sandeep Chaudhary defeated Dannio Yahya of Malaysia 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 in the first qualifying round of the GAIL ITF Satellite tennis circuit third leg at the DLTA Complex here on Saturday.

Sandeep will meet Katsushi Fukuda of Japan in the second round. The seventh-seeded Japanese had a bye in the first round.

Meanwhile, the wild cards for the main draw were awarded to Stephen Amritraj of the U.S., Chatwinder Singh, Saurabh Singh and Parantap Chaturvedi.

The results (qualifying):

First round: Anuwat Dalodom (Tha) bt Vikramaditya Menon 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; Amod Wakalkar bt Amit Karunakaran 6-3, 6-1; Yohan Samawi (Ina) bt Kripakar Mahalingam 6-3, 6-2; Ashwin Sivaramakrishnan bt Lalit Mann 6-3, 6-2; Ling Lu (Hkg) bt Akash Sharma 6-0, 3-0 (retired); Brian Hung (Hkg) bt Manchit Madan 6-2, 4-6, 6-3; Arjun Tawar bt L.S. Anantha Baskar 7-5, 6-1; Saurabh Kohli bt Pavan Polavarapu 6-3, 6-1; Wrik Ganguly bt Prabhjit Singh 6-2, 6-2; J. Vishnu Vardhan bt Vivek Shokeen 6-3, 6-2; Ritesh Chitlangiya bt Imran Mohammad 6-1, 6-1; Anjan Viplav bt Mohammed Yasser Arafat 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 6-1; Vijayendra Laad bt Varun Walia 6-0, 6-1; Siddharth Gulati bt Sandeep Kumar 6-2, 7-5; Sandeep Choudhary bt Dannio Yahya (Mas) 5-7, 6-4, 6-4; Arjun Goutham bt Jaiyakar Mahalingam 6-3, 6-3; Ashutosh Singh bt Yannick Nelord 6-2, 6-4; Ajai Selvaraj bt Takehito Suzuki (Jpn) 7-5, 6-2; Tobias Huflsen (Ger) bt V.M. Ranjeet 6-3, 6-2; Abedin Sham bt Vishal Gaur 6-2, 6-1.