Date:28/10/2003 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2003/10/28/stories/2003102801021900.htm

Sport - Tennis

Good day for Karnataka boys

GULBARGA Oct. 27. Host Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh had a good outing on the inaugural day of the AITA all-India under-18 tennis championship for the boys and girls at the Chandrasekhar Patil Stadium complex here today.

The results: first qualifying round: Harshavardhan (Kar) bt M. Prasad (Kar) 6-2, 6-2; Shushant Nambiar (AP) bt Priyesh (TN) 6-1, 6-0; P. C. Vignesh (AP) bt Karan Medappa (Kar) 6-0, 6-1; C. Praveen (Kar) bt Shushank Reddy (AP) 6-3, 6-1; Varun Shetty (Kar) bt Chetan V. Hosmat (Kar) 6-0, 6-1; Mohd Omer (AP) bt Sharanagowda (Kar) 6-1, 6-2; Sagar Kashap (Kar) bt B. Arvind (Kar) bt 6-0, 6-0; Sayeed Rahil (Kar) bt Nagaraj (Kar) 6-0, 6-0; B. Bhargav (AP) bt R. A. Vaibhav (Kar) 6-0, 6-1; Nitin S. Bharadwaj (Kar) bt Siddarth Koushik (TN) 7-5, 6-2; Pushpendra Rajpurohit (Guj) bt Amrut Rao (Kar) 6-3, 6-1; B.R. Avinash (Kar) bt Prakash (Kar) 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (8-6).