Date:28/07/2004 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2004/07/28/stories/2004072809271800.htm

Sport - Tennis

Navin, Gugan enter boys' u-18 main draw

MYSORE, JULY 27. The main draw events in the AITA Talent Series juniors' tennis tournament (for under-14 & under-18 boys and girls) conducted by the Mysore Tennis Club, under the auspices of the KSLTA, begins from July 28 at the Mysore Tennis Club courts.

In the boys' under-18 section M.A. Navin (TN), U.M. Gugan Verma (TN), Pranav Anand (Kar), Varun Shetty (Kar), Bapi Halder (WB), Arun Ramu (TN) and Shrenik Timbadia (Mah) were the qualifiers. In the boys' under-14 section, U.M. Gugan Verma (TN), Krishik Divakar (Kar), M.A. Navin (TN), Suresh Sanjay (Ker), Praveen Ramaswamy (Kar), K. Rajeev Rao (TN), Vindo Gowda (Kar) and Michael Siyaguna (Sri Lanka) were the qualifiers.

The seedings: Boys' under-14: 1. A.N. Muddappa (Kar); 2. Gugan Verma (TN); 3. Vibhav M. Iyengar (Kar); 4. M.A. Navin (TN); 5. R. Vigneshwaran (TN). Under-18: 1. Arun Ramu (TN); 2. Mesher Vaswani (Kar); 3. K. Manish Rao (Kar); 4. Vijay Siwach (Goa); 5. Bruhath V. Raker (Kar).

Girls' under-18: 1. Harshini Reddy (Kar); 2. Sanjana Gopal (Kar); 3. Likitha Devaraj (Kar); 4. Prarthana Prathap (Kar); 5. Prerana Prathap (Kar).Under-14: 1. Likitha Devaraj (Kar); 2. Harishini Reddy (Kar); 3. Sharmada Balu (Kar); 4. Biradar Spoorthi (Kar).