Date:06/10/2004 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2004/10/06/stories/2004100602021700.htm

Sport - Tennis

Tembe tames Ajay Ramaswami

By Kamesh Srinivasan

NEW DELHI, OCT. 5. Kedar Tembe took the sting out of Ajay Ramaswami's explosive game with his impressive returns and tamed the fourth seed in straight sets in the first round of the men's section in the DSCL National tennis championship at the DLTA Complex here on Tuesday.

Generally busy pursuing his fortunes in the qualifying events of the Satellite and Futures tournaments,Kedar may fancy his chances against J. Vishnu Vardhan who won a marathon against qualifier Vijayendra Laad.

Another qualifier, Aditya Madkekar beat the eighth-seeded Sanam Singh in straight sets.

Smooth sailing for Aqeel

The top-seeded Aqeel Khan of Pakistan was quite smooth in his 6-3, 6-3 victory over lucky-loser Varun Walia. Aqeel will be challenged by qualifier Mohammed Yasser Arafat.

The results:

Men (first round): Aqeel Khan (Pak) bt Varun Walia 6-3, 6-3; Mohammed Yasser Arafat bt Anjan Viplav 6-2, 7-5; Saurav Sukul bt Narendran Ranganathan 6-1, 6-2; Pathanjali Ravishankar bt Rohan Gide 6-2, 6-3; Siddharth Gulati bt Rahil Syed 6-1, 7-6 (3); Nitin Kirtane bt Gurmehar Singh 6-3, 7-5; J. Vishnu Vardhan bt Vijayendra Laad 4-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5);Kedar Tembe bt Ajay Ramaswami 7-5, 6-1; Aditya Madkekar bt Sanam Singh 7-6 (5), 6-3; Nomi Qamar (Pak) bt Pratim Parekh 5-7, 6-4, 6-2.

Women (first round): Isha Lakhani bt Vishaka Sheoran 6-3, 6-1; Radhika Tulpule bt Niroshita Madanala 6-2, 6-2; S. Punam Reddy bt Oormila Ram 7-6 (3), 6-0; Shalini Sahoo bt Pooja Kommireddi 6-2, 6-3; Vandana Murali bt Neha Rana 6-2, 6-1; Parul Goswami bt Sandri Gangotri 6-4, 6-1; Archana Venkataraman bt Pallavi Sharma 6-1, 6-2; Asha Nandakumar bt Varsha Shivshankar 3-6, 6-1, 5-2 (retired); Karina Ahuja bt Anupama Rajur 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-3; Sanaa Bhambri bt Preethi Subramaniam 6-3, 7-5.

Boys (second round): Rupesh Roy bt Arnav Jain 6-2, 7-5; M. Hariprasath bt Rahul Belwal 6-4, 6-3; Ajay Selvaraj bt P. C. Vignesh 6-7 (5), 6-2, 7-6 (5); Krishank Shah bt Sumit Prakash Gupta 7-6 (5), 6-4; Honey Rana bt Anshuman Dutta 6-4, 3-6, 7-5; Alon Moses bt A. Daniel Raj 6-2, 6-2; Rahil Makharia bt Krishna Karsolia 6-3, 6-4; Prateek Shantharaju bt Manav Dhawan 6-1, 7-5; Rohan Gide bt A.S. Suresh Krishna 6-2, 6-3; Fariz Mohammed bt Navaneetha Kannan 6-1, 6-4; Siddharth Gulati bt Manjit Singh 6-1, 6-1; Nityaesh Nataraj bt Alon Gomes 6-4, 1-6, 6-1; Tejaswi Rao bt P. Vivek Reddy 6-2, 6-4; Agnel Gladwin bt R. K. Praveen 7-5, 6-1; Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Paras Thakur 6-0, 6-3; Vivek Shokeen bt Siddharth Alapati 6-3, 6-1; First round: Rupesh Roy bt L. S. Anantha Bhaskar 6-1, 6-3.