Date:22/08/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/08/22/stories/2006082208091800.htm

Sport - Tennis

Irfan surprises Jugal

Sports Reporter

CHENNAI: Local lad Irfan Hussain upset the second seed Jugal Marfatia (Maharashtra) 6-0, 6-7(4), 6-3 in the boys' under-14 first round of the adidas-Madras Cricket Club junior National tennis championship at the Krishnan Tennis Centre here on Monday.

Other results:

Boys' u-18 (first round): Sumit Prakash Gupta (U.P.) bt Rohan Shah (Del) 6-0, 6-0; Sameer Pranjape (Mah) bt Keshav Patida (MP) 6-2, 6-0; Rubal Shandilya (Del) bt V. Vignesh (TN) 6-4, 6-1; Mohd. Fariz (TN) bt Palash Tiwari (Del) 6-4, 6-4; Yash Bhargava (MP) bt Aditya Narain (U.P.) 6-2, 6-1; N.P. Singh Sidhu (Chd) bt Monal Chhillar (Del) 6-3, 6-4; Avneep Gill (MP) bt Rohan Chetty (Guj) 6-4, 6-2; Deepinder Singh Bains (Chd) bt Dhruv Gurwara (Del) 2-6, 6-4, 6-4; Mandip Yadav (Chd) bt Md. Niyaz (TN) 6-4, 7-5; Sushanth Nambiar (AP) bt Daniel Raj (AP) 6-3, 6-3; V.M. Gugan Verma (TN) bt Soumit Dev (WB) 6-0, 6-2; Venkat Iyer (TN) bt Murthaza M. Lohani (TN) 6-3, 3-6, 6-2; Allan Gomes (Mah) bt Parul Verma 7-6(5), 6-1; Nihal Kapoor (TN) bt Aroon Khatter (Mah) 6-0, 6-1; Kaushik Das (WB) bt Manav Dhawan (AP) 6-3, 6-4; Tariq Jacob (TN) bt Vinayak Sharma (AP) 6-2, 6-4; Akash Wagh (Mah) bt Irfan Hussain (TN) 6-3, 6-1; Sudanwa Sitaram (TN) bt Karun Uday Singh (Del) 6-0, 1-6, 6-1; Tejas Chaukulkar (Mah) bt Siddharth Hande (TN) 7-6(4), 6-3; Siddharth Kaushik bt Arul Mozhi Selvan (TN) 6-0, 7-5; Abhijeet Tiwari (Cha) bt Varun Gunaseelan (TN) 6-0, 6-2.

Boys' u-14 (first round): Samip Mehta (Guj) bt R. Taran (Cha) 6-2, 6-3; Niranjan Ram (TN) bt Acharya Bharadwaj (AP) 7-5, 4-0 (concd.); Yuvaraj Kumar (Del) bt Armaan Choudry (Raj) 6-2, 6-2; Sharan Patil (Kar) bt Rithwik Sunkara (Del) 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-1; Sai Teja Palagudu (AP) bt Tushal Thawani (Mah) 7-5, 6-2; Shikar Kapoor (Del) bt Abhinav Misra (MP) 6-4, 6-2; Ravishankar (TN) bt Pradeep Reddy (AP) 6-3, 7-6(2); Chetan Pandit (AP) bt Pulok Bhatacharya (Del) 6-0, 6-1; Sumeet Shinde (Mah) bt Maninder Singh (Har) 6-1, 6-1; H.M. Yunis (TN) bt Saurabh Raghuvamsi (MP) 6-3, 6-4; Karan Avlani (Mah) bt Garry Singh Amor (Chd) 6-2, 6-2; P.S. Soorya Prasad (TN) bt S. Siddarth (TN) 6-3, 6-2; R. Ram Kumar (TN) bt S. Kaushik Reddy (AP) 6-2, 6-1; Monish Rajer (TN) bt Senthil Kumar (TN) 6-3, 6-2; Parthap Shah (Mah) bt R. Sharadh (TN) 6-3, 6-4; Vaidik Munshaw (Guj) bt D. Sai Nishanth (AP) 4-6, 6-1, 6-2; N. Sai Karthik (AP) bt Sidhant Deka (Asm) 6-1, 6-0; Rohit Bishit (Del) bt Ronit Bishit (Dli) 6-4, 3-6, 7-5; Rupam Gogoi (Asm) bt Saurabh Patil (Kar) 7-6(3), 6-2; Vishwesh Sinha (Mah) bt Manav Kumar Chakma (Asm) 6-4, 6-2; Surya Pawan (AP) bt Chirag S. Igoor (Kar) 6-2, 6-4; Vishwajit Tirumurthy (TN) bt C.M. Kiran (Kar) 6-0, 6-1; Hardarshan Singh Gill (Chd) bt Ishwar Prasad (TN) 6-2, 6-3; S.V. Abishek (AP) bt Navneet Kumar (UP) 6-2, 6-2; Mohit Mayur (TN) bt Rohan Gaonkar (Kar) 6-0, 6-2; Suraj Konwar (Guj) bt Aashman Goghari (Guj) 3-6, 6-4, 6-1; Rishab Dev (TN) bt Rakshay K. Thakkar (Mah) 6-1, 6-2; Rishabh Parikh (Guj) bt Siddharth Rawat (UP) 7-6(1), 6-4; Aniket Wakankar (Mah) bt Vinod Gowda (Kar) 6-1, 6-4; R. Vigneshwaran (TN) bt Haddin Bawa (Mah) 6-1, 6-2.

Final qualifying round (girls' u-14): P.A. Sindhu Nila (TN) bt Surya Tejaswini (AP) 6-4, 6-3; Neena Reddy (TN) bt Anudathi Basu (WB) 6-3, 6-2; Natasha Palha (Goa) bt Namita Bal (Mah) 6-3, 5-7, 7-5; Prarthna Thombre (Mah) bt Ananya Sirkal (Del) 6-0, 6-4; C.H. Nidhi (AP) bt Aishwarya Ravichandran (TN) 6-0, 6-0; Anusha Bhargav (AP) bt Soujanya (AP) 6-3, 6-2.