Date:13/11/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/11/13/stories/2007111369881800.htm

Sport - Tennis

Adit knocks out Saurabh Singh

NEW DELHI: Wild card Adit Jain knocked out the fifth-seeded Saurabh Singh 7-5, 4-6, 7-6(2) in the first round of the under-16 boys section of the Good Earth AITA Super Series junior tennis tournament at the DLTA Complex here on Monday.

The results (first round): Boys: Under-16: N. Sai Karthik bt Tushal Thawani 6-1, 6-1; Brahmjot Singh bt Anand Chandrasekhar 6-2, 6-2; Bharat Bhardwaj bt Tarun Chopra 6-0, 6-0; Digvijay Singh bt Jatin Dahiya 6-2, 6-2; Shantanu Rajput bt Vijay Bhardwaj 6-0, 6-4.

Vishal Passi bt Saneesh Mishra 6-2, 6-2; Shahbaz Khan bt Shikhar Kapur 6-2, 7-6(5); Adit Jain bt Saurabh Singh 7-5, 4-6, 7-6(2); Ronit Bisht bt Kunal Anand 6-1, 6-1; Ankit Chaudhary bt Garry Amor Singh 6-3, 6-4; Anubhav Chaudhary bt Mridul Soneja 7-5, 5-7, 6-1.

Suraj Desai bt Pulok Bhattacharya 3-6, 6-3, 7-5; Vaidik Munshaw bt Manpreet Chawla 7-5, 6-3; Sraj Konwar bt Siddharth Sharma 6-4, 6-2; Aashish Rana bt M. Senthil Kumar 6-2, 6-3; Samip Mehta bt Saurabh Patil 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.

Under-14: Ronit Bisht bt Shashank Nuatiyal 6-1, 6-0; Rohit Jain bt Prateek Alkesh 6-2, 6-2; Vilasier Khate bt Arjun Tomar 6-2, 6-0; Shailendra Boniface bt Tarun Chopra 6-3, 6-2; Tushal Thawani bt Ishan Siagal 6-0, 6-2; Marcos Gomes bt S.P. Prashant 6-2, 6-3; Aneesh Sharma bt Ravneet Singh 6-0, 6-1.

Naveen Mehla bt Sajal Chaudhary 6-1, 6-2; Vishal Passi bt Trivesh Singh 6-2, 6-1; Karan Bidani bt Harshit Juneja 6-3, 6-0; Sushanth Mohanty bt Shashank Sharma 6-2, 1-6, 6-1; Siddharth Rawat bt Sumit Nagal 6-0, 6-0; Suraj Konwar bt Vaibhav Grover 6-0, 6-0; Sidhant Deka bt Tejas Kapoor 6-1, 6-1.

Girls: Under-16: Shweta Rana bt Tarannum Handa 6-2, 6-1; Rajani Saadgi bt Gundeep Kaur 6-3, 6-3; U. M. Shalaka bt Sravya Reddy 7-5, 6-3; Ikttesh Chahal bt Baljinder Kaur 3-6, 6-1, 6-2; Manya Nagpal bt Sandeep Kaur 6-4, 6-0; Parminder Kaur bt Soumya Pulumati 6-1, 6-3.

Simran Kaur Sethi bt Manuella Gomes 6-4, 4-6, 6-3; Pooja Narayana bt Kritika Paul 7-6(3), 6-4; Tanvi Gupta w.o. Disha Saigal; Likitha Shetty bt Smriti Joon 7-6(3), 6-3.

Prarthana Thombare w.o. Ankita Bhatia; Abhilasha Ahuja bt Jaspreet Kaur 6-2, 6-2; Sadhana Athreya bt Amrita Mukherjee 6-4, 6-1; Harnoor Kaur Mann bt Anjali Prabhakar 6-0, 6-2; Vaniya Dangwal bt Saumya Sanghi 6-1, 6-2.

Under-14: Prarthana Thombare bt Rijuana Begum 6-2, 6-0; Kritika Paul bt S. Sneha 6-0, 6-0; Pooja Narayana bt Anjali Prabhakar 6-0, 6-0; Amrita Mukherjee bt Simran Kaur Sethi 6-1, 6-2; Vaniya Dangwal bt Niyati Aggarwal 6-0, 6-0; Sravya Reddy bt Shreya Pasricha 7-5, 6-3.

Akshara Iska bt Akanksha Punj 6-3, 7-6(0); Likitha Shetty bt Rinisha Mena 6-3, 6-0; Nidhi Chilumula bt Kanishka Arora 6-3, 6-0; Tarannum Handa bt Abhilasha Mehra 6-3, 6-0; Rimpledeep Kaur bt Abhishekta Pandey 6-1, 6-1.

Manya Nagpa bt Parminder Kaur 2-6, 7-5, 6-2; Ikttesh Chahal bt Teertha Iska 6-2, 6-0; Shreya Malhotra bt Harnoor Kaur Mann 6-4, 6-2; Prakriti Malhotra bt Tista Paul 7-6(4), 6-4; Shweta Rana bt Nehal Sahni 6-2, 6-3.