Date:23/11/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/11/23/stories/2007112356902000.htm

Sport - Tennis

Arun to meet Anand

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Unseeded Arun Raj and Anand George set up an all-Kerala final in the boys’ under-14 section of the AITA National Talent series tennis tournament at the TTC courts here on Thursday.

The results: Boys: Under-14, semifinals: S. Arun Raj (Ker) bt Prajwal Dev (Kar) 6-3, 6-3; Anand George (Ker) bt Sidharth Reddy (TN) 6-3, 6-0. Under-12 quarterfinals: B. Akshay (TN) bt Prithvihaas (AP) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; Mathew T. Lathra (Ker) bt Venkata M. Ramanan (TN) 6-2, 6-4; Nikki K. Poonacha (TN) bt Jeffy Jacob (Ker) 6-0, 6-2. Doubles semifinals: Prajwal Dev & M.S. Rakshit (Kar) bt I.B. Akshy & Nikki Poonacha (TN) 6-7, 6-2, 10-7; Jayanth Jayaraman & Venkat N. Ramanan (TN) bt Mathew T. Lathra & Revnath Kishorekumar (Ker) 7-5, 6-2.

Girls: Under-14: quarterfinals: Anjana Sundaran (TN) bt S.S. Deepika (TN) 6-1, 6-3; Sneha Susan Thomas (Ker) bt Anjali Jaindhan (Ker) 6-0, 6-0; A.V. Rithika (Ker) bt C.R. Nidhithra (TN) 6-1, 6-3; Shloka Kumar (Kar) bt Pritika Rani (TN) 7-6, 6-1.