Date:13/02/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/02/13/stories/2008021356062200.htm

Sport - Tennis

Nikhil stuns Akshai

Bangalore: Unseeded Nikhil Reddy defeated Akshai Kishore, the second seed, 7-6(4), 6-2 in a boys’ under-18 singles pre-quarterfinal match of the Tennis Advantage all-India ranking junior tournament at the St. John’s Sports Complex here on Tuesday.

The results (pre-quarterfinals): Boys: U-18: S. Kamal bt Gurnam Singh 6-3, 6-1; Surjith Singh bt Dhruthwin 6-0, 6-1; Sujith Mathew bt Siddharth Dabrai 6-2, 6-0; Sharan Patil bt Mukesh Kumar 6-1, 6-3; A. Pawar bt Kashyap Ashok 6-2, 6-4; Ganga Singh bt Supreeth Dev 6-2, 6-0; Uttam Singh bt Pratheesh 6-1, 6-3; Nikhil Reddy bt Akshai Kishore 7-6(4), 6-2.

U-14: Rohit John bt Shashank 6-1, 2-6, 6-1; Rohit Gowda bt M.R. Choudary 6-1, 6-2; Anoop bt Anthony Savio 7-5, 4-6, 6-4; Nikhil Reddy bt Seshank Nagaraj 6-0, 6-0; Pratheesh bt H. Manjunath 6-4, 7-5; Prajwal Dev bt Shreyas 6-0, 6-0; Kashyap Ashok bt R. Goutham 6-0, 6-0.

Girls: U-18: R.C. Nupur bt Tanya Singh 4-6, 6-1, 6-2; U.M. Shalaka bt Tarni Chandramouli 6-0, 6-0; A. Amolwarick bt Surya Suresh 4-6, 6-2, 7-5; N. Srinivas bt R. Sanjana 6-1, 7-6(5); S.P. Ritu bt Varunya Chandrasekar 6-0, 6-2; Rachita Sarda bt Shloka Kumar 6-2, 6-0; Ravina Shetty bt Annina Simon 6-0, 6-3; Nimisha Mohan bt Nithya Raj 6-0, 6-4.

U-14: U. Nupur bt Tanya Singh 6-2, 1-6, 6-4; Shruthi Ashok bt R. Sanjana 6-1, 6-4; Preethi Ujjni bt Seema Karodi 6-1, 6-0; Tejaswini bt Shreya 3-6, 6-4, 6-4; S.P. Ritu bt Sahana Srinivasan 6-0, 6-0; Swetha Samuel bt S. Shroff 5-7, 6-2, 6-2; Shloka Kumar bt Annina Simon 6-1, 6-1; T. Chandramouli bt Varunya Chandrasekar 6-3, 2-6, 6-4. — Principal Correspondent