Date:07/10/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/10/07/stories/2008100760851700.htm

Sport - Tennis

Mintri gets the better of Rawal

Special Correspondent

Madhurja Dutta shown the door by Naveen Anand

NEW DELHI: Aayush Mintri of Punjab defeated the tenth-seeded Nischay Rawal of Chandigarh 7-6(4), 6-2 in the first round of the DSCL National mini-junior tennis championship at the DLTA Complex here on Monday.

The 11th seeded Madhurja Dutta of Assam was also shown the door by lucky-loser Naveen Anand of Haryana at 6-3, 6-0 in another first round encounter.

In the girls event, Tarannum Handa has been seeded No.1 and given a bye in the first round.

The results:

Under-14 boys (first round): Ronit Bisht bt Tejas Kapoor 6-0, 6-0; Himanshu Sagar bt L. Anuraag 6-2, 6-3; Atul Sri Patel bt Sahil Deshmukh 6-4, 6-0; T. S. Jude Raymond bt Karan Bidani 6-0, 6-1; Sidhant Deka bt M. S. Rakshit 6-0, 6-2; Sumit Nagal bt Jatinder Singh 3-6, 6-4, 6-2; S. D. Prajwal Dev bt Marcos Gomes 6-0, 6-1; Sheikh Abdullah bt Nishanth Rebello 6-2, 6-3.

Vishal Passi bt P. Vignesh Prabhu 6-0, 6-1; B. Supreeth bt M. Ankit Reddy 6-0, 6-3; Fazal Dev bt Raghav Mehrotra 6-1, 6-2; Rohan Bhatia bt Fatheh Deep Singh 6-1, 6-2; Aayush Mintri bt Nischay Rawal 7-6(4), 6-2; Shashank Nautiyal bt Hardeep Singh Sandhu 6-3, 6-2; Rithvik Anand bt Sharwil Nawaghare 6-1, 6-0.

Vilasier Khate bt Ishank Ravi 6-3, 6-0; Ajay Yadav bt M. Jayanta Jayaraman 6-0, 6-1; Karan Salwan bt Shashank Sharma 7-6(5), 7-6(3); Shailendar Boniface bt Ravinder Singh 6-0, 7-5; Naveen Anand b Madhurja Dutta 6-3, 6-0; Kamal Kishore Madrena bt Anvit Bendre 6-2, 6-3; Manish Drall bt S. Siddharth Reddy 6-3, 6-3.

Tushar Mandlekar bt Arindam Kumar Dutta 6-4, 6-4; Abhishek Alla bt Trivesh Singh 6-1, 6-1; Digvijay Singh Naruka bt Mohammed Azhar 6-1, 6-3; A. K. Parthasarathi bt Sushant Mohanty 6-3, 6-3; S. Kishen bt Jajbir Singh 7-5, 7-6(2); Rishab Deb bt Garvit Batra 3-6, 6-2, 6-1; Basil Khuma bt S. K. Mukund 7-5, 6-3; Ketan Tayal bt Prateek Alkesh 6-2, 6-0; Kiran Patel bt Chinmay Handa 6-2, 6-1; Arjun Khade bt Manish Kumar 6-1, 6-4.

Under-14 girls seedings: 1. Tarannum Handa, 2. Prarthana Thombre, 3. Teertha Iska, 4. Amrita Mukherjee, 5. Anushka Bhargava, 6. Parminder Kaur, 7. C. Sai Samhitha, 8. Nidhi Chilumula.