Date:04/12/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/12/04/stories/2008120456411800.htm

Sport - Tennis

Parekh enters quarterfinals

HYDERABAD: S. Parekh of Maharashtra defeated Muthu Kumara Swamy of Tamil Nadu 6-3, 6-1 in the 65 years & above singles pre-quarterfinal of the 13th GVK-AISTA senior national (veterans’) tennis championship at the SAAP Tennis Complex here on Wednesday.

The results (all AP players unless otherwise mentioned): All pre-quarterfinals:

65 & above: S. Parekh (Mah) bt Muthu Kumara Swamy (TN) 6-3, 6-1; D. Madhava Murthy bt M. Krishna Swamy (Kar) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3; P. Kesav Perumal (TN) bt Narasimha Rao 6-2, 4-6, 6-3; Nagaraja Rao (Kar) bt E.G. Mahadevan 6-0, 6-2; T.N. Laxmanan (TN) bt R. Subba Rao 6-3, 3-6, 6-1; C. Radha Krishna (TN) bt B. Nageswara Rao 6-2, 6-4; Ramesh Gautham (Har) bt M. Sai Ram Babu 6-1, 6-0; V.R. Kulkarni (Kar) bt J.R. Chatrathi 6-0, 6-0.

55 & above: S. Settu (TN) bt M.S. Venkatesham (TN) 6-1, 7-6(6): A.R. Raju bt A. Ram Babu 4-6, 6-1, 6-0; D.S.N. Raju bt bt B.G. Reddy 7-5, 6-4; Abdul Azeez bt M.S. Prakash 6-1, 6-2; C.S. Rajan (Kar) bt T.A.P.N. Rao 6-2, 6-4; Madhav Ghate (Mah) bt I. Sudhakar 6-0, 6-2; M. Yadgiri Rao bt Dhaval Patel 6-0, 6-1; V. Ram Mohan Rao bt Vijay Sahane (Mah) 6-0, 6-1.

45 & above: R.E. Sudarshan bt Vijay Kumar (Ker) 3-6, 6-0, 6-1; Paul Manohar bt K.S. Raju 6-3, 6-1; V. Sreenivasa Reddy bt R.N. Ramesh 6-2, 6-4; Narendranath bt Joji Reddy 6-0, 6-0; R.V. Rama Raju bt Ch.V. Panduranga Rao 6-2, 6-4; Yogesh Shah (Mah) bt P. Maruthi Mohan 7-5, 6-2.

Doubles (quarterfinals): 65 & above: C.B. Raju & Ramesh Gautam bt S.N. Rao & Keerthi Kumar 6-3, 6-2; S. Parekh & Nagaraja Rao bt Somalingam & Nara Reddy 6-3, 6-2; C. Radhakrishnan & V. R. Kulkarni bt Md. Baig & E.G. Mahadevan 6-3, 6-2. — Principal Correspondent