Date:07/01/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/01/07/stories/2009010755462200.htm

Sport - Tennis

Mayur advances

CHANDIGARH: Mohit Mayur knocked out fourth seed Vaidik Munshaw 7-6(8), 6-4 in the boys’ pre-quarterfinals of the ITF Grade III junior tennis tournament here on Tuesday.

The results: Pre-quarterfinals: Boys: Kaza Vinayak Sharma bt Mandeep Singh Gill 6-1, 7-6(2); Digvijay Singh Mehta bt A. Muddappa 6-4, 6-0; Laurent-Olivier Daxhelet (Bel) bt N. Sai Kartik 4-6, 6-1, 6-4; Sumeet Shinde bt Aziz Yuldashev (Uzb) 6-2, 6-1; Venkat Iyer bt Saurabh Singh 6-2, 7-5; Mohit Mayur bt Vaidik Munshaw 7-6(8), 6-4; Alexander Igoshin (Rus) bt Jeroen Claeys (Bel) 6-3, 7-5; Yoannis Hilelis (Fra) bt Chandril Sood 2-6, 6-4, 6-2.

Girls: Rashmi Teltumbe bt Sonya Dayal 6-4, 6-2; Valentina Starkova (Kaz) bt Sharmada Balu 6-2, 6-3; Aishwarya Agrawal bt Tanvi Shah 6-1, 0-6, 3-0 (retd.); Nova Patel bt Alena Gerasimova (Blr) 6-4, 6-2; Rishika Sunkara bt Shweta Chandra Rana 4-6, 6-1, 6-2; Sachie Ishizu (Jpn) bt Ankita Raina 6-3, 6-4; Ratnika Batra bt Ashvarya Shrivastava 7-5, 6-3; Kyra Shroff bt Garima Vatwani 6-4, 6-1.