Date:14/01/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/01/14/stories/2009011461072100.htm

Sport - Tennis

Shiva Sangwan enters quarterfinals

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: Shiva Sangwan overcame an indifferent start to get past Alexander Igoshin of Russia 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 in the pre-quarterfinals of the Power Grid ITF grade ‘II’ junior tennis tournament at the DLTA Complex here on Tuesday.

The top-seeded Ronak Manuja fought his way past the Dutch qualifier Jeroen Benard. Saurabh Singh, Sumeet Shinde, Christopher Marquis and Shabaaz Khan were the other Indian boys to make the quarterfinals. In the girls’ event, National women’s champion Ratnika Batra worked her way past the eighth-seeded Vladislava Kuzmenkova of Belarus 7-6(6), 4-6, 7-6(6).

Top-seeded Rashmi Teltubme who was stretched to three sets by Sharmada Balu, Aishvarya Shrivastava and Rishika Sunkara were the other Indian girls to enter the quarterfinals.

The results (pre-quarterfinals): Boys: Ronak Manuja bt Jeroen Benard (Ned) 6-3, 7-5; Adirek Khundarnpinitvon (Tha) bt Jeroen Claeys (Bel) 7-6(2), 6-0; Saurabh Singh bt Aziz Yuldashev (Uzb) 6-1, 6-2; Kriangkrai Prajoubphansri (Tha) bt Mikhail Titov (Rus) 6-4, 6-3; Sumeet Shinde bt Vinod Gowda 6-3, 6-2; Christopher Marquis bt S.V. Abhishek 3-6, 6-1, 7-5; Shahbaaz Khan bt Roman Piftor (Uzb) 6-3, 6-2; Shiva Sangwan bt Alexander Igoshin (Rus) 4-6, 6-1, 6-4.

Girls: Rashmi Teltumbe bt Sharmada Balu 6-2, 4-6, 6-2; Anastasiya Prenko (Tkm) bt Prerna Bhambri 6-1, 6-3; Aishvarya Shrivastava bt Gopika Kapoor 7-5, 6-4; Ratnika Batra bt Vladislava Kuzmenkova (Blr) 7-6(6), 4-6, 7-6(6); Valentina Starkova (Kaz) bt Sweta Kuari Solanki 6-4, 6-4; Alena Gerasimova (Blr) bt Melis Sezer (Tur) 6-2, 7-5; Rishika Sunkara bt Aishwarya Agrawal 6-4, 6-3; SachieIshizu (Jpn) bt Natela Dzalamidze (Rus) 6-1, 6-4.