Date:08/05/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/05/08/stories/2009050856942000.htm

Sport - Tennis

India to meet Australia

NEW DELHI: India lost 3-0 to the second-seeded Korea in the third and final league match in group ‘D’ of the Asia-Oceania World under-14 boys’ tennis championship at Kuching, Malaysia, on Thursday.

The seventh-seeded India finished second in the group and qualified for the quarterfinals, to be played on Friday, where it meets third-seeded Australia which had topped group ‘C’.

In other quarterfinals, top-seeded Thailand will meet the sixth-seeded Uzbekistan, the fourth-seeded Japan will take on the eighth-seeded China and the Koreans will be challenged by the fifth-seeded Chinese Taipei.

The top four teams from the zone qualify for the World Group finals to be staged later.

The results: Korea bt India 3-0 (Min-Guk Cho bt Vishal Passi 6-3, 6-3; In-Kyo Jeong bt Abhishek Alla 6-2, 6-3; Min-Guk Cho and Hyeon Chung bt Digvijay Singh Naruka and Vishal Passi 7-6(3), 4-6, 6-0).