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Sorani defeats Patil

GURGAON SEPT. 16. Stefan Sorani of Australia defeated the third-seeded Siddharth Patil to move into the boys pre-quarterfinals of the Adidas group `IV' ITF junior tennis tournament at the National Tennis Academy (NTA) Complex here on Tuesday.

In another interesting match in the boys' section, qualifier Devender Singh Bhusaari defeated the eighth-seeded Vivek Shokeen 6-4, 7-5. He will be challenged by Yannick Nelord in the next round.

In the girls' section, wild card entrant Poojashree Venkatesh fought hard in beating Varsha Shivshankar 3-6, 6-4, 7-5. She will have the unenviable task of crossing swords with the second-seeded Vandana Murali.

In girls' doubles, the fourth-seeded Tanya Ahuja and Kanisha Mehta struggled past Jilke Nelord and Anukriti Prasad in three sets.

The results:

Boys (first round): Devinder Singh Bhusari bt Vivek Shokeen 6-4, 7-5; Stefan Sorani (Aus) bt Siddharth Patil 6-2, 6-3; Sandeep Kumar bt Somdeep Appinenni 6-2, 6-2; Arjun Vaidya bt Kunal Pawa (Sin) 6-2, 6-0; S. Prateek bt Samarth Gautham 6-3, 6-2; Vikram Aditya Menon bt Navneeta Kannan 6-1, 6-1; Rohan Gide bt Dalip Mann 6-2, 6-0.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Navdeep Singh and Tushar Liberhan bt Somdeep Appinenni and Kunal Pawa (Sin) 6-1, 6-2; J. Vishnu Vardhan and Wrik Ganguly bt Neil Rajpal (Can) and Rishu Yadav (Swe) 6-1, 6-4.

Girls (first round): Karina Ahuja bt Shivika Burman 7-5, 6-1; Ankita Bhambri bt Afreen Jahan 6-3, 6-0; Parul Goswami bt Sanjana Kapur 6-1, 7-5; Poojashree Venkatesh bt Varsha Shivshankar 3-6, 6-4, 7-5.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Poojashree Venkatesh and Parija Maloo bt Karina Ahuja and Sagarika Phadke 7-6 (7-2), 6-4; Sandri Gangotri and Preethi Subramanium bt Gayatri Krishnan and Amrita Seth 6-2, 6-1; Shivika Burman and G. K. Shwetha bt Neha Rana and Amoolya Raghunath 5-2 (retired); Tanya Ahuja and Kanisha Mehta bt Jilke Nelord and Anukriti Prasad 6-2, 4-6, 7-5; Afreen Jahan and Punam Reddy bt Daksha Mullay and Tejaswini Datla 6-3, 6-1.

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