The Hindu : Rupesh Roy downs Chris Eaton

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Wednesday, Feb 04, 2004

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Rupesh Roy downs Chris Eaton

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, FEB. 3. Rupesh Roy pushed himself into a tight corner but pulled himself out in time in beating Chris Eaton of Britain 6-1, 4-6, 7-5 in the first round of the Adidas ITF grade `II' junior tennis tournament at the DLTA Complex here on Tuesday.Two other leading Indian juniors, Divij Sharan and Tushar Liberhan played a sharp game in overwhelming their Kazakh and Uzbek opponents. In the girls event, the top-seeded Madura Ranganathan dismissed the challenge from the tall Tjasa Smrekar of Slovenia, while Sandhya Nagaraj humbled compatriot Ashmitha Easwaramurthi after a tussle in the second set.

Local girl, Parul Goswami was serving for the set at 5-4 against the third-seeded I-Hsuan Hwang of ChineseTaipei, the champion last week, but was far too erratic and lost her way. The fact that she struggled to serve revealed a lack of confidence, rather than lack of ability. In another lively encounter, Vandana Murali went down in three sets to Xeniya Palkina of Kyrgyzstan.

The results:

Boys (First round): Divij Sharan bt Maxim Filippov (Kaz) 6-2, 6-3; Liran Levy (Isr) bt Baygulov Talgat (Uzb) 7-5, 6-3; Rupesh Roy bt Chris Eaton (GBR) 6-1, 4-6, 7-5; Tushar Liberhan bt Umarov Jamolhon (Uzb) 6-0, 6-2.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Divij Sharan and Tushar Liberhan bt Faris Khatib (GBR) and N. S. Nishendran (Sri) 6-2, 6-2; Umarov Jamolhon and Bagyulov Talgat (Uzb) bt MaximFilippov and Yuri Akatov (Kaz) 4-6, 6-1, 7-5; Chris Eaton (GBR) and NavdeepSingh bt Boris Baichorov and Sergey Ni (Kyr) 6-1, 6-2; Lidzar Alexander (Kaz) and Amrit Rupasinghe (Sri) bt Krishank Shah andAgnel Gladwin 6-3, 6-0; Naoki Sato (Jpn) and Jitin Bishnoi bt Martin Sayer and Xiao-Peng Lai (Hkg) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; Sanam Singh and Jeevan nedunchezhiyan bt Rohan Gide and Vijit Sehgal 5-7, 6-0, 6-4; Vladislav Shegay and Sharipov Akmal (Uzb) bt Alain Probst (Ned) and Kaushik Das 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; Sumit Gupta and Rupesh Roy bt Roman Klecic (Cro) and Botand Godry (Hun) 6-2, 6-0.

Girls (First round): Madura Ranganathan bt Tjasa Smrekar (Slo) 6-0, 5-2 (retired); I-Hsuan Hwang (Tpe) bt Parul Goswami 7-5, 6-2; Xeniya Palkina (Kyr) bt Vandana Murali 6-1, 3-6, 6-4; Yana Nemerovski (Isr)bt Yeon-Ju Kim (Kor) 6-2, 4-6, 6-1; Sandhya Nagaraj bt Ashmitha Easwaramurthi 6-1, 7-5.

Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Punam Reddy and Kartiki Bhat bt Elina Arutyunova and Iryna Matiychyk (Ukr) 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7-5); Daria Bykodarova (Rus) and Francesca Kinsella (GBR) bt Tejaswini Datla and Oormila Ram 7-6 (7-3), 6-4; Yanina Wickmayer (Bel) and Pichittra Thongdach (Tha) bt Porntip Mulsap (Tha) and Yeon-Ju Kim (Kor) 4-6, 6-0, 6-2; Eleonora Sitdjemileva (Uzb) and G. K. Shweta bt Vishaka Sheoran and Neha Rana 7-6 (7-2), 6-2; I-Hsuan Hwang and Chia-Li Chen (Tpe) bt Poojashree Venkatesh and Parija Maloo 6-4, 6-1; Sandhya Nagaraj and Sandri Gangotri bt Yana Nemerovski (Isr) and Tjasa Smrekar (Slo) 7-6 (7-3), 6-3; Madura Ranganathan and Vandana Murali bt ParulGoswami and Ashmitha Easwaramurthi 6-4, 6-3.

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