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Friday, May 28, 2004

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Sahana stuns Snigdha

KOLKATA, MAY 27. The top two seeds — Snigdha Kapoor and Shrestha Banerjee — fell to unseeded opponents Sahana Chatterjee and Madhurima Chowdhury in the quarterfinals of the AITA Talent Series (under-14) hosted by the Serampore Sub-divisional Tennis Club, near here, on Thursday.

Third seed Arundhuti Basu, won in straight sets, and was the only seeded player to enter the semifinals, where she will take on Sahana Chatterjee.

In the boys' section all the seeds including top-seeded Ranjan Prasad, and second seed Mohammad Imran, third-seeded Bibaswan Deb and the two Tamil Nadu boys — S. Prashanth and Mohammad Niyaz — moved into the quarterfinals.

Important results: Boys: (pre-quarterfinals): Ranjan Prasad bt Kshitij Talwar 6-0, 6-0; 4-Rohan Roy bt Md. Sarfaraz 6-2, 6-2; S. Prashanth (TN) bt Anshuman Agarwal 6-0, 6-0; Soumit Dey bt Ranveer Srivastav 6-4, 6-3; Bibaswan Deb bt Neil D'Souza 6-3, 6-1; Md. Niyaz (TN) bt Avik D'Souza 6-2, 6-1; Md. Imran bt Rohit Rampuria 6-2, 6-2.

Girls (quarterfinals): Sahana Chatterjee bt Snigdha Kapoor 6-1, 6-3; Arundhuti Basu bt Amrisha Sharma 6-2, 6-1; Mandovi Mullick bt Monalisa Saha 6-3, 6-4; Madhurima Chowdhury bt Shrestha Banerjee 6-1, 6-1. — Our Sports Reporter

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