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Gomes upsets Gursher

CHENNAI, AUG. 24. Qualifier Debendra Das of Maharashtra, a bespectacled 14-year-old, held his nerve to subdue an aggressive Mangal Sriram of Tamil Nadu 6-7(9), 6-4, 7-5 in the junior boys' under-18 second round of the adidas-MCC AITA National junior and sub-junior championship on Tuesday.

Other results: Boys (second round): Under-18: Tejesvi Rao (AP) bt Suresh Krishna (AP) 7-5, 6-2; R. Parivel (TN) bt M. Fariz (TN) 7-6 (7-4), 6-4; Alon Moses (Mah) bt Yogesh Phogat (Har) 6-2, 6-2; Ajay Selvaraj (TN) bt Rahil Makharia (Mah) 6-0, 6-3; M. Hariprasath (TN) bt Mesheer Vaswani (Kar) 6-0, 6-0; Marlon Coelho (Mah) bt P. Vivek Reddy (AP) 6-4, 7-5; Tariq Jacob (TN) bt Sujit Sachidanand (Kar) 6-4, 6-3; M. Saketh Sai (AP) bt Siddarth Hande (TN) 6-3, 6-2; Krishna Karsolia (UP) bt Farid Alam (WB) 6-4, 7-5; Nithyesh Natraj (TN) bt Vijay Siwach (Goa) 6-0, 6-2; Navaneetha Kannan (TN) bt Raaj Nitish (UP) 5-7, 6-2, 6-2; Agneel Gladwin (Mah) bt Vijit Sehgal (Del) 7-6 (7-2), 6-0; Manu Bajpai (Kar) bt Aniket Sudhir (Mah) 7-5, 6-4; R.K. Praveen (Kar) bt Izreek Singh Randava (Chd) 6-3, 6-0.

Under-14: Sriram Balaji (TN) bt Sumit Shinde (Mah) 7-5, 6-2; Siddarth Balaji (TN) bt Karun Uday Singh (Del) 6-2, 3-6, 7-6(4); Christopher Marquis (Mah) bt Luv Sodha (Mah) 5-7, 6-2, 6-3; Nihal Kapoor (TN) bt Ronak Manuja (Mah) 6-4, 6-4; Vinay Kamineni (AP) bt Pratik Bhandari (Del) 6-1, 6-3; Menta Gopinath (AP) bt Abhijit Tiwari (Chatt) 6-4, 6-1; B. Vikram Reddy (AP) bt C.H. Sati Reddy (TN) 6-1, 6-2; V. Sudarsan (TN) bt Chandan Shaolin (Mah) 6-3, 6-2; Debendra Das (Mah) bt A.L. Mudappa (Kar) 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-3; Ankit Sachdeva (Del) bt Murtaza (TN) 6-3, 6-0; Ankesh Bhargav (AP) bt Ashwin Nambi (TN) 7-5, 2-6, 6-2; Vijyant Malik (Chd) bt Vikas Chauhan (Har) 6-0, 7-6(4); Yuki Bhambri (Del) bt M.A. Naveen (TN) 6-3, 6-2; A. Daneil Raj (AP) bt Priyank Gangadharan (TN) 7-6(3), 6-2; Sudanwa Sitaram (TN) bt Rubal Shandilya (Del) 6-3, 6-7(2), 6-4; Akash Wagh (Mah) bt Jugal Marphatra (Mah) 6-4, 6-0.

Girls (first round): Under-18: Vandana Murali (TN) bt Anusree Thammane (Kar) 6-1, 6-4; Varsha Shivshankar (Kar) bt Shalini Shahoo (Del) 6-4, 6-2; Akshitha B. Raj (Kar) bt Kanisha Mehta (Del) 6-2, 6-1; Datla Tejaswini (AP) bt Prerna Mythri (AP) 5-7, 6-0, 6-2; E. Ashmita (TN) bt Neha Rana (Del) 6-4, 6-4, Grace Hannah (TN) bt Sagarika Phadke (TN) 6-1, 6-1; Shraddha Lodha (Mah) bt Shahin Ansari (TN) 6-2, 6-1; Asha Nandakumar (Mah) bt Janani Suresh (TN) 6-3, 6-4; Inayat Khosla (Chd) bt Deepna Vazirani (Mah) 6-3, 6-3; Amoolya Raghunath (Kar) bt Anuketh Prasad (Del) 6-2, 6-1; S. Preeti (TN) bt Sanjana Kapur (Del) 6-2, 6-1; V. Poojasree (Kar) bt Swetha K Solanki (Del) 6-1, 6-0.

Under-14: Supriya Mallaya (Mah) bt Unnati Purushotham (AP) 1-6, 6-4, 6-3; Tanya Kapoor (Del) bt Shruthi Bhavani (TN) 7-6(10), 7-6(3); Janaki S. Rao (AP) bt T. Nilaya (AP) 6-4, 6-2; Danielle Jones (WB) bt Aishwarya (AP) 7-5, 7-5; Prerna Mythri (AP) bt Radhika Jadav (Mah) 6-2, 6-0; Nandita Krishnan (TN) bt Deepti Srivastav (WB) 6-3, 6-1; Prarchi Nadkarni (Mah) bt Lekha Chandrasekar (TN) 6-2, 6-1; Sai Pujitha (AP) bt Kyra Shroff (Mah) 6-3, 7-6(5); Prerna Bhambri (Del) bt Monica Menon (Del) 6-4, 7-5; Kelsey Sundaram (TN) bt Nayanatara (AP) 6-0, 6-2; Janani Suresh (TN) bt Shahin Ansari (TN) 4-6, 6-2, 6-2; Amritha Seth (Del) bt Anushka Kapoor (Del) 6-1, 6-3; Swetha K. Solanki (Del) bt Lithika Devraj (Kar) 6-2, 6-3.

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