The Hindu : Sport / Tennis : Sagarika, Anahita spring surprises

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Wednesday, Sep 22, 2004

Sport

Sport - Tennis

Sagarika, Anahita spring surprises

MUMBAI, SEPT. 21 . Unseeded Sagarika Phadke shocked eighth seed Ashmitha Eshwarmurthi in straight games while Anahita Jagtiani sent out fourth seed Vandana Murali 6-4, 6-2 to advance into the girls' singles second round of the MSLTA-ITF junior tennis event being played at MSLTA courts here.

The results (first round): Boys singles: Ashwin Vijayraghavan bt Kaushik Das 6-3, 6-1; Anshuman Dutta bt Siddharth Hande 6-3, 7-6(3); Rahul Makharia bt bt Varun Gunaseelan 6-2, 6-3; Aniket Ghaskadvi bt Kerr Jackson (NZ) 7-6(4), 6-0; Vivek Shokeen bt Peerapach Tubwong (Thai) 6-2, 6-1; Agnel Gladwin bt Marlon Coelho 6-3, 6-1; Nithyaesh Natraj bt Arnav Jain 6-2, 7-6(5); Kaushik Raju bt Rahul Belwal 6-3, 6-2; Sushanth Nambiar bt Arprit Sharma 6-1, 6-2; Alon Moses bt Gaurav Walia 6-4, 6-2; Rohan Gide bt Allon Gomes 6-0, 6-1; R.K. Praveen bt Krishank Shah 6-1, 6-3; Prateek Shantjaraju bt Praveen Anthony 6-3, 6-1.

Girls singles: Punam Reddy bt Deepha Vazirani 6-0, 6-0; Sushrutha Reddy bt Surabhi Varma 6-2, 6-1; Punchanok Khunpitak (Thai) bt Niroshita Madnala 6-3, 6-3; Preethi Subramaniam bt Askhita Raj 6-1, 6-0; Shraddha Lodha bt Parija Maloo 7-6(2), 2-6, 6-4; Sagarika Phadke bt Ashmitha Eshwarmurthi 6-4, 6-4; Sandri Gangotri bt Oormila Ram 6-3, 6-0; Gayatri Krishnan bt Sravya Tirukkovalur 6-1, 6-0; Anahita Jagtiani bt Vandana Murali 6-4, 6-2; Pooja Kommireddi bt Karina Ahuja 0-6, 6-3, 6-0; Tejaswini Datla bt Zena Williams (U.S.) 2-6, 6-0, 6-1; Sandhya Nagaraj bt Daksha Mulay 6-3, 6-2; Neena Sharma bt Janaki Rao 6-1, 6-1.

Printer friendly page
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Sport