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Upset wins for Tushar and Karan

By Kamesh Srinivasan

NEW DELHI, OCT. 4. The leading Indian juniors had their say, as Tushar Liberhan and Karan Rastogi beat seeded players to make it to the pre-quarterfinals of the men's event of the DSCL National tennis championship at the DLTA Complex here on Monday.

Tushar packed off the third-seeded Kamala Kannan, blanking the powerfully-built Chennai lad, a semifinalist here last year, in the decider. It was not exactly a surprise as Tushar had done well in the men's international tournaments.

Karan, the best junior we have had for many years, was quite sharp in bundling out the seventh-seeded Ashutosh Singh, who himself has been playing quite well of late.

The fifth-seeded V. M. Ranjeet had a lot to celebrate as he beat the finalist of the last edition, Dviij Sharan in three sets. Ranjeet came up with impressive passingshots in the climax and won a big round of applause for his spirited game.

Vinod Sridhar subdued local lad Vivek Shokeen, to set up a second round with wild card Saurabh Singh who beat lucky-loser Arjun Goutham in three sets.

In the women's section, the third-seeded Sonal Phadke was stretched to three sets by the talented left-hander Krushmi Chheda.

The results

Men: first round: Tushar liberhan bt Kamala Kannan 6-4, 3-6, 6-0; Gursharan Singh bt Shreyansh Sacheti 4-6, 7-5, 6-1; Karan Rastogi bt Ashutosh Singh 6-1, 6-2; V. M. Ranjeet bt Divij Sharan 2-6, 6-1, 7-6 (7-2); Saurabh Singh bt Arjun Goutham 7-6 (9-7), 1-6, 6-3; Vinod Sridhar bt Vivek Shokeen 7-5, 6-3.

Women: Preeti Rao bt Rati Kumar 6-0, 6-4; Sonal Phadke bt Krushmi Chheda 7-6 (7-4), 1-6, 6-2; Liza Pereira bt Chriashanthi Rajur 6-0, 6-4; Karishma Patel bt Deepa Chakraborty 6-1, 6-4; Sandhya Nagaraj bt Jilke Nelord 6-0, 6-1; Sheethal Goutham bt Ragini Vimal 6-3, 6-1.

Boys: Arnav Jain bt Vishnu Rajam 6-3, 6-3; Rahul Belwal bt Farid Alam 1-6, 6-2, 6-2; M. Hariprasath bt Ankit Patel 6-0, 6-1; Ajay Selvaraj bt Akbar Kamil 6-3, 6-2; P. C. Vignesh bt Rohit Choudhary 6-1, 6-0; Krishank Shah bt Rubel Shandilya 6-4, 6-4; Sumit Prakash Gupta bt Varun Nagrath 6-0, 6-0; Anshuman Dutta bt Gaurav Singh 6-3, 6-1; Honey Rana bt R. Parivel 6-4, 7-6 (2); A. Daniel Raj bt B. Saharsh Reddy 6-2, 6-3; Alon Moses bt Sriram Mangal 6-1, 6-4; Krishna Karsolia bt Ronak Mehta 4-6, 6-1, 6-0; Rahil Makharia bt Sushant Nambiar 6-4, 6-1; Manav Dhawan bt Izreek Singh randhawa 5-7, 6-4, 7-6 (7-3); Prateek Shantaraju bt Samarth Gautham 6-2, 6-3; Rohan Gide bt Arup Mullick 6-3, 6-1; A. S. Suresh Krishna bt G. P. Prajnesh 7-6 (2), 2-6, 6-3; Fariz Mohammed bt Arpit Sharma 6-3, 7-6 (4); Navaneetha Kannan bt Sunil Kumar 6-2, 6-2; Siddharth Gulati bt P. Bharath Srinivasan 6-1, 6-0; Manjit Singh bt Tariq Jacob 6-4, 6-3; Alon Gomes bt Manish Rao 6-4, 6-3; Nityaesh Nataraj bt Arun Ramu 7-5, 6-3; Tejaswi Rao bt Debendra Das 6-2, 6-1; P. Vivek Reddy bt Vijay Siwach 6-1, 6-3; R. K. Praveen bt Aman Puri 6-3, 6-1; Agnel Gladwin bt Navinderpal Singh 6-3, 6-1; Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Udit Arora 6-0, 6-0; Paras Thakur w.o. Jubair Mohammed; Siddharth Alapati bt K. H. Praveen 6-1, 6-1; Vivek Shokeen bt Ashwin Vijayaraghavan 6-3, 6-2.

Girls: Sanaa Bhambri bt Shweta Kumari Solanki 6-0, 6-2; Prerna Mythry bt Niroshita Madanala 7-5, 6-1; Poojashree Venkatesh bt Amrita Seth 6-1, 6-1; Sandri Gangothry bt P. V. Rajeshwari 6-0, 6-1; G. K. Shweta bt Aarti Duraiswamy 6-7 (1), 6-0, 6-4; Sanjana Kapur bt Anushka Kapoor 6-2, 6-3; Shalini Sahoo bt Asha Nandakumar 7-6 (3), 6-3; Vandana Murali bt Oormila Ram 6-2, 3-6, 6-2; Parul Goswami bt Ashmitha Easwaramurthy 6-3, 7-6 (2); Vishaka Sheoran bt Kanisha Mehta 7-6 (7), 6-4; Parija Maloo bt Karina Ahuja 6-2, 6-4; Pooja Kommireddi bt Varsha Shivshankar 7-6 (2), 6-1; Preethi Subramaniam bt Sagarika Phadke 7-5, 7-6 (0); Grace Hanna bt Neha Rana 6-1, 6-3; Amoolya Raghunath bt Anushree Thammanna 6-2, 6-2; Shivika Burman bt Shahin Ansari 6-3, 6-4.

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