The Hindu : Sport / Tennis : Sharmada in last four

Online edition of India's National Newspaper
Friday, Dec 24, 2004

Sport

Sport - Tennis

Sharmada in last four

BANGALORE, DEC. 23. Sharmada Balu and Harshini Reddy, the two consistent performers on the State circuit, entered the semifinals of both girls' under-14 and under-18 singles events in the Mahila Seva Samaj-AITA Talent Series tennis championship at the club courts here on Thursday.

The results:

Boys:

Under-14 singles (pre-quarterfinals): Vibhav M. Iyengar bt M. Sagar 6-1,6-0; Kenneth Mirajkar bt Uttam Singh 6-3, 6-1; Vedant Bansal bt Amogh Prabhakar 7-6 (7-3), 6-3; Krishik Diwakar bt M.H. Dhiraj Kumar 6-3, 6-3; Vinod Gowda bt Raunak Singh 6-1, 6-1; Rashien Samuel bt V. Pranav 6-0, 7-5; Zubair Virjee bt Balaji Raj 6-4, 6-1.

Under-18 singles (pre-quarterfinals): Bruhath V.Raiker bt Jagadeesan Kumar 6-3, 3-6, 6-2; Zubair Virjee bt Shishsir Patil 2-6, 6-3, 6-4; Preetam Roy Mores bt Pyara Singh 6-0, 6-0; Vibhav M.Iyengar bt Ankur Jain 6-1, 6-0; Yesh Bafna bt Santosh Venkatraman 6-3, 6-2; Varun Gunasheelan bt Amar Singh 6-0, 6-0.

Doubles (quarterfinals): Under-18: Bruhath V. Raikar & Sagar bt Jagadeesan Kumar & Vishwa Teja 6-4, 4-6, 7-5; P.Suraj & V. Santosh bt M.S. Raheem & M. Mahantesh 6-0, 6-2; Shishir Patil & Dhruv Sundar bt Pyara Singh & Ankur Jain 6-2, 6-0; Preetam Roy Mores & Varun Gunasheelan bt Amar Singh & Santok Singh 6-0, 6-0.

Under-14: Vibhav M. Iyengar & Zubair Virjee bt Sumkuh & K. Dheeraj 6-1,6-2; S. Patil & Rashien Samuel bt Vinod Gowda & Sagar Manjunath 6-2, 5-7, 6-4; Uttam Singh & Gagan Singh bt Krishik Diwakar & Sujith Mathew 6-4, 7-6 (7-4).

Girls (quarterfinals): Under-18: Harshini Reddy bt Karamjit Kaur 6-3, 6-1; Gurmeet Kaur bt Raveena Shetty 6-3, 6-1; Nimisha Mohan bt Parvinder Kaur 2-6, 6-4, 6-4; Sharmada Balu bt Nisha Tambuchetty 4-6, 6-3, 6-0. Pre-quarterfinals: Karamjit Kaur bt Rachita sarda 6-2m,4-6,6-4; Gurmeet Kaur bt Kamya Ramanan 4-6, 7-5, 7-5; Raveena Shetty bt M.P. Nitha 4-6, 7-5, 6-3; Nimisha Mohan bt Yamini Reddy 6-2, 7-6 (7-5); Parvinder Kaur bt Rachana Gowda 6-2, 4-6, 6-4; Nisha Tambuchetty bt Spoorthi 2-6, 6-1, 6-3; Sharmada Balu bt Purna Karanth 6-0, 6-0.

Under-14 singles (quarterfinals): Harshini Reddy bt Rachita Sarda 7-6 (7-2), 6-3; Yamini Reddy bt Raveena Shetty 6-0, 6-1; Spoorthi B. bt Nimisha Mohan 6-4, 2-6, 6-2; Sharmada Balu bt Gurmeet Kaur 6-4, 6-3. — Our Special Correspondent

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

Sport