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Thursday, Dec 30, 2004

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Athul surprises Chandu

KOCHI, DEC. 29. Ernakulam's Athul Roy surprised second-seeded G. Chandu of Thiruvananthapuram and entered the under-16 boys' semifinals of the Bharath Petroleum-Sree Chitra State-ranking tennis tournament at the Regional Sports Centre courts here on Wednesday.

The results (quarterfinals):

Boys: U-18 (best of 17 games): V.S. Visakh (Tvm) bt Nithin Largus (Ekm) 9-0; Sekhar Satish (Tvm) bt R.S. Sunil (Tvm) 9-8 (7-4); A. Anand (Tvm) bt Visak V. Gopal (Tvm) 9-1; S.L. Arun (Tvm) bt Joseph Nithin (Ekm) 9-0. U-16 (best of 15): M.S. Sarat Lal (Tvm) bt Shyam Babu (Tvm) 8-6; M.R. Rajendran (Tvm) bt B. Azeeb (Tvm) 8-3; Athul Roy (Ekm) bt G. Chandu (Tvm) 8-3. U-14 (best of 15): R.S. Advaith (Tvm) bt Raj Krishnan (Tvm) 8-1; Swathy Kanth (Tvm) bt S. Sajin (Tvm) 8-0; Joel Jacob (Ekm) bt M.R. Sivakumar (Tvm) 8-4. U-12 (best of 15): Jaisal Kohli (Ekm) bt Ajay Joseph (Ekm) 8-1; Adithya Bhat (Ekm) bt Vignesh Gopal (Tvm) 8-0.

Men:

Pre-quarterfinals: Binu Mani bt H. Shahanas (Klm) 6-0, 6-0; K. Shanker bt Ray Kiran (Tvm) 6-2, 6-2; Denny Eldo bt Vijikumar (Tvm) 1-6, 6-1, 6-1; G. Ramamurthy bt T.K. Devassy (Tvm) 6-2, 6-2; Binoj Mani bt K. Vijayakumar (Tvm) 6-3, 7-6 (7-1); Cecil George (Tvm) bt S. Rajesh (Knr) 6-4, 6-2.

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