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Five seeds lose

KOLKATA, JAN. 6. Five seeded players were shown the door on Thursday in the pre-quarterfinals of the Sunfeast Championship Series junior tennis here at South Club.

In the girls' section, Andhra Pradesh's V. Nayantara, who is the fourth seed in the under-14 section and the sixth seed in the under-18 category, suffered a double jolt. She lost to un-seeded opponents — Amrita Mukherjee (Bengal, under-14) and Ridhima Borooah (Assam, under-18) — in both the sections.

Local lass Srestha Banerjee beat eighth-seeded Sunaina Sharma (Assam) for the second upset in the under-14 girls' section.

In the boys' under-18 section, seventh-seeded Dharamveer Biswakarma and eighth-seeded Rohit Kumar were also ousted, while Bengal's eighth-seeded Iftekhar Hossain fell to un-seeded State-mate Ayush Dharewa in the under-14 boys' category.

Important results (pre-quarterfinals, Bengal unless specified): Singles: Boys u-18: Arpit Sharma bt Ranveer Srivastav 6-2, 6-2; Harshvardhan Thirani (Guj) bt Aritra Chowdhury 7-5, 6-4; Baibhav Das bt Sourav Chowdhury 7-5, 2-6, 6-1; Samriddh Burman bt Varun Sukul 6-0, 6-0; Akshay Ashok bt Dharamveer Biswakarma 7-6 (10-8), 6-0; Arup Mullick bt Soumit Dey 6-1, 6-0; Ranjan Prasad bt Rohit Kumar 7-5, 6-0; Farid Alam bt Amartya Das 6-1, 6-0.

U-14: Bibaswan Deb bt Neil D'Souza 6-0, 6-0; Prem Singh bt Sidhanth Ramachandran 6-0, 6-1; Ayush Bajoria bt Soham Daga 6-2, 6-0; Nirav D. Thakker (Guj) bt Vinayak Oleti 6-0, 6-0; Ranveer Shrivastav bt Arpit Banerjee 6-0, 6-0; Deepak D. Thakker (Guj) bt Aditya Sinha 6-0, 6-2; Ayush Dharewa bt Iftekhar Hossain 6-1, 6-3; Mohammad Imran bt Mohammad Sarfaraz 6-3, 6-2.

Girls: U-18: Shivika Burman bt Snigdha Kapoor 6-0, 6-0; Ridhima Borooah (Asm) bt V. Nayantara (AP) 6-1, 6-0; Danielle Jones bt Rashmi Somani 6-3, 6-1; Nandita Krishnan (TN) bt M. Divya Rao (AP) 6-2, 6-1; Dipti Shrivastav bt Richa Valechha 6-3, 7-5; Treta Bhattacharyya bt C. Mohana Sai Madhuri (AP) 6-2, 6-1; Mohana Sarker bt Mandovi Mullick 6, 6-1, 6-1; Gayatri Krishnan (TN) bt Sunaina Sharma (Asm) 6-0, 6-0.

U-14: Nandita Krishnan (TN) bt Arundhuti Basu 6-1, 6-1; Srestha Banerjee bt Sunaina Sharma (Asm); Treta Bhattacharyya bt Snigdha Kapoor 6-1, 6-0; Mohana Sarker bt Doondi Priya J. (AP) 6-3, 6-4; Ridhima Borooah (Asm) bt Divya Pandey 6-1, 6-1; Amrita Mukherjee bt V. Nayantara (AP) 6-3, 2-6, 6-2; M. Divya Rao (AP) bt Mandovi Mullick 6-1, 6-0; C. Mohana Sai Madhuri (AP) bt Saumya Pandey 6-0, 6-1.

Doubles: Girls (U-18 quarterfinals): Shivika Burman/Gayatri Krishnan (TN) bt C. Mohana Sai Madhuri (AP)/M. Divya Rao (AP) 6-0, 6-3. — Our Sports Reporter

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