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Siddharth stuns Gomes

CHANDIGARH, FEB. 5. Siddharth Alapati beat top-seeded Allan Gomes 6-1, 6-2 in the second qualifying round in the boys' section of the SAIL ITF juniors grade III tennis tournament at the CLTA Complex here on Saturday.

In another second round encounter, Honey Rana beat sixth-seeded Manish Rao 6-7 (8), 6-2, 6-1.

The results (qualifying event):

Boys (second round): Siddharth Alapati bt Allan Gomes 6-1, 6-2; Wesley Baptist (RSA) bt Rahul Belwal 6-0, 4-6, 6-1; Agnel Gladwin bt Krishna Karsolia 6-1, 6-1; Honey Rana bt Manish Rao 6-7 (8), 6-2, 6-1; Fariz Mohammed bt Parul Verma 6-2, 6-1; Yoshimasa Hoshiba (Jpn) bt Kanagaraj Balakrishnan 6-3, 6-3; Kaushik Das bt Marlon Coelho 6-4, 7-5; Akash Wagh bt Varun Gunaseelan 6-3, 6-2.

First round: Siddharth Alapati bt Shoulin Chandam 6-1, 6-0; Wesley Baptist bt Akash Gujarati 6-4, 1-6, 6-3; Agnel Gladwin bt Tanuj Keswani 6-3, 6-0; Honey Rana bt Pulkit Mishra 6-2, 6-1; Parul Verma bt Ashwini Kumar Thapar 6-1, 6-1; Yoshimasa Hoshiba bt Vinod Jay 6-0, 6-3; Marlon Coelho bt Ankesh Bhargawa 6-3, 6-2; Akash Wagh bt Vijayant Malik 7-5, 6-3.

Girls (first round): Nao Fujii (Jpn) bt Lizeth King (Aus) 6-2, 3-0 (conceded); Sweta Solanki bt Jilke Nelord 6-2, 6-2; Varsha Shivshankar bt Neha Rana 7-6 (6), 6-3; Supriya Mallaya bt Sagarika Phadke 6-2, 6-4; Parija Maloo bt Kanisha Mehta 6-1, 6-4. — Our Special Correspondent

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