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Top seeds crash out

By Our Special Correspondent

MUMBAI, FEB 25. Reputations took a tumble on the penultimate day of the AITA National Series Junior Tennis with top seeds Prerna Maitri and Christopher Marquis shown the door in senior girls and junior boys categories at the Practennis courts here today.

The Results: Semifinals: Girls U-14: Rashmi Teltumbde (Mah) bt 2-Janaki S. Rao (AP) 1-6, 6-1, 7-5; 1-Shweta Solanki (Del) bt Prerna Bhambri (Delhi) 6-1, 6-3. Girls U-18: Supriya Mallaya (Mah) bt 1-Prerna Maitri (AP) 6-3, 6-1; 3-Shweta Solanki (Delhi) bt Neena Sharma (Mah) 6-4, 6-4.

Boys U-14: 5-Mansingh Athare (Mah) bt 2-Sameer Paranjape (Mah) 6-2, 6-1; 6-Sudanwa Sitaram (TN) bt 1-Christopher Marquis (Mah) 6-4, 4-6, 6-2. Boys U-18: 4-Nitish Raaj (UP) bt 3-Kaushik Raju (Kar) 6-4, 6-4; 5-Krishna A. S. Suresh (AP) bt 8-Tariq Jacob (TN) 2-6, 7-6 (9-7), 6-0. Boys U-18 doubles: Tariq Jacob/Mangal Shriram bt Nitish Raaj/Ankit Patel 7-5, 6-3; Akash Gujarati/Akash Wagh bt Navneetha Kannan/Arpit Sharma 7-5, 3-6, 6-3. Boys U-14 doubles: Gopinath Menta/Ronak Manuja bt A. Muddappa/A. Sumeet 6-4, 6-3; Christopher Marquis/Mansingh Athware bt P. Sameer/S. Sudanwa 7-5, 7-6 (6).

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