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Arup shocks Arpit

KOLKATA, APRIL 6. Top seed Arpit Sharma suffered a shock defeat at the hands of third seed Arup Mullick 6-3, 2-6, 6-2 in the semifinal of the boys' under-18 singles in the Hindalco-AITA talent series tennis championship at the Calcutta South Club courts here on Wednesday.

In the second semifinal, second seed Farid Alam defeated fourth seed Baibhav Das 6-4, 6-0.

The results: Boys: Under-18 singles semifinals (Kolkata unless specified): Arup Mullick bt Arpit Sharma 6-3, 2-6, 6-2; Farid Alam bt Baibhav Das 6-4, 6-0. Quarterfinals: Arpit bt Ranjan Prasad 0-6, 6-2, 6-0; Arup bt Soumit Dey 6-4, 6-3; Baibhav bt Aritra Chowdhury 6-1, 6-3; Farid bt Dharamveer Biswakarma 6-3, 6-3.

Doubles quarterfinals: Ranjan Prasad & Dharamveer Biswakarma bt Nikhil Agarwal (Ori) & Sharad Suvro Sarkar 6-1, 6-1; Arcopravo Rakshit & Soumit Dey bt Baibhav Das & Rohit Kumar (3) 6-2, 6-4.

Under-14 semifinals: Ranveer Shrivastav bt Prosonjit Paul (Jha) 6-2, 6-1; Md. Imran bt Samudra Sarangi (Ori) 6-3, 6-2. Quarterfinals: Ranveer bt Ayush Dharewa (WC) 6-3, 7-5; Prosonjit bt Ayush Bajoria 2-6, 6-0, 6-4; Samudra bt Rohit Rampuria 6-4, 6-1; Md. Imran bt Iftekhar Hossain 6-4, 6-4.

Girls: Under-18 semifinals: Treta Bhattacharyya bt Rashmi Somani 6-4, 6-2. Quarterfinals: Treta bt Amrita Mukherjee 6-1, 6-1; Rashmi bt Rachana Sethia 6-2, 6-2; Mohana Sarker bt Hina Valechha 7-5, 6-1; Rohini Das bt Richa Valechha 6-4, 6-2.

Under-14 semifinals: Mohana Sarker bt Arundhati Basu 6-0, 6-3; Madhurima Chaudhuri bt Amrita Mukherjee 2-6, 7-5, 1-0 (retd.). Quarterfinals: Mohana bt Angana Ghosh 6-4, 6-1; Arundhati bt A.V.S. Srujana (AP) 6-4, 6-0; Amrita bt Mandovi Mullick 6-2, 6-2; Madhurima bt Srestha Banerjee 4-6, 6-2, 6-0. — Our Special Correspondent

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