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Siddharth stuns Yaylali

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KOLKATA : Unseeded Siddharth Allapati of India beat seventh seeded Kaan Yaylali of Turkey in the boys' singles pre-quarterfinals of ONGC-ITF junior (grade III) tennis here at the DKS Sports Complex on Wednesday.

The rest of the seeded players, including the top seeded Rupesh Roy, second seeded Sumit Prakash Gupta, fourth seeded Akshay Bajoria and fifth seeded Tejesvi Rao, cruised in to the quarterfinals without encountering much difficulty.

Allapati, who hails from Hyderabad, down two set-points while serving at 15-40 and trailing 1-5 in the set, produced a great comeback winning six consecutive games to win the set. It was lot easier for Allapati in the second set where he took charge right from the start. The Indian broke his opponent twice while conceding only one service game to win the set after 92 minutes.

Madura ousted

In the girls' singles unseeded Indian Shewtha G. Kakhandki caused an upset downing compatriot and fourth seeded Madura Ranganathan in a gruelling three-setter lasting 127 minutes. Shewtha took the lead winning the first set 7-5 but had to step back when Madura took the second set. In the decider Shewtha was back in her element and broke the fourth seed thrice to complete the upset. Madura struggled with her service sending in 20 double faults in the match.

In another match local favourite Shivika Burman was shown the door by sixth seeded compatriot Sweta Solanki. Top seeded Ksenia Palkina of Kyrgyzstan had to struggle against qualifier Yi-Miao Zhou, who took the action to the decider before conceding the match.

The results (all Indians unless specified, prefix denote seedings):

Boys' singles (pre-quarterfinals): 1-Rupesh Roy bt Mark Fridaev (Isr) 6-3, 6-3; 6-Xiao-Long Yin (Chn) bt Ashwin Vijayaragavan 6-1, 6-7(2), 6-3; 3-Ivan Anikanov (Ukr) bt David Grund (Cze) 6-1, 6-4; Roman Petrunin (Rus) bt Chuan Jiang (Chn) 3-6, 6-3, 6-2; 5-Tejesvi Rao bt Navinder Pal Sidhu 4-6, 6-4, 6-1; 4-Akshay Bajoria bt Jeong-Han Seo (Kor) 6-7(3), 6-1, 6-4; Siddharth Allapati bt 7-Kaan Yaylali (Tur) 7-5, 6-4; 2-Sumit Prakash Gupta (Ind) bt Seul-Ki Um (Kor) 6-4, 6-1.

Boys doubles (quarterfnals): Ashwin Vijayaragavan & B. Vikram Reddy bt Petr Dostal & David Grund (Cze) 6-3, 6-4.

Girls' singles (pre-quarterfinals): 1-Ksenia Palkina (Kgz) bt Yi-Miao Zhou (Chn) 4-6, 6-2, 5-1 (cncd.); 5-Elizaveta Titova (Rus) bt Niroshita Madanala 6-0, 6-0; Shwetha G. Kakhandki bt 4-Madura Ranganathan 7-5, 2-6, 6-3; 8-Nadine Fahoum (Isr) bt Ratchaya Chaichanachaicharn (Tha) 7-5, 6-1; 6-Sweta Solanki bt Shivika Burman (Ind) 7-5, 6-4; Hanna Andreyeva (Ukr) bt 3-Poojashree Venkatesh 3-0 (Conceeded); Xuan-Yu Guo (Chn) bt Parija Maloo (Ind) 6-2, 6-4; Jung-Yoon Shin (Kor) bt Eylul Benli (Tur) 3-6, 7-5, 6-2.

Girls doubles (quarterfinals): Jung-Yoon Shin (Kor) & Ratchaya Chaichanachaicharn (Tha) bt 1-Nadine Fahoum & Julia Glushko (Isr) 6-3, 6-4; 3-Parija Maloo & Poojashree Venkatesh w/o Xuan-Yu Guo (Chn) & Yi-Miao Zhou (Chn); Chang Liu & Wen-Bo Wang (Chn) bt 2-Ksenia Palkina (Kgz) & Anna Vavrik (Rus) 6-7(1), 6-4, 6-4.

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