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Thursday, Feb 16, 2006

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Naina knocks out Rohini Das

KOLKATA: Sixth-seeded Naina Karsolia of Uttar Pradesh shocked the second seed Rohini Das in the women's singles quarterfinals of the Central Excise Open grasscourt tennis tournament here on Wednesday.

Top-seeded Ragini Vimal got past the fifth seed Shilpi Jaiswal in straight sets.

Unseeded Devanshi Rajgharia continued her giant-killing spree, ousting eighth-seeded Shashirekha of Karnataka.

In the men's pre-quarterfinals, top seed Vinod Sridhar and second seed Kamala Kannan, both from Tamil Nadu, progressed easily.

The results:

Men: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Vinod Sridhar (TN) bt Jagdish Tanwar (Raj) 6-2, 6-2; Anshuman Dutta (Asm) bt Manoj K. Sewa (Ben) 6-4, 5-7, 7-5; Gursharan Singh (Pun) bt Divyanshu Singh (Del) 7-6(3), 6-3; Robin Das (Ben) bt Farid Alam (Ben) 6-3, 6-4; Saurav Sukul (Ben) bt Bharat Bhardwaj (Har) 6-2, 6-1; Yogesh Phogat (Har) bt Jitender Mehlda (Del) 6-4, 6-4; Vinod K. Sewa (Ben) bt Parthasarathi Bhattacharya (Del) 6-3, 6-2; Kamala Kannan (TN) bt Nikunj Siwach (Goa) 6-3, 6-3.

Doubles (semifinals): Vinod Sridhar-Kamala Kannan (TN) bt Rishi Sharma (UP)-Jagdish Tanwar (Raj) 6-4, 6-4.

Women: Singles (quarterfinals): Ragini Vimal (Ben) bt Shilpi Jaiswal (Bih) 6-0, 6-2; Devanshi Rajgharia (Ben) bt Shashirekha J.B. (Kar) 3-6, 6-1, 6-3; Raadhae Svarupa (TN) bt Soma Banerjee (Ben) 6-3, 6-3; Naina Karsolia (UP) bt Rohini Das (Ben) 6-4, 5-7, 6-1.

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