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Gugan stuns Abhijeet

Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI: Gugan Verma of Tamil Nadu upset the fifth-seeded Abhijeet Tiwari of Chhattisgarh 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (5) in the second round of the Hindustan Times AITA National series under-16 tennis tournament at the Yamuna Sports Complex here on Tuesday.

In another upset of sorts, qualifier Karun Uday Singh knocked out the fourth-seeded Parul Verma of Chandigarh 7-6 (2), 6-0. It was a repeat match of the final qualifying round, and Karun had beaten Parul in a more comprehensive fashion then. Parul eventually made the main draw as a lucky loser, and was seeded thanks to his national ranking of No.7.

The results:

Boys (second round): B. Vikram Reddy bt Mandeep Yadav 6-2, 6-2; Himanshu S. Mali bt Arun Khattar 6-3, 6-4; Rubal Shandilya bt Fateh Singh Ladhar 4-0 (retired); Yuki Bhambri bt A. V. Abhishek 6-1, 6-4; Sriram Balaji bt M. A. Naveen 6-2, 6-1; Pulkit Mishra bt Karam Veer 6-0, 6-0; Venkat Iyer bt Sirsala Surya 6-1, 6-1; A. Daniel Raj bt Manpreet Chawla 6-1, 6-1; Gugan Verma bt Varun Anand 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (5); Ronak Manuja bt Sameer Patwardhan 6-1, 4-6, 6-4; Ankit Sachdeva bt Subash Rao 6-3, 6-4; Karun Uday Singh bt Parul Verma 7-6 (2), 6-0; Bibaswan Deb bt Dhruv Gurvara 7-6 (6), 7-6 (5); Vijayant Malik bt Pankaj Kishnani 6-1, 6-0. First round: Kaushik Reddy bt Rashin Samuel 6-2, 6-0; Pankaj Kishnani bt Pranshu 6-7 (2), 6-2, 6-1.

Girls (first round): Surya Tejaswini bt NIthya 7-6 (1), 6-2; Nova Patel bt Kesika Jayabalan 6-2, 6-3; Yamini Reddy bt K. Natalia 6-1, 6-4; Renuka Keshwani bt Jaanesh Kaur 6-0, 7-5; Carol Augustine bt Kahani Dalal 6-2, 6-4; Disha Sehgal bt Arushi Kalsi 6-3, 6-4; Dipti Srivastav bt Saumya Sanghi 6-2, 6-1; Ankita Raina bt Prabh Amrit Sandhu 6-0, 6-0; Sadhna Athreya bt Pooja Narayan 6-2, 7-6 (5); Monika Menon bt Poorna 1-6, 6-3, 6-2; Sweta Rana bt Ishaa Razdan 6-0, 6-2; Monica Sant bt Tanvi Gupta 7-6 (6), 7-5; Vaniya Dangwal bt B. Sayali 6-2, 6-3; Radhita Sarda bt Balvinder Kaur 7-5, 7-5; Sadgi Rajani bt Shilpa Naruka 6-0, 6-4; Arushi Sharma bt Mohana Sarkar 6-1, 6-2.

Bishnoi Club clinches title

Dhruv Shorey's 76 runs helped Bishnoi Club beat Turf Cricket Academy by seven wickets and win the inaugural Bishnoi International Youth Cup cricket tournament at the Ferozeshah Kotla ground here.

The scores: Turf Cricket Academy 153 for six in 35 overs (Varun Chakravarti 55) lost to Bishnoi Club 157 for three in 24.2 overs (Dhruv Shorey 76).

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