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Abhijeet in pre-quarterfinals

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PUMPED UP: Swetha Kumari Solanki in action against Treta Bhatacharya of West Bengal.

CHENNAI: Out of action for nearly five months due to a back problem, last year's finalist Siddharth Alapati was hardly the player he could be. The second seed from Andhra Pradesh bowed out to Abhijeet Tiwari of Chhattisgarh 6-4, 5-7, 6-4 in the boys' under-18 second round of the MCC-adidas junior National tennis championship at the Cosmopolitan Club courts here on Tuesday.

Tamil Nadu's Vishnu Rajan, the tallest player in the Indian tennis circuit at 6'7" continued his good run with a 6-2, 7-6(4) win over fifth seed and state-mate G.P. Prajnesh to enter the boys' under-18 pre-quarterfinals.

The results (second round):

Girls under-18: Swetha Kumari Solanki (Del) bt Treta Bhatacharya (WB) 6-4, 6-1; Shalini Shahoo (Del) bt Shahin Ansari (TN) 6-4, 6-3; Rashmi Teltumbde (Mah) bt Shanjana Kapur (Del) 6-2, 6-3; Aishwarya Srivastav (Mah) bt Renuka Keswani (Del) 6-3, 6-1; Anusree Thamanne (Kar) bt C. Rajeswari (TN) 6-3, 6-3; Bhavani Thirumurthy (TN) bt Janani Suresh (TN) 7-6(4), 6-3; T. Nilaya (AP) bt Nandita Krishnan (TN) 6-1, 3-6, 6-2.

Girls under-14: M. Divija (AP) Jenani Billmoria (Mah) 6-1, 6-3; Napur Kaul (Mah) bt Ratnika Batra (Del) 6-4, 6-3; Novo Patel (Guj) bt Shivani Singh (AP) 6-3, 6-0; Prerna Bhambri (Del) bt Sharan S Paul (TN) 6-3, 6-2; Aishwarya Srivastav (Mah) bt Sanjana M Kumar (TN) 6-0, 6-0; Kyra Shroff (Kar) bt Gopika Kapur (Del) 6-0, 6-2; Arushi Sharma (Del) bt M.P. Nita (Kar) 6-0, 6-2; Aishwarya Agarwal (MP) bt R. Bhavani (TN) 6-2, 7-5.

Boys under-18:

Sumit Prakash Gupta (UP) bt Deepinder Singh Bains (Chd) 6-2, 7-5; Mohd. Fariz (TN) bt Sameer Paranjabe (Mah) 6-1, 6-2; Avneet Gill (MP) bt Yash Bhargava (MP) 6-1, 6-7(4), 7-5; Subhanti Nambiar (AP) bt Navinder Pal Singh 6-3, 6-4; V.M. Gugan Verma (TN) bt Kaushik Das (WB) 6-3, 6-4; V. Sudarshan (TN) bt A.S. Suresh Krishna (AP) 7-6(6), 5-7, 6-3; Akash Wagh (Mah) bt Siddharth Balaji (TN) 6-3, 6-1; Allan Gomes (Mah) bt Nihal Kapoor (TN) 6-2, 6-0; Vishnu Rajam (TN) bt G.P. Prajnesh (TN) 6-2, 7-6(4); Tariq Jacob (TN) bt Ankit Sachdev (Del) 6-4, 6-4; Sudanwa Sitaram (TN) bt Rubal Shandilya (Del) 3-6, 7-6(1), 5-0 (con); Siddharth Kaushik (TN) bt Tejas Chaukulkar (Mah) 6-2, 6-3.

Boys under-14: Samip Mehta (Guj) bt Niranjan Ram (TN) 6-0, 6-2; Yuvaraj Kumar (Del) bt Sharan Patil (Kar) 6-3, 6-1; Sai Teja Palagudu (Mah) bt Shikhar Kapoor (Del) 6-4, 7-5; Sumeet Shinde (Mah) bt H.M. Yunus (TN) 6-1, 6-2; Karan Avalani (Mah) bt P.S. Soorya Prasanth (TN) 7-6(1), 6-2; R. Ram Kumar (TN) bt Monish Rajer (TN) 7-5, 6-2; Vaidik Munshaw (Guj) bt Parth O Shah (Mah) 6-2, 7-5; N. Sai Karthik (AP) bt Rohit Bishit (Del) 7-5, 6-0; Vishwesh Sinha (Mah) bt Roopam Gogai (Asm) 6-2, 6-2; S.V. Abishek (AP) bt Hardarshah Singh (Chan) 6-2, 6-4; Surya Pawan (AP) bt Vishwajit Thirumurthy (TN) 0-6, 7-5, 6-0; Mohit Mayur (TN) bt Suraj Konwar (Guj) 6-0, 6-1; R. Vigneshwaran (TN) bt Aniket Wakankar (Mah) 6-3, 6-4; Irfan Ahmed Hussain (TN) bt Vishal Passi (Mah) 6-1, 6-0; Rishab Dev (TN) bt Rishab Parikh (Guj) 6-0, 4-6, 6-3; Chetan Pandit (AP) bt Ravi Shankar (TN) 6-1, 6-3.

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