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Kelsey gets past Liza Pereira

Kamesh Srinivasan

NEW DELHI: Wild card Kelsey Sundaram of Tamil Nadu demonstrated a compact game with sound basics, good athleticism, impressive court craft and composure, to outgun the seventh-seeded Liza Pereira of Maharashtra 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the first round of the women's section in the DSCL National tennis championship at the DLTA Complex here on Tuesday.

In a battle of wits that lasted three hours, in hot, windy and energy-sapping conditions, Kelsey hung on to a positive frame of mind to get the better of the seasoned Liza who was not at her best, though she did try to move her opponent from flank to flank.

With a second round against qualifier Kesika Jaipalan, Kelsey can fancy her chances for a place in the quarterfinals, possibly against the fourth seed Sonal Phadke.

However, she may have it tough in the junior girls event, in which she will meet the steady Shalini Sahoo in the pre-quarterfinals.

The eighth seed in the women's section, Sagarika Phadke was also shown the door by qualifier Deepna Vazirani of Maharashtra.

The results: Men (first round): Pratim Parekh bt N. Kiran Kumar 6-4, 7-5; Tushar Liberhan bt Vinod Sridhar 3-6, 7-6(2) retired; Arjun Goutham bt Arnav Jain 6-4, 6-4; Vishnu Vardhan bt Nishank Mishra 6-4, 6-1.

Women (first round): Esha Sanghvi bt Jilke Nelord 7-6 (3), 6-3; Kelsey Sundaram bt Liza Pereira 4-6, 6-4, 6-4; Sweta Kumari Solanki bt Anukriti Prasad 6-0, 6-0; Deepna Vazirani bt Sagarika Phadke 6-1, 6-3.

Boys (second round): Sumit Prakash Gupta bt Irfan Hussain 6-3, 6-0; Rubal Shandilya bt Himanshu Mali 6-3, 6-0; Rahul Belwal bt Deepinder Singh Bains 6-3, 6-1; Ashwin Vijayaraghavan bt Jagadeesan Kumar 6-2, 6-0; Sriram Balaji bt Akshay Bajoria 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-4; Tariq Jacob bt Abhijeet Tiwari 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-3; Nikunj Siwach bt Gursher Singh Harika 7-5, 6-3; Akash Gujarathi bt Palash Tiwari 6-4, 7-5; Prajnesh Gunneswaran bt Akshay Kohli 6-1, 6-0; Vijayant Malik bt Manav Dhawan 6-3, 7-5; Christopher Marquis bt Rishab Dev Raman 4-6, 6-0, 6-3; Arnav Jain bt Sudanwa Sitaram 7-6 (2), 6-2; Alon Gomes bt Karunuday Singh 6-4, 2-6, 6-4; Vishnu Rajam bt A. S. Suresh Krishna 2-6, 6-3, 4-1 (retired); Fariz Mohammad bt Rohan Shah 6-2, 6-2; Kinshuk Sharma bt Monal Chhilar 6-3, 6-1.

Girls (second round): Sweta Kumari Solanki bt Divija Mandava 6-0, 6-4; Hena Ahuja bt Lekha Chandrasekhar 6-2, 1-6, 6-1; Kelsey Sundaram bt Tejasvi Narayana 6-2, 6-0; Shalini Sahoo bt Shivani Singh 6-2, 6-1; Ashmitha Easwaramurthi bt Vaidehi Patil 6-3, 6-2; Rishika Sunkara bt P. V. Raja Rajeshwari 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (4); J. Kesika bt T. Nilaya 6-4, 7-5; Madura Ranganathan bt Deepna Vazirani 6-2, 6-4; Kyra Shroff bt Surya Tejaswani 6-0, 6-0; Sanjana Kapur bt Sowjanya Bavisetti 6-3, 6-3; Jilke Nelord bt Ratnika Batra 6-4, 7-5; Vishaka Sheoran bt Akanksha Kohli 6-0, 6-2; Nova Patel bt Neha Rana 6-1, 6-0; Nupur Kaul bt Garima Vatwani 7-5, 6-3; Janani Suresh w.o. Shilpi Jaiswal; Parija Maloo bt Arushi Sharma 6-2, 6-0.

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