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Shokeen in quarterfinals

NEW DELHI: Local lads Vivek Shokeen and Ashutosh Singh struggled a bit, but asserted themselves in reaching the men's quarterfinals of the DSCL National tennis championships here on Wednesday.

Ashutosh was playing with ease against Wrik Ganguly, till he had a match point on his opponent's serve in the 10th game of the second set. Ashutosh failed to close out at that stage, and Ganguly, with a big cheering squad backing him, forced the decider with a quality fare in the tie-break.

In the third set, Ashutosh once again allowed things to drift after being up 5-2, but served out the match in the tenth game to bring an end to the drama.

Ashutosh will be up against second seed Aditya Madkekar, who warded off the seasoned Sandeep Kirtane's challenge.

Solid game

Vivek Shokeen dropped the first set for the second time in as many matches, but played a solid game thereafter to outplay qualifier Sandeep Choudhary. He will play Sanam Singh in the quarterfinals.

Parija Maloo, Kelsey Sundaram, Sweta Kumari Solanki and Vishaka Sheoran did well to make it to the quarterfinals in the women's and girls' sections.

Sonal Phadke had an interesting challenge from qualifier Kyra Shroff, but the latter lacked the punch in her shots, much in contrast to her high-decibel grunting, to be able to build on her impressive mobility.

The results (pre-quarterfinals): Men: Divij Sharan bt Saurav Sukul 6-1, 6-3; Purav Raja bt Pratim Parekh 6-3, 6-0; Vivek Shokeen bt Sandeep Choudhary 4-6, 6-3, 6-1; Sanam Singh bt Manoj Kumar Sewa 6-4, 6-3; Arjun Goutham bt Tushar Liberhan 7-6(6), 6-0; Vishnu Vardhan bt Sriram Balaji 6-2, 6-0; Ashutosh Singh bt Wrik Ganguly 6-1, 6-7(4), 6-4; Aditya Madkekar bt Sandeep Kirtane 6-4, 6-4.

Women: Isha Lakhani bt Vishika Chhetri 6-3, 6-2; Parija Maloo bt Esha Sanghvi 6-4, 6-1; Sonal Phadke bt Kyra Shroff 6-3, 1-6, 6-2; Kelsey Sundaram bt Kesika Jaipalan 6-2, 6-3; Sweta Kumari Solanki bt Madura Ranganathan 6-4, 6-4; Vishaka Sheoran bt Parul Goswami 6-4, 2-0 (retired); Shalini Sahoo bt Deepna Vazirani 6-2, 6-2; Sandhya Nagaraj bt Ragini Vimal 6-2, 6-2.

U-18: Boys: Sumit Prakash Gupta bt Rubal Shandilya 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; Ashwin Vijayaraghavan bt Rahul Belwal 6-2, 6-2; Sriram Balaji bt Tariq Jacob 3-6, 6-2, 6-1; Nikunj Siwach bt Akash Gujarathi 6-3, 6-3; Prajnesh Gunneswaran bt Vijayant Malik 6-3, 3-6, 6-2; Arnav Jain bt Christopher Marquis 7-6(1), 6-3; Alon Gomes bt Visnu Rajam 6-4, 6-4; Fariz Mohammad bt Kinshuk Sharma 6-0, 6-3.

Girls: Sweta Kumari Solanki bt Hena Ahuja 6-3, 6-3; Kelsey Sundaram bt Shalini Sahoo 6-0, 6-3; Ashmitha Easwaramurthi bt Rishika Sunkara 6-1, 7-5; Madura Ranganathan bt J. Kesika 6-3, 6-0; Kyra Shroff bt Sanjana Kapur 6-2, 6-1; Vishaka Sheoran bt Jilke Nelord 6-0, 6-4; Nupur Kaul bt Nova Patel 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; Parija Maloo bt Janani Suresh 6-0, 6-0.

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