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Natalia shocks Shweta Rana

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MUMBAI: Unseeded Natalia Khaneijo (Maharashtra) rallied from a first set loss to defeat ninth-seeded Shweta Rana (Delhi) 1-6, 6-2, 7-5 in the girls' under-16 singles pre-quarterfinals of the all-India ranking junior tennis 2007 on Thursday. Natalia also entered the under-14 quarterfinals beating another Delhi girl Manya Nagpal without dropping a point.

Shweta, India No. 4 in the under-14 category, remained in contention with a straight-sets pre-quarterfinal win over C.H. Nidhi.

Delhi's Rohit Bisht called the shots against a sluggish Mansing Athare (Mah) 7-6(4), 7-5 to make the senior boys' semifinals, alongwith Sagar Ahuja, Samip Mehta and Chetan Pandit.

The results:

Boys under-16 quarterfinals: Sagar Ahuja (Mah) bt S.V. Abhishek (AP) 6-2, 3-6, 6-4; Samip Mehta (Guj) bt N. Sai Karthik (AP) 6-2, 6-2; Chetan Pandit (AP) bt Suraj Desai (Guj) 6-1, 6-3; Rohit Bisht (Del) bt Mansing Athare (Mah) 7-6 (4), 7-5.

Boys under-14 quarterfinals: Rohit Bisht (Del) bt Rupam Gogoi (Asm) 6-2, 6-1; Arjun Khade (Mah) bt Sharan Patil (Kar) 7-6(3), 6-1; Siddharth Rawat (UP) bt R. Vigneswaran (TN) 6-3, 6-0; Digvijay Singh (HP) bt Ronit Bisht (Del) 7-6(6), 6-3.

Girls under-16 (pre-quarterfinals): Gopika Kapoor (Del) bt C. Rajeshwari (TN) 6-3, 6-2; Divya Rao (AP) bt Neha Purohit (AP) 6-2, 6-3; Nimisha Mohan (Ben) bt Natasha Palha (Goa) 6-2, 6-3; Rashmi Teltumbde (Mah) bt Riddhi Hegde (Mah) 6-1, 6-1; Shivani Singh (AP) bt Treta Bhattacharya (Ben) 6-0, 6-1; Carol Augustine (Del) bt Anushi Sharma (Del) 7-6 (4), 6-0; Garima Vatwani (Del) bt Bhavana Suresh (AP) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; Natalia Khaneijo (Mah) bt Shweta Rana (Del) 1-6, 6-2, 7-5.

Girls under-14 (pre-quarterfinals): Shweta Rana (Del) bt Nidhi C.H. (AP) 6-0, 6-3; Anushka Bhargava (AP) bt Sansitha Nandakumar (TN) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3; Bhavana Suresh (AP) bt Shravya Reddy (AP) 6-1, 6-1; Natasha Palha (Goa) bt Ravina Shetty (Kar) 6-1, 6-0; Amrita Mukherjee (Ben) bt Sneha Reddy (Mah) 6-3, 6-2; Natalia Khaneijo (Mah) bt Manya Nagpal (Del) 6-0, 6-0; Vaidehi Bhagwat (Mah) bt Namita Bal (Mah) 6-3, 6-2; Sharon Paul (TN) bt Abhisha Ahuja (Har) 6-0, 6-1.

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