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Tushar Liberhan pips Vijayant Malik

Kamesh Srinivasan

NEW DELHI: Tushar Liberhan recovered in the nick of time to outwit Vijayant Malik 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the men’s first round of the DSCL National tennis championship that kicked off in a festive atmosphere at the DLTA Complex here on Sunday.

In a battle between the two talented lads from Chandigarh, the sixth-seeded Tushar was able to turn the match around by breaking Vijayant in the tenth game of the second set. Vijayant did take a 3-1 lead in the decider, but Tushar was able to push his game up and race away to a comfortable finish.

Lively encounter

In another lively encounter, the eighth-seeded Navdeep Singh was able to stop the talented wild card entrant Rupesh Roy with a quality fare. A couple of doublefaults from Rupesh saw him being broken decisively in the 11th game of the first set after a keen tussle and Navdeep cracked a few rousing winners on either flank to break the resistance of his opponent.

Ashutosh Singh, Vivek Shokeen, Vinod Sridhar and Arjun Goutham were the other men to make the second round.

Rushmi rallies

In the women’s section, the second-seeded Rushmi Chakravarthi recovered from being down 2-5 to beat Shalini Sahoo. In another match, Rashmi Teltumbe, coming in place of Poojashree Venkatesh, who pulled out with a shoulder problem, capitalised on the chance to beat Ragini Vimal in straight sets.

The results:

First round: Men: Arjun Goutham bt Manoj Sewa 6-1, 6-3; Navdeep Singh bt Rupesh Roy 7-5, 6-4; Vinod Sridhar bt Yannick Nelord 6-4, 6-3; Tushar Liberhan bt Vijayant Malik 4-6, 6-4, 6-3; Vivek Shokeen bt Kiran Nandakumar 6-2, 7-5; Ashutosh Singh bt Navinder Pal Singh 6-0, 6-2.

Women:

Kelsey Sundaram bt Jilke Nelord 6-1, 6-1; Parija Maloo bt Deepanwita Chakraborty 6-1, 6-1; Rashmi Teltumbe bt Ragini Vimal 6-2, 6-3; Kesika Jayapalan bt Shilpi Jaiswal 6-2, 6-3; Vishaka Sheoran bt Deepna Vazirani 6-0, 6-1; Rushmi Chakravarthi bt Shalini Sahoo 7-6(3), 6-0.

Under-18 boys:

Vijayant Malik bt Samir Patwardhan 6-0, 6-3; Manpreet Chawla bt Jatin Dahiya 7-5, 6-3; Aashish Rana bt Rohan Shah 1-6, 6-4, 6-4; V. Vignesh bt Gugan Verma 7-5, 6-0; Lakshit Sood bt Navinder Pal Singh 6-2, 4-6, 6-1; Manav Dhawan bt Dhruv Gupta 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-4; Shantanu Rajput bt Ankit Sachdeva 2-6, 6-3, 7-5; Akash Gujarati bt Rithvik Sunkara 6-2, 6-0; Sudanwa Sitaram bt Pulkit Mishra 6-3, 7-6(4); Prateek Bhambri bt Joseph Zotinkhuma 6-2, 6-2; Kaushik Das bt Deepinder Singh Bains 6-1, 6-1; Nikunj Siwach bt Vinay Kamineni 6-2, 6-2; Shiva Sangwan bt C. H. Rohit 6-1, 6-3; Monal Chillar bt Harshvardhan Thirani 2-6, 6-3, 6-3; S. Prashanth bt Vidhan Vyas 7-6(3), 6-4; Ronak Manuja bt Akshat Joshi 6-2, 6-2; Christopher Marquis bt M.A. Navin 6-2, 6-2; Himanshu Mali bt Bibaswan Deb 3-6, 6-1, 6-3; Dhruv Gurwara bt Yashwant Pulumati 6-2, 6-0; Akash Wagh bt Kunal Anand 6-3, 6-2; Mansingh Athare bt Saurabh Singh 6-3, 6-3; Tejas Chaukulkar bt Rubal Shandilya 7-5, 6-4; Chetan Pandit bt Elwin Antony 6-3, 6-4; Abhijeet Tiwari bt Shahbaz Khan 6-3, 6-4; B. Vikram Reddy bt Vedant Kapoor 6-4, 6-0; Tariq Jacob bt A.S. Suresh Krishna 3-6, 6-1, 6-4; Akshay Kohli bt Pulok Bhattacharya 6-2, 6-3; Kinshuk Sharma bt Adit Jain 6-1, 6-1; Nihal Kapoor bt Chandril Sood 6-4, 4-6, 6-4; S. Siddharth bt N. Sai Karthik 6-3, 6-2; Kaza Vinayak Sharma bt Chandam Shaolin 6-1, 6-1; Prajnesh Gunneswaran bt Sushant Nambiar 6-2, 6-2.

Under-18 girls:

Shweta Chandra Rana bt Sowmya Pulumati 6-1, 6-3; Janani Suresh bt Prerna Pratap 6-4, 6-1; P.V. Raja Rajeshwari bt Henna Ahuja 6-1, 6-3; Ratnika Batra bt Shraddha Dali 6-3, 6-3; Sharon Paul bt Disha Saigal 7-6(4), 7-6(3); Sharmada Balu bt Garima Vatwani 6-2, 6-3; Monica Menon bt Noor Paul 2-6, 7-6(5), 6-4; Grace Hannah bt Treta Bhattacharya 6-3, 6-4; Rishika Sunkara bt Kesika Jayapalan 6-3, 6-4; Rashmi Teltumbe bt Nimisha Mohan 6-4, 6-3; Arushi Sharma bt Anushka Kapoor 7-5, 6-3.

Sayali Bhilare bt Jilke Nelord 6-3, 6-1; P. Sindhu Nila bt Akanksha Kohli 6-2, 7-6(2); Bhavana Suresh bt Rasika Sankpal 6-3, 6-0; Natasha Palha bt Sheetal Yadav 6-1, 6-1; Prarthana Thombare bt Vaniya Dangwal 6-2, 6-3.

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