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Prajnesh upsets Vishnu Vardhan

Kamesh Srinivasan

NEW DELHI: Prajnesh Gunneswaran knocked out third-seeded J. Vishnu Vardhan with ease, even as Yuki Bhambri continued to assert his class, in the men’s pre-quarterfinals of the DSCL National tennis championship at the DLTA Complex here on Tuesday.

Prajnesh, the 17-year-old Chennai lad who trains with Rishi Sridhar, raced to a 6-4, 6-3 win over his rival.

In a contest that lasted an hour and 23 minutes, Prajnesh saved five breakpoints from 0-40 in the ninth game of the first set. He broke the strongly-built Vishnu in the next game despite the latter enjoying two game-points. In the second set, Prajnesh broke Vishnu in the fourth game and tightened his grip with a quality game. He wound up the show with an ace.

“I am happy with my game. I have been playing well, but errors at crucial stages have been stopping me from getting good results,” said Prajnesh, who had won a double in the ITF juniors event in Chennai last month.

Prajnesh will meet another left-hander and former National champion Vinod Sridhar in the quarterfinals.

Lively encounter

In another lively encounter, Yuki Bhambri tamed sixth-seeded Tushar Liberhan 4-6, 6-4, 6-1. After losing the first set in which he lost three games in a row after leading 4-3, Yuki bounced back strongly.

The results (pre-quarterfinals): Men: Aditya Madkekar bt Arjun Goutham 6-1, 7-6(1); Navdeep Singh bt Christopher Marquis 6-0, 6-7(2), 6-1; Prajnesh Gunneswaran bt J. Vishnu Vardhan 6-4, 6-3; Vinod Sridhar bt Rohan Gide 6-3, 6-1; Yuki Bhambri bt Tushar Liberhan 4-6, 6-4, 6-1; Vivek Shokeen bt Abhijeet Tiwari 6-0, 6-2; Vijay Kannan bt Fariz Mohammad 6-2, 6-1; Ashutosh Singh bt Rohan Gajjar 4-6, 6-3, 2-0 (retired).

Women: Isha Lakhani bt Tanvi Shah 6-4, 6-4; Ashvarya Shrivastava bt Kyra Shroff 7-5, 6-3; Sanaa Bhambri bt Kelsey Sundaram 6-4, 6-2; Asha Nandakumar bt Arushi Sharma 6-4, 6-2; Rashmi Teltumbe bt Parija Maloo 2-6, 7-6(5), 6-4; Sonal Phadke bt Sheethal Goutham 6-1, 6-3; Parul Goswami bt Kesika Jayapalan 6-2, 2-6, 6-0; Rushmi Chakravarthi bt Vishaka Sheoran 6-4, 6-2; First round: Arushi Sharma bt Prerna Bhambri 6-4, 3-6, 7-5.

Under-18: Boys: Vijayant Malik bt V. Vignesh 6-4, 6-1; Shantanu Rajput bt Manav Dhawan 5-7, 7-6(1), 6-3; Sudanwa Sitaram bt Kaushik Das 6-0, 6-0; Ronak Manuja bt Shiva Sangwan 6-2, 6-4; Christopher Marquis bt Akash Wagh 1-1 (retired); Abhijeet Tiwari bt Tejas Chaukulkar 6-0, 6-1; B. Vikram Reddy bt Kinshuk Sharma 6-1, 1-6, 7-5; Prajnesh Gunneswaran bt S. Siddharth 6-2, 6-1.

Girls: Kyra Shroff bt Janani Suresh 6-2, 6-2; Ashvarya Shrivastava bt Prachi Nadkarni 6-3, 6-2; Sharmada Balu bt Gopika Kapoor 3-6, 6-1, 6-2; Kelsey Sundaram bt V. Archana 6-0, 6-2; Rashmi Teltumbe bt Rishika Sunkara 6-3, 3-0 (retired); Vishaka Sheoran bt Arushi Sharma 6-0, 6-0; Tanvi Shah bt Bhavana Suresh 6-0, 6-4; Sweta Kumari Solanki bt I. Khosla 6-2, 7-6(5).

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