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Vara Prasad advances

VISAKHAPATNAM: C.B.S. Vara Prasad prevailed in the tie-breaker of the final set to beat Syam in a first round match of the plus 55 years category of the fourth CMR-AISTA veteran’s tennis tournament here on Tuesday.

M.S. Venkatchalam and B.G. Reddy in this event and Y. Kanaka Raj in plus 45 years needed three sets to beat their rivals.

Noted coach S. Narendranath eased past M.S. Sridhar 6-1, 6-0 in the plus 45 years category.

The results: Plus 45 years: Sarangi bt Maruti Mohan 6-3, 6-4; R.E. Sudarshana Rao bt S. Manmadha Rao 6-1, 6-2; R.N. Ramesh bt T. Koteswara Rao 6-4, 6-4; Y. Kanaka Raj bt Subhash Chandra Bose 4-6, 6-0, 6-1; S. Narendranath bt M.S. Sridhar 6-1, 6-0.

Plus 55 years: A.R. Rao bt A.S.N. Raju 6-3, 6-3; M.S. Venkatachalam bt S. Ramakrishna 2-6, 6-4, 6-4; C.B.S. Vara Prasad bt Syam 6-2, 4-6, 7-6; B.G. Reddy bt B.S. Rao 6-4, 4-6, 6-4; Ramamohana Rao bt S. Bose 6-1, 6-0.

Plus 65 years: Srikanth Parikh bt B. Nageswara Rao 6-0, 6-0; D.R.V. Prasad bt Vittal 6-4, 6-2; C.B. Raju bt Narapa Reddy 6-3, 6-2; R. Subba Rao bt K. Rama Rao 6-3, 6-3; Muthu Indra bt K. Premchand 7-5, 6-4; H.L. Das bt H.S. Sarma 6-4, 6-3.

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