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Sai Reddy causes a flutter

NEW DELHI: Unranked Sai Reddy caused a flutter as he qualified for the boys event ahead of the top-seeded Sumeet Shinde in the ITF juniors Grade ‘II' tennis tournament at the DLTA Complex here on Sunday.

The 15-year-old from Kadapa asserted his fighting qualities by beating Chun Yu LIn of Chinese Taipei 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 in the third and final qualifying round in his maiden ITF tournament. he Andhra lad had earlier ousted the top-seeded Sumeet Shinde 7-5, 6-4 in the second round, after having waged a three-setter in the first round earlier in the day on Saturday.

The Indian players will try to assert their ability against a clutch of quality players from China.

The results: Qualifying event (third and final round): Boys: B. Sai Saran Reddy bt Chun Yu Lin (Tpe) 2-6, 6-3, 6-4; Mansingh Athare bt Chinmay Handa 6-3, 6-2; Shahbaaz Khan bt Siddharth Rawat 6-4, 6-4; Digvijay Singh Mehta bt Wen-Chun Liang (Tpe) 4-6, 6-3, 6-1. Girls: Adnya Naik bt Nao Hibino (Jpn) 6-4, 6-2; Sharmada Balu bt Zainab Ali Sajjad 6-2, 5-7, 6-1; Shweta Rana bt Tarrannum Handa 6-1, 6-4; Kanika Vaidya bt Rimpledeep Kaur 6-2, 6-0 . — Special Correspondent

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