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Kyra Shroff shocks Ysidora

Principal Correspondent

KOLKATA: Kyra Shroff upset her top seeded Indonesian opponent, Grace Sari Ysidora, and reached the semifinals of the ONGC ITF junior tennis here on Wednesday.

In the girls’ singles quarterfinals played at the DKS sports complex clay courts, the eighth seeded Indian took little under two hours to record the victory.

Meanwhile, the second seeded Tanvi Shah of India was shown the door by her fifth seeded compatriot Sweta Solanki.

Seventh seeded Rishika Sunkara (India) ended the challenge of fourth seeded Anastasiya Prenko (Turkmenistan) in straight sets.

All-Indian line-up

Third seeded Rashmi Teltumbde of India eliminated the sixth seeded Ashurya Shrivastav to complete an all-Indian line-up for the semifinals.

Shroff, who is playing her first ITF event of the season, came up with her best performance.

The Indian mixed power and accuracy in her returns putting her opponent on the backfoot right from the start.

Shroff broke Ysidora thrice before winning the first set 6-1. The second set was more evenly fought with the two players trading six break points to force the tie-breakers. Shroff wrapped up the match by winning the tiebreaker 7-4.

She meets seventh seeded Sunkara in the semifinals.

Fifth seeded Solanki, who battled more than two hours to break through the defences of second seeded Shah, will meet the third seeded Teltumbde in the other semifinal.

In the boys’ section third seeded Sudanwa Sitaram defeated her compatriot and fifth seeded Chandril Sood.

The former will be taking on sixth seeded Roman Piftor of Uzbekistan in the semifinals. Fourth seeded Christopher Marquis of India beat seventh seeded Riki MacLachlan of New Zealand to set up a semifinal clash with eighth seeded Akash Wagh (India), who ended the challenge of unseeded compatriot Vinay Kmineni.

The results:

Boys’ singles (quarterfinals): Roman Piftor (Uzb) bt Ben Maclachlan (Nzl) 7-6(5), 7-6(4).

Sudanwa Sitaram bt Chandril Sood 6-4, 6-2; Christopher Marquis bt Riki Maclachlan (Nzl) 7-5, 7-6(2); Akash Wagh bt Vinay Kaminenni 6-4, 7-6(1).

Girls’ singles (quarterfinals): Kyra Shroff bt Grace Sari Ysidora (Ina) 6-1, 7-6(4); Rishika Sunkara bt Anastasiya Prenko (Tkm) 6-2, 6-4.

Rashmi Teltumbde bt Ashurya Shrivastav 6-3, 6-0; Sweta Solanki bt Tanvi Shah 7-6(5), 6-3.

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