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Arun Kumar enters quarterfinals

Chennai: Tamil Nadu’s Arun Kumar defeated Statemate Murali Padmanabhan 4-6, 6-3, 6-4, in the above 45 pre-quarterfinals of the T.S. Santhanam memorial National veterans’ clay court tennis tournament.

Other results: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Above 45: Vivek Reddy (TN) bt Yogesh Shah (Guj) 6-4, 6-1; V.T. Ranganath (Kar) bt John Selvakumar (TN) 6-1, 6-3; Sagar Engineer (Mah) bt Dhananjayalu (AP) 6-4, 6-3; K. Vijaya Kumar (Ker) bt A.S. Khan (AP) 6-4, 6-2; Madhukar Rao (TN) bt M.G. Bhaskar (Kar) 6-0, 6-2; V. Shankar (Dli) bt Poonacha (Kar) 6-3, 6-2; C. Jasper (TN) bt Puneet Gupta (U.P.) 6-2, 6-2. Above 55: R.I. Singh (Dli) bt S. Narasimha Rao (AP) 6-2, 6-2; Prem Kumar Karra (TN) bt M.D. Franklin (TN) 6-1, 6-3; S. Settu (TN) bt S. Swaminathan (TN) 6-0, 6-0; C.R. Gangadharan (Dli) bt N.C. Ashok Reddy (AP) 6-4, 6-1; M.S. Venkatachalam (TN) bt Aleem (TN) 6-4, 6-2; C.S. Rajan (Kar) bt Tapn Rao (AP) 6-4, 6-3; Bala Chandran (TN) bt Dhavel Patel (Mah) 6-3, 6-1; A.G. Krishnan (TN) bt D.S. Rao (Mah) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. Above 65: S. Parekh (Mah) bt H.D. Ballal (Kar) 6-1, 6-1; V.R. Kulkarni (Kar) bt J. Cherian (Kar) 6-2, 6-1; Ramesh Gautham (U.P.) bt Praful Gujarathi (Mah) 6-3, 6-0; Lakshmanan (TN) bt Narapa Reddy (AP) 6-0, 2-6, 6-2; Inderjit Singh (Dli) bt Bala Krishnan (TN) 6-3, 6-1; K.K. Aravind (TN) bt S. Viswanathan (TN) 6-2, 6-0; Muthu Kumaraswamy (TN) bt Dhiraj Halani (Guj) 7-5, 1-6, 7-6(4); Radha Krishna (TN) bt D.D. Rao (AP) 6-4, 6-0.

Doubles (first round): Above 45: Bharatwaj / Yogesh Shah bt Madhukar Rao / Arun Kumar 6-2, 7-6(5); Sagar Engineer / K. Vijaya Kumar bt Anand Mohan / Mukund Subramanian 4-6, 7-5, 12-10; K.V.V. Prasad / Manohar w/o Karthik Kailash/ Senthil Velan; Manmada Rao / Dhananjayalu bt A.V. Kishore / M.G. Sreedharan 7-5, 4-6, 10-6; V.S. Narasimhan / V. Shankar bt V. Rajasekar / Nirmal Kumar 6-2, 4-6, 10-4; C. Jasper / Vivek Reddy bt M. Suresh / Vishwera Reddy 6-1, 6-1; M.P. Shankar / Murali Padmanabhan bt Puneet Gupta / Rakesh Kohli 6-3, 6-1; V.T. Ranganath / A.S. Khan bt K.P. Murali / Senthil 6-2, 6-2. Above 55: Gopala Krishna / Kalyana Raman bt Deena Dayalan / Jayaram 6-3, 6-3; C.S. Rajan / S. Narasimhan bt N. Ramanathan / A. Swaminathan 6-3, 6-1; Premkumar / Tapn Rao bt R.T.R. Naidu / D.S. Rao 6-7(5), 6-1, 10-7; R.I. Singh / A.J.S. Chatwn bt Laxman Ambulkar / Deshpande 6-0, 6-0; Bhaskar Reddy / Prabhakar bt S.P. Dalvi / Sanyasi Rao 6-2, 6-4; Rajasekar / A.G. Krishnan bt Rajendran / P.R. Raju Madan 6-3, 0-6, 10-6; S. Settu / Gangadharan bt Venkatachalam / Mohan Singh 5-7, 6-3, 13-11. Above 65: Parekh / Muthu Kumara Swamy bt Avinash N. Joshi / Deeraj Halani 6-0, 6-2; K.K. Aravind / C. Radha Krishna bt Nani Rao / C.H. Naidu 6-1, 6-3; Gautham / Kulkarni bt Cherian / P. Venugopal 6-2, 6-1; H.D. Ballal / Sankameshwar bt G.S.N. Murthy / Dayanandan 6-2, 6-3; Somayajulu / Rama Krishna Rao w/o T.S. Bala Krishnan / Raja Reddy; D.D. Rao / Praful Gujarathi bt Keerthi Kumar / Mohd. Ali 7-6(5), 6-3; Kesava Perumal / Lakshmanan / bt P.V. Swamy / S.N. Subramanian 6-3, 6-0. — Sports Reporter

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