ITF grade-5 junior tennis: Sai Dedeepya stuns Shivani

January 29, 2015 03:12 am | Updated 04:20 am IST - INDORE:

Sai Dedeepya beat fourth-seeded Shivani Manjanna 6-3, 6-4 to set up a quarterfinal against Mahak Jain in the girls section of the ITF grade-5 junior tennis tournament at the Indore Tennis Club courts here on Wednesday.

While Rashmika Rajan cruised past seventh-seeded Angella Raman, top-seeded Akanksha Bhan sweated it out 6-4, 2-6, 7-6(5) against Aarja Chakraborty.

In the boys section, Raswant Ravi beat sixth-seeded Dhruv Sunish for the loss of six games.

The results:

Boys (pre-quarterfinals): B.R. Nikshep bt Akash Nandwal 6-1, 6-1; Raswant Ravi bt Dhruv Sunish 6-3, 6-3; Adil Kalyanpur bt Yun Ruei Wen

(Tpe) 7-6(1), 6-3; Aditya Vasisht bt Tejas Shevde 7-6(4), 6-3; Rian Pandole bt Udit Yadav 6-0, 6-0; Anirudh Chandrasekar bt Venkata Gnana Bhaskar 7-5, 6-3; Siddhant Banthia bt Kunj Kotak 2-6, 6-3, 6-2; Udayan Bhakar bt Pranash Babu 4-6, 6-1, 6-1.

Doubles (quarterfinals): B.R. Nikshep & Venkata Gnana Bhaskar bt Mayukh Rawat & Sumitpal Singh 7-5, 6-2; Siddhant Banthia & Ishaque

Eqbal bt Sivadeep Kosaraju & Kunj Kotak 6-1, 6-3; Adil Kalyanpur & Anurag Nenwani bt Parth Aggarwal & Dhir Gala 4-6, 6-4, 10-1; Dhruv

Sunish & Yash Yadav bt Anirudh Chandrasekar & Rian Pandole 6-4, 3-6, 10-7.

Girls (pre-quarterfinals): Akanksha Bhan bt Aarja Chakraborty 6-4, 2-6, 7-6(5); Shivani Swarup Ingle bt Shrishti Daas 6-2, 6-3; Madhumita

Meenakshi bt Riddhi Sharma 6-4, 6-3; En Shuo Liang (Tpe) bt Sonashe Bhatnagar 6-2, 6-2; Mahak Jain bt Huai Shu Chen (Tpe) 6-3, 6-4; Sai

Dedeepya bt Shivani Manjanna 6-3, 6-4; Rashmika Rajan bt Angella Raman 6-3, 6-3; Kaaviya Balasubramanian bt Panya Bhalla 6-3, 4-6, 7-6(4).

Doubles (quarterfinals): Shivani Manjanna & Shivani Swarup Ingle bt Akanksha Bhan & Rashmika Rajan 6-4, 2-6, 10-7; Aarja Chakraborty & Nida Shahid Kamal bt Kaaviya Balasubramanian & Madhumitha Meenakshi 6-3, 10-6, 10-3; Mahak Jain & Sai Dedeepya bt Urmi Pandya & Riddhi Sharma 6-3, 6-1; Yun-Chen Hsieh & En Shuo Liang (Tpe) bt Isha Budwal & Angella Raman 6-2, 6-2.

Ramkumar in pre-quarterfinals

Ramkumar Ramanathan got past qualifier Yan Bai of China and set up a pre-quarterfinal clash against compatriot Saketh Myneni in the $50,000 Challenger tennis tournament in Hong Kong. Ramkumar was ahead 3-6, 6-4, 4-1 against the Chinese qualifier when the latter retired.

However, the other Indian in action in singles, wild card Sanam Singh lost 6-3, 6-4 to qualifier Christopher Rungkat of Indonesia.

In doubles, Saketh and Sanam beat Fabrice Martin of France and Purav Raja 4-6, 6-3, 10-4.

Somdev Devvarman lost the doubles first round in partnership with Di Wu of China, 6-3, 3-6, 10-5 to Radu Albot of Moldova and Jordan Thompson of Australia.

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