Gohad topples top seed, six other seeds fall by wayside at HCL Tennis Junior Tour and Masters

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Gohad topples top seed, six other seeds fall by wayside at HCL Tennis Junior Tour and Masters

Pune, Sept 27: Local Pune Boy Arjun Gohad created the biggest upset of the day outplaying top seeded Dhruv Suresh of Karnataka 6-0, 6-2 to move into prequarter finals of the Boys under 14 event at the West zone leg of HCL Tennis Junior Tour and Masters championship series (CS 7) tournaments being organized by Mahesh Bhupathi Tennis Academies (MBTA) in association with AITA and MSLTA at the Deccan Gymkhana tennis courts

In the same event Shantanu Powar upset second seeded Sanmay Gandhi 6-3, 6-3 to make it to the round of sixteen.

In other upsets of the day another Pune boy Manas Dhamne accounted for fourth L.N.Baalaji of Tamil Nadu 6-1, 7-5 in the Boys under 12 event.

In the girls under 12 event three upsets were recorded local girl Vaishnavi Adkar upset second seeded Siya Baur of Mumbai 6-0, 6-1, TN girl Vijay Karthika upset third seeded Pune lasse Khushi Sharma 6-4, 6-3 , while Siddhi Khandelwal toppled fifth seeded Pari Singh of Pune 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 in a close match.

In the lone upset in the girls under 14 event unseeded Mekhala Manna scored a upset win over eighth seeded Rijul Sidnale 6-0, 6-1

Following are the results: Pre-quarterfinal round:

Boys under 12:

Akarsh Gaonkar(1) bt Agriya Yadav 6-1, 6-1;

Shivam Kadam(5) bt Sree Kanugovi 6-3, 7-6(5);

Arjun Gohad(3) bt Sarthak Sharma 6-2, 6-1;

Niranjan Aaron(6) bt Sahil Tambat 6-3, 7-5;

Manas Dhamne bt L.N.Baalaji(4) 6-1, 7-5;

Nirav Shetty bt Dhananjay Athreya 6-1, 6-1;

Anmay Devaraj(2) bt Ishan Godhbharle 6-1, 6-0;

 

Girls under 12:

Rutuja Chaphalkar(1) bt Bhumika Tripathi 6-0, 6-1;

Rijul Sidnale(7) bt Arun Kumar Lakshmi 6-1, 6-1;

Vijay Karthika bt Khushi Sharma(3) 6-4, 6-3;

Siddhi Khandelwal bt Pari Singh(5) 7-5, 4-6, 6-2;

Mekhala Manna(8) bt Ishita Jadhav 6-0, 6-0;

Radhika Mahajan(4) bt Vaibhavi Saxena 6-1, 6-2;

Kashish Bote(6) bt Pari Chavan 6-0, 6-0;

Vaishnavi Adkar bt Siya Baur(2) 6-0, 6-1;

 

Boys under 14:

Arjun Gohad bt Dhruv Sunesh(1) 6-0, 6-2;

Karim Khan(8) bt Atharva Amrule 6-4, 6-0;

Akarsh Gaonkar(4) bt Pratham Bhujbal 6-3, 4-6, 7-5;

Yashraj Dalvi(5) bt Niranjan Aaron 6-3, 6-2;

Anmay Devaraj(6) bt Rohan Phule 6-1, 7-5;

Vardhan Karkal(3) bt Ayush Hindlekar 6-1, 6-4;

Shantanu Powar bt Sanmay Gandhi(2) 6-3, 6-3;

Girls under 14:

Swarda Parab(1) bt Mrunal Kuralekar 6-2, 6-1;

Kaavya Palani(5) bt Aashna Lunkad 6-2, 6-3;

Sneha Ranade(4) bt Kamaya Parab 6-2, 6-2;

Kashish Bote bt Prabha Arun kumar 6-1, 6-4;

Mekhala Manna bt Rijul Sidnale(8) 6-0, 6-1;

P. Sruthi(3) bt Ria Washimkar 6-0, 6-2;

Paavani Pathak bt Sayali Jadhav 4-6, 6-3, 6-4;

Hrudaya Shah(2) bt Bhumika Tripathi 6-0, 7-5. 

 

  

Photos Swarada Parab and Sneha Ranade