Gohad on upset spree , Five more upsets at HCL Tennis Junior Tour and Masters

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Gohad on upset spree , Five more upsets at HCL Tennis Junior Tour and Masters

Pune, Sept 28:    Pune Boy Arjun Goad continued his upset spree ousting eighth seeded Karim Khan in the Boys under 14 event and enter the semifinals even as five more seeds fell at the HCL Tennis Junior Tour and Masters championship series (CS 7) tournaments being organized by HCL in association with AITA and MSLTA and being played at the Deccan Gymkhana tennis courts.

Gohad also made it to the semifinals in the Boys under 12 event.

In the other upsets of the day  in the Boys under 14 event sixth seeded Anmay Devaraj upset third seeded Vardhan Karkal  6-0, 6-3 , while fifth seeded Pune boy  Yashraj Dalvi upset fourth seeded Akarsh Gaonkar 7-5, 7-6(3) to enter the semifinals

In the girls section eighth seeded Mekhala Manna of AP scored an easy 6-3, 6-0 win to put out local  girl and fourth seed Radhika Mahajan in the Under 12 quarterfinals , In another upset in the Girls under 14 event Paavani Pathak toppled the apple-cart of second seed Pune girl  Hrudaya Shah 6-3, 6-2 to make the last four grade . 

 

Following are the results: Singles: quarterfinal round:

Boys under 12:

Akarsh Gaonkar(1) bt Shivam Kadam(5) 6-0, 6-2;

Arjun Gohad(3) bt Arjun Premkumar 6-2, 6-3;

Niranjan Aaron(6) bt Manas Dhamne 6-2, 6-2;

Anmay Devaraj(2) bt Nirav Shetty 6-0, 6-3;

 

Girls under 12:

Rutuja Chaphalkar(1) bt Rijul Sidnale(7) 6-1, 6-0;

Vijay Karthika bt Siddhi Khandelwal 6-2, 6-2;

Mekhala Manna(8) bt Radhika Mahajan(4) 6-3, 6-0;

Vaishnavi Adkar bt Kashish Bote(6) 6-0, 6-1;

 

Boys under 14:

Arjun Gohad bt Karim Khan(8) 6-2, 6-2;

Yashraj Dalvi(5) bt Akarsh Gaonkar(4)7-5, 7-6(3);

Anmay Devaraj(6) bt Vardhan Karkal(3) 6-0, 6-3;

Shantanu Powar bt Faiz Nyasam 6-4, 7-6(3);

 

Girls under 14:

Swarda Parab(1) bt Kaavya Palani(5) 6-1, 6-3;

Sneha Ranade(4) bt Kashish Bote 6-4, 6-4;

P. Sruthi(3) bt Mekhala Manna 7-6(4), 6-2;

Paavani Pathak bt Hrudaya Shah(2)6-3, 6-2. 

 

Boys Doubles: Quarterfinal round:

Atharva Amrule / Yashraj Dalvi bt Aaryan Qureshi / Anup Bangargi 5-3, 1-4, 4-2;

Karim Khan / Faiz Nyasam bt Sandesh Kurale / Sahil tambat 4-2, 5-4(4);

Shantanu Powar / Arjun Gohad bt Pratham bhujbal / Vardhan Karkal 4-1, 4-1;

Sanmay Gandhi / Indrajeet Borade bt Anargha Ganguly / Shivam Kadam 5-4(6), 4-1;

 

Girls Doubles: Quarterfinal Round:

Siya Baur / Sidhi Khandelwal bt Hrudaya Shah / Sneha Ranade 5-3, 3-5, 4-0;

Vaishnavi Adkar / Mehkhala Manna bt Khushi Sharma / Kalluri Lalitya 4-0, 5-4(4).

 

  

 

Photos Rutuja Chapalkar 

P Shruthi