NEW DELHI, June 3: After a shock first round win against top seeded Ashutosh Singh, Vivian Chhetri cruised into the boys-18 quarter-finals without much fuss in the 13th Satyawati summer circuit tennis tournament at the Modern School courts here on Wednesday. He took out Vipin Sirpaul 6-4, 6-1.Meanwhile, cousins Lalit Mohan Singh and Shivnandan Singh too made it to the last eight with straight set wins while fourth seeded Bhupesh Pandey, in the last match of the day, squeaked past Anuj Gupta 7-5, 6-7(3), 6-2.
Gurmehar Singh, despite lukewarm tennis, had an easy outing against Sandeep Chaudhary in the late afternoon.
In boys under-14 action, thrid seeded Arjun Uppal, Wrick Ganguly and Devannad Jha took the easy route into the quarters with only Vishal Sachdeva running into problems against Sameer Jain before coming through 8-6.
Vivian's sister Vishika made the semi-finals of the girls under-18 taking out Shilpi Chauhan 6-2, 6-2. Of the semi-finalists, Itishree Badu had a rough time, coming back after a first set loss to pack off Neha Phalper 3-6, 6-2, 6-2. However, Neha made the girls under-14 semis taking out Shilpi Goel 8-0. Itishree's sister Utkalika and Poornima Narayanan also made the girls u-18 semis. Yuvika Sharma pulled off a tie-break win against Anjali Kant for a semis berth in the under-14 alongwith Aanchal Sharma and Sonali Kapoor.
Results
Boys u-12 pre-quarter-finals: Siddharth Gulati bt Hemang Jain 7-1, Rubal bt Aditya Sethi 7-6(3), Ragan Manda bt Vaibhav Aggarwal 7-2, Gaurav Verma w/o Krishna Sachdeva, Yuvraj bt Sohil Vasudeva 7-1, Vishnu Singh bt Aditya Sood 7-4, Jitin Bishnoi bt Sanchit Sharma 7-1, Vipin Gupta bt Abhishek Jain 7-2.
Boys u-14 (PQF): Devanand Jha bt Prateek Kumar 8-3, Vishal Sachdeva bt Sameer Jain 8-6, Chatwinder Singh bt Yuvraj 8-3, Arjun Uppal bt Ritesh Sabharwal 8-4, Sohil Sharma bt Arjun Kohli 8-3, Mayank Tyagi bt Vaibhav Aggarwal 8-4, Nakul Yadav bt Neelabh Avasthi 8-2, Wrick Ganguly bt Yannick Nelord 8-0.
Boys u-18(PQF): Vivian Chhetri bt Vipin Sirpaul 6-4, 6-1, Kartik Vatsal bt Manav Modi 7-5, 6-1, Rahul Sharma bt Vivek Bhakuni 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(7), Rahul Giri bt Varun Bisht 6-1, 6-1, Shivnandan Singh bt Varun Giri 6-2, 6-1, Gurmehar Singh bt Sandeep Gadre 6-1, 6-3, Bhupesh Pandey bt Anuj Gupta 7-5, 6-7(3), 6-2.
Girls u-14 quarter-finals: Neha Phalper bt Shilpi Goel 8-0, Yuvika Sharma bt Anjali Kant 8-7 (6), Aanchal Sharma bt Astha Sharma 8-2, Sonali Kapoor bt Harsimran Kaur 8-0; Girls u-18 quarter-finals: Vishika Chhetri bt Shilpi Chauhan 6-2, 6-2, Utkalika Badu bt Yuvika Sharma 6-4, 6-1, Poornima Narayanan bt Aanchal Sharma 6-2, 6-1, Itishree Badu bt Neha Phalper 3-6, 6-2, 6-2.
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