Mumbai, Nov 24: Second seed Mohammed Yaseer Arafat-Anjan Viplav and fourth seeded CD Ajay-P Vishal were upset in the doubles opening round of the JS Pereira Memorial tennis tournament, co-sponsored by Kotak Mahindra Mutual Fund, at the Bandra Gymkhana today.Arafat-Viplav went down to Tamil Nadu's Vinod Sridhar-S Ganesh 5-7, 1-6 while Mayur Vasant-Chetan Desai conquered Ajay-Vishal 4-6, 6-2, 7-5.
Desai-Vasant, after forcing the decider, lost a 5-0 advantage in the final set. Ajay-Vishal levelled scores before the veterans booked their quarter-final spot.
Top seed Asif Ismail-Kedar Shah cruised to the last eight but third-seeded pair of Avinash Arun-R Narendran had to battle hard for their ticket. Arun-Narendran beat Kamlesh Shukla-Abhijit Muzumdar 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (7-5).
Results
Men's doubles (first round): Asif Ismail/Kedar Shah (Mah) bt Vimal Kirthi/Rahul Gandhi (TN) 6-0, 6-2; Abhishek Tamhane/Kunal Bhojwani (Mah) bt Nilesh Saldanha/Brendon D'Souza (Mah) 6-4, 6-1; Ishraque Gulrays/Imran Yusuf (Mah) bt Girish Mishra/P Sharma (UP) 6-1, 6-3; Mayur Vasant/Chetan Desai (Mah) bt CD Ajay (Kar)/P Vishal (AP) 4-6, 6-2, 7-5; Sanzaruz Zaman (WB)/Benjamin Xavier (Mah) bt Intikab Ali (Mah)/Vivek Satyajit (Del) 6-2, 7-5; R Narendran/Avinash Arun (TN) bt Kamlesh Shukla (UP)/Abhijit Muzumdar (Mah) 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (7-5); Kedar Tembe/Sangram Champekar (Mah) bt Jaidev Punjabi/Siddharth Sharma (Kar) 7-5, 6-1; Vinod Sridhar/S Ganesh (TN) bt Mohammed Yaseer Arafat/Anjan Viplav (AP) 7-5, 6-1.
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