Digvijay Mehta saves the day for Chandigarh

It was a bad day for Chandigarh players in the singles pre-qauters encounters barring Digvijay Singh Mehta of Chandigarh who pulled off an impressive win over Harpreet Singh Sidhu...

It was a bad day for Chandigarh players in the singles pre-qauters encounters barring Digvijay Singh Mehta of Chandigarh who pulled off an impressive win over Harpreet Singh Sidhu (Pb)6-1,6-3 to sail into the quaterfinals in the ongoing AITA Men’s and Women’s tournament being held at Harvest Tennis Academy in Jassowal near Ludhiana.Digvijay Singh Naruka of Chandigarh was sent packing by Kshitij Kamal of Delhi by 6-2,6-3. Meanwhile,in the women’s section,Bhavika Wadhwan,Ravnoor Kaur and Prabhamrit Kaur,all had to taste defeat. In other matches of the wonmen’s singles category in the pre-quaters,Bhuvana Kalva,a trainee of HTA,upset the third seed Nehel Sahni of Delhi 6-3,6-3 to surge ahead,while HTA trainee Rajbir Kaur beat the sixth seed Ravnoor Kaur of Chandigarh 7-6(7-4),6-3 in a tough fought battle. In the mens event,fifth seed Prosonjit Paul lost to qualifier Suraj Beniwal 6-1,6-2.

Results:
(Mens singles Pre-quarter finals): Gurinder Singh (Pb)(1) bt Sunny Dahiya(Har)(Q) 2-6,6-0,6-3; Saurabh Dilip Patil (Mah)(6) bt Jajbir Singh(Pb)(WC) 6-0,6-0; Vishwesh Sinha (Mah)(WC) bt Rithvik Anand (TN)(Q)6-3,1-6,6-3; G.P. Prajnesh (TN)(WC) bt Harry Jindal (Pb)(LL) 6-0,6-0;Suraj Beniwal (Har)(Q) bt Prosonjit Paul (Jha)(5) 6-1,6-2; Arvind VishnuBestha (AP)(3)(Q) bt Maninder Singh (Har) 6-4,6-1; Kshitij Kamal (Dli)(8)bt Digvijay Singh Naruka(Chd)(LL) 6-2,6-3; Digvijay Singh Mehta (Chd)(LL) bt Harpreet Singh Sidhu (Pb)(WC) 6-1,6-3.

(Womens singles pre-quarter finals): Shweta C. Rana (HP)(1) bt SuryaTejaswini (AP) 6-2,6-0; Gundeep Kaur (Pb)(7) bt A. Lubna Mariam (TN)6-2,6-2; Natasha Palha (Goa)(4) bt Saadgi Rajani (Guj) 6-2,6-0; SharmadaBalu (Kar)(WC) bt Shruti Archita (Mah)(5) 6-1,6-0; Rajbir Kaur (Pb)(WC)bt Ravnoor Kaur (Chd)(6) 7-6(7-4),6-3; Bhuvana Kalva (AP)(WC) bt NehelSahni (Dli)(3) 6-3,6-3; Ambika Pande (TN) bt Prabhamrit Kaur (Chd)(8)6-0,6-0; Nupur Kaul (Mah)(2) bt Bhavika Wadhwan (Chd).6-0,6-1.(Mens doubles qualifying round): Hardeep Singh Honey (Pb)/Jaspinder Singh(Pb) bt Arjun Bhalla (Mah)/Chinmay Madhu (Kar) 9-1; Bhavtaran PreetSingh (Chd)/Harpreet Singh Sighu (Pb) bt Sunil Dutt Kaushik (Har)/Amardeep Singh Jaglan (Har) 9-6.

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(Mens doubles pre-quarter finals): Kamal Surana (Kar)/Veera VasanthVenkatesh (Kar)(1) bt Hardeep Singh Honey (Pb)/Jaspinder Singh (Pb)(Q)6-3,6-2; Sagar Manjanna (Kar)/Rashein Samuel (Kar) bt Jajbir Singh (Pb)Hardeep Singh Sandhu (Pb)(WC) 6-4,4-6,11-9; Prosonjit Paul (Jha)/Deepinder Singh Bains (Pb)(4) bt Ravinder Singh (Pb)/Jagdeep Singh (Pb)(WC) 6-2,6-1; Arvind Vishnu Bestha (AP)/V. Pranav (Kar) bt Bhavtaran Preet Singh (Chd)/Harpreet Singh Sidhu (Pb) (Q) 6-3,6-4; Digvijay Singh Naruka (Chd)/Rishabh Dev (Pb) bt Arjun Singh (Dli)/Mandeep Kumar (Chd)6-4,6-2; Surya Pavan (AP)/Jatin Dahiya (Har)(3) bt Murtaza Lohani (TN) &Rithvik Anand (TN) 6-7(1-7),6-3,10-2; Vishwesh Sinha (Mah)/K. Pradeepddy (AP) bt Vishwanath Savadi (Kar)/P. Nitesh (Kar) 7-6(7-4),6-2; AjayYadav (Har) & Gurinder Singh (Pb) bt Saurabh Dilip Patil (Mah) & BharatBhardwaj (Har) (2) 6-4,6-3.

(Womens doubles quater finals): Nupur Kaul (Mah)/Saadgi Rajani (Guj)(1)bt Ambika Pande (TN)/Bhavika Wadhwan (Chd) 6-2,6-1; Natasha Palha (Goa)/Bhuvana Kalva (AP) bt Shruti Archita (Mah) / Uddur Manjunath Shalaka(Kar) 6-2,6-2; Shweta C. Rana (HP)/ Sharmada Balu (Kar) bt Shilpa Naruka(Chd) /Prabhamrit Kaur (Chd) 6-2,6-1; Rimpledeep Kaur (Pb)/ Jaspreet Kaur(Pb) bt Gundeep Kaur (Pb)/Rajbir Kaur (Pb)(2) 3-6,7-6(8-6),12-10.

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