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Friday, March 4, 2011

Rukhiyar, Dass upset top seeds at CityBlog Open Tennis

Pune , March 2: Harshal Rukhiyar of Mumbai and Shrusti Dass of Pune upset top seeded players in their events at the first ever CityBlog Open Junior National Ranking and state ranking tennis tournament organized jointly by Deccan Gymkhana and the Om Dalvi Memorial Foundation at the Deccan Gymkhana tennis courts




In the quarterfinals of the Boys under 10 event fifth seeded Harshal Rukhiyar upset Mumbai mate and top seeded Vikrant Mehta 7-6(3) , while Pune girl Shrusti Dass toppled top seeded Pune lass Shirlee Deshmukh 7-6, (8-6), 6-3 in the Girls under 16 event.



Deshmukh who is seeded top in the Girls under 14 event had to go through a harrowing time before overcoming Vaibhavi Kachwa 7-6, (9-7), 3-6, 6-2.



Eighth seeded Aditya Iyer kept up his winning run in the event upsetting sixth seededShubankar Hardikars 8-0 to enter the Boys under 12 semifinal



Pune girls Neha Ghare outplayed Sharanya Gaware 7- 0 to set up a title clash with another city girls Dnyanada Patil in the Girls under 10 event . Patil put out Akansha Niture 7-2 in the semifinals today;







Following are the results: Quarter Final Round:





Boys under 10: Harshal Rukhiyar (S.5) bt (S.1)Vikrant Mehta 7-6(3); Sidhartha Sable bt Yashraj Dalvi 7-4; Akash Bhujang bt Zeshan Kazi 7-4; Daren Periera bt Prasanna Bagde 7-3;



Girls under 10:(Semi final round):

Neha Ghare bt Sharanya Gaware 7-0; Dnyanada Patil bt Akansha Niture 7-2;



Boys under 12: Ayush Prabhune bt Aditya Kochre 8-0; Piyush Salelkar bt Nikhil Pradhan 8-0; S.8 Aditya Iyer bt Shubankar Hardikar (S.6) 8_0 ; Sidhant Bhantia bt Pradyuman Nanekar 8-1;



Girls under 12: Dnyanda Patil bt Aakansha Niture 7-4;Omkar Dakshita bt Nisha Waghmare 7-5; Shivani Ingale bt Rutuja Jadhav 7-0; Malika Karmarkar bt Neha Mokashi 7-4;



National Ranking: Boys under 14 :

Sahil Gaware bt Yash Sabnis 6-1, 6-0; Mihir Damle bt Shubam Kale 6-3, 7-5; Ved Bhandare bt Kaustubh Devkar 6-3, 7-5; Yash Lele bt Atharva Iyer 6-2, 6-3;



Girls under 14:

Shirlee Deshmukh bt Vaibhavi Kachwa 7-6, (9-7), 3-6, 6-2; Kanishka Chawla bt Vaibhavi Deshmukh 6-3, 6-2; Mahima Omkar bt Amruta Zadge 6-0, 6-4; Apurva Barate bt Srushti Das 6-3, 6-1;



Boys under 16: Jayesh Pungaliya bt Ahan Tagare 6-2, 6-1; Sahil Gaware bt Ved Bhandare 6-3, 6-3; Dhruva Vyas bt Aditya Gokhale 6-3, 6-1; Yash Agarwal bt Dharnidhar Mishra 6-3, 3-6, 6-1;



Girls Under 16: Shrushti Das bt S.1 Shirlee Deshmukh 7-6, (8-6), 6-3; Kanishka chawla bt Kiran Solankar 6-1, 6-2; Abhilasha Vishwanath bt Amruta Zhadge 6-2, 6-3; Apurva Barate bt Swara Kulkarni 6-1, 6-2.





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