Defender Sane furthers dream run

PUNE, May 26: Top seed Vikrant Sane, ranked number one in the Nationals under-14 years age group, went a step further in his dream run to...

PUNE, May 26: Top seed Vikrant Sane, ranked number one in the Nationals under-14 years age group, went a step further in his dream run towards a defending his U-16 and U-14 title at the Adidas Junior National Ranking Tennis tournament after he brought down his opponents with ease to reach the last four stage.

With an early sun shining at the PYC Gymkhana courts, the Pune lad subdued Mumbai’s Sujay Mahadevan 6-1, 6-2 in the under-14 quarter-finals and then followed it up with an equally comfortable 6-4, 6-2 win against Shashank Kulkarni in the U-16 quarters.

The V K Patil school student, who had won both the titles at the first leg in Mumbai last week, now plays seventh seed Rishi Behl in the U-14 semis and second seed Vivek Jhaveri in U-16 semis tomorrow. The other semi-finalists in the U-14 section are: No. 2 Saurabh Kohli and No. 4 Krishna Tanna, while No. 1 Rohan Gajjar and No. 4 Gavryl Fernandis make up the U-16 semi-final line up. Krishna Tanna was given a run for his money before he stopped the giant killing spree of unseeded Pune boy Arjun Vaidya today. The tall Mumbai lad Tanna took the first set without dropping a point, but was tasted to his grits in the second before winning it 7-5.

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Results (Prefix numbers denote seedings)
Boys
U-14 (Quarter-finals): 1. Vikrant Sane (Mah) bt 5. Sujay Mahadevan (Mah) 6-1, 6-2; 7. Rishi Behl (Mah) bt 3. Karan Rastogi (Mah) 6-2, 0-6, 6-0; 4. Krishna Tanna (Mah) bt Arjun Vaidya (Mah) 6-0, 7-5; 2. Saurabh Kohli (Mah) bt Keshvan Narsimhan (Mah) 6-2, 6-2.
U-16 (Quarter-finals): 1. Rohan Gajjar (Mah) bt Ankit Doshi (Mah) 6-1, 6-0; 4. Gavryl Fernandis (Mah) bt 7. Saurabh Kohli 6-4, 6-2; 2. Vivek Javeri (Mah) bt Anirudha Kulkarni (Mah) 6-0, 6-2; 3. Vikrant Sane (Mah) bt Shashank Kulkarni (Mah) 6-4, 6-2.
Girls
U-14 (Quarter-finals): 1. Isha Lakhani (Mah) bt 8. Reddhima Raina (Mah) 6-2, 6-3; 4. Krushmi Chheda (Mah) bt 5. Shruddha Lodha (Mah) 7-5, 7-6 (7-5); 3. Deepa Chakravarthy (WB) bt 6. Ronak Shah (Mah) 6-3, 2-6, 6-3; 2. Lata Asudani (Mah) bt 8. Ridhima Raina (Mah) 6-0, 6-2.
U-16 (Pre-Quarter-finals): 1. Megha Vakharia (Mah) bt Reddhima Raina (Mah) 6-3, 6-1; 7. Medhini Sharma (Mah) bt Lizenka Perrira (Mah) 6-0, 6-0; 8. Noopur Desai (Mah) bt Krushmi Chheda (Mah) 6-3, 6-2; 5. Lata Asudani (Mah) bt Vrushali Gawankar (Mah) 6-3, 6-1; 2. Isha Lakhani (Mah) bt Priyanka Metha (Mah) 6-2, 6-3; Deepa Chakravarty (WB) bt Kalpita Raje (Mah) 6-4, 6-2; 4. Ragini Vimal (WB) bt Uttara Rama Rao (Mah) 6-1, 6-1; 3. Redhina Parekh (WB) bt Priya Pachkawde (Mah) 6-1, 6-1.

State Ranking
Boys
U-18 (Pre-Q/F): Kedar Shah (Pune) bt Rushang Patel (Mum) 9-0; Aniket Joglekar (Pune) bt Jyotindra Kanekar (Pune) 9-5; Abhishek Tamhane (Pune) bt Rohan Chaugule (Kolhapur) 9-2; Varun Maggikar (Pune) bt Sarang Devi (Pune) 9-4; Vivek Jhaveri (Mum) bt Mehul Kamdar (Mum) 9-6; Farhad Ganjawala (Mum) bt Jimmy Timbadia (Khamgao) 9-6; Joshua Fonseca bt Aashay Deshmukh (Mum) 9-5; Shashank Kulkarni (Pune) bt Rewant Dutta (Mum) 9-4.

Girls
U-18 (Q/F): Radhika Tulpule bt Vrushali Gawhankar 9-3; Radhika Mandke bt Kalpita Raje 9-0; Redhina Parekh bt Noopur Desai 9-5; Sonal Phadke bt Ashlesha Lokhande 9-3.

Boys U-12 (Q/F): Keshvan Narsimhan (Mum) bt Sumit Saroskar (Pune) 9-0; Anmol Arora (Mum) bt Agnel Gladwin (Mum) 9-8 (7-2); Hrishikesh Pataskar (Pune) bt Arnav Jain (Mum) 9-4; Bhavik Selorka (Mum) bt Bhushan Bhopardikar (Pune) 9-0.

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Girls U-12 (Q/F): Kartiki Bhat (Pune) bt Smita Paranjpe (Pune) 8-0; Moneeza Siddique (Mum) bt Kanisha Mehta (Mum) 8-5; Divya Gopal (Mum) bt Sajiri Deshpande (Pune) 8-1; Sagarika Phadke (Mum) bt Padmini Kulkarni (Pune) 8-5.

Boys U-10 (Q/F): Arnav Jain (Mum) bt Anuj Arora (Mum) 8-1; Akash Gujrathi (Pune) bt Devendra Das (Mum) 8-2; Jairaj Desai (Mum) bt Swapnil Akut (Mum) 8-4; Tejas Chaukulkar (Pune) bt Akash Wagh (Pune) 8-1.