Vikram sends Kohli packing

NEW DELHI, June 22: It was yet another day of surprises when a bunch of seeded players fell like nine pins in the Adidas Junior Masters T...

NEW DELHI, June 22: It was yet another day of surprises when a bunch of seeded players fell like nine pins in the Adidas Junior Masters Tennis Tournament being played here at DLTA grounds.

In the boys under-14 section, top seed Tushar Liberhan of Chandigarh and second seed R Arun Prakash entered the quarter-finals, but the third seed Krishna Tanna was sent crashing out by Rishi Behl 6-3, 6-4.

Tushar Liberhan outclassed Divij Sharan of Delhi 6-0, 6-1 while R Arun Prakash eliminated Rupesh Roy 6-1, 6-1 of West Bengal in the pre-quarterfinal round today.

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Apart from Krishna Tanna, another seed, the fifth-seeded Saurabh Kohli, also failed to advance, succumbing 2-6, 6-2, 6-1 to the unseeded Vikram Aditya Menon.

In the girls under-14 section, top seed Sania Mirza breezed past Ormila Ram 6-0, 6-2. Second seed Sandra Shashidharan also entered the quarter-finals getting the better of unseeded M Kamini 6-3, 7-5.

As for the upsets in this section, the fifth-seeded Deepa Chakravarthy of Gujrat was eliminated by unseeded Sanaa Bhambri 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 while seventh seed Krushmi Chadda went down K Bhat 7-5, 6-3. The eighth-seeded Nivedita Venkatesh was also sent packing by Martuha Devi 6-1, 6-1.
Results (under-14)
Boys: Tushar Liberhan(1) bt Divij Sharan 6-0, 6-1; P Vikash bt Tushar Garg 6-4, 6-4; V Vignesh(4) bt Vikrant Sane 6-2, 3-6, 6-3; Karan Rastogi(7) bt Jay Mehta 6-4, 3-0(Retd.); V A Mennon bt Saurabh Kohli(5) 2-6, 6-2, 6-1; Rishi Behl bt Krishna Tanna(3) 6-3, 6-1; Wrik Ganguly(6) bt Anshuman Dutta 6-1, 6-1; R Arun Prakash(2) bt Rupesh Roy 6-1, 6-1.
Girls: Sania Mirza(1) bt Ormila Ram 6-0, 6-2; Marutha Devi bt Nevedita Venkatesh(8) 6-1, 6-1; Lata Asudhani(3) bt Parul Goswami 6-1, 6-1; Kartiki Bhat bt Krushmi Chadda(7) 7-5, 6-3; Sanaa Bhambri bt Deepa Chakravarty(5) 4-6, 6-2, 6-3; Priyanka Parikh(4) bt Sharnya Pattabi 6-2, 6-4; Ankita Bhambri(6) bt Neha Singh 6-4, 6-2; M Kamini bt Sandra Shashidharan(2) 6-3, 7-5.