Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Anand continued his giant run in the 12th Eldeco Cup RS Sagar Memorial Tennis Championship, knocking down second seed Mohd Azhar of West Bengal in straight sets to make it to the men’s singles semi-finals, at the SDS Tennis Complex at the BBD Badminton Academy here today.
Wild card entrant Gautam shocked Azhar 6-2, 6-3 to cause the biggest surprise of the day. Yesterday too, he had defeated seventh seed Sunny Dahiya. Sixth seed B Sai Saran Reddy of Andhra Pradesh too stole the limelight on Day Three as he outclassed third seed Chinmay Pradhan of Orissa 6-1, 6-3 to make it to the last four stage.
Another man from UP, Deepak Vishwakarma also booked a place in the semi-finals, defeating Keseiselotvo Whourie of Delhi 6-0, 6-3, where as in the last quarterfinals Delhi’s Rubal Shandilya knocked out Sasi Kumar Mukund of Tamil Nadu 6-4, 7-5.
There were two players from UP, who made it to the semi-finals in the women’s singles. Second seed Damini Sharma defeated Tanvee Bose of Delhi 7-5, 6-2 in a thrilling tie, where as third seed Sanya Madan also from UP took little pain in brushing aside Namita Bal of Maharashtra 6-4, 6-1 also in straight sets.
Top seed Nupar Kaur of Maharashtra proved too good for seventh seed and state-mate Shruti Archita 6-0, 6-2 in the third quarterfinal, where as Delhi’s Samriti Punyani notched up identical wins against state-mate Megha Sehrawat 6-4, 6-4 in the fourth quarterfinal.
RESULTS
Men’s singles (quarterfinals): Gautam Anand (UP) bt Mohammad Azhar (WB) 6-2, 6-3, Deepak Vishwakarma (UP) bt Keseiselotvo Whourie (Dli) 6-0, 6-3, Rubal Shandilya (Dli) bt Sasi Kumar Mukund (TN) 6-4, 7-5,
B Sai Saran Reddy (AP) bt Chinmay Pradhan (Ors) 6-1, 6-3
Men’s doubles (quarterfinals): Saurabh Singh (Dli)/Vilasier Khate (Nta) bt Sandeep Chaudhary/B Sai Saran Reddy (AP) 6-4, 6-4, Sahantanu Rajput (Dli)/ Rubal Shandilya (Dli) bt Gautam Anand (UP)/Siddhartha Vishwakarma (UP) 6-3, 6-2, Chinmay Pradhan (Ors)/ Santosh Mallik (Ors) bt Abhilash Srivastava (UP) 6-3, 6-1, Mohammad Azhar (WB)/Sanjib Keketta (WB) bt Mridul Kharkwal (UP)/Praduman Buddiraj (UP) 6-1, 6-3.
Women’s single (quarterfinals): Damini Sharma (UP) bt Tanvee Bose (Dli) 7-5, 6-2, Sanya Madan (UP) bt Namita Bal (Mah) 6-4, 6-1, Nupar Kaur (Mah) bt Shruti Archita (Mah) 6-0, 6-2, Samriti Punyani (Dli) bt Megha Sehrawat (Dli) 6-4, 6-4.
By Indian Sports News Network