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Shaikh ousts top seed Samantha in under-14 junior tennis

Hindustan Times, Pune | By
May 24, 2019 05:04 PM IST

The day continued to roll down with seeded players getting ousted by unseeded player. In the second match, Simran Chhetri played with a lot of vigour to outclass fourth-seeded Shruti Nananjkar 6-5 (7-5) to ensure a place in the semi-final.

Mumbai girl Aleena Shaikh defeated top-seeded Koushikee Samantha of Bengaluru 6-4 to enter the semi-final of the under-14 category during the fourth leg of PMDTA-KPIT junior champion series tennis tournament at the Metrocity Sports & Health Club, Kothrud on Thursday.

Unseeded player for the tournament Shaikh controlled her game nicely in the crunch moments of the match to create the biggest upset of the day.

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The day continued to roll down with seeded players getting ousted by unseeded player. In the second match, Simran Chhetri played with a lot of vigour to outclass fourth-seeded Shruti Nananjkar 6-5 (7-5) to ensure a place in the semi-final.

Seventh-seeded Mayukhi Sengupta had an easy day on the court as she ousted Mehak Kapoor 6-0 while second-seeded Sanchita Nagarkar also got into last four with a 6-2 win over fifth-seeded Samrudhi Bhosale.

In the under-12 category, top-seeded Kavya Deshmukh outplayed Avipsha Dehury 6-0 while Shravani Deshmukh overcomes Gayatri Patil 6-0 to ensure a place in the semi-final.

Later in the day, third-seeded Durga Birajdar had to battle it out hard to overcome sixth-seeded Sahana Kamalakannan 6-5 (7-3).

Among boys under-14 category pre-quarterfinal, top-seeded Arjun Abhyankar sailed ahead into the tournament with a 6-1 victory over Aarya Velankar. For seventh-seeded Ananmay Upadhye it turned out to be an easy contest as he defeated 11th seeded Adnan Lokhandwala 6-1.

Fourth-seeded Sarth Bansode also entered quarterfinal defeating Keyur Mhetre 6-0.

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