Mohd Fariz upsets top seed Sumeet, enters quarter finals

Chennai, Aug 23: Lower seeded Mohd Fariz (TN) stole the limelight as he upset top seed Sumeet Prakash Gupta (UP) 7-6 (2) 6-7,(6) 6-3 today to storm into the quarter finals in the boys singles under 18 years of the Adidas MCC National Junior Tennis Championship being held here.

The other results are Sushant Nambiar (AP) beat Avineet Gill(MP) 6-2, 6-0 while third seeded Allan Gomes (Mah) defeated unseeded V M Gugan Verma (TN) 6-4, 6-2.

Tariq Jacob (TN) beat compatriot Vishnu Rajam 5-7, 6-0, 6-4 while Christopher Marquis (Mah) defeated Priyanic Gangadharan (TN) 6-2, 6-1.

Akash Waugh (Mah) beat V Sudarshan (TN) 7-6(3) 6-2 while Sudanwa Sitaram (TN) won over Venkat Iyer (Dli) 6-4, 6-2. In the other match Abhijit Tiwari (CG) beat Tejas Chakulkar (Mah) 6-0, 4-6, 6-2.

The following are the results of the other pre-quarter matches are as follows Boys Singles Under 14: Chetan Pandit (AP) bt Sai Teja Palagudu (AP) 6-3, 4-6,6-4 N Sai Karthik (AP) bt Viswesh Sinha (Mah) 6-1, 6-2 Samip Mehta (Guj) bt Q Yuvraj Kumar (Dli) 6-2, 6-1 Sumeet Shinde (Mah) bt Karan Avlani (Mah) 6-3, 6-3 Vaidik Munshaw (Guj) bt R Ramkumar 6-4, 6-3 Irfan Hussain ( TN) bt R Vigneshwaran(TN) 6-3, 6-2 S V Abhishek (AP) bt Surya Pawan (AP) 6-4, 6-3 Mohit Mayur (TN) bt Rishab Dev Raman(TN) 5-7, 6-2, 6-3.

Girls Singles Under 18 yrs (Pre Quarters) Bhavani Thirumurthy (TN) bt P V Raja Rajeshwari(AP) 6-0, 6-3 Unnati Purushotham (AP) bt Q T Nilaya (AP) 6-2, 6-4 Tara Iyer (Dli) bt Grace Hannah(TN) 6-0, 6-1 Sweta Kumar Solanki (Dli) bt Wc Shalini Shahoo (dli) 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 Aarthi Duraiswamy (TN) bt Q Divya Rao 6-0, 6-0 Aishwarya Srivatsav (Mah) bt Anusree Thamanne(Kar) 6-0, 6-2 Q Rashmi Teltumbde (Mah) bt Archana V 6-2, 6-2 Kelsey Sundaram (TN) bt Kyra Shroff (kar) 6-4, 6-3 Girls Singles Under 14 yrs (Pre Quarters) Divijam(AP) bt Nupur Kaul (Mah) 6-4, 6-3 Rashmi Anand Teltumbde (Mah) bt Ankita Raina (Guj) 6-4, 6-0 Aishwarya Srivatsav (Mah) bt Natalia Khaneijo(mah) 6-1, 6-3 Kyra Shroff bt Arushi Sharma (AP) 6-1, 6-2 Aishwarya Agarwal (MP) bt Bhavana Sureshj (AP) 6-0, 6-3 Rishika Sunkara (Dli) bt D Yamini Redddy (Kar) 6-1, 6-1 Archana V (AP) bt Divya Rao Maduku (AP) 6-7(4) 6-2, 6-2 Prerna Bhambri (Dli) bt Novo Patel (Guj) 6-1, 7-6(2)

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