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Results: DSCL Hardcourt Nationals, 2-10/Oct/98, New Delhi
Men's Draw Boys Under-18 Women's Draw Girls Under-18
(Updated after the Saturday Oct 10th finals .. Courtesy: press friends!)
Men's Draw
Singles Round 1 1-Vasudeva Reddy (AP) bt Q-Vijayendra Laad (Mah) 6-2, 6-4 Q-Jagdish Tanwar (Raj) bt Anup Minda (Mah) 6-2, 2-0 (conc.) Shailesh Dhoble (Mah) bt V. N. Prem Prakash 6-7(3), 6-2, 6-2 8-Vijay Kannan (Del) bt Kedar Shah (Mah) 7-6(5), 6-1 4-Anand Radhakrishnan (TN) bt Ashutosh Singh (Del) 6-1, 6-2 Ravi Kiran Bhat (Kar) bt Q-Amanjeet Singh Gill (Chand) 6-3, 6-4 Q-Mustafa Ghouse (Mah) bt Chandrashekar Mohanty (Del) 6-2, 6-0 5-Vishal Uppal (Del) bt Q-Sansaruz Zaman (WB) 6-0, 6-2 6-Asif Ismail (Mah) bt S. K. Shivshankar (Kar) 6-1, 6-7(2), 6-0 Saurav Panja (WB) bt Kamala Kannan (TN) 6-4, 6-3 Q-Rohan Saikia (Mah) bt C. V. Anand (TN) 6-2, 6-3 3-Harsh Mankad (Mah) bt Rajkumar Gopalan (TN) 2-6, 6-3, 2-0 (conc.) 7-Vinod Sridhar (TN) bt Q-Umang Chadda (Guj) 6-2, 6-3 Rishi Sridhar (TN) bt S. Narendra Nath (Mah) 7-5, 1-6, 6-2 Q-Rohan Bopanna (Mah) bt S. Praveen Kumar (Kar) 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-3 2-Nitin Kirtane (Mah) bt Rajesh Vohra (Punj) 6-3, 6-1 Singles Round 2 Q-Jagdish Tanwar (Raj) bt 1-Vasudeva Reddy (AP) 3-6, 7-6(2), 6-2 8-Vijay Kannan (Del) bt Shailesh Dhoble (Mah) 6-2, 6-2 Ravi Kiran Bhat (Kar) bt 4-Anand Radhakrishnan (TN) 6-7(2), 7-5, 6-2 5-Vishal Uppal (Del) bt Q-Mustafa Ghouse (Mah) 6-3, 6-2 6-Asif Ismail (Mah) bt Saurav Panja (WB) 6-4, 6-1 3-Harsh Mankad (Mah) bt Q-Rohan Saikia (Mah) 6-0, 6-1 7-Vinod Sridhar (TN) bt Rishi Sridhar (TN) 6-3, 6-2 2-Nitin Kirtane (Mah) bt Q-Rohan Bopanna (Mah) 6-1, 6-3 Singles QF 8-Vijay Kannan (Del) bt Q-Jagdish Tanwar (Raj) 6-3, 6-4 5-Vishal Uppal (Del) bt Ravi Kiran Bhat (Kar) 6-1, 6-1 6-Asif Ismail (Mah) bt 3-Harsh Mankad (Mah) 2-6, 7-5, 6-1 2-Nitin Kirtane (Mah) bt 7-Vinod Sridhar (TN) 6-2, 6-1 Singles SF 8-Vijay Kannan (Del) bt 5-Vishal Uppal (Del) 4-6, 7-5, 1-0 (conc.) 2-Nitin Kirtane (Mah) bt 6-Asif Ismail (Mah) 6-2, 6-4 Singles Final (5-setter - all other finals are 3-setters) 2-Nitin Kirtane (Mah) bt 8-Vijay Kannan (Del) 6-3, 6-4, 6-3 Doubles Round 1 1-Nitin Kirtane/ Vishal Uppal bt Amanjit Singh Gill/ JanmeetSingh 6-2, 6-1 Vijayendra Laad/ Rohan Bopanna bt Praveen Kumar/ R. Nagraj 6-2 (conc.) 4-Asif Ismail/ Vijay Kannan bt Lalit Mohan Singh/ Rahul Giri 6-1, 6-1 C. V. Anand/ V. N. Premprakash bt S. Narendra Nath/ Rohan Saikia walkover Vinod Sridhar/ S.K.Shivshankar bt Jagdish Tanwar/ Rajesh Vohra walkover 3-Gaurav Natekar/ Harsh Mankad bt Shailesh Dhoble/ Umang Chadda 6-4, 6-1 S. Ganesh/ Peter Vijaykumar bt M. Vasu/ K. R. Kannan 6-3, 6-2 2-Rishi Sridhar/ Mustafa Ghouse bt C. D. Ajay/ S. Raghavanand 6-0, 6-3 Doubles Quarterfinal 1-Nitin Kirtane/ Vishal Uppal bt Vijayendra Laad/ Rohan Bopanna walkover 4-Asif Ismail/ Vijay Kannan bt C. V. Anand/ V. N. Premprakash 6-4, 6-3 3-Gaurav Natekar/ Harsh Mankad bt Vinod Sridhar/ S.K.Shivshankar 6-2, 6-1 2-Rishi Sridhar/ Mustafa Ghouse bt S. Ganesh/ Peter Vijaykumar 6-2, 6-3 Doubles Semifinal 4-Asif Ismail/ Vijay Kannan bt 1-Nitin Kirtane/ Vishal Uppal not known 2-Rishi Sridhar/ Mustafa Ghouse bt 3-Gaurav Natekar/ Harsh Mankad 4-6, 6-1, 7-6(2) Doubles Final 2-Rishi Sridhar/ Mustafa Ghouse bt 4-Asif Ismail/ Vijay Kannan 6-2, 1-6, 6-4
Boys Under-18
Singles Round 1 Q-Mithun Murali (TN) bt 1-Sansaruz Zaman (WB) 6-1, 4-6, 6-1 Q-R. Narendran (TN) bt Aditya Aggarwal (UP) 6-1, 6-0 Parantap Chaturvedi (Del) bt Saif Ali (WB) 3-6, 6-1, 7-5 6-Rohan Saikia (Assam) bt Q-Arpan Lakhani (Mah) 7-5, 6-1 4-Akshay Vishal Rao (Chand) bt Syed Sarfraz (TN) 6-3, 6-4 Abhijeet Majumdar (Mah) bt Rahul Sharma (Del) 6-3, 6-2 Q-Pratim Parekh (Mah) bt Q-P. Ravikrishna (AP) 7-6(4), 6-3 5-S. Dipesh Rao (Mah) bt Sangram Chapekar (Mah) 6-4, 5-7, 6-3 Kedar Shah (Mah) bt 7-Kamala Kannan (TN) 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 Chandrashekar Mohanty (Del) bt S.Raghavanand (Kar) 6-0, 6-4 Nirmit Shetty (Kar) bt Q-Harshit Sharma (WB) 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 3-Ravi Kiran Bhat (Kar) bt Mustafa Ghouse (Mah) 7-6(6), 6-3 8-Rohan Bopanna (Mah) bt Q-Anant Sitaram (AP) 6-1, 7-5 Vijayendra Laad (Mah) bt Q-Benjamin Xavier (Mah) 6-4, 6-4 Aditya Khanna (Del) bt Aditya Shriram (Del) 7-6(4), 6-4 Avinash Arun (TN) bt 2-Kedar Tembe (Mah) 6-1, 6-4 Singles Round 2 Q-Mithun Murali (TN) bt Q-R. Narendran (TN) 6-3, 6-7(3), 6-2 Parantap Chaturvedi (Del) bt 6-Rohan Saikia (Assam) 6-1, 6-4 4-Akshay Vishal Rao (Chand) bt Abhijit Majumdar (Mah) 6-3, 6-4 5-S. Dipesh Rao (Mah) bt Q-Pratim Parekh (Mah) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 Kedar Shah (Mah) bt Chandrashekar Mohanty 6-3, 6-4 3-Ravi Kiran Bhat (Kar) bt Nirmit Shetty (Kar) 6-3, 6-4 Vijayendra Laad (Mah) bt 8-Rohan Bopanna (Mah) 6-1, 6-0 Avinash Arun (TN) bt Aditya Khanna (Del) 6-0, 6-3 Singles QF Parantap Chaturvedi (Del) bt Q-Mithun Murali (TN) 7-5, 3-6, 6-3 4-Akshay Vishal Rao (Chand) bt 5-S. Dipesh Rao (Mah) 7-6(5), 3-6, 6-3 3-Ravi Kiran Bhat (Kar) bt Kedar Shah (Mah) 7-5, 7-5 Vijayendra Laad (Mah) bt Avinash Arun (TN) 6-1, 6-2 Singles SF 4-Akshay Vishal Rao (Chand) bt Parantap Chaturvedi 6-2, 6-1 Vijayendra Laad (Mah) bt 3-Ravi Kiran Bhat (Kar) 6-2, 6-0 Singles Final Vijayendra Laad (Mah) bt 4-Akshay Vishal Rao 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 Doubles Round 1 1-Kedar Tembe/ Sansaruz Zaman bye Abhijeet Majumdar/ Safraz Adil bt Ashutosh Singh/ Shivnandan Singh 6-4, 6-4 Ravi Kiran Bhat/ Avinash Arun bt Kedar Shah/ Sangram Chapekar walkover R. Narendran/ Arpan Lakhani bt Nishang Mishra/ Shivang Mishra 6-3, 6-1 Pratim parekh/ Harshit Shharma bt C. Mohanty/ Parantap Chaturvedi 6-2, 6-4 3-Saif Ali/ Dipesh Rao bt Karan Doctor/ Nirmit Shetty 6-4, 6-4 P. Ravikrishna/ Anant Sitaram bt Aditya Khanna/ Rahul Sharma 6-4, 6-3 2-Akshay Vishal Rao/ Kamala Kannan bt Mithun Murali/ Benjamin Xavier 6-4, 6-4 Doubles QF Abhijeet Majumdar/ Safraz Adil bt 1-Kedar Tembe/ Sansaruz Zaman walkover Ravi Kiran Bhat/ Avinash Arun bt R. Narendran/ Arpan Lakhani walkover Pratim parekh/ Harshit Shharma bt 3-Saif Ali/ Dipesh Rao walkover P. Ravikrishna/ Anant Sitaram bt 2-Akshay Vishal Rao/ Kamala Kannan walkover Doubles SF Ravi Kiran Bhat/ Avinash Arun bt Abhijeet Majumdar/ Safraz Adil 6-4, 6-3 P. Ravikrishna/ Anant Sitaram bt Pratim parekh/ Harshit Sharma 6-4, 1-6, 6-4 Doubles Final Ravi Kiran Bhat/ Avinash Arun bt P. Ravikrishna/ Anant Sitaram 6-2, 6-0
Women's Draw
Singles Round 1 1-Uzma Khan (AP) bt S. K. Tara (Kar) 6-0, 6-2 Q-Lisa Pereira (Mah) bt Q-S. Anitha (TN) 6-3, 6-0 Shalini Thakur (Del) bt Q-Sumitra Rao (TN) 6-0, 6-1 7-Ritu Sethi (Mah) bt Sai Rajalakshmi (TN) 6-3, 6-3 3-Arati Ponnappa (Kar) bt M. Vishnu Pritham (TN) 6-0, 6-0 Karishma Patel (Guj) bt Q-Anisha Shelar (Mah) 7-5, 6-4 Sadia Pathan (Kar) bt Stuti Smith (Mah) 6-1, 6-1 6-Janaki Krishnamoorthy (Mah) bt Priyanka Contractor (Mah) 6-4, 6-2 5-Rushmi Chakravarthi (TN) bt Debosmita Mazumdar (WB) 6-3, 6-3 Sonal Phadke (Mah) bt Q-Geeta Manohar (AP) 6-0, 6-0 WC-Shruti Dhawan (Del) bt Juthika Choksi (Mah) 6-3, 6-2 4-Archana Venkatraman (Kar) bt Sonia Shelar (Mah) 6-4, 7-6(2) 8-Arthi Venkataraman (Kar) bt Puja Deshmukh (MP) 7-6(3), 6-1 Sheethal Gautham (Kar) bt M. Padma Pritham (TN) 6-0, 6-0 Q-Radhika Mandke (Mah) bt Q-Nikita Bhardwaj (Guj) 6-3, 6-0 2-Sai Jayalakshmi (TN) bt Q-Y. Lakshmi Reddy (AP) 6-0, 6-1 Singles Round 2 1-Uzma Khan (AP) bt Q-Lisa Pereira (Mah 6-2, 6-3 Shalini Thakur (Del) bt 7-Ritu Sethi (Mah) 6-2, 6-4 3-Arati Ponnappa (Kar) bt Karishma Patel (Guj) 6-3, 6-2 6-Janaki Krishnamoorthy (Mah) bt Sadia Pathan (Kar) 6-3, 6-0 5-Rushmi Chakravarthi (TN) bt Sonal Phadke (Mah) 6-4, 6-2 WC-Shruti Dhawan (Del) bt 4-Archana Venkatraman (Kar) 4-6, 6-3, 7-6(8) Sheethal Gautham (Kar) bt 8-Arthi Venkataraman (Kar) 6-4, 7-5 2-Sai Jayalakshmi (TN) bt Q-Radhika Mandke (Mah) 6-3, 6-1 Singles QF 1-Uzma Khan (AP) bt Shalini Thakur (Del) 6-2, 6-0 3-Arati Ponnappa (Kar) bt 6-Janaki Krishnamoorthy (Mah) 6-3, 6-3 WC-Shruti Dhawan (Del) bt 5-Rushmi Chakravarthi (TN) 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 2-Sai Jayalakshmi (TN) bt Sheethal Gautham (Kar) 6-2, 6-1 Singles SF 1-Uzma Khan (AP) bt 3-Arati Ponnappa (Kar) 6-2, 7-5 2-Sai Jayalakshmi (TN) bt WC-Shruti Dhawan (Del) 6-1, 6-0 Singles Final 1-Uzma Khan (AP) bt 2-Sai Jayalakshmi (TN) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4
Doubles Round 1 1-Sai Jayalakshmi/ Janaki Krishnamoorthy bye Sonal Phadke/ Juthika Choksi bt Shalini Thakur/ Radhika Mandke 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-1 4-Ritu Sethi/ Sadia Pathan bye Priyanka Contractor/Debosmita Majumdar bt Sai Rajalakshmi/Lisa Perreira walkover S. Anitha/ Stutti Smit bt Vishnu Pritham/ Padma Pritham 6-4, 7-6(5) 3-Archana Venkataraman/Arthi Venkataraman bye Sheethal Gautham/ Shruti Dhawan bt Sonia Shelar/ Anisha Shelar 6-3, 6-4 2-Rushmi Chakravarthi and Arati Ponnappa bye Doubles QF 1-Sai Jayalakshmi/ Janaki Krishnamoorthy bt Sonal Phadke/ Juthika Choksi 6-0, 6-2 4-Ritu Sethi/ Sadia Pathan bt P. Contractor/D. Majumdar 7-5, 6-7(6), 7-5 3-Archana Venkataraman/Arthi Venkataraman bt S. Anitha/ Stutti Smit 6-3, 6-4 2-Rushmi Chakravarthi and Arati Ponnappa bt Sheethal G./ Shruti Dhawan 6-3, 6-2 Doubles SF 1-Sai Jayalakshmi/ Janaki Krishnamoorthy bt 4-Ritu Sethi/ Sadia Pathan 6-4, 6-1 2-Rushmi Chakravarthi and Arati Ponnappa bt 3-Archana V./Arthi V. 6-0, 6-1 Doubles Final 2-Rushmi Chakravarthi and Arati Ponnappa bt 1-Sai Jayalakshmi/ Janaki K. 5-7, 6-4, 6-3
Girls Under-18
Singles Round 1 1-Uzma Khan (AP) bt Q-Jitisha Selarka (Mah) 6-2, 6-3 Sandhya Kanuri (TN) bt T.Sricharanya (TN) 6-2, 6-2 Puja Deshmukh bt Q-Rani Smita Jain (Raj) 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 WC-Nona Wagh (Mah) bt 8-M. Vishnu Pritham (TN) 7-5, 3-1 (conc.) 4-Radhika Mandke (Mahh) bt LL-Sai Rajalakshmi (TN) 6-1, 6-1 T. Yamini (TN) bt Sangeeta Rajagopalan (Del) 6-3, 6-1 Sonia Shelar (Mah) bt WC-Vishika Chhetri (Del) 6-2, 6-2 6-S. K. Tara (Kar) bt Anisha Shelar (Mah) 6-2, 4-6, 6-0 Q-Y. Lakshmi Reddy (AP) bt 5-Kameswari Vadali (aP) 6-3, 6-4 Karishma Patel (Guj) bt Varsha Reddy (AP) 6-1, 7-5 Lisa Perreira (Mah) bt Q-Nikita Bhardwaj (Guj) 6-2, 6-3 3-Shruti Dhawan (Del) bt Q-Harsimran Kaur (Chand) 4-6, 6-0, 7-6(6) Q-Sonal Phadke (Mah) bt 7-Geeta Manohar (AP) 6-1, 6-2 Debosmita Mazumdar (WB) bt Q-Sumitra Rao (TN) 5-3 (conc.) WC-D. Nischela Reddy (AP) bt WC-Sukirti Patnaik (Ori) 6-2, 6-2 2-Sheethal Gautham (Kar) bt Q-Kasturi Bhatt (Mah) 6-0, 6-1 Singles Round 2 1-Uzma Khan (AP) bt Sandhya Kanuri (TN) 6-1, 6-0 Puja Deshmukh bt WC-Nona Wagh (Mah) 6-3, 2-6, 6-4 4-Radhika Mandke (Mahh) bt T. Yamini (TN) 6-2, 6-2 Sonia Shelar (Mah) bt 6-S. K. Tara (Kar) 6-3, 6-2 Karishma Patel (Guj) bt Q-Y. Lakshmi Reddy (AP) 6-3, 6-2 3-Shruti Dhawan (Del) bt Lisa Perreira (Mah) 6-0, 7-5 Q-Sonal Phadke (Mah) bt Debosmita Mazumdar (WB) 6-2, 6-0 2-Sheethal Gautham (Kar) bt WC-D. Nischela Reddy (AP) 6-3, 6-2 Singles QF 1-Uzma Khan (AP) bt Puja Deshmukh 6-1, 6-0 Sonia Shelar (Mah) bt 4-Radhika Mandke (Mah) 7-6(4), 6-2 3-Shruti Dhawan (Del) bt Karishma Patel (Guj) 6-0, 6-2 Q-Sonal Phadke (Mah) bt 2-Sheethal Gautham (Kar) 2-6, 6-2, 6-3 Singles SF 1-Uzma Khan (AP) bt Sonia Shelar (Mah) 6-0, 6-2 3-Shruti Dhawan (Del) bt Q-Sonal Phadke (Mah) 6-3, 6-1 Singles Final 1-Uzma Khan (AP) vs 3-Shruti Dhawan (Del) 6-1, 6-0 Doubles Round 1 (only one match - all others had byes!) Nikita Bhardwaj/ Jitisha Shelarka bt Nona Wagh and Harsimran Kaur 6-3, 6-2 Doubles QF Kasturi Bhatt/ Y. Lakshmi Reddy bt 1-S. K. Tara/ Sumitra Rao walkover 3-Kameswari Vadali/ Sandhya Kanuri bt Nikita Bhardwaj/ Jitisha Shelarka walkover Nikita Bhardwaj/ Jitisha Shelarka bt 4-T. Yamini/ Geeta Manohar 6-4, 7-5 2-Puja Deshmukh/ Karishma Patel bt T. Sricharanya/ S. Rajagopalan 6-1, 6-1 Doubles SF 3-Kameswari Vadali/ Sandhya Kanuri bt Kasturi Bhatt/ Y. Lakshmi Reddy 6-4, 6-3 2-Puja Deshmukh/ Karishma Patel bt Nikita Bhardwaj/ Jitisha Shelarka 6-2, 6-1 Doubles Final 2-Puja Deshmukh/ Karishma Patel bt 3-Kameswari Vadali/ Sandhya Kanuri 6-4, 6-2
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