Vijay Sunder, Vignesh advance
(AITA Ranking tournament, Kochi)

THURSDAY 04, FEB 2010.

P.C. Vignesh and Vijay Sunder Prasanth, the top two seeds, advanced to the men’s semifinals of the Lotus Trophy AITA ranking tennis tournament.

Results (quarterfinals): Men’s singles: P.C. Vignesh (AP) bt Akash Wagh (Mah) 3-6, 6-1, 6-1; Mithun Murali (TN) bt Naveen Saai (TN) 6-3, 6-1; Yannick Nellord (Del) bt Mohammed Fariz (TN) 5-7, 6-3, 7-6 (4); Vijay Sunder Prasanth (TN) bt Nitten Kirtane (Mah) 6-2, 6-1.

Doubles: Rishab Dev Raman (TN) /Mohit Mayur (TN) bt V.V. Venkatesh (Karn)/Neeraj Elangovan (TN) 6-2, 6-2; Yogesh Phogat/Prateek Bhambri bt Amod Wakalkar/Nitten Kirtane (Mah) 1-6, 7-5, 10-6; Abijith Tiwari (Chd)/Akash Wagh (Mah) bt Tariq Jacob (TN)/ Rynold Timothy (Ker) 4-6, 7-5, 10-0;

Women’s singles: Amreen Choudhary (UP) bt Kesica Jayapalan (TN) 6-3, 6-0; Gopika Kapoor (UP) bt Harshini Reddy (Kar) 6-2, 6-2; Sansita Nandakumar (TN) bt Natasha Palah (Goa) 6-2, 6-3; Preeti Srinivasan (TN) bt Yamini Reddy (Kar) 7-6 (2), 5-7, 6-1.

Doubles: Deepna Vazirani (Mah)/Sayali Bhilare bt Alisha Razvi (AP)/Amala Warrick (Kar) 6-2, 6-4.