The Hindu : Anuja shocks Sanchi

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Wednesday, Feb 12, 2003

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Anuja shocks Sanchi

MUMBAI FEB. 11. Anuja Parikh of Maharashtra stunned Statemate and sixth seed Sanchi Ganerwal 6-1, 6-4 in the girls' under-18 pre-quarterfinals match on the opening day of the Rs 1.5 lakh South African Airways all-India super tennis tournament at the Garden Tennis Academy courts.

Meanwhile, Rahil Makharia sent out seventh-seeded Marlon Coelho in four sets for the second surprise result in the boys' under-18 category on Tuesday. Top seeds Saurabh Koli and Krushmi Chedda advanced into the quarterfinals without much difficulty.

The results:

Boys under-18 (pre-quarterfinals): 1-Saurabh Koli (Mah) bt V.V. Anurag (AP) 6-0, 6-0; 5-S. Prateek (Kar) bt Keegan Quadros (Mah) 3-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3; C. Akshay (Mah) bt Mesheer Vaswani (Kar) 6-2, 7-6 (4); Tejasvi Rao (AP) bt 8-Alon Moses (Mah) 6-3, 7-5; Rahil Malkharia (Mah) bt 7-Marlon Coelho (Mah) 4-6, 7-6 (1), 6-0; 3-Kiran Kumar (Kar) bt Akbar Ali (Mah) 6-1, 7-5; 6-Gautam Samarth (Mah) bt Aaron Fernandes (Mah) 6-3, 6-1; 2-Aditya Madkekar (Mah) bt Ashwin Raghavan (AP) 6-0, 6-3.

Girls under-18 (pre-quarterfinals): 1-Krushmi Chedda (Mah) bt Anahita

Jagtiani (Guj) 6-2, 6-1; Anuja Parikh (Mah) bt 6-Sanchi Ganeriwal (Mah) 6-1, 6-4; 5-Neena Sharma (Mah) bt Amrita Seth (Delhi) 6-0, 6-1; 7-Parija Maloo (Mah) bt Nalini Mallaya (Mah) 6-2, 6-3. — Our Special Correspondent

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