AITA talent series: Devpriya in semi-finals

Patna, May 20, 2009
Devpriya Jaiswal, Rohit Choudhary, Armaan Banerjee and Shashank Sharma booked their berths in the under-18 boys’ singles semi-finals of the AITA talent series tournament at the Patliputra Tennis Court here on Wednesday.

Top seed Devpriya had no difficulty to tame his state mate Aman Kumar 6-0, 6-1 while Rohit Choudhary of Delhi beat Keshav Kishan (Maharashtra) 6-2, 7-6 in a grueling encounter.

Results:
Boys’ U-18 (singles) quarter-finals
Devpriya Jaiswal (Bihar) beat Aman Kumar (Bihar) 6-0, 6-1; Rohit Choudhary (Delhi) beat KeshavKishan (Mah) 6-2, 7-6 (3); Armaan Banerjee (Kar) beat Amrendra Singh Choudhary (UP) 6-3, 6-4; Shashank Sharma (Delhi) beat Adamya Vikrant (Bihar) 4-6, 6-2, 6-0.
Boys’ U-16 (Singles) quarter-finals:
Adamya Vikrant (Bihar) beat Shivam Shukla (UP) 6-2, 6-3; Venkat Siddharth (Bihar) Vaibhav Kumar (Bihar) 6-4, 6-4; Aman Kumar (Bihar) bt Ritwik Bhriguvanshi (Bihar) 6-1, 6-1.
Girls’ U-16 (singles) quarter-finals
Monalisa Chakraborty (Jharkhand) beat Shivana Joyce Zaidi (UP) 6-3, 6-0; Ayushi Yadav (UP) beat Packer Fatema (Bihar) 6-1, 6-0; Sheikh Naaz (UP) beat Yogita Kumari (UP) 4-6, 6-0, 7-6 (6); Madhu Jaiswal (Bihar) beat Shivangi Singh (UP) 6-2, 6-4.
Girls’ U-18 (singles) quarter-finals
Shruti Jaiswal (Bihar) beat Shiekh Naaz (UP) 6-1, 6-0; Monalisa Chakraborty (Jharkhand) beat Yogita Kumari (UP) 6-0, 6-0; Ayushi Yadav (UP) beat Shivangi Singh (UP) 6-1, 6-3; Shivana Zaidi (UP) beat Madhu Jaiswal (Bihar) 7-6 (1), 6-4.

Tuesday’s results
Boys’ under-18 (pre-quarter-finals):
Devpriya Jaiswal (Bihar) beat Ritwik Bhriguvanshi (Bihar) 6-0, 6-0; Aman Kumar (Bihar) beat Arsh Prakhar (Bihar) 6-2, 6-1; Keshav Kishan (Maharashtra) beat Venkat Siddharth (Bihar) 6-3, 6-2; Rohit Chodhary (Delhi) beat Ishank Ravi (Bihar) 7-6 (3), 6-0; Amarendra Singh Choudhary (UP) beat Anurag Sharma (UP) 6-1, 6-2; Arman Banerjee (WB) beat Sachin Antony (Kerala) 6-3, 6-2; Shashank Sharma (Delhi) beat Harsh Shivash (TN) 6-4, 6-2 and Adamya Vikrant (Bihar) beat Shantanu Soumya (Bihar) 6-1, 6-0.

Boys’ under-16 (pre-quarter-finals)
Aman Kumar (Bihar) beat Anurag Sharma (Rajasthan) 6-1, 6-2; Adamya Vikrant (Bihar) beat Ankesh Anand (Bihar) 6-0, 6-0; Ritwik Bhriguvanshi (Bihar) beat Ashish Sharma (UP) 7-6 (4), 7-5; Shivam Shukla (UP) beat Anish Anupam (Bihar) 3-6, 6-1, 6-1; Vaibhav Siddharth (Bihar) beat Shantanu Soumya (Bihar) 6-2, 6-0 and Ishank Ravi (Bihar) beat Praduman Buddhi Raja (UP) 6-3, 6-2.