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TENNIS / All-India men’s ranking tournament
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Sridhar fights past Bishnoi
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Mumbai, pti:
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Top seed Vinod Sridhar found the going comfortable in his opening round encounter against wild card Jitin Bishnoi and carved out a straight-set victory in the Ira Diamond Jewellery national ranking men's tennis tournament here on Tuesday.
Tamil Nadu's Sridhar whipped Haryana's Bishnoi 6-2 6-4 in one hour and 15 minutes in their singles encounter at the Juhu Vile Parle Gymkhana courts. Sridhar will now meet qualifier Aniket Sudhir of Maharashtra, who rallied from a set down to shock another Tamil Nadu player V M Ranjeet (seeded 10th) in three sets, for a place in the quarterfinals.
Joining Sridhar in the round of 16 was fourth seed Kamala Kannan (Tamil Nadu), who was stretched in the first set before defeating Delhi's Gurmehar Singh in straight sets.
Sixth seed Gautam Arjun of Karnataka and seventh seed Vishnu Vardhan of Andhra Pradesh also advanced.
Arjun and Vardhan notched straight-set wins over Punjab's Gursharan Singh and Pritish Kumar of Karnataka respectively.
Results (prefix denotes seeding): Singles (I Round): 1-Vinod Sridhar (Tamil Nadu) bt Jitin Bishnoi (Haryana) 6-2, 6-4; Aniket Sudhir (Mahaharashtra) bt V M Ranjeet (TN) 3-6, 7-6 (3), 6-2; 7-Vishnu Vardhan (Andhra Pradesh) bt Pritish Kumar (Karnataka) 6-2, 6-0; 6-Gautam Arjun (Karnataka) bt Gursharan Singh (Punjab) 6-1, 6-2; Arnav Jain (Maharashtra) bt L S Ananth Bhaskar (Tamil Nadu) 1-6, 7-6 (1), 7-6 (0); 4-Kamala Kannan (Tamil Nadu) bt Gurmehar Singh (Delhi) 7-6 (2), 6-1.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2005
