JOIN USLocal favourite Saurav Sukul remained the only seeded player left in the fray in the men’s singles as second seed Nitten Kirrtane and fifth seed Abhijit Tiwari were ousted in the quarters on a day of upsets at the National Grasscourt tennis championships here on Thursday.
Ramkumar Ramanathan from TN ousted Kirrtane 6-3, 6-4.
Results (men’s singles, prefix denotes seedings): Quarterfinals: Ronak Manuja (Mah) bt Fariz Mohhamed (TN) 6-4, 6-0; 8-Saurav Sukul (WB) bt Elwin Antony (TN) 6-3, 6-1; Rupesh Roy (WB) bt 5-Abhijeet Tiwari (Chg) 6-3, 6-2; Ramkumar Ramanathan (TN) bt 2-Nitten Kirrtane (Mah) 6-3, 6-4. Women’s singles: Quarterfinals: 5-Natasha Palha (Goa) bt Shivika Burman (WB) 6-2, 4-6, 6-2; Rushmi Chakravorthi (TN) bt 3-Prarthana Thombare (Mah) 5-7, 6-2, 6-4; 1-Ankita Raina (Guj) bt Bhuvana Kalva (AP) 4-6, 7-6 (7-3), 6-2; Mahitha D Reddy (AP) bt 4-Nidhi Chilumula 6-3, 5-7, 7-5.
Men’s doubles: Semifinals: Elwin Antony / Mohammed Fariz (TN) bt Kunal Anand (Del)/ Ronak Manuja (Mah) 3-6, 6-3, 10-5; 1-Chandril Sood/ Lakshit Sood (UP) bt Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash Ramkumar Ramanathan 6-4, 6-2. Women’s doubles: Semifinals: Sagarika Phadke (Mah)/ Nupur Kaul (Mah) bt Megha Sherawat / Nityaraj Baburaj (TN) 6-7 (4-7), 6-4, 10-7; Shivika Burman/ Arantxa Andrady bt Nidhi Chilumula / Sharmada Balu 5-3 (conceded ).