CHANDIGARH, JAN 22 ; Unseeded Paramveer Singh Bajwa from Chandigarh toppled top seed Teeradon Tortrakul of Thailand in three sets in the boys singles pre-quarter-final round match in the ONGC ITF Junior Tennis Tournament being played in Kolkata today. Bajwa’s displayed his authority in the first set which be won even without dropping a single game at 6-0. The top seed from Thailand rallied to win the second set at 6-2. Tied one set all, Bajwa established an early 3-0 lead. Teeradon broke Bajwa to make it 2-3. Bajwa wrapped up the set and match with a 6-3 margin.
Third seed Garvit Batra ousted Nawakarn Khunjan of Thailand in straight sets 6-1 6-2 while fourth seed Clement Larriere of France struggled to beatt Shao-Fan LIU (Taipei) 6-1 3-6 6-1.
Ojasvinee Singh prevailed over Shweta Sangwan in an all-India pre-quarter-finals girls singles pre-quarter-final round in three sets 6-3,4-6,6-3.Karman Kaur Thandi also toiled to get the better of Nandini Dasin three sets 6-2,0-6,6-3. Top seed Pranjala Yadlapalli outplayed Anjana Suresh of Canada in straight sets.
Results: Boys singles (Pre-quarter-finals): Paramveer Singh Bajwa (IND) bt Teeradon Tortrakul (THA) [1] 6-0 2-6 6-3, Mandresy Rakotomalala (FRA) bt Jay Clarke (GBR) 6-2 6-0, Clement Larriere (FRA) [4] bt Shao-Fan LIU (TPE) 6-1 3-6 6-1,Tung-lin Wu (TPE) bt Alexey Prokopchuk (UKR) [6] 6-4 7-5, Geoffrey Blancaneaux (FRA) [7] bt Nitin Kumar Sinha (IND) 6-4 6-0, Garvit Batra (IND) [3] bt Nawakarn Khunjan (THA) 6-1 6-2, Sameer Kumar (USA) [5] bt Isa Mammetgulyyev (TKM) 6-3 6-2, Alex Solanki (IND) bt Nikshep Ballekere Ravikumar (IND) 7-6(0) 6-0.
Girls Singles (Pre-quarter-finals): P Yadlapalli IND) (1) bt Anjana Suresh (CAN), 6-2,6-3, Raveena Kingsley (USA) bt Kanishka N Chawla (IND) 6-0,6-0, T Momkoonthod THA) (4) bt Nidhi Surapaneni (IND) 6-3,6-1, Zhanlan Wei (CHN)(8) Wei Tang (TPE) 6-4,6-2, Vasanthi Shinde (IND) (7) bt Rifanty Kahfiani (INA) 6-4,6-2, Karman Kaur Thandi (IND) bt Nandini Das (IND) 6-2,0-6,6-3, Anna Ureke (RUS)(5) Vanshika Sahwney 6-3,7-5, Ojasvinee Singh (IND) bt Shweta Sangwan (IND) 6-3,4-6,6-3.