MUMBAI, DEC 5 : The only Indian to remain in the fray in boys singles was Paramveer Singh Bajwa who ousted another Indian S D Prajwal Dev in straight sets 7-5 6-3 in the quartrer-final of the CCI-ITF Junior Grade 4 Tennis Tournament here today. He is now pitted against Chanudom Wiriyajanyong of Thailand who toppled top seed Alexey Prokopchuk of Ukraine 6-3 6-3.
In other quarter-final matches, third seed Chak Pong Marco Lam (Hong Kong) beat fifth seed Nikshep Ballekere Ravikumar (Ind) 6-3 5-7 6-2 and second seed Sharmal Dissanayake (Sri Lanka) downed Sanil Jagtiani (Ind) 6-4 6-4.
Indians Nidhi Surapaneni, Karman Kaur Thandi, Sanjana Sudhir and Ukranian Anastasiya Klymenko advanced to the girls singles semi-final matches.
Results:
Girls singles (q-finals): Nidhi Surapaneni (Ind) bt Mihika Yadav (Ind) 6-3 5-7 6-4, Karman Kaur Thandi (Ind) [6] bt Nermeen Shawky (Egy) [3] 6-3 6-3, Anastasiya Klymenko (Ukr) bt Yinglak Jittakoat (Tha) [7] 6-4 6-3, Sanjana Sudhir (Ind) [5] bt Devanshi G Bhimjiyani (Ind) 7-5 6-3.
Girls doubles (semi-finals): Simran Kaur Sethi (Ind) / Vasanti Shinde (Ind) [1] bt Yinglak Jittakoat (Tha) / Mihika Yadav (Ind) [4] 6-1 6-2, Anastasiya Klymenko (Ukr) / Xeniya Prokopchuk (Ukr) bt Habiba Lasheen (Egy) / Nermeen Shawky (Egy) [2] 6-2 7-5.
Boys singles (quarter-finals): Chanudom Wiriyajanyong (Tha) bt Alexey Prokopchuk (Ukr) [1] 6-3 6-3,
Paramveer Singh Bajwa (Ind) bt S D Prajwal Dev (Ind) 7-5 6-3, Chak Pong Marco Lam (Hkg) [3] bt Nikshep Ballekere Ravikumar (Ind) [5] 6-3 5-7 6-2, Sharmal Dissanayake (Sri) [2] bt Sanil Jagtiani (Ind) 6-4 6-4.
Boys doubles (semi-finals):Sachin Kumar (Ind) / Anurag Nenwani (Ind) bt Paramveer Singh Bajwa (Ind) / Gnana Bhaskar Paramatmuni Venkata (Ind) [3] 7-5 4-6 [10-8], Nikshep Ballekere Ravikumar (Ind) / Alex Solanki (Ind) [4] bt Balaji Lakshmanan (Ind) / Sai Nikhil Mannepalli (Ind) 6-4 1-6 [10-8].