Indian Express 08.12.2010
Rs 3.5-lakh PCMC mayor’s trophy: Chaukulkar, Fariz, Sood enter quarterfinals
Express News Service Tags : sports, pune Posted: Wed Dec 08 2010, 06:56 hrs
Pune: Tejas Chaukulkar, Mohamed Fariz and Chandranil Sood caused major upsets to enter the quarterfinals of Rs 3.5-lakh PCMC Mayor’s Cup All India National Ranking Men’s tournament at the PWD complex in Sanghvi.In the second round of the singles, Pune’s Tejas Chaukulkar upset 6th seeded Lakshit Sood of UP 6-4, 6-4. Lakshit’s twin brother Chandranil Sood upset fifth seeded Anand Kunal 6-3, 6-1. Tamil Nadu player Mohammad Fariz (TN) upset seventh seeded Shahbaaz Khan of Maharashtra 6-2, 7-6(7-5).
Results:
Singles:Second round: N Vijay Sunder (TN, 1) bt Gugan Verma (TN) 6-0, 6-0; Tejas Chaukulkar (Mah) bt Lakshit Sood (UP, 6) 6-4, 6-4; Nitin Kirtane (Mah, 3) bt Sameer Paranjpe (Mah) 6-1, 6-2; Chandranil Sood (UP) bt Anand Kunal (Del, 5) 6-3, 6-2; Ronak Manuja (Mah, 8) bt Sumit Shinde (Mah) 7-5, 6-3; Ajai Selvaraj (TN, 4) bt Vignesh Veerbhadran (TN) 6-2, 6-1; Mohammad Fariz (TN) bt Shahbaaz Khan (Mah, 7) 6-2, 7-6(7-5); P C Vignesh (AP, 2) bt Kamal Suresh Kumar (Kar) 6-3, 6-4.
Doubles:First Round: NVijay Sunder/P C Vignesh (1) bt Neeraj Elangovan/Sumit Shinde 6-3, 6-3; Sameer Paranjpe / Amod Wakalkar bt Rajesh Mittal/ Pravin Ghodey 6-0, 6-1; Chandranil / Lakshit Sood (3) bt Yogesh Phogat / Prosonjit Paul 6-2, 6-1; Sagar Ahuja / Neishet Vakil bt Shankar Jagtap / Raghavendra Kannan 6-0, 6-0;
Tejas Chaukulkar/ Gugan Verma bt Suresh Kamal/ Vasant Veera 6-3, 6-3.
