KARACHI, Oct 7: Inayat Khosla, the 15-year-old from India, stormed into the girls final in the Sube-e-Nau ITF junior world ranking tennis championship , blowing up the lights of top seed Sri Lankan Amita Arudpragasam in straight sets 6-0, 6-1 on the hard courts of the Karachi Gymkhana on Thursday.

Attacking from the word go, Inayat in awesome form just ripped through the top seed without conceding a game in the first set with Amita having absolutely no clue how to stem the tide.

Continuing where she had left off in the first, Inayat conceded just one game in the second set to wrap the semi-final 6-1. She will meet another Indian Alisha Talwar in the final on Friday at 4.15pm.

Alisha a semi-finalist in the first phase of the tournament engaged Myanmar's top junior Su Chit Yee in long rallies from the baseline and was comfortably in front 5-2 in the first set, when Su fell heavily on court hurting her left elbow which soon began to swell up enormously.

Unable to serve Su was forced to retire enabling Alisha move into the final. Second seed Jitin Bishnoi made heavy weather of the proceedings before he overcame the 14-year-old Thai, Peerakit Siributwong 6-2, 7-5. Joining Jitin in the semis was third seed Vijit Sehgal who beat his doubles partner Neil Rajpal from Canada 6-3, 6-2.

Pakistan's Yasir Khan also made it through to the last four, finally overcoming his fighting countryman Mohammad Usman Ejaz in three gruelling sets 6-2, 6-7, 6-1. Yasir will now take on Gursher Harika from India who had to work hard while shutting out Kinshuk Sharma also from India 6-3, 6-2.

The top seeds Jitin Bishnoi and Kinshuk Sharma made a triumphant entry into the Boys Doubles semifinal registering a hard fought 6-3, 6-4 victory over the youthful Sangwan Shiv and Rajkanwar Singh.

Also making it through to the the semifinal was Gursher Harika (India) and the Thai youngster Peerakit Siributwong, who had to bring out all the tricks in the bag to end the performance of Vijit Sehgal (India) and Neil Rajpal (Canada).

After losing the first set 6-4, Vijit and Neil had a great chance to win the next set leading 4-3 with service in hand. But they muffed up their great chance of coming back into the match bowing out 6-4, 7-5.

RESULTS:

Boys Singles (quarterfinals): Jitin Bishnoi (India) bt Peerakit Siributwong (Thailand) 6-3, 6-2; Vijit Sehgal (India) bt Neil Rajpal (Canada) 6-3, 6-2; Gursher Harika (India) bt Kinshuk Sharma (India) 6-3, 6-2; Yasir Khan bt Mohammad Usman Ejaz 6-2, 6-7 (6-7), 6-1.

Boys Doubles (quarterfinals): Jitin Bishnoi/Kinshuk Sharma bt Sangwan Shiva/Rajkanwar Singh (India) 6-3, 6-4; Gursher Harika/Peerakit Siributwong (Thailand) bt Vijit Sehgal/ Neil Rajpal (Canada) 6-4, 7-5.

Girls Singles (semifinals): Inayat Khosla (India) bt Amita Arudpragasam (Sri Lanka) 6-0, 6-1; Alisha Talwar (India) bt Su Chit Ye (Myanmar) 5-2 (retired hurt).

Friday's order of play on Friday.

9-30am:

Boys Singles (semifinals): Jitin Bishnoi (India) v Vijit Sehgal (India; Gursher Harika (India) v Yasir Khan

Girls Singles (final): Inayat Khosla (India) v Alisha Talwar (India).

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