August 23, 2006	Wednesday	Rajab 27, 1427

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KARACHI, Aug 22: Indian’s Vishesh Deepak Bhatia and Ronak Mahesh Manuja pulled off major upsets when they sent second and third seeds packing in straight sets to cruise into the boys singles last eight of the ITF Pakistan World Junior Ranking tennis championship at Islamabad Club on Tuesday.

Bhatia toppled second seed Ryan Cheung (US) 6-2, 6-2 while Ronak got the better of third seed Omer Babar (Pak) 6-0, 6-2.

Pakistan’s sixth seed Tanveer Ashiq also stormed into the quarter-finals overcoming Indian Lakshit Sood 6-7 (5), 6-1, 7-6 (5) lasting two hour and 45 minutes.

Results:

Boys’ singles (Pre-quarterfinals): Krittanu Puthong (Thai) bt Shiva Sangwan (Ind) 2-1 (retd); Chandril Sood (Ind) bt Dineshkanthan Thangarajah (SL) 6-3,6-1; Mansingh Athare (Ind) bt Guyanga Weerasekera (SL) 6-3,1-6,7-6(2); Yasir Khan (Pak) bt M. Waqas Malik (Pak) 6-0,6-0; Tanveer Ashiq (Pak) bt Lakshit Sood (Ind) 6-7(5),6-1,7-6(5); Ronak Mahesh Manuja (Ind) bt Omer Babar (Pak) 6-0,6-2; Akshay Kohli (Ind) bt Khurram Nazir (Pak) 6-4,6-7(5),6-2; Vishesh Deepak Bhatia (Ind) bt Ryan Cheung (USA) 6-2,6-2.

Boys’ doubles (first round): Ryan Cheung (US)-Krittanu Puthong (Thai) bt Mansingh Athare - Vishesh Deepak Bhatia (Ind) 2-6,6-4,7-5 ; Akshay Kohli - Debendra Das (Ind) bt Nasir Mushtaq Ahmed - Danish Ahmed (Pak) 6-1,6-4; M. Waqas Malik (Pak) - Dineshkanthan Thangarajah (SL) bt Heera Ashiq - Abid Ali (Pak) 4-2 (retd); Ronak Mahesh Manuja - Krishik Divakar (Ind) bt Kenneth Low (Sin) - Punn Bodhidatta (Thai) 6-3,2-6,6-3; Tanveer Ashiq - Yasir Khan (Pak) bt Syed Zuhair Raza - Syed Abbas Raza (Pakistan) 6-0,6-2 ; Khurram Nazir - Omer Babar (Pak) bt Prithiv Sugumar - Muddappa Appanervanda (Ind) 6-3,4-6,7-5 ; Chandril Sood - Lakshit Sood (Ind) bt Usman Ejaz Yousaf (Pak) - Shaan Bukhari (USA) 6-2,6-4.

Girls singles (quarter-finals): Vishakha Sheoran (Ind) bt Sarah Mahboob Khan (Pak) 6-2,6-1; Prariyawat Ratanakrong (Thai) bt Saana Saarteinen (Fin) 6-1,6-2; Parichart Charoensukployphol (Thai) bt Natasha Afridi (Pak) 6-0,6-1; Ahuja (Ind) bt Mohana Chintala (Ind) 7-5,6-4.

Wednesday’s fixtures: Matches starts at 10.00am.