Marquis show Romanian Andreescu the door

Kolkata, Jan 16 (UNI) Mumbai lad Christopher Marquis played a match of lifetime to beat Romanian Cosmin Christian Andreescu in 125 minutes at the ONGC-ITF juniors 2007 being played at the DKS Sports Complex here.

Andreescu ran through the first set in 25 minutes breaking Marquis in the first, third and seventh games. Andreescu served one ace and one double fault while Marquis served two double faults. The second set had a total of six breaks. Marquis broke Andreescu in the first, third, seventh and ninth and got broken in the second and eighth games.

Marquis took the second set at 6-3. Andreescu served four double faults while Marquis served one ace. In the final set Andreescu broke Marquis in the seventh game and retained his serve in the eighth to go up 5-3.

Marquis then took the next three games breaking Andreescu in the tenth game to come back into the match. The tie break went with serves till 9-9. Marquis took the next two points to seal the match in his favour.

In the other big match of the day top seed Rifat Biktyakov of Uzbekistan ran through Harshvardhan Thirani in little less than an hour 6-0, 6-3. The youngster showed a wide array of strokes as he dropped only three games on way to take home the first match.

Thirani showed a semblence of resistence in the second set, but it was not good enough.

In the girl's singles Jessy Rompies lived up to her top billing defeating Arushi Sharma 6-0, 6-1, while eighth seed Sweta Solanki beat Wild card Nupur Kaul 6-2, 6-0.

RESULTS OF MATCHES PLAYED TODAY: Boys' First Round : Rifat Biktyakov (1)(Uzb)(113) beat Harshvardhan Thirani (WC)(1428) 6-0,6-3; Christopher Marquis (Q)(787) beat Cosmin Christian Andreescu (Rom)(320) 1-6,6-3,7-6(11-9); Sudhanwa Sitaram (Q)(545) beat Vishesh Bhatia (298) 4-6,6-2,6-4; Varun Gunaseelan (Q)(711) beat Palash Tiwari (Q)(818) 6-4,6-2.

Girls' Singles First Round : Jessy Rompies (1)(Ina)(135) beat Arushi Sharma (Q) 6-0,6-1; Olga Makhova (Rus)(520) beat Garima Vatwani (Q)(1448) 6-2,6-1; Sweta Solanki (8)(234) beat Nupur Kaul (Q)(1151) 6-2,6-0; Ashwarya Srivastava (Q)(879) beat Regina Shtyagina (Rus)(973) 6-3,1-6,6-1; Prerna Bhambri (WC)(748) beat Polina Dzyuba (Rus)(494) 4-6,7-6(7-4),6-1; Deepna Vazirani (914) beat Mohana Chintala (484) 7-6(7-3),4-6,6-2.

Boys' Doubles First Round : Rifat Biktyakov (Uzb)&Timur Kamilov (Uzb)(1) beat Sitaram Sudhanwa&Christopher Marquis 5-7,6-2,6-3; Agnel Gladwin Peter&Vladimir Lyashchenko (Rus) beat Palash Tiwari&V. Sudarshan 0-6,7-5,6-2; B. Vikram Reddy&Sriram Balaji Narayanswamy beat Kittiphong Wachiramanowong (Tha) &Khunpol Issara (Tha)(3) 6-4,6-7(9-11),6-2;Yuki Bhambri&Karunuday Singh beat Parul Verma&Harshvardhan Thirani 6-2,6-2; Sameer Paranjpe&Mansingh Athare (WC) beat Shiva Sangwan&Navinder Pal Singh 6-2,7-6(7-3); Ronak Manuja&Vishesh Bhatia (4) beat Lakshit Sood&Chandril Sood (WC) 7-5,6-3.

Girls' Doubles First Round : Beatrice Gumulya (Ina)&Jessy Rompies (Ina)(1) beat Shahin Ansari&Kesika Jayapalan 6-0,6-0; Olga Makhova (Rus)&Nanuli Pipiya (Rus) beat Deepna Vazirani&Richa Valechha 6-2,6-1; Alyona Sotnikova (Ukr)&Regina Shtyagina (Rus) beat Dipti Srivastava&Treta Bhattacharyya (WC) 6-0,6-3; Nicha Lertpitaksinchai (Tha)&Khunpak Issara (Tha)(3) beat Kyra Shroff&Ashwarya Srivastava 6-4,6-0; UNI