Savelescu account for first upset of ITF juniors

Kolkata, Jan 15 (UNI) Sixth seed Ronak Manuja of Maharashtra, India was ousted by Romanian Andrei Savulescu in 67 minutes 6-1,6-3 at the ONGC-ITF juniors 2007 being played at the DKS Sports Complex.

Savulescu broke Manuja in the second, fourth and sixth games and got broken in the third. In the second set Manuja was broken in the first and fifth games. Savulescu lost his serve in the fourth.

Another match of consequence was between Delhi's Yuki Bhambri and Chattisgarh's Abhijeet Tiwari. Yuki won in 105 minutes 6-2,4-6,6-4.

In the first set Bhambri broke Tiwari in the fourth and eighth games to take the set at 6-2. In the second set Tiwari fought back from a 1-4 deficit to take the set 6-4.

Bhambri broke Tiwari in the second and fourth games to go up 4-0.

Tiwari then pulled up his socks and broke Bhambri in the fifth, seventh and ninth games.

In the final set Bhambri broke Tiwari in the second game. Bhambri was broken in the fifth game but broke back in the sixth. There was a trade of serves in the ninth and tenth games also and Bhambri won 6-4.

RESULTS OF MATCHES PLAYED TODAY (Indians if not specified) : Boys' First Round : Sriram Balaji Narayanswamy (WC)(836) beat Jae-Beom Kim (SE)(1187) 6-3,7-5; Shiva Sangwan (587) beat Bibaswan Deb (WC) 6-0,6-4; Kittiphong Wachiramanowong (8)(Tha) beat Kaushik Das (LL)(851) 6-3,6-3; Akash Gujarati (4)(215) beat Chandril Sood (612) 6-3,6-4; Yuki Bhambri (WC)(662) beat Abhijeet Tiwari (482) 6-3,6-4; Khunpol Issara (5)(Tha)(219) beat Karunuday Singh (528) 6-3,5-7,6-1; Jeong-Han Seo (7)(Kor)(238) beat Timur Kamilov (Uzb)(296) 6-2,6-2; Mansingh Athare (485) beat Navinder Pal Singh Sidhu (284) 0-6,7-6(8-6),6-4; B. Vikram Reddy (3)(195) beat Priyank Gangadharan (464) 6-2,6-4; Andrei Savulescu (Rom)(365) beat Ronak Manuja (6)(224) 6-1,6-3; Agnel Gladwin Peter (466) beat V. Sudarshan (585) 6-2,6-2; Prajnesh Gunneswaran (2)(176) beat Parul Verma (LL)(641) 6-1,6-0.

Girls' Singles First Round : Alyona Sotnikoa (Ukr)(559) beat G.K.

Shweta (WC)(746) 6-1,6-4; Nicha Lertpitaksinchai (7)(Tha)(221) beat Mohana Sarker (LL) 6-0,6-4; Nigora Sirojiddinova (4)(Uzb)(193) beat Adnya Naik (273) 7-6(7-3),6-0; Yuliya Golborodko (Ukr)(470) beat Nandita Krishnan (566) 6-0,6-1; Nanuli Pipiya (Rus)(294) beat Shahin Ansari (LL)(1079) 6-2,6-3; Beatrice Gumulya (5)(Ina)(194) beat Dipti Srivastava (WC)(1227) 6-2,6-0; Khunpak Issara (Tha)(235) beat Archana Veeramachaneni (467) 6-3,6-3; Nadia Lalami (3)(Mor)(148) beat Kesika Jayapalan (LL)(1616) 6-0,6-0; Anastasiya Vasylyeva (6)(Ukr)(219) beat Kyra Shroff (608) 4-6,7-6(7-3),6-3; Sophia Mulsap (2)(Tha)(143) beat Treta Bhattacharyya (WC)(1072) 6-1,6-1.

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