New Delhi, October 16, 2006 Sitaram Sudanwa of Tamil Nadu pulled off the biggest upset in the junior section when he defeated second seed Kaza Vinayak Sharma of Andhra Pradesh 6-1, 6-1 to enter the under-16 quarter-finals in the DSCL Open National tennis championship on Monday.

On an action-packed  day at the DLTA complex, Sitaram played a mixture of percentage tennis and hit outright winner to get past Kaza Vinayak even as top seed Vijayant Malik faced some anxious moments. Malik, from Chandigarh, faced stiff resistance from Prateek Bhambri in the first set but was on a roll in the second set as he won it 6-0. Third seed Parul Verma, also from Chandigarh, defeated Delhi boy Ankit Sachdeva 6-0, 6-2.

One match, which went the full distance, was between Delhi’s Yuki Bhambri, brother of Ankita and Sanaa. Yuki had to fight tooth and nail to defeat Ronak Manuja 6-2, 6-7 5), 6-3 in a match where fortune and form swung like a pendulum. In the end, Yuki got the measure by virtue of his better experience.

There were no major surprises in the under-14  boys’ with second seed Irfan Hussain of Chennai playing a compact game to defeat statemate S.Sidharth 6-2, 6-4. Top seed Samip Mehta also had an easy passage into the last eight.

The draw held good in the under–16 girls as well, with the seeds rolling into the last eight stage. Top seed Tanvi Shah, second seed Divija Mandava, third seed T.Nilaya and fourth seed Rashmi Teltumbe won without dropping a set on Monday.

The results (pre-quarterfinals):

Under-16 boys: Vijayant Malik bt Prateek Bhambri 6-4, 6-0; Abhijeet Tiwari bt A. Daniel Raj 6-2, 6-2; Parul Verma bt Christopher Marquis 6-4, 6-3; Ankit Sachdeva bt Gaurav Walia 6-0, 6-2; Priyank Gangadharan bt Palash Tiwari 6-4, 3-6, 6-2; Suraj Desai bt Rubal Shandilya 6-4, 6-4; Yuki Bhambri bt Ronak Manuja 6-2, 6-7 (5), 6-3; Sudanwa Sitaram bt Kaza Vinayak Sharma 6-1, 6-1.

Under-16 girls: Tanvi Shah bt Supriya Mallaya 6-2, 6-2; Garima Vatwani bt Gopika Kapoor 6-2, 3-0 (conceded); Nova Patel bt Mehak 6-2, 6-0; T. Nilaya bt Deepna Vazirani 6-4, 6-1; Treta Bhattacharya bt Shivani Singh 7-5, 6-1; Divija Mandava bt Neha Purohit 6-4, 6-1.

Under-14 boys: Samip Mehta bt Vishvesh Sinha 6-4, 6-2; Irfan Hussain bt S. Siddharth 6-2, 6-4; Sumeet Shinde bt Pavan Surya 6-2, 6-1; S. V. Abhishek bt Rohit BIsht 6-3, 6-4; Mohit Mayur bt Shahbaz Khan 5-7, 6-4, 7-5; Chetan Pandit bt Rithvik Sunkara 6-1, 7-5; Yuki Bhambri bt Aniket Wakankar 6-0, 6-3; Jugal Marfatia bt Rishabdev Raman 6-0, 7-5.

Under-14 girls: Rashmi Teltumbe bt Neha Purohit 6-0, 6-1; Natalia Khanejio bt Nandini Singh 6-0, 6-0; Divya Madku Rao bt Rishika Sunkara 4-6, 6-1, 6-2; Gopika Kapoor bt Sharon Paul 7-6 (5), 6-3; Ankita Raina bt Shweta Chandra Rana 6-2, 6-7 (8), 6-4; Garima Vatwani bt Nupur Kaul 2-2 (retired); Nova Patel bt Arushi Sharma 6-0, 6-0; Divija Mandava bt Shivani Singh 6-4, 6-1.