PANJIM: Rajaram Kundaikar beat Anurag Agarwal (6-4), Suraj Sadanah and Anant Kochhar trounced Sriram (6-1) and Rohan Lotlikar (6-0) respectively in the TNS PG Open Tennis tournament at Panjim Gymkhana court, here on Wednesday.
Ashwin Chandiok stormed into the semi-finals in Veterans 45+singles defeating Noel Noronha 6-4. Chandiok is joined by three other semi-finalists - Manoj Pandey, Mano Chhabra and Richard Lockhart, who defeated Dmitry Smirnov (6-2), Prasad Fadte (6-3) and Rajnish Dhall (6-2).
Midway through, Chandiok and Noel broke each other’s serve, causing the match to see-saw for a few games, before the former held his nerve to eventually win the quarter-finals.
The boys Under-14 years category witnessed a closely fought contest between Alec Barreto, who overcame a resilient Vihaan Krishnan (7-5), while Rafael Shankar defeated Ashton Lobo (6-3).
Vivaan Agarwal and Darsh Pai made light of their contests against Alec Barreto (6-1) and Vedant Naik (6-2) respectively. Arhan Gaonkar swept over a challenge from Timofei Surova (6-1), while eight-year old Ethan Ataide defeated Ivan (6-0).
The men’s doubles category saw Alan and Ojaswi have a relatively easy outing against Mackinlay and Dunstan defeating the latter (6-3), while Krishna and Darsh beat Nehal and Suraj P. (6-3).