Chetan Jadhav had to bring out his best to get the better of Vijandra Giri 9-7 to enter the men (Plus 35) singles quarterfinals of the Khar Gymkhana-Maharashtra State Veterans Tennis Tournament at their courts here today.
In the day’s closest encounter, Vijay Desai was fully stretched by Mahendra Likhite in the plus 55 category. Both were tie at 8-all in the best of 17 games before Vijay prevailed at 9-8 with tie-breaker going his way 8-6.
Results:
Men (+35) singles (Pre-quarterfinals): Chetan Jadhav bt Vijandra Giri 9-7; Aditya Sanghvi bt Amit Sahita 9-4; Aakash Kale bt Vikas Kerkar 9-2; Krishna Devendra bt Vikram Sanghvi 9-4; Nagesh Kharv bt Bijal Modi 9-2.
Men (+45) singles (Quarterfinals): Ketan Bedekar bt Sidharth Chaterji 9-5; Abhijit Agnihotri bt Mnoj Khatri 9-1; Raj Dubey bt Sandeep Bharucha 9-2; Bijal Modi w/o Kalyan Pandhale..
Men (+55) singles (Quarterfinals): Rafik Khot bt Sudhir Shah 3-0 (con);Rajeev Punjabi bt Joaquim Pereira 9-1; Rajan Shari bt Girdhar Lalwani 9-3; Vijay Desai bt Mahendra Likhite 9-8 (8-6); P.K.Mahapatra bt Prithvi Rangali 6-4 (con).