Ashish Kothari and Dilip Jain had it easy in their qualifying rounds of the 35+ singles of the GVK AISTA Senior Nationals Tennis Championship at the Fateh Maidan Tennis Complex in Hyderabad on Monday.
Ashish blanked K Anil Kumar 9-0 and Dilip too recorded a similar win over Naresh Boora. On the other hand, Rama Chandra had to fight past Shashi Puchakayala 9-5 and M Sudhir Reddy too had a fight on hand before he overcame Sunil Botchu 9-5.
In the 55+ singles category, K Samson Yohan stamped his authority with a 9-1 victory over Hari Krishna Prasad. Yohan had also defeated Chandrasekar Sakala 9-3.
Results (qualifiers): 35+ singles: Ashish Kothari bt K Anil Kumar 9-0; Rama Chandra bt Shashi Puchakayala 9-5; M Sudhir Reddy bt Sunil Botchu 9-5; Dilip Jain bt Naresh Boora 9-0; Srinivas Yadav bt Sandeep Varma Vagesna 9-2.
45+ singles: CH Nagaraju bt Mallikarjuna Nagula 9-1; M V Siva Kumar Raju bt Varun Suri 9-2; Hemanshu bt Rupesh 9-3; Sanjay Singh bt Raghu Koterike 9-0.
55+ singles: G Ramgpoal bt M V Satya Ramesh 9-4; Mohan Ravi bt Y Srinivas Rao 9-4; V Gandhara Rao bt D Chandra Mouli 9-6; Appala Raju Guvvala bt Kiran Kumar Allampalli 9-3; Prabhanjan Reddy bt Purushotham M 9-3; Dr Ajay bt Dr T V Rao 9-1; K Samson Yohan bt Chandrasekar Sakala 9-3; Harish krishna bt Srinivas L 9-0; B Sudhakara Reddy bt V Konda 9-0; G Sai Ganesh bt G Srinivas Rao 9-0; Venkata Ratnam bt K U Subbiah 9-0; Sivarama krishna bt W B Subba Rao 9-4; S M Shafiullah bt Surya Prakash Rao 9-1; G Ram Gopal bt Louis 9-4; Siva CH bt Mohan Ravi 9-4; Appala Raju G bt V Gangadhara Rao 9-3; Prabhajan Reddy bt Dr Ajaja 9-1; K Samson Yohan bt Hari Krishna Prasad 9-1; B Sudhakara Reddy bt G Sai Ganesh 9-0; G Srinivasa Rao bt Venkata Ratnam K bt 9-4.
