Himanshu Bhatia, Nitten Kirrtane enter third round of Jayant Roy Memorial Mumbai ITF Tennis tournament

Himanshu Bhatia and Nitten Kirrtane registered contrasting victories to progress in the men’s 45-plus singles at the Jayant Roy Memorial Mumbai ITF Tennis Tournament on Sunday.

Top seed Bhatia and second seed Kirrtane entered the third round of the tournament played at the MSLTA and Woodehouse Gymkhana in Mumbai on Sunday.

Bhatia had a fight on his hands against Gopal Soni before winning 6-4, 6-3. Kirrtane, meanwhile, stroked his way past Deepak Patil 6-0, 6-1 without much ado.

Austrian Christian Wind, the top seed in the men’s 55-plus singles, was in sublime form, brushing aside Dharamvir Singh 6-2-6-2 to enter the quarter-finals. Also advancing to the last eight was former international Bhushan Akut, who powered past Gulabrao Fulzele 6-4, 6-1.

Results

Men’s singles 45 plus (pre-quarters)

Nitten Kirrtane (IND) bt Deepak Patil (IND) 6-0, 6-1

Nikhil Rao (IND) bt Mudit Khanna (IND) 6-3, 6-2

Himanshu Bhatia (IND) bt Gopal Soni (IND) 6-4, 6-3

Sheetal Sharma (IND) bt Mohit Bedi (IND) 6-0, 6-4

Yati Gujarathi (IND) bt Nitesh Rungta (IND) 6-1, 6-2

Sunil Lulla (IND) bt Amit Sharma (IND) 6-3, 2-6, 10-2

Men’s singles 55 plus

Christian Wind (AUT) bt Dharamvir Singh (IND) 6-2, 6-2

Nagraj Revanasiddaiah (IND) bt Ashish Dikey (IND) 6-0, 6-1

Bhushan Akut (IND) bt Ulhas Gulabrao Fulzele (IND) 6-4, 6-1

Singh Kuldeep (IND) bt Rajender Singh (IND) 6-0, 6-0

Nirmal Kumar Rajan (USA) bt Sanjiv Mehra (IND) 6-2, 7-5

Lakpa Sherpa (IND) bt Vipul Varma (IND) 6-3, 6-1

Chandra Bhushan (IND) bt Firdaus Shroff (IND) 7-5, 6-1

Men’s doubles 45 plus

Gaurav Kapadia (IND)/Sheetal Sharma (IND) bt Channabasavakumar (IND)/Deepak Patil (IND) 6-2, 5-7, 10-8

Amit Sharma (IND)/Gopal Soni (IND) bt Mudit Khanna (IND)/Nitesh Rungta (IND) 6-3, 6-1

Men’s doubles 55 plus

Bhushan Akut (IND)/Nishit Pandey (IND) bt Sanjay Kalgaonkar (IND)/Rajendra Singh (IND) 6-0, 6-0

Men’s singles 70 plus

Ratnakarrao Anne (IND) bt Ramkrishna Sudagani (IND) 7-6, 1-6, 10-8

Dhaval Patel (IND) bt Nunna Kumar (IND) 6-2, 6-0

Men’s doubles 70 plus

Tahir Ali (IND)/Govind Krishna Kumar (IND) bt Laxman Ambulkar (IND)/Darshan Maria (IND) 6-0, 6-0

Ratnakarrao Anne (IND)/Ramkrishna Sudagani (IND) bt Ratnakar Joshi (IND)/Rangnathan Krishnaswamy (IND) 6-0, 6-0

Ali Rymbai Hydar (IND)/Shiv Mor (IND) bt Parvathesam Ginagam (IND)/Nunna Kumar (IND) 7-5, 6-4

Ramarao Dosa (IND)/Khushrow Shroff (IND) bt Sushil Gujarathi (IND)/Dhaval Patel (IND) 6-3; 6-3.