Kolkata, January 16, 2007Mumbai lad Christopher Marquis played a match
of lifetime to beat Romanian Cosmin Christian Andreescu in 125
minutes at the ONGC-ITF juniors 2007 being played at the DKS Sports
Complex here.
Andreescu ran through the first set in 25 minutes breaking Marquis
in the first, third and seventh games. Andreescu served one ace and
one double fault while Marquis served two double faults. The second
set had a total of six breaks. Marquis broke Andreescu in the first,
third, seventh and ninth and got broken in the second and eighth
games.
Marquis took the second set at 6-3. Andreescu served four double
faults while Marquis served one ace. In the final set Andreescu
broke Marquis in the seventh game and retained his serve in the
eighth to go up 5-3.
Marquis then took the next three games breaking Andreescu in the
tenth game to come back into the match. The tie break went with
serves till 9-9. Marquis took the next two points to seal the match
in his favour.
In the other big match of the day top seed Rifat Biktyakov of
Uzbekistan ran through Harshvardhan Thirani in little less than an
hour 6-0, 6-3. The youngster showed a wide array of strokes as he
dropped only three games on way to take home the first match.
Thirani showed a semblence of resistence in the second set, but it
was not good enough.
In the girl’s singles Jessy Rompies lived up to her top billing
defeating Arushi Sharma 6-0, 6-1, while eighth seed Sweta Solanki
beat Wild card Nupur Kaul 6-2, 6-0.
RESULTS OF MATCHES PLAYED TODAY:
Boys’ First Round : Rifat Biktyakov (1)(Uzb)(113) beat
Harshvardhan Thirani (WC)(1428) 6-0,6-3; Christopher Marquis
(Q)(787) beat Cosmin Christian Andreescu (Rom)(320)
1-6,6-3,7-6(11-9); Sudhanwa Sitaram (Q)(545) beat Vishesh Bhatia
(298) 4-6,6-2,6-4; Varun Gunaseelan (Q)(711) beat Palash Tiwari
(Q)(818) 6-4,6-2.
Girls’ Singles First Round : Jessy Rompies (1)(Ina)(135) beat
Arushi Sharma (Q) 6-0,6-1; Olga Makhova (Rus)(520) beat Garima
Vatwani (Q)(1448) 6-2,6-1; Sweta Solanki (8)(234) beat Nupur Kaul
(Q)(1151) 6-2,6-0; Ashwarya Srivastava (Q)(879) beat Regina
Shtyagina (Rus)(973) 6-3,1-6,6-1; Prerna Bhambri (WC)(748) beat
Polina Dzyuba (Rus)(494) 4-6,7-6(7-4),6-1; Deepna Vazirani (914)
beat Mohana Chintala (484) 7-6(7-3),4-6,6-2.
Boys’ Doubles First Round : Rifat Biktyakov (Uzb) & Timur Kamilov
(Uzb)(1) beat Sitaram Sudhanwa & Christopher Marquis 5-7,6-2,6-3;
Agnel Gladwin Peter & Vladimir Lyashchenko (Rus) beat Palash Tiwari
& V. Sudarshan 0-6,7-5,6-2; B. Vikram Reddy & Sriram Balaji
Narayanswamy beat Kittiphong Wachiramanowong (Tha) & Khunpol Issara
(Tha)(3) 6-4,6-7(9-11),6-2;Yuki Bhambri & Karunuday Singh beat Parul
Verma & Harshvardhan Thirani 6-2,6-2; Sameer Paranjpe & Mansingh
Athare (WC) beat Shiva Sangwan & Navinder Pal Singh 6-2,7-6(7-3);
Ronak Manuja & Vishesh Bhatia (4) beat Lakshit Sood & Chandril Sood
(WC) 7-5,6-3.
Girls’ Doubles First Round : Beatrice Gumulya (Ina) & Jessy
Rompies (Ina)(1) beat Shahin Ansari & Kesika Jayapalan 6-0,6-0; Olga
Makhova (Rus) & Nanuli Pipiya (Rus) beat Deepna Vazirani & Richa
Valechha 6-2,6-1; Alyona Sotnikova (Ukr) & Regina Shtyagina (Rus)
beat Dipti Srivastava & Treta Bhattacharyya (WC) 6-0,6-3; Nicha
Lertpitaksinchai (Tha) & Khunpak Issara (Tha)(3) beat Kyra Shroff &
Ashwarya Srivastava 6-4,6-0.
