Bengaluru, March 9: Gowin Sehwag brought cheers to the home crowd as he sent third seed Karthik S. Kavin packing while entering the quarterfinals of the boys’ U-18 at the Sportle AITA U-18 CS-7 National Ranking Championship being held at the Topspin Tennis Academy here on Tuesday. Sehwag prevailed 6-0, 7-6 (4) over his opponent from Tamil Nadu.
Akarsh Gaonkar scored the other upset victory in the boys’ category when he defeated seventh seed Manan Nath of Assam in straight sets 6-2, 6-2 to make it to the last eight stage.
Meanwhile, qualifier Soumya Ronde who had upset top seed Meenakshi in the first round, continued her march into the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-0 victory over Siri Patil. (IANS)
