Manisha loses in quarterfinals

NEW DELHI, MARCH 16. The seventh-seeded Manisha Malhotra lost to the second-seeded Kristen Van Elden of Australia 7-5, 5-7, 1-6 in the quarterfinals of the 10,000 dollar ITF women's circuit tennis tournament in Benalla, Australia, on Friday. The effort fetched her 250 dollars and 1.5 WTA points. The doubles quarterfinals were washed out and rescheduled for Saturday. Meanwhile, in the 10,000 dollar event in Kao Hsiung, Chinese Taipei, Jyotsna Vasisht was unlucky not to play the doubles event as her partner Wukirash Sawondari of Indonesia fell sick before the first round.

It was a good chance missed as the alternate pair of Yeon Kim and An-Na Lee of Korea went on to beat Kumiko Iijima of Japan and Eun-Mi Oh of Korea in three sets.

Sania Mirza ousted

The third-seeded Sania Mirza lost to the fifth- seeded Suzanna Babos of Hungary 5-7, 4-6 in the quarterfinals of the ITF junior tennis tournament in Kuala Lumpur on Friday.

The Indian boys put up a below-par fare as five of them lost in the first round. The top-seeded Sunil Kumar lost to Gunter Austerhuber of Austria 6-1, 2-6, 5-7.

The sixth-seeded Vinod Kumar Sewa lost to Joseph Victorino of Philippines 2-6, 2-6; the eighth-seeded Amanjot Singh lost to Markus Egger of Austria 1-6, 3-6; Rohan Gajjar lost to Dannio Yahya of Malaysia 2-6, 4-6 and Nishank Mishra fell to the third- seeded Matthew Smith of Britain 1-6, 1-6.

In the doubles, Sunil Kumar and Vinod Sewa, the title winners last week in Jakarta, retired at 1-5 in the first set against Jonathan Chu of the US and Clinton Letcher of Australia in the quarterfinals.

Amanjot Singh partnered Stephen Amritraj, the son of Anand Amritraj, and the pair beat Craig Evans and Matthew Smith 3-6, 6- 0, 6-2, before losing 1-6, 4-6 to Mario Santoso of Australia and Eko Kurniawan of Indonesia in the quarterfinals. Stephen Amritraj made the second round of singles and lost 2-6, 0-6 to Pawel Dilaj of Poland, after beating Justin Daniel Seow of Malaysia 6-1, 6-1 in the first.

Rohan Gajjar and Nishank Mishra were knocked down by I Gusti Putu Ngurah of Indonesia and Pramote Malasitt of Thailand 6-7 (3-7), 6-4, 6-0.

In girls singles first round, the fourth-seeded Megha Vakharia lost 6-7 (7-9), 3-6 to Sae Mi Lim of Korea and Sasha Abraham lost 0-6, 0-6 to Adriana Szili of Australia.

In girls doubles, the second-seeded Sania and Sasha lost 4-6, 3-6 to Da Jung Hong and Sae Mi Lim of Korea in the pre- quarterfinals, while Megha Vakharia in partnership with Junianne Welford of Australia lost 3-6, 1-6 to the top-seeded Kristina Czafikova of Slovakia and Suzanna Babos of Hungary.

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