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CHENNAI, JAN. 26. Bangalore upset the calculations of last year's all-India Inter-university champion Madras with a hard-fought 3-2 win in a quarterfinal match of the South-West Zone inter-university tennis tournament, hosted by the Anna University Sports Board, at the College of Engineering Tennis courts, Anna University, on Monday. With the match tied at 2-all, the fifth and final tie between Madras' top player Ajai Selvaraj and N. Kiran Kumar of Bangalore turned out to be the clinching factor. In a tense one and a half hour contest, Kiran, backed by a potent first serve, handed out a 6-4, 6-4 defeat to Ajai. L.S. Anantha Bhaskar, a BA Economics Student of Loyola College (all the four players of Madras University are from Loyola), won both his singles matches to equalise the scores at 2-all. Madras had lost his first singles and doubles; Ajai losing his first singles and the doubles partnering Aswin. The reverse singles between Ajai and Kiran went the distance. Taking a 5-4 lead, Kiran, a student of Mahavir Jain College, looked all set to wrap up the tie, and was serving for the match. Kiran led 30-0, before Ajai dug deep. Soon, he had two break points only to lose both (one to a very poor bounce). Kiran finally closed out the match on his second match point when Ajai's backhand went long. Last year's runner-up Osmania University had to sweat to overcome University of Rajasthan 3-2 in another quarterfinal contest.
Bangalore bt Madras 3-2 (G. Arjun bt Ajai Selvaraj 7-5, 6-3; N. Kiran Kumar lost to Anantha Bhaskar 4-6, 1-6; N. Kiran Kumar & G. Arjun bt Ajai Selvaraj & Aswin 6-4, 6-4; G. Arjun lost to L.S. Anantha Bhaskar 1-6, 3-6; N. Kiran Kumar bt Ajai Selvaraj 6-4, 6-4).
Osmania bt University of Rajasthan 3-2 (Md. Yasar Arafat bt Mahendra Singh 6-1, 6-0; V. Vignesh lost to Sandeep Chowdry 2-6, 4-6; V. Vignesh & Md. Yasar Arafat bt Aditya Sharma & Sandeep Chowdhry 6-1, 6-2; Md. Yaseer Arafat bt Sandeep Chowdry 6-0, 6-3; V. Vignesh, leadnig 6-2, 4-1, conceded his match against Mahendra Singh as his team had won the tie).
Jiwaji (Gwalior) bt Anna 3-0 (Shirayansh Sanchchi bt J. Premanand 4-6, 6-3, 6-4; I.K. Mahajan bt Nikilesh Nataraj 6-4, 6-2; Shirayansh Sanchchi & I.K. Mahajan bt R. Vasudevan & Abinave 6-1, 6-3).
Sri Venkateswara (Tirupathi) bt Rajiv Gandhi Univ. of Health Sciences (Karnataka) 3-0 (T.D. Arun Kumar Reddy bt Vishnu 6-0, 6-0; S.Md. Ahullah bt Selva 6-0, 6-1; T.D. Arun Kumar Reddy & S.Md. Ahullah bt Vishva & Selva 6-3, 6-0). — Our Sports Reporter
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