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Swaroop shocks Shah

HYDERABAD, DEC. 8. Anand Swaroop of Andhra Pradesh scored an upset win over top seeded Yogesh Shah of Gujarat 6-3, 6-2 in the 45 plus group in the 9th GVK AITA veterans national tennis tournament here on Wednesday.

The results: 65 plus group:

Chiranjeev (AP) bt Balal (Kar) 6-3, 6-1; Muthukumar Swamy (AP) bt Seshadri Nath (AP) 4-6, 6-2, 6-3; Arun Date (Mah) bt Rahanna (AP) 6-3, 6-2; C.B. Raju (AP) bt Chandranath (Kar) 6-1, 6-1; G. Palani (TN) bt T.S.S.N. Raju (AP) 6-2, 6-0; A.J. Keerthi Kumar (TN) bt S.V. Gosavi (Mah) 6-3, 6-3; Padmanabhan (TN) bt D.D. Rao (AP) 2-6, 6-2, 6-1; T.N. Laxman (TN) bt B.S. Krishna Reddy (AP) 7-6, 6-3.

55 plus group: C.S. Rajan (Kar) bt Dr.Ramakrishna (AP) 6-4, 6-1; Ankiah (AP) bt Laxman Ambulkar (Mah) 6-1, 6-0; Vijayshane (AP) bt P.R. Raju (AP) 6-2, 6-4; T.Sridhar (AP) bt Byagdi (Ka) 6-2, 6-0; Kulkarni (Kar) bt Krishnamurthy (AP) 6-2, 6-1; Yadagiri Rao (AP) bt Samuel John (AP) 3-2 conceded;

45 plus: Ghate (Mah) bt Chandrasekhar (AP) 6-0, 6-1; Dore (Mah) bt Naresh Watwani (Dli) 6-0, 6-2; V. Satyanarayana (AP) bt D.S. Rao (Mah) 6-1, 6-2; P.K. Kishore (AP) bt Rajasekhar (Kar) 6-3, 6-2; Anand Swaroop (AP) bt Yoegsh Shah (Guj) 6-3, 6-2; Kasal (Dli) bt Settu (TN) 6-1, 6-2; Shankar (Dli) bt Kotweswara Rao (AP) 7-5, 6-3.— Our Special Correspondent

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