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ASIAN JUNIOR MEET

VIJAYWADA, Boys, round IV ? M. R. Venkatesh (Ind, 2.5) lost to Nguyen van Huy (Vie, 4) Argh-yadip Das (Ind, 3) drew with Abhijeet Gupta (Ind, 3) S. Poobesh Anand (Ind, 3) drew with Deepan Chakkravarthy (Ind, 3) Anton Filippov (Uzb, 2.5) drew with S. Arun Prasad (Ind, 3) Sri-ram Sarja (Ind, 2.5) drew with Mehdi Hasan (Ban, 2.5) Amanov Mesgen (Tkm, 2.5) bt Bahodir Kholmi-rzaev (Uzb, 2) Samakov Nurdin (Kyr, 1.5) lost to G. N. Gopal (Ind, 2.5) Aksha-yraj Kore (Ind, 2) bt M. V. Lakshminaraya-nan (Ind, 1) G. Rohit (Ind, 2) bt Foudzi Kamal Firdaus (Mas, 1) Niyazov Niyazklich (Tkm, 1) lost to K. Nikhilesh Kumar (Ind, 2) Soumitra Maju-mdar (Ind, 2) bt Roshan Jaiswal (Nep, 1) Abhudaya Rajpurohit (Ind, 1.5) drew with Johan Iskandar Foudzi (Mas, 1.5) T. U. Navin Kanna (Ind, 1) drew with Ravin Thrimavitharana (Ind, 1) Kartikey Batra (Ind, 0.5) drew with Ahmad Wahab (Pak, 1.5) Girls, round IV ? Hoang Thi Bao Tram (Vie, 4) bt D. Harika (Ind, 3) Y. Prathiba (Ind, 2) lost to N. Raghavi (Ind, 3.5) Saheli Nath (Ind, 2) lost to Kruttika Nadig (Ind, 3); Siti Zulaikha (Mas, 3) bt Bahar Hallaeva (Tkm, 2) Soumya Swaminathan (Ind, 3) bt P. Priya (Ind, 2) Mary Ann Gomes (Ind, 2) drew with H. Sowmya (Ind, 2) J. E. Kavitha (Ind, 2.5) bt Irina Gevorgyan (Uzb, 1.5) N. Sandhya (Ind, 2) bt U. G. Y. Methmali (Sri, 1) Anuprieta Patil (Ind, 2) bt P. Sivasankari (Ind, 1) Samanthi Wettasinghe (Sri, 1) lost to Maya Kurbanova (Tkm, 2) Amruta Mokal (Ind, 1.5) bt Janyl Tilen-baeva (Kyr, 0.5).

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AITA TALENT SERIES

CALCUTTA, boys U-14, quarter finals ? Prem Singh (5) bt Amartya Das 6-4, 6-1 Rohan Ray (3) bt Ayush Dharewa (7) 6-4, 6-2 Ranveer Shriv-astav (6) bt Ayush Bajoria (4) 6-3, 6-3 Prosonjit Paul (Jha, 2) bt Md. Sarfaraz 6-3, 6-2 U-14, semi-finals ? Rohan Ray (3) bt Prem Singh (5) 6-2, 6-1 Ranveer Shrivastav (6) bt Prosonjit Paul (Jha, 2) 6-2, 6-3 Gir-ls, U-14, quarter finals ? Treta Bhattacharyya (1) bt Angana Ghosh 6-1, 6-3 Amrita Mukherjee bt Srestha Banerjee (3) 6-0, 6-1 Dipti Srivast-ava (2) bt Andrea Das 6-0, 6-1 Girls, U-14, semi-finals ? Treta Bhatta-charyya (1) bt Raseena Chablani 6-0, 6-1 Dipti Srivastava (2) bt Amrita Mukherjee 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 Boys U-12, semi-finals ? Prem Singh bt Adit-ya Sinha 6-4, 6-1.

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