Kolkata, Dec 22 (IANS) Sixth seed Rohan Gide of Services was shown the door by Maharashtra’s Ronak Manuja 6-2,6-2 at the Vishwarupa Tubes National Grass Court Tennis Championship 2009 on the lawns of Calcutta South Club here Tuesday.
The day’s other upset was caused by Vivek Shokeen who accounted for eighth seed Divij Sharan 6-4, 6-3.

In the first set, Gide managed to retain his serve in the first game and lost it thrice after that. However he broke Manuja in the sixth and kept his cool to pocket the set.

In the second set, Gide was broken in the first and seventh games.

The Shokeen-Sharan match saw the rivals going with the serve till the ninth game of the first set.

In the tenth, Shokeen broke Sharan to take the set 6-4. In the second set, the solitary break came in the fourth game. Shokeen did not make any mistakes and retained all his serves to proceed to the pre quarter finals.

In the only Women’s Singles match fifth seed local girl Treta Bhattacharyya defeated the Maharashtra’s Sagarika Phadke 6-4,6-2.

Results of matches played Tuesday:

Men’s First Round : V.M. Ranjeet (TN)(1) beat B. Vikram Reddy (AP)

6-7(4-7),6-3,7-6(7-4); Sumeet Shinde (Mah)(Q) beat Pulkit Mishra (Dli) 6-4,6-4; P.C. Vignesh (AP)(5) beat Mithun Murali (TN) 6-4,6-3; Yannick Nelord (Dli)(3) beat Kaza Vinayak Sharma (AP)(WC) 6-1,6-3; Akash Wagh (Mah) beat Varun Walia (Utr)(Q) 4-2 (Conc); Vivek Shokeen (Dli)(Q) beat Divij Sharan (Dli)(8) 6-4,6-3; Vijyant Malik (Chd)(7) beat Ketan Dhumal (Mah) 6-2,6-1; Ramkumar Ramanathan (TN)(LL) beat Chandril Sood (UP) 6-2,6-4; Lakshit Sood (UP)(LL) beat Kamala Kannan (TN)

6-7(4-7),6-2,7-6(7-4); Ronak Manuja (Mah) beat Rohan Gide (Ser))6)

6-2,6-2; Rubal Shandilya (Dli) beat Ajai Selvaraj (TN) 7-6(7-5),6-4;

N.Vijay Sundar Prashanth (TN)(2) beat Irfan Hussain (TN)(Q) 6-1,6-1.

Women’s First Round : Treta Bhattacharyya (WB)(5) beat Sagarika Phadke (Mah) 6-4,6-2.

Men’s Doubles Pre Quarter Finals : Abhijeet Tiwari (Cg) & Akash Wagh (Mah) beat Saurav Panja (WB) & Manoj Kumar Sewa (WB)(4) 6-0,6-1; B. Vikram Reddy (AP) & Kamala Kannan (TN) beat Saurav Sukul (WB) & Amod Wakankar (Mah) 6-4,7-6(7-5).

Women’s Doubles Pre Quarter Finals : Shweta Rana (Dli) & Ankita Raina (Guj) beat Prarthana Pratap (Kar) & Sayali Bhilari (Mah) 6-1,6-4;

Aishwarya Agarwal (MP) & Tanvi Shah (Mah) beat Arantxa Andrady (Dli) & Sonia Dayal (Mah) 6-2,6-4; Radhika Kanitkar (Mah) & Shruti Dhawan Sharma (WB) beat Deepna Vazirani (Mah) & Kyra Shroff (Mah) 6-3,6-1.