Bhatia, Kirrtane advance

MUMBAI: Top seed Himanshu Bhatia and second seed Nitten Kirrtane scored contrasting victories to advance to the third round of the men's 45+ singles in the Jayant Roy Memorial S 400 Mumbai ITF Tennis Tournament, being played at the MSLTA and Woodehouse Gymkhana, here, on Sunday.
While Kirrtane stroked his way past Deepak Patil 6-0, 6-1 without much ado, Bhatia had a fight on his hands against Gopal Soni, before winning 6-4, 6-3.
Austrian Christian Wind, the top seed in the men's 55+ singles was in sublime form as he brushed aside Dharamvir Singh 6-2-6-2 to enter the quarter-finals. Also advancing to the round of eight was former badminton international, Bhushan Akut, who powered past Gulabrao Fulzele 6-4, 6-1.
Results: Men's Single 45+ (MSLTA) (pre-quarters):
Nitten Kirrtane (IND) bt Deepak Patil (IND) 6-0, 6-1; Nikhil Rao (IND) bt Mudit Khanna (IND) 6-3,6-2; Himanshu Bhatia (IND) bt Gopal Soni (IND) 6-4, 6-3; Sheetal Sharma (IND) bt Mohit Bedi (IND) 6-0, 6-4; Yati Gujarathi (IND) bt Nitesh Rungta (IND) 6-1, 6-2; Sunil Lulla (IND) bt Amit Sharma (IND) 6-3, 2-6, 10-2.
Results: Men's Single 55+ (MSLTA)
Christian Wind (AUT) bt Dharamvir Singh (IND) 6-2, 6-2; Nagraj Revanasiddaiah (IND) bt Ashish Dikey (IND) 6-0, 6-1; Bhushan Akut (IND) bt Ulhas Gulabrao Fulzele (IND) 6-4, 6-1;Singh Kuldeep (IND) bt Rajender Singh (IND) 6-0, 6-0; Nirmal Kumar Rajan (USA) bt Sanjiv Mehra (IND) 6-2, 7-5; Lakpa Sherpa (IND) bt Vipul Varma (IND) 6-3, 6-1; Chandra Bhushan (IND) bt Firdaus Shroff (IND) 7-5, 6-1;
Results: Men's Double 45+ (MSLTA)
Gaurav Kapadia (IND)/Sheetal Sharma (IND) bt Channabasavakumar (IND)/Deepak Patil (IND) 6-2, 5-7, 10-8; Amit Sharma (IND)/Gopal Soni (IND) bt Mudit Khanna (IND)/Nitesh Rungta (IND) 6-3, 6-1;
Results: Men's Double 55+ (MSLTA)
Bhushan Akut (IND)/Nishit Pandey (IND) bt Sanjay Kalgaonkar (IND)/Rajendra Singh (IND) 6-0, 6-0;
Men's Singles 70+ (Woodhouse Gymkhana) Round 2
Ratnakarrao Anne (IND) bt Ramkrishna Sudagani (IND) 7-6, 1-6, 10-8; Dhaval Patel (IND) btNunna Kumar (IND) 6-2, 6-0;
Men's Double 70+ (Woodhouse Gymkhana)
Tahir Ali (IND)/Govind Krishna Kumar (IND) bt Laxman Ambulkar (IND)/Darshan Maria (IND) 6-0, 6-0; Ratnakarrao Anne (IND)/Ramkrishna Sudagani (IND) bt Ratnakar Joshi (IND)/Rangnathan Krishnaswamy (IND) 6-0, 6-0; Ali Rymbai Hydar (IND)/Shiv Mor (IND) bt Parvathesam Ginagam (IND)/Nunna Kumar (IND) 7-5, 6-4; Ramarao Dosa (IND)/Khushrow Shroff (IND) bt Sushil Gujarathi (IND)/Dhaval Patel (IND) 6-3; 6-3.