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Kathmandu,Wednesday April 26, 2000 Baishakh 14, 2057.
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Prasad, Dayananda in doubles final
By a Post Reporter
LALITPUR, April 25 - Rashmi
Prasad and Vindya Dayananda stepped closer to the women’s doubles title as they
defeated Francoise Hewitt and Ceril Hoffman by 6-2, 6-3 Tuesday in the semifinals of the
first King’s Cup Open Tennis Championship, organised by All Nepal Lawn Tennis
Association (ANLTA).
Hewitt and Hoffman started well
earning couple of big points early on only to see lose their composure as the match
progressed. They also committed couple of unforced errors conceding vital points to their
rivals.
On the other hand, Dayananda and
Prasad, who already won several tournaments together, broke their opposition twice in the
first set to take it at 6-2 and despite facing a few challenge in the second, managed to
win that one as well by 6-3.
In the other matches of the day,
Subha Ratna Shahi, Kamal Bhandari and Sanu Gurung were all safely through to the
semifinals following their straight sets victory in the men’s single event.
Subha Ratna Shahi, despite
catching in with the age showed no signed of fatigue as he easily outgunned Rameshwor
Thapa by 6-1, 6-2.
Shahi, who with his biggest
asset of highest first serves percentage forced Thapa to his back foot all the time. Thapa
also could not match him in shots as he found wanting to counter Shahi’s brilliant
volley game, quickly killing the rally.
He was joined in by Kamal
Bhandari and Sanu Gurung in the semifinals, who also posted easy win over Raju Chhetri and
Krishna Ghale by 6-1, 6-2 and 6-4, 6-2 respectively.
Ghale, who used to be at least
in the last four in any major tennis events, seemed to have lost his edge in this
competition going tamely to Sanu Gurung. Even his aggressive serve and volley game failed
to rescue him from trouble against much superior Gurung.
In the men’s veteran
singles, Kamal Thapa announced his fine form in the game with a straight set, 6-0, 6-3 win
over Tashi Ghale to enter the quarterfinals. Madhukar Rana and Sakai Yamada also were in
brilliant form in their respective straight set win over Memo Ferera and Kancha Gurung
with the score of 6-2, 6-1 and 6-3, 6-2.
Meanwhile Celia White joined the
rest of the pack in the women’s single quarterfinals handing out her opponent, Izumi
Murakami a 6-2, 6-0 defeat in the last of the pre-quarters here Tuesday.
Wednesday’s matches:
Men’s doubles (semifinals)-
Ram Sharan Thapa/Kamal Bhandari vs Raju Chhetri/Mahesh Shrestha
Mixed doubles (semifinals)-
Chandra Shahi/Rashmi Prasad vs Krishna Ghale/Sumitra Dayananda, Kamal Bhandari/Cathy Hunt
vs Ram Sharan Thapa/Francoise Hewitt.
Junior boys’ single
(semifinals)- Praveen Dayananda vs Jeetendra Pariyar, Sung Ryal Kim vs Andrew Hunt.
Sub-junior boys’ single
(qtr-finals)- Shreyans Karki vs Biraj Man Singh, Suraj Shahi vs Jonathan Edou, Utsav Rijal
vs Malcolm McDougal, Sung Ryal Kim vs Minik Hough.
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