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Kathmandu Wednesday November 22, 2000 Mangshir 07, 2057.
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Top seed out of Open
Post Report
KATHMANDU, Nov 21 - Kaptan Karsoliya of India today ousted first seed Krishna
Ghale from the men’s singles category of the third Carlsberg Open Tennis Tournament
in the second round match played today at Satdobato Tennis complex.
Karsoliya defeated top seeded Ghale 6-3, 6-4 in a gruelling match which saw
both players matching each other in skills. In the end Karsoliya, younger and more agile
on the court, proved too much for the experience of Ghale.
Ghale did not show enough confidence in coming up to the net. On the other
hand Karsoliya looked much more confident and did not lose a single point coming up front.
One of the other weaknesses of Ghale proved to be his serve. He had three double faults
compared to Karsoliya’s two. Karsoliya played with lot of aggression slamming four
aces in the two set encounter.
First service break of the match came in the eighth game of the first set
when Karsoliya broke Ghale taking away the set. Ghale came back well in the second set
when he broke the Indian’s serve in the fourth game. However, he could not hold on to
his serve and was broken by Karsoliya in the next game. Karsoliya broke Ghale’s serve
again in the ninth game winning the match in two sets.
In the other matches played today, Andrew Hunt defeated Wang Yi 6-2, 6-4 and
is set to meet Karsoliya in the quarter-finals. Kamlesh Shukla defeated Chandra Shahi 6-2,
6-1 and is set too meet Sreeram Magar who advanced to the quarter-final beating M B
Katuwal 6-1, 6-1.
The results of other matches played today: Rameshwor Thapa bt Raju Shrestha
(3-6, 6-4, 6-4), Raju Chhetri bt Soviet M Shrestha (6-2, 6-1), P Dayananda bt B M Shrestha
(6-2, 6-2) and second seed Sanu Gurung bt Manoj Rana (6-7, 6-3, 6-4). All these players
advance to the quarter-finals.
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