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Shabaaz scores upset win in national ranking tennis

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Pune:Unseeded Shabaaz Khan scored a shock straight sets win over Kunal Vazirani in the first round of the All-India Ranking Men’s Tennis Tournament at the Solaris Club here Monday.

Shabaaz was up against eighth seeded Kunal in an all-Maharashtra clash and he made most of the opportunity to score a deserving win. Shabaaz won 6-4, 7-5 to make it to the second round.

Seasoned Nitten Kirrtane too progressed without breaking much sweat as he dispatched Andhra Pradesh’s Taha Kapadia 6-1, 6-4. Kirrtane broke Kapadia twice in the first set before the Andhra player got his game together. But the Pune player broke Kapadia again in the second set to take it 6-4 and the match.

Also winning were Jayesh Pungaliya, who beat Rithvik Anand of Tamil Nadu 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, and Maharashtra’s Haddin Bava who defeated statemate Sahil Gaware 6-2, 6-3.

First round results: 1-Abdullah Shaikh (AP) bt Ashish Mukherjee (MP) 6-2, 6-2; Jayesh Pungaliya (Mah) bt Rithvik Anand (TN) 6-3, 4-6, 6-4; Q-Yuraj Singh (Del) bt Manav Kumar Chakma (Asm) 6-1, 6-3; 5-Tejas Chaukulkar (Mah) bt Rohan Bhatia (Mah) 6-1, 6-1; 3-Nitin Kirtane (Mah) bt Taha Kapadia (AP) 6-1, 6-4; Siddharth Sarthank (Ori) bt Rohit Sarwate (AP) 6-2, 6-2; Haadin Bava (Mah) bt Sahil Gaware (Mah) 6-2, 6-3; 6-Rahul Manoah (TN) bt Jairaj Sirohi (Har) 6-2, 6-3; Shabaaz Khan (Mah) bt 8-Kunal Vazirani (Mah) 6-4, 7-5; Vilasier Khate (Har) bt Osama Shaikh (AP) 7-5, 6-1; Digvijay Singh Mehta (HP) bt Rahul Singh (Dil) 6-2, 6-3; 4-Siddharth Vishwakarma (UP) bt Rohit Rangalani (Mah) 6-1, 6-1; 7-Bhavesh Gaur (MP) bt Rohan Samant (Mah) 6-1, 7-5; Raghavendra Subramanya (Kar) bt Prajeet Oswal (Mah) 6-0, 6-2; 2-Vijay Kannan (TN) bt Siddharth Ponnala (AP) 6-2, 6-3.

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Sunil Gavaskar gives his opinion of GT allrounder Rahul Tewatia

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The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.

Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.

Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”

Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.

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