Aditya Khanna got past third seed Dilip Mohanty, as the latter retired midway through the second set in the over-35 age group of the ITF grade-4 seniors’ tennis tournament here on Thursday.
Aditya led 6-2, 3-1 when Mohanty retired.
In the semifinals, Aditya will play second seed Nishant Goel. The other semifinal will be between top seed and former national champion Vinod Sridhar and Himanshu Shankar who battled past fourth seed Mohit Phogat.
In the over-55 age group, Puneet Kumar Gupta beat second seed Pawan Jain 3-6, 6-2, 6-4.
The results:
Over-35: Quarterfinals: Vinod Sridhar bt Akhil Mathur 6-0, 6-0; Himanshu Shankar bt Mohit Phogat 7-5, 6-7(4), 6-2; Aditya Khanna bt Dilip Mohanty 6-2, 3-1 (retired); Nishant Goel bt Manish Aggarwal 6-2, 6-1. Doubles semifinals: Nagaraj Revanasiddaiah & Jagdish Tanwer bt Aditya Khanna & Ashish Khanna 4-6, 6-1, [11-9]; Avinash Kunwar & Vinod Sridhar bt Manish Aggarwal & Nishant Goel 6-3, 6-2.
Over-45: Quarterfinals: Nagaraj Revanasiddaiah bt Gurdarshan Singh Ramana 6-2, 6-3; Chandra Bhushan bt Bal Kishan Bhatia 6-4, 6-2; Alok Bhatnagar bt Vinod Seth 6-3, 6-3; Jagdish Tanwer bt Tuleswor Singh Thongbam 6-1, 2-0 (retired). Doubles semifinals: Rohit Rawat & Jagdish Tanwer bt Alok Bhatnagar & Vinod Seth 6-2, 6-2; Bal Kisshan Bhatia & Gurdarshan Singh Ramana bt Puneet Kumar Gupta & Mani Mohan Nehru 6-3, 6-0.
Over-55: Quarterfinals: Ajeet Bhardwaj bt Bhimraj Baliram Patil 6-1, 6-1; Sharad Tak bt Harsh Kumar Sharma 6-1, 6-1; Mani Mohan Nehru bt Surinder Mohan Sharma 6-3, 7-6(2); Puneet Kumar Gupta bt Pawan Jain 3-6, 6-2, 6-4. Doubles semifinals: Ajeet Bhardwaj & Rakesh Kohli bt Puneet Kumar Gupta & Mani Mohan Nehru 4-6, 6-0, [10-7]; Pawan Jain & Sharad Tak bt Narender Janweja & Surnder Mohan Sharma 6-3, 4-6, [10-7]. — Sports Bureau