Sports | Posted on Jan 27, 2009 at 07:06pm IST

Yuki advances to singles pre-quarter finals

Press Trust Of India

Melbourne: Among the juniors, top seed Yuki Bhambri continued his

impressive showing as he reached the pre-quarterfinals of the singles and quarterfinals of the doubles with Chinese Taipei's Liang-Chi Huang.

In the singles second round, Yuki beat local Stephen Hoh 7-6 (1) 6-0 while in the doubles he and Liang, top-seeded pair, beat Italian Marco Bortolotti and Vladzimir Kruk of Belarus 6-3 6-4.

However, it was curtains for Kaza Vinayak Sharma, who lost his singles second round match 1-6 1-6 to Justin Eleveld of The Netherlands.

In girls' doubles, Kyra Shroff and her Canadian partner Eugenie Bouchard lost 4-6 1-6 to the sixth seeded pair of American Christina McHale and Ajla Tomljanovic of Croatia in the second round.

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