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Lissanevitch to vie with Lee in final

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KATHMANDU, Aug 29: Ivan Hoe Lissanevitch of The British School and Yeoram Lee of KISK will meet the final of the boy´s singles while Bibhuti Karki will take on Manjita Nyachhon of St Xavier´sin girl´s final of same age group in the Sixth LAJTI Inter-school Junior Open Tennis Tournament being held at the Satdobato tennis court.



Both Lissanevitch and Lee registered convincing wins over their opponents in the semifinals. Lissnavitch edged past Sakchyam Karki of Rato Bangala 6-0, 6-2 and Lee saw off Aakyash Lamkhor of GEMS 6-0, 6-1. [break]



In girl´s semifinal, Karki bounced back in the second and third set 6-3, 6-4 after going down 3-6 in the opening set against Bijisha Shrestha of DAV. Similarly, Nyachhon toiled hard to beat Pritika Manandhar of her own school St Xavier´s 4-6, 6-4, 7-5.



The final of U-14 boy´s singles will feature two Rato Bangala colts. Abhaya Gauchan defeated Sanesh Paudel of host Little Angel´s 6-4, 6-1 and Avash Malla edged past his school mate Sakchyam Karki 7-5, 6-4.



In U-10 girl´s singles Alsha Regmi of Kasthamandap defeated Pemila Limbu of Little Angles 8-3 and Riyasha Baidhya of Rato Bangala beat Abhilasha Bista of St Xavier´s 8-4 to secure place in the final. In boy´s same age group, Samyak Bhusan Bajracharya of Shuvatara overcame Deep Rana of host LA 8-3 and Aditya Subedi of Euro Kids saw off Kiran Rai of LA to secure place in last four. Nirajan Subedi of LA ousted Aryan Giri of Ullens



Mayanka Rana of Rupy´s thumped Khusi Pandey of The British School 8-0, Ira Raut of Penwood ousted Cathy Mathema of Ullens 8-1, Anne Mathema of Ullens dispatched Medhabi Giri of Ullens 8-2 and Mahika Rana outplayed Sangita Rana of Mahendra Adarsha 8-0. All the winners secured semifinal place in the U-12 girl´s singles category.



Three team of LA has secured semifinal place in the U-14 girl´s doubles after pair of Kala Tamang and Labita Gurung, Chhiring Sherpa and Ayusha Rai, and Diwa Rana and Siwani Singh secured semifinal places.



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