Sunil kumar qualifies for
Wimbledon boys' singles

Shailesh Soni

Junior India tennis star Sunil Kumar Sipaeya qualified for the boys' singles draw at the ongoing All England Championships at Wimbledon.

The 17-year-old Chandigarh youngster, ranked 82 on the ITF juniors listing, defeated fourth seed Komlavi Loglo of Togo 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 to enter the main draw. Loglo had earlier beaten Amanjot Singh in the semis of a grade-3 event in Hungary a couple of weeks back.

Earlier, Sunil defeated Clint Letcher of Australia 6-4, 6-4 in the first round of the qualifiers. Sunil had beaten Letcher in the first round of the LTA grade-1 event on Monday at Roehamton.

Amanjot Singh, the other Indian at the qualifier, lost to Prakash Amritraj of the United States 4-6, 6-4, 2-6 in the first round.

Amritraj also qualified for the main draw. He defeated the eighth seed Michal Przysiezny of Poland 6-3, 6-3 in the second round.