Saran Sai powers into semifinals
Top seed Saran Sai Reddy marched into the boys’ under-18 semifinals in the Wearhouse AITA Championship Series tennis tournament at the Century Club.
Saran scored a facile 6-2, 6-2 win over Deshwal Aditya in their quarterfinal encounter on Wednesday.Ur-18 girls’ top seed Druthi T Venugopal had a tougher time against her quarterfinal opponent Nayanika Reddy.
Druthi scored a hard-fought 6-0, 1-6, 7-6 (8-6) win over Nayanika, who had earlier in the day marched into the under-16 semifinals with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Reshma Ganapathi.
Results:
Boys: Under-18, quarterfinals: 1-Saran Sai Reddy bt Deshwal Aditya 6-2, 6-2; Mintri Ayush bt Prithvi S 6-2, 6-4; 4-Niranjan Ram bt Tushaar Mandlekar 6-2, 6-2; Sujiv Chopra bt Harish Ramakrishnan 6-2, 6-0. (Pre-quarterfinals): 1-SS Reddy bt Aaradhya Alok 6-2, 6-1; D Aditya bt Anthony Savio 6-3, 6-1; Prithvi S bt Tanishq Mahendru 6-7 (6-8), 6-3, 10-8; M Ayush bt 7-Ajith Pandya 6-2, 6-4; T Mandlekar bt 6-Tridal Sandeep 6-3, 6-1; 4-N Ram bt Suraj R Prabodh 6-1, 6-4; S Chopra bt Dhiraj Gopinath 6-1, 6-2; H Ramakrishnan bt Thippiripati Santhi Jude Raymond 6-3, 3-6, 10-8.
Under-16, quarterfinals: IB Akshay bt Deswal Aditya 6-4, 6-2; 8-Siddarth S Reddy bt Divyansh Khatri 6-1, 6-2; 6-Suraj Prabodh bt A Naveen Kumar 7-6 (7-5), 6-1; 2-Thippiripati Santhi Jude Raymond bt Madan Mohan C 6-2, 4-6, 6-3.
Girls: Under-18, quarterfinals: 1-Druthi T Venugopal bt Nayanika Reddy 6-0, 1-6, 7-6 (8-6); Preethi Gokhale bt Swetha Shreehari 6-2, 6-2. (Pre-quarterfinals): 1-Druthi bt Anjali Jaindhan 6-0, 6-1; Nayanika bt 6-Preethi Ujjini 6-3, 6-4; Shambhavi Dixit bt 3-Kruthika S Raj 6-4, 6-2; 8-Ankitha A bt Akshata Ananth 6-4, 6-3; Preethi bt 5-Aaryali Amru Chavan 6-2, 6-3; Swetha bt Abhilasha Vishwant 6-1, 6-1; Anjali Thakur bt Nikita Deshmukh 6-2, 6-0; Moulika B Ram bt Shikha N Singh 7-6 (7-1), 6-1.
Under-16, quarterfinals: 1-Nayanika Reddy bt Reshma Ganapathi 6-2, 6-0; 4-Shambavi Dixit bt 5-Bhavani Balakumar 6-4, 6-4; 7-Moulika B Ram bt Prajna Nagraj 6-3, 6-2; 6-Binu Ravi Kumar bt 2-Roma Chandiran 7-6 (9-7), 4-6, 6-1.
