Swetha storms into quarters

Swetha, who moved into the second round in the under-18 category with a 9-3 win over Gopika Madhu, stormed into the quarterfinals with a 6-4, 6-4 win against Roma.
The top seeds in both the boys’ and girls’ under-18 categories came through their first round tests with flying colours.

Boys’ top seed Saran Sai Reddy overcame Vishnu Rajesh 9-6 while Druthi T Venugopal, top-seeded in the girls’ section, scored a comprehensive 9-2 win over Lavanya Saravanan in her first round encounter.

Results: Boys, under-18 (first round): 1-Saran Sai Reddy B bt Vishnu Rajesh 9-6; Aaradhya Alol bt Pranav Diwakar 9-5; Deshwal Aditya bt Niral Shah 9-3; Anthony Savio bt 5-Dev Prajwal 9-6; Prithvi S bt 3-Raghavendra S 9-4; Tanishq Mahendru bt Rohan Gajree 9-3; Mintri Ayush bt Naidu Vikram 9-4; 7-Ajith Pandya bt Rohan Goankar 9-7; 6-Tridal Sandeep bt Jewoor Naesar 9-6; Tushaar Madlekar bt Debrai Siddarth 9-1; Suraj R Prabodh bt Srinivasa Darshan 9-1; 4-Niranjan Ram bt Harsha Manjunath 9-2; Dhiraj Gopinath bt 8-Kashyap Ashok 9-2; Sujiv Chopra bt Mahesh Bhatijha 9-4; Harish Ramakrishnan bt Banerjee Arman 9-1; Jude Raymond bt 2-Manish Kumar 9-2.
Under-16 (pre-quarterfinals): Deswal Aditya bt Patwardhan Indra 7-5, 6-0; IB Akshay bt Nikhil Sai Manapalli 6-2, 6-4; Divyansh Khatri bt Rahul BS 6-2, 6-3; 8-Siddarth S Reddy bt Rawat Aman 7-5, 6-2; 6-Suraj Prabodh bt Vignesh T 6-1, 6-4; A Naveen Kumar bt Dhankar Shaurya 7-5, 6-2; Madan Mohan C bt Aamir Sohrab 6-2, 7-5; 2-Thippiripati Santhi  bt Akhil Kanagaraj 6-3, 6-1.
Girls, under-18 (first round): 1-Druthi T Venugopal bt Lavanya Saravanan 9-2; Anjali Jaindhan bt Nikita A Lakshmi 9-7; Nayanika Reddy bt Nupur Umashanker 9-4; 6-Preethi Ujjini bt Binu Ravikumar 9-3; 3-Kruthika S Raj bt Shudhi Ramani 9-3; Shambavi Dixit bt Roma Chandiran 9-6; Akshata Ananth bt Chandrashekar Sanjana 9-6; Ankitha A bt Tejashwini C Belludi 9-8 (12-10); 5-Chavan Aaryali Amru bt Divya M 9-3; Preethi Gokhale bt Varunya Chandrashekar 9-3; Abhilasha Viswanath bt Jaffen Shaik 9-8 (7-3); Shreehari Swetha bt Gopika Madhu 9-3; Thakur Anjali bt Balakumar Bavani 9-6; Nikiti Deshmukh bt Janani TG 9-5; Shikha N Singh bt Sai Deedepiya 9-7; 2-Sraff Sripriya bt Moulika B Ram 9-5.
Under-16 (pre-quarterfinals): 1-Nayanika Reddy bt Preethi Bandurge 6-0, 6-0; Reshma Ganapathi bt Anjali Takur 6-0, 6-1; 4-Shambavi Dixit bt Simran Noronha 6-0, 6-2; Shivani Manjanna bt 5-Bhavani Balakumar 6-3, 6-1; 7-Moulika B Ram bt Abilasha Vishwanath 6-2, 6-3; Prajna Nagraj bt 3-Lavanya Saravanan 7-6 (7-3), 6/4; 6-Binu Ravi Kumar bt Ashwini Suresh 1-6, 7-5, 10-8; Srihari Swetha bt 2-Roma Chandiran 6-4, 6-4.