Rashmika enters third round

Karnataka’s Rashmika Rajan stormed into the third round in the girls’ under-14 and under-12 singles categories of the AITA Talent Series Junior tennis tournament at the Bulldog Sportz Academy courts on Wednesday.

Rashmika posted a 8-0 win over Namrata Anand in the under-14 category, and registered an identical win over Aashrita Nagpal in her under-12 second round match.

Results (from Karnataka unless specified otherwise): Boys: U-12 (second round): Rohan Reddy (AP) bt GS Nithin (TN) 8-2; CH Arjun bt Arjun Mariyappa 8-1; Kiran Devaa (TN) bt Kavan Kumar 8-0; Saran S (TN) bt Sanket R (Mah) 8-6; N Heman bt Vishal Reddy 8-2; S Harshit bt Sundar Arvind 8-0; Aaron Raj (TN) bt MS Karthik (TN) 8-1; Pralok Ikkurthy bt Vivek Sudhakar (TN) 8-2.

U-14 double (first round): Anirudh Murthy/ Farid Khan Asif bt Reddy Rishi/ Sai Pranav 8-6; Sundar Arvind/ R Karthikeyan bt Pranav Ikkurthy/ Rohan P 8-3; Khan Tausif/ VR Sanjay bt Rajneesh/ Arjun Mariyappa 8-0; Nama Heman/ MS Karthik bt Pralok Ikkurthy/ Kavan S Kumar 8-5; Khan Maaz/ Abraham Siddharth bt Aneesh Bharadwaj/ Vivek Srinivas 8-2; Devaa N Kiran/ CH Arjun bt Chandan Reddy/ Abeer Dubey 8-4; Charan Karthik/ Aaron Raj bt R Sanket/ Ahmed Khan Sammi 8-4; Shankar Rahul/ Venkat Varun bt A Yuvraj/ KN Vignesh 8-1.

Girls: U-14 (second round): Rashmika Rajan bt Namrata Anand 8-0; Parravi Paatil bt Vrinda Dimri 5-0 (retd); Nikita Pinto bt Aadhya Chala 8-1; S Akshaya (TN) bt Janavi 8-2; Muskaan Ranjan (Mah) bt Bhumika Srihari 8-3; Prerana Kalwar bt Keerthi Prada Balajee 8-3; Prarthana Prabhakar bt Pratika Sen 7-6 (7-2); Pratibha NP bt B Celina Maria (TN) 8-7 (7-5).

U-12 (second round): Rashmika Rajan bt Aashrita Nagpal 8-0; Annika Kannan bt Prathana Prabhakar 8-7 (7-5); Muskaan Ranjan (Mah) bt Avantika Reddy (AP) 8-3; Akshaya S (TN) bt Haripreetha Perumal (TN) 8-7 (7-4); Janavi Reddy bt Aadhya Chala 8-6; Parrvi Paatil bt A Vidula Reddy 8-5; NP Pratibha bt Deeksha Prasad 8-3; B Celine Mariya (TN) bt Annesh J Jain 8-2.