JOIN US Rahul BS and Kruthika S Raj registered contrasting victories over Karthik Charan and Nisha Shenoy in the U-18 boys and girls sections respectively in the pre-quarterfinals of the AITA Talent Series tennis championship at the KSLTA stadium on Tuesday.
Rahul blanked Karthik 6-0, 6-0 while Kruthika eked out a hard-fought 7-5, 4-6, 10-8 win over Nisha.
Results (pre-quarterfinals): Boys: U-18: Rahul BS bt Karthik Charan 6-0,6-0; Chiranthan KS bt Aashilesh Shetty 6-1, 6-1; BR Nikshep bt Nawaz Syed Abrar 6-2, 7-5; Rishabh Dahiya bt Rgdev nath Paul 6-2, 6-2; Alok Aradhya bt Goutham Ramkumar 6-3, 6-3; K Mohit Reddy bt Darshan Srinivasan 7-5, 4-6, 10-5; Varun Venkat bt Sri Balaji 6-2, 6-4; Gnana Bhaskar PV bt Rahul Shankar 6-1,6-0. U-16: Nikshep BR bt Yash Jain 6-0, 6-1; Chiranthan KS bt Rishi Reddy 6-3, 4-6, 10-8; Rishabh Dahiya bt Surya Prasad; Bharath Nishok Kumaran bt Nikhil Deshmukh; Bharath L bt Vignesh K 6-0, 6-0; Ganesh Srinivasan bt Rohit N 6-1, 6-0; Mohit Reddy K bt Mohit Narsimhan 6-1, 6-0; Gnana Bhaskar bt Prajwal MP 6-0, 6-2. Girls: U-18: Kruthika S Raj bt Nisha Shenoy 7-5, 4-6, 10-8; Nupurumashankar bt Sonashe Bhatnagar 6-0, 6-2; Gopika Madhu bt Jyothi M 6-2, 6-1; Soha S bt Srivani Rao 6-0, 6-0; Varunya Chandrashekar bt Prajna Nagaraj 6-0, 6-1; CS Praneetha bt Aadhya Chala 6-1, 6-2; Pragathi Nataraj bt C Kezia 6-1, 6-0; Rashmika Rajan bt Shika N Singh 6-3, 6-2.
U-16: Pragati Natarajan bt Aadhya Chala 6-4, 6-0; Sonashe Bhatnagar bt Gopika Madhu 7-5, 6-1; Jyothi M bt Srivani Rao 5-7, 6-3, 10-4; Prajna Nagaraj bt Aishwarya Jagadish 6-0, 6-0; Sumapriyanka bt Aditi Gupta 6-1,6-0; Rashmika Rajan bt CS Praneetha 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 10-6; Soha S bt Priyanka Mariyappa 6-0, 6-0; Lakshmi Nikita A bt Shika N Singh 6-4, 6-3.