JOIN USTop seed Kurva Gaurav outplayed Rupesh Kumar 8-0 to enter the boys’ singles third round of the KTPPA-AITA under-12 championship series at the Tennis Advantage courts here on Saturday.
In another match, Tarun Gowda edged past Lakshya Srivastava 8-7 (7) to advance into the third round. It was easy pickings for Nitin Verma, Sriram Das and Deepak A as well. Nitin defeated Kaushik Singh 8-2 while Sriram got the better of Pranav Heggere 8-4 and Deepak breezed past Divit Chawla 8-1.
Results (Boys singles, second round): Kurva Gaurav bt Rupesh Kumar 8-0; Nitin Verma bt Kaushik Singh 8-2; Arya Rajat Raj bt Aditya Kodakalla 8-6; Sriram Das bt Pranav Heggere 8-4; Deepak A bt Divit Chawla 8-1; Jaideer Reddy bt Kiran Kumar 8-0; Sanjith Devineni bt Arhan Farhad 8-0; Hiten Sreelesh bt Gagandeep Gowda 8-0; Sandesh Kantimahanti bt Srivatsa 8-0; Aneeshwar Gautham bt Himanshu Dutta 8-6; Rishikesh N bt Eric Nithilan 8-1; Sidarth Sunil bt Shubham Kundu 8-2; Anirudh Kumar bt Sudeep Singhal 8-0; Naniah KS bt Bhupinder Singh 8-6; Aakansh M Bhat bt Baljinder Singh 8-1; Prasanna PN bt Pranav Reddy 8-0; Varun Kumar bt Dev Sinha 8-2; Samson Paul Aron bt Arnav Chetty 8-2; Rahul Das bt Yugansh Yajaman 8-0; Nikhil Niranjan bt Akshaj Gupta 8-3; Hithesh P bt Ashwin Bhat 8-4; Sahil Savasere bt Shashank Narde 8-6; Tarun Gowda bt Lakshya Srivastava 8-7 (7); Bhuvan Mahesh bt Vijay Ramamurthy 8-0; Adarsh Arun bt Prerith Sathyanath 8-0; Arnav Devineni bt Kartik Priyan 8-4; Vishal Reddy bt Vishal Goutham 8-1.