Sriram in quarters

Karnataka’s Arjun Sriram and PM Prasanna marched into the quarterfinals in the boys’ singles event of the KTPPA-AITA under-12 National Series tennis tournament at the Tennis Village courts here.

Seventh seed Arjun posted a hard-fought 7-5, 4-6, 7-5 win over Tamil Nadu’s Rajesh Kannan, while the unseeded Prasanna got the better of Madhya Pradesh’s Denim Yadav 6-4, 1-6,  6-3.

In the girls’ section of the draw, Chandrika Joshi, Parvvi Patil and Reshma Maruri entered the last-eight stage.

Results:

Boys (pre-quarterfinals): Dev Javia (Guj) bt Nihar Patel (Guj) 6-1, 6-2; Gaurav Kurva (AP) bt Kanish Pal (Del) 6-3, 6-4; Eshan Lumba (Mah) bt VM Sandeep (TN) 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (2); Adarsh Naga T (AP) bt Harshith Kosaraju (AP) 6-4, 6-4; Mahesh Mohapatra (Ori) bt Girish D Chougle (Mah) 6-2, 6-0; PM Prasanna (Kar) bt Denim Yadav (MP) 6-4, 1-6, 6-3; Arjun Sriram (Kar) bt Rajesh Kannan (TN) 7-5, 4-6, 7-5; S Boopathy (TN) bt V Preetam (AP) 6-1, 6-4.

Doubles (quarterfinals): Mahesh Mohapatra/ S Boopathy bt Rahuk Chandana/ A Akash 9-0; Dev Javia/ Eshan Lumba bt Nikhil Niranjan/ Adarsh Arun 9-2.

Girls: (quarterfinals): Soumya Vig (Del) bt Shivani Manjanna 6-1, 6-3.  
Girls (pre-quarterfinals): Mubashir Anjum Shaik (AP) bt Sudipta S (Mah) 6-1, 6-3; Parvvi Patil (Kar) bt Mushrath Anjum Shaik (AP) 6-0, 6-1; Bhakti B Parwani (Guj) bt Bhakti Shah (AP) 6-0, 6-3; Chandrika Joshi (Kar) bt Dhriti Kapoor (AP) 7-5, 6-2; Fatima Juveria (AP) bt Durva Deo (Mah) 6-4, 7-5; Reshma Maruri (Kar) bt Ananya Reddy (AP) 6-1, 6-1; SB Gauri  (Mah) bt Prerna Vichare (Mah) 7-6 (3), 6-2; Richa D Chougle (Mah) bt Malika Marathe (Mah) 6-4, 6-7 (8), 6-4.

Doubles (quarterfinals): Richa Chougle/ V Prerna bt Reshma Maruri/ Chandrika Joshi 9-5; Aditi Narayan/ Sudipta bt Bhakti Shah/ Ishita Singh 9-7; Bhagya Gauri/ P Bhatti bt U Riya/ Musrath Anjum Shaik 9-3; Malika Marathe/ Durva Deo bt Parvvi Patil/ Dhriti Kapoor 9-5.