JOIN USTop pick Rashmika Rajan blanked Yashaswani Singh 4-0, 4-0 as all the seeded players advanced into the third round of the girls singles competition in the KTPPA-AITA Under-16 Championship Series tennis tournament at the Bulldog Tennis academy courts here on Sunday.
The other players to enter the third round were second seed Shivani Manjanna, third seed Chaitali Narde and fourth seed Muskaan Ranjan all from Karnataka. In the boys section, the top seed Rahul Shankar and his Karnataka team-mates Rohan K Reddy and Sai Pranav Ponaka, also sailed into the third round.
Results (second round): Boys’ singles: Rahul Shankar bt S Dhanush 7-2; Yeshwanath Loganathan bt Bharadwaj 7-0; Rahul Sriram bt Laad Singh 7-4; A Rohit bt CH Dhanush 7-3; P Vishal bt Sai Bhairav 7-1; MK Arunachala bt Shashank Narde 7-4; Sai Pranav Ponaka bt M Shiva Anirudh 7-2; Rohan K Reddy bt Chandan Reddy 7-0; P Selvakumar bt Narayan Singh 7-5; S Tulsiani bt M Arjun 7-3; M Nidish bt S Arnav 7-3; Sahaj Somani bt P Pranav 7-0; CH Arjun bt Deepak Kumar 7-2; Harshith Selvaraj bt A Deepak 7-3; CM Tatagath bt AM Bhuvan 7-2.
Girls’ singles: Rashmika Rajan bt Yashaswini Singh 4-0, 4-0; S Akshaya bt Srinidhi 4-2, 4-2; SB Apoorva bt Bhumika 4-0, 4-2; Chelsea Stephen bt Zeba Amina 4-1, 4-0; Chaitali Narde bt Reshma M 4-0, 4-0; Prarthana Prabhakar bt Monicashree 4-0, 4-2; Ankita Nandakumar bt Michelle Jo Joseph 4-0, 1-4, 8-6; Prathibha PN bt A Vinayshree 4-1, 4-1; S Shimran bt Anisha Jain 4-2, 4-0; Ashrita Nagpal bt Vrinda Dimri 4-2, 4-3; Vanshita Pathania bt Swethasashi 4-2, 1-4, 7-4; Muskan Ranjan bt S Vidyalakshmi 4-1, 4-1; Pragathi PN bt Tejaswini 5-3, 4-2; NG Monoja bt Dhriti 4-2, 4-2; Chandrika Joshi bt Khaniskha 4-2, 4-2; Shivani Manjanna bt S Gayathri 4-1, 4-2.