Rashmika prevails

Karnataka’s Rashmika Rajan beat top seed Pragati Natraj of Tamil Nadu 8-2 to march into the quarterfinals of the girls under-18 singles category in the MP Prakash Memorial AITA Championship Series tennis tournament at the SAT Courts on Tuesday. 

Results (all pre-quarterfinals): Boys: U-18: Vinod Cheruku  Vasisht (Kar) bt Avilash Mishra (Ori) 8-0, 6-0; S Manish (TN) bt V Jayachandran (TN) 6-1, 6-2; Krishna Teja Ankam (AP) bt Pranash Babu (TN) 6-2, 3-6, 6-4; Raghav Jaisinghani (MP) bt  Anwesh Roy (TN) 6-0, 6-3; Hari Singh (Kar) bt Samud Sharma (TN) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4; Mayuk Rawat (Utr) bt Nishok Kumar (TN)  6-4, 6-1; Rigab K Reddy (AP) bt Hemanth Kumar (AP) 6-2, 6-2;  SM Adithya TN) bt N Srinivasan 6-1, 7-5. 

U-16 singles (best of 15 games): Raghav Jaisinghani bt D Mohan 8-3; Siddarth Gowda (Kar) bt Achint Bhagat (Kar) 8-7; Sai Pranav Ponaka (Kar) bt Sanket Tambat (Mah) 8-4; Pralok Ikkruthy (Kar) bt Pritvi Khanna (Del) 8-5; Varun Venkat (Kar) bt Prakrut Patel (Mah) 8-2; Pranash Babu bt Sarang Phadnis (Mah) 8-2.

Girls: U-18: Rashmika Rajan (Kar) bt Pragati Natraj (TN) 8-2; Mahak Jain (Mah) bt Shivani Amineni (AP) 8-1; SB Apoorva (Kar) bt Suprabha Pujari (Mah) 8-5; Sai Dedeepya (AP) bt Bhumika Srihari (Kar) 8-1; Harsha Sai Challa (AP) w/o Deeksha (Kar); Diana Abi (TN) bt Jhanavi Reddy (Kar) 8-1; Nikita Pinto (Kar) bt Sonashe Bhatnagar (Kar) 8-7; Shikha Singh (Kar) bt Nupur Umashankar (Kar) 8-6.

U-16: Rashmika Rajan w/o Nikita Reddy; SB Apoorva bt Chandrika Joshi (Kar) 8-3; Shivani Amineni bt Anu Verma (Bhr) 8-0; Nikita Pinto bt BS Bhoomika (Kar) 8-3; Prathibha Prasad Narayan (Kar) bt Bhumika srihari 8-4; Rashmika shrivalli (AP) bt P Shruthi (TN) 8-3; Shivani Manjanna (Kar) bt Paarvi Patil (Kar) 8-5; Priya Naik (Kar) bt Divya Vani (TN) 8-4.