Top seed Arjun Mariappa made short work of Tamil Nadu’s VM Sandeep to move into the boys’ singles final of the AITA Amway Nutrilite U-14 Championship Cup here on Tuesday
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Arjun will now take on his Karnataka State-mate Nitin Reddy who faced stiff resistance from another local player Arvind Kalyana. The second-seeded Nitin needed over two hours to overcome a battling Arvind 7-6 (17-15), 6-2.
Results: Boys singles semifinals: Arjun Mariappa bt VM Sandeep 6-0, 6-2; Nitin Reddy bt Arvind Kalyana 7-6 (17-15), 6-2.
Quarterfinals: Arvind bt Ritvik Puranik 8-4; Arjun bt Anirudh Kumar 8-3; Nitin bt Praneeth 8-6; Sandeep bt Shiekh Mohd 8-3.
Doubles final: Kavan Kumar/ Praneeth bt Arjun Mariappa/ Nitin Reddy 6-3, 0-6, 6-4.Girls singles quarters: Sruthi Pandithurain bt Priya Naik 8-3; Sharanya bt Pratibha Prasad 8-4; Srikanth Parvvi bt Pragathi Prasad Narayan 6-0; Prarthana Prabhakar bt Shimran 8-7 (7-5).
