Tennis: Top seeds cruise into second round

City players Varunya Chandrashekar and Prajwal Dev succeed in first round

Top seeds had little trouble overcoming their opponents in the national-level ‘Basant Cup 2012’ organised by Inner Wheel Club of Mysore Central in association with Basant tiles at Mysore Tennis Club here on Monday.

In the under-16 boys category top seed Deepak Vishavkarma defeated Anirudh P C in straight sets to enter the second round. Top seed Manish Kumar overcame unseeded Venkata N Ramanan by 6-2, 6-1 to enter the second round.

In the girls under-16 category, sixth seeded Reshma Ganapathy beat unseeed Anusha Kondaveeti by 6-0, 6-2. In the under-18 category, city lass and unseeed Varunya Chandrashekar beat second seed Bhavani Balakumar in straight sets. Top seed Swetha Sree Hari of Tamil Nadu overcame wild card entrant Ashika D Urs by 6-3, 6-0.

Results

Boys Under-16

(S1) Deepak Vishavkarma (UP) beat Anirudh P C (AP) 6-1, 6-3; Kishen S (KAR) lost to Parishith Ramanathan (TN) 6-2, 6-0; Prashanth Reddy (AP) beat S Karthik (KAR) 6-7(3), 6-0, 6-3; Bharath L (KAR) lost to (S7) Aditya Anant Gokhale (MAH) 6-2,6-1; (S3) Gagan Sharma (RAJ) beat Arjun M (KAR) 6-0, 6-0; Yash Yadav (MP) beat Chiranthan K S (KAR) 6-3, 6-2; Anirudh B S (KAR) lost to Vasudev Vijayaraman (TN) 6-4, 6-1; Nagendra Sai K Venkata (AP) lost to (S8) R Ramakrishnan (TN) 6-4, 6-3; Jayesh S Pungliya (MAH) beat Anirudh Murthy (KAR) 6-3, 6-0; Surya Prasad (KAR) beat Pramukh Pramod Maharnor (KAR) 6-0, 6-3; Yashesh Mulchandani (MP) beat Bharath Nishok Kumaran (TN) 6-4, 6-2; Rakshith M S (KAR) lost to (S4) Prajwal Dev S D 6-1, 6-1; (S6) Aditya Deswal  beat Vignesh Subramanyan (KAR) 6-2, 6-1; Nikhil Vilas Deshmukh (GUJ) lost to Shikhar Raj (MAH) 6-4, 6-1; Harshwardhan Kotwal (MAH) lost to Varun Venkat (KAR) 7-6(6), 6-0; V R Sri Balaji (KAR) lost to (S2) I B Akshay (TN) by 6-0,6-2.

Boys Under-18

(S1) Manish Kumar (DLI) beat Venkkata N Ramanan (TN) 6-2, 6-1; Mahesh Bathija (KAR) beat Poorva Kumar S (KAR) 6-1, 6-4; Vibhuvarshi (KAR) lost to Kishen S (KAR) 6-4, 6-3; (S4) Nishanth Anthony Rebello (KAR) beat Siddarth S Reddy (TN) 6-2, 6-2; Fahad M (TN) beat Sangram Jithendra Kotwal (MAH) 6-2, 6-1.

Girls Under-16

Nisha Shenoy (KAR) beat Aishwarya Jagadish (KAR) 6-4, 6-3; Diana Abi S lost to Praneetha C S (TN) 6-4, 6-3; Aparna Kondaveeti (AP) beat Shilpi Swarupa Das (ORS) 6-4, 6-4; Prajna Nagaraj (KAR) beat Bhumika Sharma (RAJ) 6-2, 6-0; Priyanka Mariyappa lost to (S7) Neharika R (AP) 6-0, 6-0; (S6) Reshma Ganapathy (TN) beat Anusha Kondaveeti (AP) 6-4, 6-4; Suranjeta Saikia (ASM) lost to Abhilasha Vishwanath (KAR) 6-0, 6-2; Avanthika Sai R (TN) beat Janaki Kamalanathan (TN) 6-0, 6-0; (S8) Shikha N SIngh (KAR) beat Swany Kaji (MAH) 3-6,6-3,6-1; Rajshree Rathod (MAH) beat Sri Navya Karuturi (GUJ) 6-3, 6-3; Shrayashree T (TN) lost to Ramya N (TN) 7-5, 6-3; 

Girls Under-18

(S1) Swetha Sree Hari (TN) beat Ashika D Urs (KAR) 6-3, 6-0; Bhumika Sharma (RAJ) lost to Lavanya Saravanan (TN) 6-1, 6-1; Suranjeta Saikia (MAH) lost to Rashmitha Reddy Pasula (AP) 6-2, 6-3; (S8) Kruthika S Raj (KAR) lost to Samriti (DLI) 6-1, 6-1; (S7) Akshatha Ananth (TN) lost to Binu Ravikumar (AP) 6-3,6-1; Pragati Natraj (TN) beat Amrita Natha (AP) 6-2, 6-1; Varunya Chandrashekar beat (S2) Bhavani Balakumar 6-4, 6-2.