Unseeded Samson shocks fancied Varun

Unseeded Samson Paul Aron knocked out sixth seed Varun Kumar 8-3 to enter the boys singles pre–quarterfinals of the KTPPA-AITA Under-12 Championship Series tennis tournament at the Tennis Advantage courts here on Sunday. 

In another upset, Sanjib Devineni beat Hiten Sreelesh 8-5. The results (third round, best of 15 games):

Boys’ singles: Kurva Gaurav bt Sriram Das 8-3, Nitin Verma bt Arya Rajat Raj 8-4, Deepak A bt Jaidheer Reddy 8-0, Sanjith Devineni bt Hiten Sreelesh 8-5, Sandesh Kantimahanti bt Aneeshwar Gautham 8-0, Sidarth Sunil bt Rishikesh N 8-6, Anirudh Kumar bt Naniah K S 8-1, Prasanna P N bt Aakansh M Bhat 8-2, Samson Paul Aron bt Varun Kumar 8-3, Nikhil Niranjan bt Rahul Dutt 8-5, Hithesh P bt Sahil Savasere 8-3, Bhuvan Mahesh bt Tarun Gowda 8-2, Adarsh Arun bt Sai Bhairav 8-0, Vishal Reddy bt Arnav Devineni 8-0, Aakarsh Gaonkar bt Karthik Neal 8-4, Arjun Sriram bt Dhruv Navada 8-0.

Girls’ singles: Shaik Mubashira Anjum bt Shalini P 8-0, Anupama Bhagade bt Kushi Santosh 8-6, Akansha H C bt Sanskriti Gupta 8-5, Priya Nayak bt Snigda 8-6, Reshma Maruri bt Meghana Singh 8-1, Koushika R V bt Madhurya Srinidhi 8-6, Naisha S bt Mahika Joshi 8-0, Ananya Reddy bt Anika Urs 8-1, Smriti Bhasin bt Kaavya Subramaniam 8-1, Sharon William bt Nidhi Parcha 8-2, Kanika Sivaraman bt Bhavyukta 8-5, Shaik Mushrat Anjum bt Sanjukta Vikram 8-1, Chandrika Joshi bt Srividya Satish 8-0, Aditi Narayan bt Nitika Girish 8-1, Lakshanya Vishwanath bt Suhita Maruri 8-7 (5), Parvvi Patil bt Smrithi Nair 8-0.