Medini, daughter of former National badminton player Sanjay Sharma won the three game encounter over her fancied Nagpur opponent 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.

Tamil Nadu's Samrata Sekhar caused a major upset in the girls u-16 pre-quarter-finals bt defeating second seed and citymate T Yamnini in straight sets-- 6-3, 6-0.

In the boys under-14 event fourth seed Rohan Gajjar was stretched to three sets by qualifier Arun Prakash before the former won 7-5, 3-6, 6-1.

Johann Fernandes who had stunned third seed Ankita Bhambri yesterday won another three-setter against Pune's Kartiki Bhat, 6-4, 3-6, 6-2, to reach the quarter-finals. She now plays Saania Mirza, the eighth seed.

In the Sil-State Ranking Tournament for under-12 and u-10 boys and girls being held concurrently at the same venue, Tejesvi Raostunned second seed Gaurav Agarwal in the boys u-10 quarter-finals. At 8-all the match went into the tie-breaker, where Rao, a class fifth student of Rajhans Vidyalaya clinched the issue, 7-3.

RESULTS

Boys U-16 (PQF): Jaco Mathew bt Gavryl Fernandes 6-3, 6-2; Amanjyot Singh bt Harshit Sharma 6-2, 6-1; Benjamin Xavier bt Shyam Gala 6-2, 6-1; Anant Sitaram bt Kunal Bhojwani 6-1, 6-4; Alok Bhide bt Rohan Gajjar 6-1, 3-6, 6-1; Pratim Parikh bt Vikrant Sane 6-0, 4-6, 7-5; C S Mohanti bt Ravi Krishna 6-4, 6-4; Sunil Kumar bt Vivek Jhaveri 6-4, 6-2.

U-14 (QF): 1-Amanjyot Singh bt V Vignesh 6-2, 7-5; 4-Rohan Gajjar bt Arun Prakash 7-5, 3-6, 6-1; 3-Nishang Mishra bt 8-Arif Hyder 6-4, 6-3; 2-Vikrant Sane bt Nipun Gupta 6-2, 6-4.

U-10 (QF): 1-Arnav Jain bt 5-Marlon Coelho 9-6; 3-Agnel Gladwin bt Ankesh Bhargava 9-0; 6-Bhavik Shelarkha bt Kaushal Mahale 9-7; Tejesvi Rao bt 2-Gaurav Agarwal 9-8 (7-3).

Girls U-16 (First round): 1-Sonal Phadke bt K Soumya 6-1, 6-0; Medini Sharma btVishal Chaitri 6-4, 7-6 (7-5); Anuja Parekh bt Sonia Gomes 6-4, 6-4; Riddina Parekh bt Nupur Desai 6-4, 1-6, 6-2; 3-Liza Perreira bt Asheldina M 6-1, 6-4; Y Lakshmi Reddy bt Priyanka Parekh 6-1, 7-5; Lata Asudani bt Saana Bhambri 6-4, 6-5; 5-Megha Vakharia bt Johann Fernandes 6-1, 6-1; 8-Ankita Bhambri bt Kalpita Raje 6-2, 6-1; Ronak Shah bt Krushmi Cheddha 7-6 (7-5), 6-1; Shraddha Lodha bt Uttara Rao 7-6 (7-5), 6-4; 4-Jitisha Shelarkha bt Rati Kumar 6-1, 6-1; 7-Isha Lakhani bt Saania Mirza 6-0, 6-2; Sasha Abraham bt Preeti Rao 6-0, 6-3; Samrita Shekhar bt Deepa Chakraborthy 6-0, 7-5; 2-T Yamini bt Anisha Shelar 6-1, 6-1.

(PQF): 1-Sonal Phadke bt Medini Sharma 6-1, 6-3; Riddina Parikh bt Anuja Parikh 6-3, 6-3; Liza Perreira bt Lakshmi Reddy 6-0, 6-4; Megha Vakharia bt Lata Asudani 6-3, 6-4; Ankita Bhambri bt Ronak Shah 6-2, 6-3; Jitisha Shelarkha bt Shraddha Lodha 6-1, 6-0; Samrata Sekhar bt 2-T Yamini 6-3, 6-0.

U-14 (PQF): 1-Megha Vakharia bt Ronak Shah 7-5, 6-1; 7-Samrita Shekhar btAkshata N 6-4, 6-0; Johann Fernandes bt Kartiki Bhat 6-4, 3-6, 6-2; 8-Saania Mirza bt Asheldina M 3-6, 6-0, 6-2; 6-Sasha Abraham bt K Soumya 6-3, 6-1; Medini Sharma bt 4-Lata Asudani 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; Nupur Desai bt Shraddha Lodha 6-1, 6-2; 2-Isha Lakhani bt Deepa Chakraborthy 6-0, 5-7, 6-3.

U-12 (PQF): Nalini M bt Roshini Luthra 7-3; Aditi Vasant bt Priyanka Vengulekar 7-3; Lizanka Perreira bt Jinal Jhaveri 7-0; Pankti Chedda bt Divya Gopal 7-4; Nidhi Shah bt M Siddique 7-1; Sagarika Phadke w/o Neha Agarwal; Kanisha Mehta w/o Natasha Shetty.

U-10 (QF): M Siddique bt Priya haldar 7-0; Jinal Jhaveri bt Sachi Ganekiwal 7-5; Shruti S Parab bt Sonal Shetye 7-5; Roshini Luthra bt Camalia Vazidar 7-1.