The Standard VIII Jamnabai Narsee southpaw mixed consistency with aggression to beat Pune's Noopur Desai 6-4, 6-4 in the U-14 quarters. Later she scalped Tamil Nadu's Samrata Sekhar 7-5, 6-2 to advance to the last four in the u-16 category.

Isha now plays Medini Sharma who followed up her win over 4th seed Lata Asudani by defeating Sasha Abraham 7-6 (7-4), 6-3. Medini had scored her only win over Isha in the inter-school semi-final early this year. The other u-14 semifinal will be contested by top seed Megha Vakharia and Hyderabad girl Sanya Mirza, who stopped the run of unseeded Johann Fernandes 6-3, 4-6, 6-0.

Chandigarh's Amanjyot Singh also made the semifinal cut in two events, boys u-14 and u-16. He accounted for BAT trainee Jaco Mathews 2-6, 6-3, 6-2 in theu-16 quarters.

In the Sil-sponsored state ranking tournament being held concurrently, Aditi Vasant edged out Sagarika Phadke to reach the girls u-12 semis.

Results (BMF AITA nationals)

Boys (u-16) QF: 2-Amanjyot Singh bt Jaco Mathews 2-6 6-3 6-2; Benjamin Xavier bt Anant Sriram 6-2 6-0; Pratim Parikh bt Alok Bhide 6-1 6-0; Sunil Kumar bt CS Mohanty 6-4 6-1

Girls (u-14) QF: 1-Megha Vakharia bt Samrata Sekhar 6-4 2-6 6-4; Sanya Mirza bt Johann Fernandes 6-3 4-6 6-0; Medini Sharma bt Sasha Abraham 7-6 (7-4) 6-3; 2-Isha Lakhani bt Noopur Desai 6-4 6-4; (u-16): 1-Sonal Phadke bt Riddhina Parikh 6-1 6-2; Jitisha Shelarka bt Ankita Bhambri 6-1 6-1; Isha Lakhani bt Samrata Sekhar 7-5 6-2; Lisa Pereira vs Megha Vakharia 6-3 2-6 2-0 (unifinshed due to bad light)

Results Sil state-ranking

Boys (u-12) QF: Keshavan Narasimhan bt Rohan Gide 6-1 7-5; Ayushya Wadhwan bt Rohan Sevakramani 6-4 3-6 7-6 (7-4); Krushank Shah bt Neel Patel 6-3 6-1; Akshay Chelappa bt Alon Moses 6-2 6-2

Girls (u-10)semis: Monisha Siddique bt Jinal Zaveri 8-3; Roshni Luthra bt Shruti Parab 8-3; (u-12) QF: Kartiki Bhat bt Pankti Chheda 8-0; Nidhi Shah bt M Nalini 8-2; Aditi Vasant bt Sagarika Phadke 8-7 (7-5); Lizenka Pereira bt Kanisha Mehta 8-2.