NEW DELHI, Nov 11: Maharashtra's Benjamin Xavier and Pratim Parekh entered the boys' under-16 quarter-final of the AITA Open Sub-Junior National tennis championship today.Fourth seed Benjamin outlasted Nishank Mishra (Del) 7-5, 6-0 while Pratim Parekh, seeded seventh, ousted Vipin Sirpaul also of Delhi 6-2, 6-3.
Results
Boys U-14 (PQF): Nishank Mishra (Del) bt Chatwinder Singh (Chd) 6-2, 6-3; Arif Hyder (AP) bt Mayank Tyagi (Del) 6-3, 6-2; Devender Singh Bhusari (Guj) bt Surya Charan (AP) 6-1, 6-3; Arun Prakash (TN) bt Jaico T Mathew (TN) 6-3, 6-4; A R Anand Kumar (AP) bt Arka Madal (WB) 6-3, 6-0; Rohan Gajjar (Mah) bt Nipun Gupta (Del) 6-4, 6-2; Nikhil V Murali (Del) bt S Abhinav (Del) 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, Vikrant Sane (Mah) bt Dinuka Ranaweera (SL) 7-6, (7-2), 6-2.
Girls U-14 (PQF): Deepa Chakravarthi (Guj) bt Megha Vakharia (Mah) 7-6 (7-4), 4-1 (con); Lata Assudani (Mah) bt Neha Singh (Chd) 6-3, 6-1; B Suchitra bt Sharnya Pattabhi (TN) 2-6, 7-5, 6-1; Preeti Rao (TN) bt Nivedita Venkatesh (TN)6-0, 6-3; Radha Devendrappa bt Noopur Desai (Mah) 7-6 (7-2), 6-4; Samrita Sekhar (TN) bt Neha Phalpher (Del) 6-0, 6-1; Isha Lakhani (Mah) bt Nandita Chandrasekhar (TN) 6-4, 6-2.
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