Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 2 : Top seeds Anant Sitaram (AP), T Yamini (Tamil Nadu), R Arun Prakash (Tamil Nadu) and Sasha Abraham (Andhra) entered the quarter-finals in their respective sections in the AITA all-India sub-junior ranking tennis tournament today.In the pre-quarterfinals of the boys Under-16, Anant Sitaram had an easy win over S kohli 6-2 6-1, while T Yamini beat Pooja Chopra of Karnataka 6-2 6-3 in the girls U-16 event.
Results (all pre quarters)
Boys (Under-14): R Arun Prakash (TN) bt Suryacharan (AP) 6-1 6-1; Vikram Aditya Menon (TN) bt K Arun Karthik (TN) 6-2 6-1; V Vignesh (AP) bt Somdev K Verman (TN) 5-7 6-3 6-3; Sourabh Kohli (Mah) bt P Vikas (AP) 6-4 6-3; R Vasudevan (TN) bt Dvij Sharan (Del) 5-7 (con); SN Amrit (Kar) bt Rohit Raju (Del) 6-3 6-4; M Jayakar (TN) bt Rishi Behl (Mah) 6-3 6-3; Chatiwinder Singh (Cha) bt Aditya Nair (Ker) 6-0 6-0; (U-16): Anant Sitaram (AP) bt Sourabh Kohli (Mah) 6-2 6-1; Chatwinder Singh (Cha) bt Srikrishna Ramanathan (TN) 6-0 6-0; Jaico Mathew(TN) bt Nirun Raj (Ker) 6-4 6-2; R Arunprakash (TN) bt S Kishore (TN) 6-1 6-1; V Vignesh (AP) bt MV Abhay Prakash (Kar) 6-0 6-1; Tejeeswar (Kar) bt Vikram Aditya Menon (TN) 6-4 6-0; Pratim Parekh (Mah) bt M Jayakar (TN) 6-1 7-5.Girls (under 14): Sasha Abraham (AP) bt Fatima Baig (TN) 6-0 6-0; Nivedita Venkatesh (TN) 6-3 6-3; S Bhambri (Del) bt Mansi Modi (AP) 6-2 6-2; Sandra Sasidharan (Kar) bt Pooja Chopra (Kar) 7-5 6-1; Krushmi Chedda (Kar) bt Lizenka Pereira (Mah) 4-6 6-0 6-1; Sharanya Pattabi (TN) bt Vandana Murali (TN) 6-7 6-1 6-3; (U-16): T Yamini (TN) bt Pooja Chopra (Kar) 6-2 6-3; Sasha Abraham (AP) bt Nivedita Venkatesh (TN) 6-1 6-2; Megha Vakharia (Mah) bt B Suchitra (TN) 7-5 6-1.
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