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Prasad, Amreen in last eight

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Coimbatore: Top seeds Ishwar Prasad of Tamil Nadu and Sheikh Amreen of Andhra Pradesh dispatched their opponents with ease for a place in the under-14 boys' and girls' singles quarterfinals in the ONGC-Pro Serve AITA Talent Series tennis tournament at the CDTA and Cosmopolitan Club courts here on Tuesday.

Prasad ousted State-mate Avinash Ramanathan 6-1, 6-4 and Amreen got the better of A. Nikita of Tamil Nadu 6-3, 6-0.

The results (pre-quarterfinals):

Boys: U-12: V. Prithvi Haas (AP) bt Nicky Poonacha 6-1, 6-2; Mathew T. Lathra (Ker) bt M.S. Rakshit (Kar) 6-2, 6-1; B. Anirudha (TN) bt I. Akhil (TN) 6-0, 2-6, 7-6(3); S. Kishen (Kar) bt S.D. Prajwal Dev (Kar) 6-4, 6-0; Jayanth Jayaram (TN) bt Rajagopal (TN) 6-1, 6-0; H. Suraj (Ker) bt S. Sagar (Kar) 6-1, 6-2.

U-14: Ishwar Prasad (TN) bt Avinash Ramanathan (TN) 6-1, 6-4; Avinash R. Sai (TN) bt Mohammed Hamraz 6-0, 7-5; Anvit Bendre (Guj) bt S. Veerappan (TN) 6-7(6), 6-3, 7-6(4); S.A. Venkatesh Krishna (TN) bt S.D. Prajwal Dev (Kar) 6-2, 6-2; H.M. Yunus (TN) bt Niral A. Shah (TN) 6-0, 6-2; K. Jayendra Sai (AP) bt Venkata N. Ramanan (TN) 6-4, 6-7(2), 6-2; S. Raghavendra (Kar) bt Anand George (Ker) 6-2, 6-2; Arun Venkatesan (TN) bt Jayanth Jayraman (TN) 6-1, 6-4.

Girls: U-12: Sheikh Amreen (AP) bt S.S. Deepika (TN) 6-4, 6-3; S. Swetha (TN) bt Rithika (Ker) 6-1, 6-1; Kavya Bharat (TN) bt Roma Chandran (TN) 7-5, 6-4; Nikita Telkar (Kar) bt Priyadarshini (TN) 6-2, 6-0; Dhruthi Venugopal (Kar) bt A. Nikita (TN) 6-0, 6-0; Ashwini Suresh (TN) bt Anjali Jaindhan (Ker) 6-1, 6-0; M. Prithika Rani bt Priya Selvakumar (TN) 7-6(7), 4-6, 6-2; Sneha Susan Thomas (Ker) bt A. Sabatini (AP) 6-4, 6-4.

U-14: Sheikh Amreen bt A. Nikita (TN) 6-3, 6-0; K.S. Sangita (TN) bt Roma Chandran (TN) 6-3, 6-1; S.S. Deepika (TN) bt Shreya Ravichandran (TN) 6-2, 6-0; Nikita Telkar (Kar) bt Sneha Susan Thomas (Ker) 6-3, 6-1; Dhruthi Venugopal bt T.M. Priyadarshini (TN); S. Swetha (TN) bt A. Sabatini 6-2, 6-4; Akshaya Chandran (TN) bt S. Vishnu Priya 6-1, 6-1; Mahashree (TN) bt Kavya Bharat 6-1, 6-2.

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