Ram Aravind (TN) and N. Priyanka (AP), overnight leaders and top seeds, inched closer to the National under-11 titles after the 10th and penultimate round here on Monday.
Aravind drew with Tamil Nadu teammate R. Praggnanandhaa in 59 moves, after missing a possible victory, to reach nine points. He is followed by AP’s Rahul Srivatshav at 8.5 points.
In the girls’ section, Priyanka scored her ninth victory by outplaying Orissa’s Anwesha Mishra.
The results (10th round):
Open: Ram Aravind (TN, 9) drew with R. Praggnanandhaa (TN, 7.5); Rahul Srivatshav (AP, 8.5) bt Bhavik Bharambe (Mah, 8); Aronyak Ghosh (Ben, 7.5) drew with Aansh Gupta (Del, 7.5); Rudraksh Parida (Ori, 6.5) lost to M. Barath (Goa, 8); Ritam Nag (Ben, 6.5) lost to Saurabh Anand (Bih, 7.5); S. Adithya (TN, 7.5) bt Ayush Pattanaik (MP, 6.5); Sankarsha Shelke (Mah, 6.5) lost to Vatsal Singhania (Jha, 7.5); Koustav Chatterjee (Ben, 7) drew with Subhasis Barik (Ori, 7); Aditya Basu (Ben, 6.5) lost to Neelash Saha (Ben, 7.5); P. Iniyan (TN, 7) bt Aryan Shah (Mah, 6).
Girls: N. Priyanka (AP, 9) bt Anwesha Mishra (Ori, 7); Vantika Agrawal (Del, 8) bt Riddhi Zantye (Goa, 6.5); M. Tejasvi (TN, 7.5) bt Salonika Saina (Ori, 7); C. Lakshmi (TN, 7.5) bt B.M. Akshaya (AP, 6.5); Krystal Fernandes (Goa, 7.5) bt Palkin Kaur (Del, 6.5); Samriddhaa Ghosh (Ben, 7) bt Divya Deshmukh (Mah, 6.5); Meenakshi Bhoite (Mah, 6) lost to Adyasa Mahapatra (Ori, 7); Shyamshree Sarkar (Ben, 7) bt Anannya Menkudle (Mah, 6); Rutvi Shah (Guj, 7) bt D. Jishitha (AP, 6); B. Kalyani (AP, 6.5) bt Meenal Gupta (J&K, 5.5).
