Soorya Prasath of Rajalakshmi Engineering defeated Ashwin Dhanaswamy (SBOA) 6-1, 6-4 in a tennis singles pre-quarterfinal match of the Bertram memorial tournaments at Loyola College here on Wednesday.
Other results: Tennis: Singles (pre-quarterfinals): Praveen Raj (Loy) bt Shree Shravan (DAV) 6-1, 6-2; Dhiraj Gopinath (Loy) bt Teju Moi (St. Bede’s) 6-1, 6-1; S. Aravind (Loy) bt Thomas Premkumar (St. Joseph’s) 4-6, 3-5 (retd); Adil (Loy) bt Viswesh (Loy) 6-1, 6-2; Harish Ramakrishnan (Loy) bt V. Rohit (HCCV) 6-1, 6-2; S. Gokul (PSBB) bt Siddarth Reddy (SBOA) 7-5, 6-1; Ihsan Hussain (PVM) bt Anirudh Rajagopalan (PSBB) 6-0, 6-1.
Doubles (quarterfinals): Dhiraj Gopinath & Harish Ramakrishnan (Loy) bt Robin & Nitesh Steve (LICET) 6-1, 6-0; R. Viswesh & Aravind (Loy) bt Thomas Premkumar & Rajiv Sridhar (St. Joseph’s) 1-6, 6-4, 10-4; Praveen Raj & Adil (Loy) bt K. Tarun & Goutham (Bishop Heber) 6-1, 6-2; Soorya Prasath & Veerapan (Rajalakshmi) w/o Arjun Srivats & Thaika Habib (Anna Univ MIT).