Nayanika Devi Reddy knocked out the fourth-seeded Nina Stojanovic of Serbia 7-5, 6-4 in the girls' pre-quarterfinals of the ITF juniors grade ‘III' tennis tournament at the DLTA Complex here on Wednesday.
The eighth-seeded Simran Kaur Sethi fought her way past Chinese Xue Jiayuan in three sets, while Spurti Shivalingaiah was the third Indian to make the quarterfinals.
In the boys' event, the top-seeded Rishab Agarwal was the lone Indian to make the quarterfinals, as he dismissed Jeroen Royakkers of Belgium for the loss of three games.
The results (pre-quarterfinals): Boys: Rishab Agarwal bt Jeroen Royakkers (Bel) 6-1, 6-2; Naoki Nakagawa (Jpn) bt Stanislav Korshunov (Rus) 6-2, 6-2; Nattan Benjasupawan (Tha) bt Sumit Nagal 6-0, 7-6(6); Shao-Chi Yang (Tpe) bt Ahmed Djamal Mukhamed 6-4, 6-3; Ivan Divkovic (Cro) bt Teeradon Tortrakul (Tha) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3; Clement Geens (Bel) bt Wei-De Lin (Tpe) 6-1, 6-2; Robert Dula (Cro) bt Simon Stevens (Bel) 2-6, 7-6(5), 6-2; Hyeon Chung (Kor) bt Chi-Shan Jao (Tpe) 6-1, 4-6, 6-4.
Girls: Ching-Wen Hsu (Tpe) bt Sai Samhitha 7-6(1), 6-1; Sanae Ohta (Jpn) bt Dabin Kim (Kor) 6-1, 2-6, 6-4; Nayanika Devi Reddy bt Nina Stojanovic (Srb) 7-5, 6-4; Min-Chi Hsu (Tpe) bt Riya Bhatia 5-7, 6-2, 6-2; Simran Kaur Sethi bt Xue Jiayuan (Chn) 5-7, 6-3, 7-5; Madrie Le Roux (RSA) bt Shreya Pasricha 6-2, 6-2; Spurti Shivalingaiah bt Pei-Wen Kao (Tpe) 7-5, 6-3; Oleksandra Korashvili (Ukr) bt Carol Augustine (Esp) 6-1, 6-0.
