Nihit Rawal moves up

Nihit Rawal continued with his good game and knocked out the fourth-seeded Jack Macfarlane of Britain 2-6, 7-5, 6-4 in the boys pre-quarterfinals of the ITF grade-IV junior tennis tournament here on Wednesday.

The results: Pre-quarterfinals: Boys: Jay Clarke (Gbr) bt Param Pun 7-5, 7-5; B.R. Nikshep bt Indra Patwardhan 4-6, 6-1, 6-1; Vasisht Cheruku bt Nitin Kumar Sinha 6-1, 6-2; Shrey Gupta bt Aditya Anant Gokhale 7-5, 6-7(5), 7-5; Paramveer Singh Bajwa bt Anurag Nenwani 6-3, 7-6(7); Nihit Rawal bt Jack Macfarlane (Gbr) 2-6, 7-5, 6-4; Aryan Goveas bt Parikshit Somani 6-4, 6-1; Kennosuke Nouchi (Jpn) bt Dhruv Sunish 6-3, 6-1.

Girls: Mihika Yadav bt Vicky Geurinckx (Bel) 6-1, 6-2; Nandini Sharma bt Nida Shahid Kamal 6-2, 6-1; Hsinag-Wen Huang (Tpe) bt Hasha Sai Challa 6-1, 6-0; Chen Ruoyu (Chn) bt Sathwika Sama 6-4, 7-6(4); Shivani Manjanna bt Lexie Stevens (Ned) 2-6, 6-3, 6-0; Sabhyata Nihalani bt Angella Raman 6-2, 6-2; Nidhi Surapaneni bt Natsumi Okamoto (Jpn) 6-2, 6-1; Georgina Axon (Gbr) bt Lalita Devarakonda 6-3, 6-1.