Rajpal, Priyanshi stun top seeds

Malhar Rajpal of Hong Kong and Priyanshi Bhandari of India upset top seeds in the second round of boys and girls respectively to enter the quarterfinals of the Arun Wakankar Memorial-ATF Asian Under-14 Series tennis tournament here.

Malhar ousted top seed Leston Vaz 6-3, 6-0. Local boy Arjun Gohad, a wild-card entrant, accounted for second seed Sidhharth Vaada 6-1, 6-4.

In the girls’ second round, unseeded Priyanshi defeated top seed Abhilasha Bista of Nepal 6-2, 6-1.

The results: Second round: Boys: Malhar Rajpal (Hkg) bt Leston Vaz 6-3, 6-0; Vardhan Karkal bt Jai Gollapudi (USA) 6-7(3), 7-6(3), 6-4; Arjun Gohad bt Sidhharth Vaada 6-1, 6-4; Shashidhar Kota bt Anargha Ganguly 6-3, 6-1; Kartik Parhar bt Ved Kulkarni 6-1, 6-3; Vishesh Patel bt Daksh Agarwal 6-3, 6-3.

Dev Patel bt Anshul Satav 6-2, 6-2; Dhanya Shah bt Hasith Gummuluru 6-0, 6-2.

Girls: Priyanshi Bhandari bt Abhilasha Bista (Nep) 6-2, 6-1; Radhika Mahajan bt Shri Chandrakala Tentu 6-1, 6-3; Ria Washimkar bt Tanisha Pranjal 6-2, 6-2.

Sanjana Sirimalla bt Mahi Tyagi 6-1, 6-2; Yana Dhamija bt Aarya Patil 2-6, 6-3, 6-3; Hrudaya Shah bt Roshni Ghosal 6-3, 6-2; Rijul Sidanale bt Athmika Sreenivas 6-2, 6-2; Rutuja Chaphalkar bt Riya Bhosale 6-0, 6-1 .