Pune: Sandeepti Rao, a qualifier from Haryana, Telengana’s Smriti Bhasin, Tamil Nadu’s Deeplakshmi Vanaraja and Maharashtra’s Sudipta Senthilkumar knocked out seeded opponents to enter the girl’s singles pre-quarterfinals of the MSLTA-Yonex Sunrise 11th Ramesh Desai memorial junior National (under-16) tennis tournament at the Shiv Chatrapathi Mhalunge Balewadi sports complex here on Tuesday.
The results (singles, second round):
Girish Chougule (Mah) bt Krishan Hooda (CH) 2-6, 6-3, 6-4; Krish Patel (Guj) bt Arnav Phatange (Kar) 6-2, 6-2; Kabir Hans (Odi) bt Anmol Jain (Del) 6-2, 6-1; Kevin Patel (Guj) bt Sanskaar Choubey (Guj) 6-0, 6-0; Aman Khan (AP) bt Sushant Dabas 6-3, 6-2.
Girls: Salsa Aher (Mah) bt Gargi Pawar (Mah) 6-0, 6-2; Bela Tamhankar (Mah) bt Malvika Shukla (Mah) 6-2, 3-6, 6-2; Sandeepti Rao (Har) bt Mubashira Shaikh (TS) 6-2, 6-0; Bhakti Parwani (Guj) bt Jagmeet Kaur (Del) 6-3, 3-6, 6-2; Kashish Bhatia (Del) bt Kritika Chhabran (Mah) 7-5, 6-3; Dharana Mudliar (CH) bt Ameek Batth (Odi) 6-3, 7-5; Sunskrithi Dhamera (TS) bt Sruthi Pandithurain (TN) 6-2, 6-3; Vanshika Chaudhary (UP) bt Anu Verma (Del) 6-0, 6-2; Richa Chougule (Mah) bt Pooja Ingle (Mah) 7-5, 6-4; Prerna Vichare (Mah) bt Gauri Bhagia (Mah) 6-4, 4-6, 7-5; Smriti Bhasin (TS) bt Smriti Singh (Har) 4-6, 7-5, 6-2; Deeplakshmi Vanaraja (TN) bt Ishita Singh (Har) 7-5, 3-6, 6-3; Pratibha Narayan (Kar) bt Sanya Singh (Mah) 6-0, 6-3; Tanisha Kashyap (AS) bt Kiran Rani (TN) 6-0, 6-0.
