Reshien and Rajeshwari enter Quarterfinals

Bangalore, May 15 (UNI) Maintaining his tempo top seed Reshien Samuel of Karnataka entered Quarterfinals in Boys section defeating his statemate K Sachin 7-5, 6-2 in the Laabh Jewellers AITA Ranking Championship tournament for U-16 Boys and Girls played at Sadashivnagar Club here today.

In the Girl's Section, unseeded Preethi Ujjani of Karnataka shocked her eighth seeded statemate L S Archana 6-0, 6-0, even as top seed C Rajeshwari of Tamil Nadu stormed into last eight stage in Girls section defeating Vidya Bharath of Karnataka in straight sets 6-0, 6-0.

Second seed Sharan Patil, third seed Vinod Gowda, fourth seed Vishwanath Sawadi (all from Karnataka) and eighth seed R Vigneshwaran of Tamil Nadu also entered the quarterfinals in Boys section. In Girl's section second seed M P Nitha, fourth seed Ravina Shetty of Karnataka, fifth seed Sanjan M Kumar of Tamil Nadu, sixth seed U M Shalaka of Karnataka also made it to the quarterfinals.

Results (Pre Quarters) Boys: S1-Reshien Samuel (Kar) bt K Sachin 7-5, 6-2; V Senthil Kumar (Kar) bt Alankrith J Goud 6-0, 6-0; S4 Vishwanath Sawadi (Kar) bt Nikhil Reddy (Kar) 6-0, 6-3; Rohit Srinath (Kar) bt Vikram Naidu (Kar) 6-3, 6-2; S8-R Vigneshwaran (TN) bt S Raghavendra (Kar) 6-1, 6-4; S3-Vinod Gowda (Kar) bt Ganga Singh (Kar) 6-0, 6-0; Surjith Singh (Kar) bt Hemanth Kumar (Kar) 6-3, 7-6(4); S2 Sharan Patil (Kar) bt Varun Gopal (Kar) 6-4, 6-4.

Girls: S6-U M Shalaka (Kar) bt Vidya Bharath (Kar) 6-0, 6-0; A K Padmapriya (Kar) bt Apoorva Deshpande (Kar) 6-0, 6-0; S5-Sanjan N Kumar (TN) bt Varsha Poojari (Kar) 6-0, 6-0; S2-M P Nitha (Kar) bt Preethi Gokhale (Kar) 6-3, 6-2; Preethi Ujjani (Kar) bt S8-L S Archana 6-4, 5-7,6-4; S1-C Rajeshwari (TN) bt Spruthi Prashanth (Kar) 6-0, 6-0; P Soumya (AP) bt Surya Suresh (Kar) 6-2, 6-2; S4-Ravina Shetty (Kar) bt Swathi Kumar (Kar) 6-2, 6-3.

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