Bengaluru: Karnataka’s eighth seed Nisha Shenoy cruised into the pre-quarter-finals of the KTPPA-AITA U-16 National Series tennis championships with a 6-3, 6-4 victory over team-mate Anisha Jain at the Mahila Seva Samaja courts, on Tuesday. In both the sets, Nisha stormed off to a 4-1 lead to ease into the next stage.
Another city girl, Sonahse Bhatnagar pulled off an impressive 6-0, 6-2 win over Apeksha Solanki.
Karnataka girls had a mixed day as Soha, Nikita Pinto, S.B.Apoorva and Shivani Manjanna made it to the last 16, Prarthana Prabhakar, P.N. Prathiba, her twin Pragathi, Muskan Ranjan and Yubrani Banerjee bowed out of the event.
Among biys, top seed C. Vasisht of Karnataka sailed past S. Komaraju of Tamil Nadu 6-2, 6-1 while eighth seed Vignesh Subramanya made short work of V. Krishna Sai of AP 6-2, 6-2.
Results (2nd round):
Boys: C.Vasishst (Kar) bt S.Komaaju (TN) 6-2, 6-1; Anshuman Gulia (Del) bt Avilash Mishra (Ori) 6-2, 3-6, 6-2; M. Kavin ( TN) bt N.Manaz ( TN) 6-2, 6-2; Yugal Bansal (Del) bt N.Siddarth Gowda 6-4, 6-2; S. Manish (TN) bt N.Akash (MP) 6-2, 6-0; Ishaque Eqbal (WB) bt Anirudh Murthy (Kar) 6-1, 6-1; Pranash Babu (TN) bt Gurjot Sidhu (Pnj) 6-1, 6-3; P.C.Anirudh (AP) bt S.Kartik Charan (TN) 6-1, 6-0; Vignesh S. (Kar ) bt V. Krishna Sai (AP) 6-2, 6-2; Dhruv Sunish (Mah) bt Vivek S.S. (Kar) 6-3, 6-0; Shramay Dhawan (Del) bt Rahul Sriram (Kar) 6-0, 6-0; Hari Singh (Kar ) bt Achint Bhagat (Kar) 6-4, 6-1; Utkarsh Bharadwaj (Utk) bt Anikait (AP) 6-3, 6-4; Paras Dahiya (Har) bt Anuj Malik (Har) 7-5, 6-4; Mayuk Rawat (Utk) bt Mohak Bajaj (Del) 6-1, 6-2.
Girls: R.Abinikka (TN) bt Prarthana Prabhakar (Kar) 6-3, 6-1; S. Soha (Kar) bt Prathiba P.N. (Kar) 6-4, 6-1; Sonashe Bhatnagar (Kar) bt Apeksha Solanki 6-0, 6-2; Nikita Pinto (Kar) bt Pragathi P.N. (Kar) 6-1, 6-1; Anjum Shaikh (AP) bt Swethashree (Kar) 6-1, 6-1; Nisha Shenoy (Kar) bt Anisha Jain (Kar) 6-3, 6-4; Shivani Manjanna (Kar) Vrinda Dimiri (Kar) 6-0, 6-1; Advaita Saravanan (TN) bt Yuubrani Banerjee (Kar) 7-6 ( 6), 6-3; Rishka Ravi (TN) bt Chelsea Stephen (Kar) 6-0, 6-2; Sarah Dev (Pnj) bt Dhwani Kumar (Kar) 6-1, 6-2; Tahoora Shaikh (AP) bt Muskaan Ranjan (Kar) 7-6 (2), 6-3; Humera Shaikh (AP) bt Rashi Shukla (Del) 6-1, 6-1; Harsha Sai Chala (AP) bt Deeksha Prasad (Kar) 6-4, 6-3; Baani Singh (Pnj) bt Ankita Nandakumar (Kar) 6-1, 6-1; S.B.Apoorva (Kar) bt Chaiali Narde (Kar) 7-5, 6-2.
