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Easy for Sidharth Reddy

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Top seed Sidharth Reddy (TN) breezed into the quarterfinals in the boys under-14 section in the AITA National Talent series tennis tournament at the TTC courts here on Tuesday.

Sidharth made short work of N. Ashwin (TN) 6-1. 6-2 to enter last eight. The quarterfinal line-up was completed in the boys under-14 section. Second seed Sruti Prasanth (Kar) lost in the pre-quarterfinals in the girls under-14 section. Shloka Kumar of Karnataka overcame Sruti Prasanth 7-5, 6-1 in the pre-quarterfinals.

The results: Boys Under-14 (pre-quarterfinals): Prthvihaas (AP) bt Revanth Kishorekumar (Ker) 6-3, 6-4; Prajwal Dev (Kar) bt Vikram Ramesh (Ker) 6-2, 6-1; J.S. Arun Raj (Ker) bt Jaikrishnan R. Nath (Ker) 6-2, 6-1; Mathew T. Lathra (Ker) bt I.B. Akshay (TN) 6-1, 6-3; Anand George (Ker) bt M.S. Rakshat (Kar) 6-0, 6-3; Venkat N. Ramanan (TN) bt S. Kiran (Kar) 6-2, 6-1; Sidharth Reddy (TN) bt N. Ashwin (TN) 6-1, 6-2.

Under-12 (first round): Nikki Poonacha (TN) bt Revanth Kishorekumar 6-3, 6-2; Vikram Ramesh (Ker) bt Arjuna Ajaykumar (Ker) 6-3, 6-1; Venkat N. Ramanan (TN) bt Madhav Narayankumar (Ker) 6-2, 6-1; Aqueel Faheem (Ker) bt Raswant Ravi (TN) 6-0, 6-1; Prajwal Dev (Kar) bt Sabari Janardhanan (Ker) 6-0, 6-0; M.S. Rakshit (Kar) bt K. Hariharan (Ker) 6-2, 6-1; Jeeffy Jacob (Ker) bt Vishnu J. Shree (TN) 6-3, 7-5; Jayanth Jayaraman (TN) bt Anubhav Titty George 6-0, 6-0; Navneeth Ajith bt Anirudh Jaindhan 4-6, 6-4, 6-3

Girls: Under-14 (pre-quarterfinals): A.V. Rithika (Ker) bt Begum Yasmine (Ker) 6-6, 6-1; Ranjitha Rajeev (Ker) bt Gauthami Devi (Ker) 6-4, 6-3; S.S. Deepika (TN) bt Janet Micheal (Ker) 6-0, 6-0; Anjana Sudaran (TN) bt C.S. Prinitha (TN) 6-1, 6-0; Sneha Susan Thomas (Ker) bt Divya Balakrishnan (Ker) 6-0, 6-0; Shloka Kumar (Kar) bt Sruti Prasanth (Kar) 7-5, 6-1; Pritika Rani (TN) bt Ankitha Sundaran (TN) 6-3, 6-1. — Principal Correspondent

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