Mumbai: Ayushmaan Arjeria of Madhya Pradesh and Naisha Srivastav of Karnataka continued with their impressive winning streak cruising to their respective boys’ and girls’ singles pre-quarter-final matches of the CCI 13th Ramesh Desai Memorial All India Nationals Under-16 Tennis Tournament 2019, at the CCI tennis courts on Wednesday. The MP lad Ayushmaan, who had taken down the top seed Udit Gogoi of Assam in the first round, came up with another strong performance to knockout Maharashtra’s 14th seed Yashraj Dalvi by recording a straight sets 6-3, 6-1 victory to seal his spot in the quarter-finals.
Meanwhile, Naisha seems to be gaining in confidence after her stunning straight sets second round defeat of Rajasthan’s second seed Renee Singh, as she powered her way past Uttar Pradesh’s Tanushri Pandey posting a fluent 6-4, 6-0 win without much ado and book her place in the last round. In the quarter-finals, Naisha will clash with Maharashtra’s Bhumika Tripathi who overcame Delhi’s Jannat Anand in two sets at 6-2, 6-3. Meanwhile, the top seed Sanjana Sirimalla of Telangana stormed into the quarter-finals with a quick win over Tamil Nadu’s S.R. Ananya (TN) by a 6-1, 6-3 scoreline.
Results
Girls (pre-quarters): 1-Sirimalla Sanjana (TS) bt S R Ananya (TN) 6-1, 6-3; Divya Bhardwaj (GJ) bt Karthika Vijay (TN) 6-0, 6-3; Reshma Maruri (KA) bt Anjali Rathi (HR) 6-2, 6-3; Pari Singh (HR) bt Saniya Masand (KA) 6-1, 4-6, 6-1; Renne Singla (HR) bt Lakshmi Arunkumar (TN) 6-0, 7-5; Vidhi Jani (GJ) bt Abhaya Vemuri (TS) 6-3, 6-2; Bhumika Tripathi (MH) bt Jannat Anand (DL) 6-2, 6-3; Naisha Srivastav (KA) bt Tanushri Pandey (UP) 6-4, 6-0;
Doubles (Rd-2): Rutuja Chaphalkar (MH) /Hrudaya Shah (MH) bt Saniya Masand (KA) / Pari Singh (HR) 6-2, 6-2; Sai Rajesh Bhoyar (MH) / Ishita Jadhav (MH) bt Sanjana Sirimalla (TS) / Kundana Bandaru (TN) 6-3, 6-2; Renne Singla (HR)/Vaishnavi Adkar (MH) bt Kanupriya Rajawat (RJ) / Anoushka Sharma (RJ) 6-1, 3-6, 10-7; Laxmi Arunkumar (TN)/Karthika Vijay (TN) bt Sanvi Ahluwalia (DL/Renee Singh (RJ) 6-4, 6-4.
Boys: Ayushmaan Arjeria (MP) bt Yashraj Dalvi (MH) 6-3, 6-1; Karan Singh (HR) bt Bushan Haobam (MN) 6-3, 6-1; Dhruv Tangri (PB) bt Arjun Gohad (MH) 6-2, 6-3; Saheb Sodhi (MH) bt Deep Munim (MP) 6-3, 6-2; Krishna Hooda (HR) bt Aman Dahiya (HR) 6-0, 6-4; 3-Denim Yadav (MP) bt Ajay Singh (HR) 6-3, 2-6, 6-1; Anargha Ganguly (MH) bt Daksh Agarwal (MH) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3; 2-Chirag Duhan (HR) bt Nithilan Eric (KA) beat 6-1, 6-0.
Doubles: Nikhil Niranjan(KA) / Denim Yadav (MP) bt Faiz Mohd Nasyam (MH) / Maanav Jain (KA) 7-6 (5), 6-1; Deep Munim (MP) / Arjun Gohad (MH) bt Kartik Saxena (DL) / Rishi Jalota (CH) 3-6, 6-0, 10-6; Sam Chawla (HR) / Akash Deb (AS) bt Arjun Kundu (GJ) / Heerak Vora (GJ) 3-6, 6-0, 10-6; Ajay Singh (HR) / Krishan Hooda (HR) bt Ronin Lotlikar (KA) / Monil Lotlikar (KA) 6-3, 6-1.