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Top seeds have it easy

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Mysore: Top-seed Varun Gunasheelan (TN), second seed Luv Sodha (Mah) and third seed Vibhav M. Iyengar (Kar) registered easy wins and entered the boys' under-16 quarterfinals on day two of the AITA Talent Series juniors tournament here on Tuesday.

The results: Boys: under-16: pre-quarterfinals: Varun Gunasheelan (TN) bt Yatish Anand (Kar) 6-1, 6-1; Sriram Balaji (TN) bt Chirag S. Igoor (Kar) 6-2, 6-1; A.M. Suraj (Kar) bt Vikas Hansoge (Kar) 6-2, 6-3; Vibhav M. Iyengar (Kar) bt Varun Gopal (Kar) 6-1, 6-2; Jagadeeshan Kumar (Kar) bt R. Vigneshwaran (TN) 6-7 (6), 7-6 (4), 6-2; Chetan Pandit (AP) bt Sujith Mathew (Kar) 6-2, 6-4; B. Santhosh (Kar) bt P. Nitesh (Kar) 6-3, 6-7 (11-9), 6-2; Luv Sodha (Mah) bt Sharan Patil (Kar) 6-0, 6-1.

Under-14: Chetan Pandit (AP) bt C. Bharghav (AP) 6-1, 6-1; Vinod Gowda (Kar) bt C.M. Kiran (Kar) 6-2, 6-0; H.J. Prajwal (Kar) bt Soorya Prasath (TN) 4-6, 6-3, 6-1; R. Vigneshwaran (TN) bt Vikas Hansoge (Kar) 6-3, 6-2; Rashin Samuel (Kar) bt Y. Sriman (AP) 6-1, 6-1; Varun Gopal (Kar) bt K. Sachin (AP) 6-1, 6-0; Ishwar Prasad (TN) bt G.L. Karthik (Kar) 6-0, 6-0; Praveen Ramaswamy (Kar) bt Nisheeth Reddy (Kar) 6-1, 6-1.

Under-14: Doubles: pre-quarterfinals: C.M. Kiran/ Tao Issaro bt Shreyas J/ Arjun Shenoy (Kar) 9-0; R. Vigneshwaran/ Ishwar Prasad (TN) bt Prabhav/ C. Harish (AP) 9-2; Rashin Samuel/ Varun Gopal (Kar) bt Varun D/ G.L. Karthik (Kar) 9-2; N. Pruthvika/ Vikas H (Kar) bt Senthil Kumar/ Y. Sriman (AP) 9-8 (1).

Girls: Under-14: pre-quarterfinals: P. Sindoora (AP) bt Ravina Shetty (Kar) 6-4, 4-6, 6-1; M.P. Nitha (Kar) bt Sanjana Manoj Kumar (TN) 6-2, 7-6 (4); Anusha V Singla (TN) bt Rachana R Gowda (Kar) 6-2, 6-2; Likitha Devaraj (Kar) bt A. Harika (AP) 6-0, 6-0; Rachita Sarda (Kar) bt Shreya S (Kar) 7-5, 6-3; Yamini Reddy (Kar) bt Padmapriya (Kar) 6-2, 7-5; Yasika Reddy (AP) bt Pavithra (TN) 6-2, 4-6, 6-4; Nimisha Mohan (Kar) bt Sanjana Punja (Kar) 6-1, 6-1.

Under-16: Sayali Bilare (Mah) bt S. Pavithra (TN) 6-0, 6-2; Yamini Reddy (Kar) bt Nihari R Hubli (Kar) 6-0, 6-1; Harshini Reddy (Kar) Anusha V Singla (TN) 6-1, 6-2; Prarthana Prathap (Kar) bt Rachana R. Gowda (Kar) 6-3, 6-2; P. Sindoora (AP) bt Nimisha Mohan (Kar) 7-5, 6-3; J. Kesika (TN) bt Padmapriya (Kar) 6-3, 7-5; Likitha Devaraj (Kar) bt Moulika V. Reddy (AP) 6-0, 6-2.

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