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Rachana in last eight

Mysore: Local girl and top seed Rachana R. Gowda registered a convincing 8-0 victory over Shreya R. Guddi of Bangalore in the girls under-14 section and in the under-16 category, she won over Laharishree of Mysore 8-3 on the opening day of the IMS Learning Resources (P) Ltd. State ranking junior tennis tournament here on Monnday. In the process, Rachana reached the last-eight stages in both the categories.

The results: Boys: U-14 singles: First round: C.M. Kiran (Mys) bt Dhruvkumar (Blr) 8-0; Vikram Naidu (Blr) bt Koustub Mahendra (Mys) 8-1; M.D. Akash (Mys) bt Suraj Bharadwaj (Mys) 8-3; Pruthvika Nagaraj (Mys) bt Deepak (Mys) 8-0; Rohith R. Gowda (Mys) bt R. Paneendra (Mys) 8-1; Santhosh A. Raju (Mys) bt Shreyas Shankar (Mys) 8-1; Arjun Shenoy (Mys) bt R. Prasanth (Mys) 8-3; S. Kishen (Mys) bt Poorva S. Kumar 8-6. U-12: L.D. Hitesh bt C.R. Pranav 8-7(5); S.M. Dhanush bt Bharath Yogendra (Mys) 8-7(5); Ikkena Watson bt H. Varma 8-5; Purva S. Kumar bt Surya 8-4; Dayashankar bt B.S. Paneendra 8-4; A. Aditya bt Samarath Nagaraj 8-5.

Girls: U-14 singles (best of 15 games): Pre-quarterfinals: Rachana R. Gowda (Mys) bt Shreya A. Guddi (Blr) 8-0; M.S. Rachana Gowda (Mys) bt M. Rakshitha 8-6; J. Amoolya (Mys) bt G.S. Dhanusha (Mys) 8-6; Swathi H. Kumar bt R.S. Kavitha 8-7(1); T. Dhruthi (Mys) bt Tejaswini (Mys) 8-3; Y. Laharishree (Mys) bt Anjela Vincent (Blr) 8-5; Nithya Kumar bt Manjushree 8-5; A.K. Padmapriya (Mys) bt Keerthana (Mys) 8-0.

U-16 singles: Pre-quarterfinals: Rachana R. Gowda (Mys) bt Y. Laharishree (Mys) 8-3; Tejashwini (Mys) bt Sushma Shanbal (Blr) 8-3; Anjela Vincent (Blr) bt J. Amoolya (Mys) 8-2; R.S. Kavitha (Mys) bt Keerthana 8-0; T. Dhruthi (Mys) bt Nruthya V. Kumar 8-0.

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