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Akash in last eight

MYSORE: Local lad and unseeded M.D. Akash registered an upset 9-8(4) win over seventh-seeded Hemanth Kumar (Karnataka) to enter the boys' under-16 singles quarterfinals on the second-day of the AITA Talent Series junior tennis tournament, conducted by the Rotary Inner-Wheel Club of Mysore Central, at the MTC courts here on Tuesday.

The Results: Boys': Under-16, singles (best of 17 games): Pre-quarterfinals: Sharan Patil (Kar) bt Anirudh Puranik (Kar) 9-1; Varun Gopal (Kar) bt Adithya Bhat (Ker) 9-1; M.D. Akash (Kar) bt Hemanth Kumar (Kar) 9-8 (4); Sagar Manjunath (Kar) bt Vishnu V Raj (TN) 9-2; C.M. Kiran (Kar) bt Siddarth Reddy (TN) 9-3; Y.B. Vinay (Kar) bt S. Karan (Kar) 9-6; Vishnu K Jinan (Kar) bt S. Yashas (Kar) 9-4; Chirag S. Igoor (Kar) bt Sai Avinash (TN) 9-6.

U-14, singles: Sharan Patil (Kar) bt Aravind Raj (TN) 9-2; Md. Abrar (TN) bt Dhruv Balakrishnan (AP) 9-6; Avinash R Sai (TN) bt Rohit R. Gowda (Kar) 9-2; S. Karan (Kar) bt Nihal Peris (Kar) 9-3; Suraj R. Prabodh (Kar) bt Aravind Gowda (Kar) 9-6; Nikhil Reddy (Kar) bt G. Preetham (Kar) 9-7; Adithya Bhat (Ker) bt Siddarth Reddy (TN) 9-4; Chirag S. Igoor (Kar) bt Kashyap Ashok (Kar) 9-2.

Girls': U-16, singles: Spoorthi Birdar (Kar) bt Preethi Ujjaini (Kar) 9-3; Vidhya Bharath (Kar) bt Jayanthi (AP) 9-6; Surya Suresh (Kar) bt Niharika R. Hubli (Kar) 9-2; U. Shalaka (Kar) bt Pooja Patil (Kar) 9-8(6); Sree Sanjana (TN) bt C.R. Pooja (Kar) 9-1; S. Swetha (TN) bt Amala Amol Warrick (Kar) 9-8 (3); Preethi Gokhale (Kar) bt T. Dhruthi (Kar) 9-6; A.K. Padmapriya (Kar) bt Nipur Roy Choudhury (Kar) 9-0.

U-14, singles: Sree Sanjana (TN) bt Pooja Patil (Kar) 9-1; Aishvarya Nunes (Goa) bt Nipur Roy Choudhury (Kar) 9-8(5); Swathi H. Kumar (Kar) bt K. Anjana (AP) 9-5; Preethi Gokhale (Kar) C.R. Pooja (Kar) 9-1; Ashwini Suresh (TN) bt Surya Suresh (Kar) 9-2; Vidhya Purni (TN) bt S.G. Abhinaya (Kar) 9-5; S. Swetha (TN) bt Apoorva Deshpande (Kar) 9-0; T. Dhruthi (Kar) bt R.S. Kavitha (Kar) 9-5.

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