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Smooth sailing for top seeds

Coimbatore: It was an easy day out for the boys' under-12 and 14 top seeds in the ONGC-Pro Serve AITA Talent Series tennis tournament at the CDTA courts in R.S. Puram here on Monday.

In the under-12 category, the top three seeds Anvit Bendre (Gujarat), H. Suraj (Kerala) and V. Prithiv Haas (AP) made it to the second round without having to sweat much. Ishwar Prasad (TN), S. Raghavendra (Karnataka) and H.M. Yunus (TN) too had it easy in the under-14 section.

The results (first round):

Boys: U-12: Anvit Bendre (Guj) bt K.U. Abhijeet Kiran (TN) 9-1, V. Prithiv Haas (AP) bt Devang Saxena 9-2, H. Suraj (Ker) bt Harsh Vardhan Raj (TN) 9-5, Jayanth Jayaraman (TN) bt Sisir Chilikuri (Kar) 9-2, S.D. Prajwal Dev (Kar) bt Anirudh Jaindhan (Ker) 9-0, I. Akhil (TN) bt Sujith Roy 9-5, Venkata N. Ramanan bt Vikram Ramesh 9-3.

U-14: Ishwar Prasad (TN) bt I. Akhil (TN) 9-2, Avinash Ramanathan (TN) bt I.B. Akshay (TN) 9-1, Hamreez Mohd. (AP) bt K. Raghav Simhan (TN) 9-5, Avinash R. Sai (TN) bt Sai Nihar (AP) 9-4, Anvit Bendre (Guj) bt Arvind V. Raj (TN) 9-3, S. Veera Anish (TN) bt S. Veerapan (TN) 9-6, Arun Venkatesh (TN) bt Arjun Patnaik (AP) 9-3, Jayanth Jayaram (TN) w/o. N. Ashwin Srivatsav; Venkatesh Krishna (TN) bt H. Suraj (Ker) 9-1, S.D. Prajwal bt V. Prithivi Haas 9-8 (10-8), Niral A. Shah (Kar) bt S. Kishen (Kar) 9-3, H.M. Yunus (TN) bt S. Sagar (TN) 9-0, K. Jayendra Sai (AP) bt Himansu Sagar (TN) 9-2, Venkata N. Ramanan (TN) bt T. Vignesh (TN) 9-7, Anand George (Ker) bt Devang Saxena (AP) 9-3, S. Raghavendra (Kar) bt R. Shanjeev (TN) 9-3.

Girls: U-12: S.S. Deepika (TN) bt C.S. Praneetha (TN) 9-0, M. Prithika Rani (TN) bt Monisha Srihari (TN) 9-5, Rithika (Ker) bt C.R. Nidhitha (TN) 9-0, A. Nikitha (TN) bt Srija Kodali (AP) 9-5.

U-14: A. Nikitha Chandran (TN) bt Priya Selvakumar (TN) 9-0, Shreya Ravichandran (TN) bt Ashwini Suresh (TN) 9-1, S.S. Deepika (TN) bt Anjali Jaindhan (Ker) 9-0, Rama Chandran (TN) bt Monisha Srihari (TN) 9-4, K.S. Sangita (TN) bt S. Sanjana (TN) 9-5, Kavya Bharat (TN) bt Prithika Rani (TN) 9-4, A. Sabatini (AP) bt Srija Kodali (AP) 9-0, Nikita Telkar (Kar) bt Dimple Verma (Ker) 9-0, Sneha Susan Thomas (TN) bt A.V. Rithika (TN) 9-2.

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