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Harish stuns Nikhil

Coimbatore: R. Harish of Tamil Nadu upset fourth seed Nikhil Reddy of Karnataka 6-1, 6-2 to enter the under-14 boys’ singles quarterfinals of the CDTA-AITA Talent Series tennis tournament at the CDTA Tennis Centre here on Tuesday.

Sixth seed V. Vishal of Tamil Nadu and seventh seed V. Prithiv Haas of Andhra Pradesh were the others who failed to reach the last-eight stage.

Important results:

Pre-quarterfinals:

U-14: Boys: Kaushal Mehta (Mah) w/o S.D. Prajwal Dev (Kar); A. Praveen Raj (TN) bt Jayanth Jayaraman (TN) 6-0, 7-5; C. Madan Mohan (TN) bt V. Prithiv Haas (AP) 7-5, 7-6(5).

R. Harish (TN) bt Nikhil Reddy (Kar) 6-1, 6-2; R. Sanjeev (TN) bt V. Vishal (TN) 6-4, 6-0; Subhash Kaushik (TN) bt S. Sagar (Kar) 6-0, 6-0; Monish Rajer (TN) bt Veera Anish (TN) 6-1, 6-1.

Girls: Sanjana M. Kumar (TN) bt C.R. Nidithra (TN) 6-0, 6-0; S.S. Deepika (TN) bt S. Hariharan (Kar) 7-6(4), 7-6(3).

Shreya Ravichandran (TN) bt Nikitha Telkar (Kar) 6-2, 6-3; K.S. Sangitha (TN) bt Lavanya Saravanan (TN) 6-2, 6-1; Vennella Devinini (AP) bt H. Madhumita (TN) 6-3, 6-2.

Dhruthi Venugopal (Kar) bt Akshaya Chandran (TN) 7-5, 6-3; Ashwini Suresh (TN) bt S.G. Abhinaya (Kar) 6-1, 6-4; S. Swetha (TN) bt Roma Chandran (TN) 6-1, 6-4.

U-16: Sanjana M. Kumar bt A. Nikitha 6-0, 6-1; Nikitha Telkar bt K.S. Sangitha 6-2, 6-0.

Akshaya Chandran bt S.G. Abhinaya 6-4, 6-0; S.S. Deepika bt Roma Chandran 6-2, 7-5.

S. Swetha bt Ashwini Suresh 6-1, 7-6(4); Shreya Ravichandran bt Lavanya Saravanan 6-2, 6-0.

Vennella Devinini bt Nivetha Srinivasan 7-5, 6-4.

TT tournament postponed

The Virudhunagar district State-ranking table tennis tournament, scheduled for September 29 and 30 at the Kaliswari College, has been postponed in view of the bandh announced on October 1, a release from TNTTA said.

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