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Arun Raj and Anand George in last four

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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: J.S. Arun Raj and Anand George (both from Kerala) joined top seed Sidharth Reddy (TN) and S.D. Prajwal Dev (Kar) in the semifinal round in the boys’ under-14 section of the AITA National talent series tournament at the TTC courts here on Wednesday.

The results: Boys: Under-14 (quarterfinals): S.D. Prajwal Dev (Kar) bt Prithvihaas (AP) 7-6, 6-0; J.S.Arun Raj (Ker) bt Jayanth Jayaraman (TN) 6-4, 6-0; Anand George (Ker) bt Mathew T.Lathra (Ker) 6-2, 6-2; Sidharth Reddy (TN) bt Venkata N.Ramanan (TN) 6-1, 6-2. Under-12 (pre-quarterfinals): Prithvihaas (AP) bt Navneeth Ajith (Ker) 6-0, 6-4; I.B. Akshay (TN) bt Aqueel Faheem (Ker) 6-2, 6-1; Mathew T. Lathra (Ker) bt Veera Kumar (TN) 6-1, 6-2; Venkata N.Ramanan (TN) bt Kaamil Faheem (Ker) 6-1, 6-1; Jayanth Jayaraman (TN) bt Arjun Ramakrishnan (TN) 6-2, 6-3; Sidharth Reddy (TN) bt Vikram Ramesh (Ker) 6-0, 6-1; Jeffy Jacob (Ker) bt M.S.Rakshit (Kar) 6-4, 6-3; Nikki K.Poonacha (TN) bt Prajwal Dev (Kar) 6-4, 6-4. Doubles (quarterfinals): Prajwal Dev/M.S. Rakshit (Kar) bt V.C. Karthik/Navneeth Ajith (Ker) 6-0, 6-2; I.B. Akshay/Nikki Poonacha (TN) bt Varun Nair/Arjun Ajaykumar (Ker) 6-0, 6-0; Mathew T. Lathra/Revanth Kishorekumar (Ker) bt Madhav Narayankumar/Anirudh Jaindhan (Ker) 6-2, 6-3; Jayanth Jayaraman/Venkat N. Ramanan (TN) bt Aqueel Faheem/Kaamil Faheem (Ker) 6-2, 3-6, 10-8.

Girls: Under-12 (quarterfinals): Sneha Susan Thomas (Ker) bt S.S. Deepika (TN) 6-4, 6-2; Anjana Sundaran (TN) bt Anjali Jaindhan (Ker) 6-0, 6-0; Pritika Rani (TN) bt Gautham Devi (Ker) 6-2, 6-0; A.V. Rithika (Ker) bt Sruti Prasanth (Kar) 6-1, 6-3.

Under-14: Doubles (quarterfinals): S.S. Deepika/Anjana Sundaran bt Janet Micheal/Ankita Sundaran 6-1, 6-0; Sneha Susan Thomas/Shloka Kumar bt J.Jeriya/A.V. Rithika 6-0, 6-1; Gauthami Devi/Ranjitha Rajeev bt Begum Yasmine/Anjali Jaindhan 6-4, 7-6; Madhumitha/Pritika Rani bt C.R.Nidhithra/C.S. Prinitha 6-0, 6-2.