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Mirajkar stuns Prajwal

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BANGALORE: Local lad Evans Mirajkar, who has been in good form this season, stunned the top-seeded S.D. Prajwal Dev 6-2, 6-2.

He thus entered the boys’ under-14 singles semifinals of the Sadhashivanagar Club AITA Talent Series junior tennis championship at MVJ Courts here on Wednesday.

He was joined in the last four stage by Nikhil Reddy, Kashyap Ashok and Anthony Savio of Tamil Nadu.

The top seed Sagar Manjunath of Karnataka led the way to the semifinals in the boys’ under-16 section with a 6-4, 7-6(4) win over R. Sanjeev of Tamil Nadu.

Good day for Ritu

In the girls’ category, S.P. Ritu entered both the under-14 and under-16 semifinals. Ritu, who is the top seed in the under-14 division, beat Jane Jacob 2-6, 6-2, 6-2 and later accounted for Vidya Bharath 6-2, 6-1 in under-16.

A couple of matches in both the boys’ and girls’ quarterfinals were curtailed by heavy showers. The matches will resume on Thursday.

The results (all quarterfinals, from Karnataka unless specified):

Boys: Under-14: Evans Mirajker bt S.D. Prajwal Dev 6-2, 6-2; Nikhil Reddy bt Basvaraj 6-0, 6-3; Anthony Savio (TN) bt Rohit Dinakar 6-4, 6-7(5), 7-5; Kashyap Ashok bt Rohit John Joseph 6-3, 6-3.

Under-16: Sagar Manjunath bt R. Sanjeev (TN) 6-4, 7-6(4); Pruthvika Nagaraj bt P.S. Gagan 6-4, 6-1; S. Raghavendra bt Kashyap Ashok 6-4, 6-4.

Girls: Under-14: S.P. Ritu bt Jane Jacob 2-6, 6-2, 6-2; Tejaswini Belludi bt Shruthi Ashok 6-3, 4-6, 7-5; Shruthi Prashanth bt Sahana Shroff 6-4, 6-1; Preethi Ujjini bt Valentina Shekar 6-2, 6-2.

Under-16: Rachita Sarda bt Tejaswini Belludi 6-0, 6-3; S.P. Ritu. bt Vidya Bharat 6-2, 6-1.

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