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Comfortable wins for N. Nishangan

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Bangalore: Sri Lanka's N. Nishangan claimed two major scalps in the pre-quarterfinals of the Mahila Seva Samaja-conducted AITA Talent Series National ranking tennis tournament here on Tuesday.

Nishangan took out the under-14 boys' top seed, S. Karthick, before getting the better of under-16 third seed Nesar Jewoor. He defeated them by an emphatic 9-2 and 9-1 margins.

Kashyap Ashok, the under-16 boys' number one seed, however, faced no such problems, easing past Mihir Roy Chaudry to book a place in the quarterfinals. Ashok posted a comfortable 9-2 win.

The results (pre-quarterfinals): Boys: U-16: A. Kashyap bt Mihir Roy Chaudry 9-2; Poorava S. Kumar bt Rohan Shenoy 9-0; S. Ganesh bt S. Karthick 9-6; Goutham Ramkumar bt T. Vibhu Varsh 9-4; Arjun Muralidhar bt Harsh Lakhani 9-6; N. Nishangan bt Nesar Jewoor 9-1; A. Abhijith bt Andrew K. Jose 9-2; Anthony Savio bt B. Pranesh 9-3.

U-14: N. Nishangan bt S. Karthick 9-2; A. Abhijith bt Mohith Reddy 9-6; Harsh Lakhani bt Nikhil Rangarajan 9-3; Soorya Prasad bt Varun Venkat 9-2; Pranish bt Rohith Dev 9-6; Andrew K. Jose bt Arjun Muralidhar 9-4; S. Ganesh bt Murari S. Iyengar 9-4; F. Chehan bt K. Hemanth 9-2.

Girls: U-16: Tanya Singh bt Sloka Kumar 9-6; N. Ramya bt Sheil Jafreen 9-2; Ann Christin Nilsson bt Prerana Singhal 9-4; Nupur Umashankar bt Adithi Dilip 9-3; T. Shankari bt Lakshmi Nikitha 9-4; S.P. Ritu bt Reshika Rajesh 9-1.

U-14: Nupur Umashankar bt L. Asindhi 9-5; Swetha Samuel bt Sheik Jafreen 9-3; Abhilasha Viswanath bt Sloka Kumar 9-4; N. Ramya bt Nikitha Pinto 9-2; Adithi Dilip bt Shivani Manjanna 9-8(4); Rashmika Rajan bt Rishika Rajesh 9-0; S. Soha bt B.P. Prarthana 9-0; Shika N. Singh bt Celine Marai 9-2 .

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