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Vignesh advances

TIRUCHI: Top seed P.C. Vignesh of Andhra Pradesh scripted a 6-1, 6-4 win over Kiran Nanda Kumar of Karnataka and entered the quarterfinals in the MARG-AITA men's ranking tennis tournament here on Wednesday.

Meanwhile in a doubles quarterfinal encounter, Vinod Sridhar and Arun Prakash ousted the top-seeded pair of P.C. Vignesh and A.S. Suresh Krishna 6-3, 6-4.

The results: Singles: Pre-quarterfinals: P.C. Vignesh (AP) bt Kiran Nanda Kumar (Kar) 6-1, 6-4; Ajai Selvaraj (TN) bt Aravind Vishnu Bestha (AP) 6-3, 6-0; Vinod Sridhar (TN) bt S. Veera Vasanth Venkatesh (Kar) 6-0, 6-1; A.S. Suresh Krishna (AP) bt L. Harsha (Kar) 6-1, 6-1; Vignesh Veerabadran (TN) bt M. Binu Mani 6-1, 6-1; Gugan Verma (TN) bt Younis Mohammed (TN) 6-3, 6-3; Vijay Kannan (TN) bt D. Pritish Kumar (Kar) 6-0, 6-2; Rynold Thimothy (Ker) bt Sameer J. Paranjape (Mah) 6-1, 6-1.

Doubles: Quarterfinals: Vinod Sridhar & Arun Prakash (TN) bt P.C. Vignesh & A.S. Suresh Krishna (AP) 6-3, 6-4; Kiran Nanda Kumar & Veera Vasanth Venkatesh (Kar) bt Narashiman Siva & Abraar Karim Syed Aarif (TN) 6-1, 6-0; Sameer J. Paranjape (Mah) & Gugan Verma (TN) bt B. Sai Saran Reddy (AP) & Younis Mohammed (TN) 7-5, 6-4; Vignesh Veerabadran (TN) & Aravind Vishnu Bestha (AP) bt Murtaza Lohani & P. Manikandan (TN) 6-4, 6-4 .

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