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Abhijit ousts Sriram Balaji

HYDERABAD, JULY 7. Qualifier Abhijit Tiwari of Chattisgarh knocked out top-seeded N. Sriram Balaji (Tamil Nadu) 6-1, 7-6 (5) in the boys' under-14 first round of the Nutrine-Naturo All India sub-junior tennis tournament for boys and girls at SAAP Tennis Complex (Fateh Maidan) here on Wednesday.

The results: Girls: Under-12 (quarterfinals): Likhita Devraj (Kar) bt D. Yamini Reddy (Kar) 9-3; Pallavi Krishna Raj (AP) bt B. Sharmada (Kar) 9-5; Neha Purohit (AP) bt V. Nayantara (AP) 9-7; Y.P. Aishwarya (AP) bt T. Nilaya (AP) 9-6; Divija Mandava (AP) bt G. Sai Supriya (AP) 9-6; Rishika Sunkara (Del) bt Vinithra Stalin (AP) 9-6; V. Pushpa Hasa Reddy (AP) bt Ankita Raina (Guj) 9-8 (14-12); Aishwarya Shrivastava (Mah) bt Divya M. Rao 9-3.

Under-14 (first round): Swetha Kumari Solanki (Del) bt Sushma Gutta (AP) 6-0, 6-2; Vasumati Chalasani (AP) bt Anushka Bhargava (AP) 6-2, 6-2; C.Mohana Sai Madhuri (AP) bt B. Sharmada (Kar) 6-3, 2-6, 6-2; Nayantara (AP) bt Divya M.Rao (AP) 4-6, 7-6 (7-2), 6-4; Likhita Devaraj (Kar) bt Pooja Patel (Guj) 3-6, 6-2, 6-2; Divija Mandava (AP) bt G. Sai Supriya Biradar (Kar) 6-3, 6-2; Sai Poojitha (AP) bt Preeti Srinivasan (TN) 7-5, 6-3; Aishwarya Srivastava bt C. Rajeshwari (TN) 6-2, 6-0; Keerthana Reddy (AP) bt M.P. Nitha (Kar) 6-2, 6-1; Y.P. Aishwarya (AP) bt T. Nilaya (AP) 7-5, 6-4; Unnati Purushotham (AP) bt D. Harshini (Kar) 6-1, 6-3; Rishika Sunkara (Del) bt P. Sindura (AP) 7-6 (7-3), 6-1; Henna Ahuja (WB) bt Swapna Pawar (AP) 6-4, 6-2; Shivani Singh (AP) bt Rachita Sapra (Kar) 6-2, 6-1; G. Janaki S. Rao (AP) bt D. Yamini Reddy (Kar) 6-1, 6-3.

Boys: Under-12 (quarterfinals): Sumeet Shinde (Mah) bt Vaidik Munshaw (TN) 9-4; Rishab Dev (TN) bt Ishwar Prasad (TN) 9-2; S.Kaushik Reddy (AP) bt Rishab Parekh (Guj) 9-7; Menta Gopinath (AP) bt Aman Bansal (Maha) 9-4; Jugal Anoop Marfatia (Maha) bt Rithvik Sunkara (Del) 9-6; S.V. Abhishek (AP) bt R. Vigneswaran (TN) 9-7; Mohit Mayur (TN) bt Yeshwanth Nadella (AP) 9-6.

Under-14 (first round): Abhijit Tiwari (Cg) bt N. Sriram Balaji (TN) 6-1, 7-6 (7-5); Yeshwanth Nadella (AP) bt Aadish Sardesai (Mah) 6-3, 4-6, 7-5; Christopher Marqus (Mah) bt Nihal Kapoor (TN) 6-2, 7-5; Akash Wagh (Mah) bt Menta Gopinath (AP) 7-6 (7-5), 6-0; Mandeep Yadav (Chd) bt Vibhav M. Iyengar (Kar) 5-7, 6-3, 6-0; Mansingh Athare (Maha) bt Jugal Anoop Marfatia (Mah) 6-1, 6-4; Vikram Reddy (AP) bt Sudanwa Sitaram (TN) 6-3, 6-4; Mikhail Shetty (Kar) bt Aman Bansal (Mah) 6-0, 603; Daniel Raj (AP) bt Dhruv Chadda (AP) 6-1, 6-4; Sohan Dhalbanjan (Mah) bt Subash Chandra (Del) 6-3, 6-3; Sumeet Shinde (Mah) bt Siddarth Gulgule (Mah) 6-3, 6-3; Vinay Kamineni (AP) bt Krishna Chaitanya (AP) 6-0, 6-0.

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