Chennai, Aug 31 (IANS) Top seeded Vishwesh Sinha of Maharashtra led the boys singles field into the quarter-finals with a 6-2, 5-7, 7-6 (4) win against Sumit Nagal of Delhi in the MCC-Adidas National clay court junior tennis championships, here Wednesday.
In the girls singles, Rutuja Bhosale, also of Maharashtra and the top seed, dropped just one game to Andhra’s D Mahitha en route to the third round.
The results:
Boys singles (pre-quarter-finals): 1-Vishwesh Sinha (Mah) bt Sumit Nagal (Del) 6-2, 5-7, 7-6 (4); Suraj R Prabodh (Kar) bt Niral A Shah (Kar) 6-3, 6-4; R Vigneshwaran (TN) bt Mohammed Yunus (TN) 6-3, 7-5; Rishab Agarwal (AP) bt K Pradeep Reddy (AP) 6-2, 6-3; AK Partdhasarathy (AP) bt Chinmay Handa (Del) 7-5, 6-3; Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash (TN) bt Nishanth Antony Rebello (AP) 6-1, 6-1; Garvit Batra (Del) bt Neeraj Elangovan (TN) 6-4, 6-2; Vinod Gowda (Kar) bt Rakshit Rishi (Del) 6-2,6-0.
Girls singles (second round): 1-Rutuja Bhosale (Mah) bt D Mahitha (AP) 6-1, 6-0; 2-Prarthana Thombara (Mah) bt Q-Nithyaraj Baburaj (TN) 6-1, 6-4; 3-Rishika Sunkara (Del) bt Renu Sharma (Har) 6-1, 6-0; 4-Shweta C Rana (Del) bt Yuden Shyodhi (Mah) 6-1, 6-2; Swetha Sree Hari (TN) bt 5 Amrita Mukherjee (WB) 6-1, 6-4; 6-Sansitha Nandakumar (TN) bt Q-Preethi Gokhale (AP) 6-2, 6-2; 7-Spurti Shivalingaiah (Kar) bt Q-Vasanthi Shinde (Mah) 6-4, 6-0; 8-C Sai Samitha (TN) bt B.Moulika Ram (AP) 6-2, 6-0; 9-Ehadevi Reddy (Mah) bt Vanshika Sawhney (Del) 6-2, 6-0; 10-P Sri Vaishnavi (AP) bt Y Pranjala (AP) 6-2, 6-2; Sharon Sanchana Paul (TN) bt 11-Dhruthi Venugopal (Kar) 6-4, 6-1; 12-D Nayanika Reddy (AP) bt Pragati Natraj (TN) 6-2, 6-1; 13-Eetee Mehta (Guj) bt Karman Kaur (Del) 6-2, 6-0; 14-Sowjanya Bavisetti (AP) bt Devanshi Bhimjiyani (Mah) 6-1, 6-0; Nidhi Chilumula (AP) bt 15-Smriti Joon (Har) 6-3, 6-4; Reshma Ganapathy (TN) bt 16-Namita Bal (Mah) 6-2,6-1.
