New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) National grasscourt champion Ankita Raina overcame stiff resistance from Pakistan’s Ushna Suhail 7-6, 6-4 and stormed into the pre-quarterfinals of the Asian Junior Tennis Championships at the DLTA complex here Wednesday.
Ankita, seeded 14th, is now up against last week’s ITF junior tournament winner and fourth-seeded Chinese Zi Yang who dispatched Japan’s Nao Hibino 6-2, 6-3.
Tenth-seeded Indian wildcard Kyra Shroff was hardly tested by compatriot Anushka Bhargava as she sailed into the last 16 with a comfortable 6-2, 6-2 win. Kyra next plays fifth-seed Chinese Lin Zhu, who was stretched to three sets by India’s Sharmada Balu before winning 7-5, 3-6, 6-2.
Seventh-seeded Rishika Sunkara, Andya Naik, Natasha Palha and Sharon Sanchana Paul were the other girls to advance to the pre-quarterfinals.
In the boys section, India’s fourth-seeded Sai Kartik Nakireddi breezed into the pre-quarterfinals with a 6-0, 6-4 victory over Kazakhstan’s Dmitriy Borodkin. Nakireddi next faces 15th-seeded Chi-Shan Jao of Chinese Taipei who blanked India’s Tarun Nath Surath 6-0, 6-0.
Fifth-seeded Ronit Singh Bisht was leading 6-2, 3-0 when his opponent Sai Saran Reddy Byredddy conceded the match due to dehydration. Bisht next plays compatriot Shahbaaz Khan who fought his way to a 7-6(6), 6-4 win over Uzek Artem Tarasov.
Sixth-seeded Vaidik Munshaw, Sumeet Shinde, Mansingh Athare, Saurabh Singh, Rakshay Thakkar, Siddharth Rawat, Rishabdev Raman and Shahbaaz Khan were the other Indians to progress to the pre-quarters.
Girls’ singles: Rishika Sunkara (IND) [7] beat Abhilasha Ahuja (IND) 6-0, 6-1; Kyra Shroff (IND) [10] beat Anushka Bhargava (IND) 6-2, 6-2; Eri Hozumi (JPN) [1] beat Nova Patel (IND) 6-3, 6-1; Lin ZHU (CHN) [5] beats Sharmada Balu(IND)7-5, 3-6, 6-2; Andya Naik(IND) beats Tanaporbn THONGSING (THA)[16] 6-2, 3-6, 6-1; Zhaoxeuan Yang (CHN) [11] beat Bhuvana Kalva (IND) 6-1, 6-1; Miyu Kato (JPN) [3] beat Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy (IND) 6-1, 6-2; Zi Yang (CHN) [4] beat Nao Hibino (JPN) 6-2, 6-3; Sabina Sharipova (UZB) [8] beat Shweta Rana (IND) 6-0, 6-1; Ankita Raina (IND) [9] beat Ushna Suhail (PAK) 7-6, 6-4; Napatsakorn Sankaew (THA) [6] beat Natalla Khaniejo (IND) 6-1, 6-1;Ran TIAN (CHN) [2] beat Vaniya Dangwal (IND) 6-1, 6-0; Miho KOWASE (JPN) [9] beat Prarthana G. Thombare (IND) 6-0, 6-2; Li-Yun ‘Stefanie’ Tan (SIN)[13] beats Aishwarya Agrawal(IND) 6-0, 6-3; Natasha Palha (IND) Beats Ayaka Okuno (JPN) 7-5, 6-1; Sharon Sanchana Paul(IND) [15] beats Riko Sawayanagi (JPN) 5-7, 7-5, 6-2.
Results:
Boys’ singles: Chuhan WANG(CHN)[1] beats Saurabh Patil(IND) 6-1, 6-2; Sumeet SHINDE (IND) [11] beats GARRY TOKAS(IND) 6-0, 6-3; Ronit Singh Bisht(IND) [5] beats Sai Saran Reddy B. 6-2, 3-0(conceded); Vaidik Munshaw (IND) [6] beats Justin TO(HKG) 6-4, 6-2; Xin Gao (CHN)[3] Beats Wen-Chun LIANG(TPE) 6-2, 6-0; Mansingh Athare (IND) beat Leander Lazaro (PHI) [16] 6-2, 2-6, 6-2; Saurabh Singh (IND) [12] Yash Deshpande (IND) 6-3, 6-1; Warit Sornbutnark(THA)[8] beat Jatin Dahiya (IND)6-0, 6-0; Sai Kartik Nakireddi (IND) [4] beat Dmitriy Borodkin (KAZ) 6-0, 6-4;Rakshay Thakkar (IND)[9] beat Digvijay Singh Mehta (IND) 6-4, 6-2; Siddharth Rawat (IND) beat Rohit Bisht (IND) 7-6(2), 6-1 ;Rishabdev Raman (IND) [14] beat Srikar Alla (IND) 3-6, 6-3, 6-2; Kaichi Uchida (JPN) [7] beat Wen-Jao Liang [TPE] 6-4, 4-6, 6-2;Chi-Shan Jao (TPE) [15] beat Tarun Nath Surath (IND) 6-0, 6-0 ;Bowen Ouyang (CHN) [2] beat Chih-Jen Ho (TPE) 6-1, 6-3; Shahbaaz Khan (IND) beat Artem Tarasov (UZB) 7-6(6), 6-4
