Pune: Suhitha Maruri and Sonal Patil scored hard-fought wins to advance to the quarterfinals while local boy Manas Dhamne survived a scare in the ITF Asian B1 Junior (Under-18) tennis championships, organised by MSLTS-PMDTA at Deccan Gymkhana, on Tuesday.
On a day when the receding severely disrupted the schedule with the last match finishing close to 11 pm, Suhitha and Sonal came from a set down to beat their opponents.
Suhitha overcame Singapore’s Sue Yan Tan 5-7, 6-2, 6-4 while Sonal defeated fellow Indian Lakshmi Prabha 0-6, 6-2, 6-4.
India’s No. 1 and 2 girls Shruti Ahlawat and Vaishnavi Adkar had straightforward wins while Rishitha Basireddy went down to top seed Yu-Yun Li of Chinese Taipei 2-6, 3-6.
In the boys’ section, seeded Indians Aman Dahiya (No. 2), Yuvan Nandal (3) and Aryan Shah (6) scored contrasting wins while Japan’s Takamasa Mishiro shocked top seed Hayden Jones of Australia 6-2, 6-4.
Manas needed to dig deep to beat Rethin Pranav to post a 4-6, 6-1, 6-2 victory.
Results, singles R2: Boys: Takamasa Mishiro (Jpn) bt Hayden Jones (Aus) [1] 6-2, 6-4; Aryan Shah [6] bt Kriish Tyagi 6-4, 3-6, 6-2; Yuvan Nandal [3] bt Bushan Haobam 6-1, 6-2; Reiya Hattori (Jpn) [8] bt Daksh Prasad 2-6, 6-3, 6-2; Woohyuk Chang (Kor) [4] bt Denim Yadav 6-2, 6-1; Suphawat Saeoui (Tha) bt Jeremy Zhang (Aus) [7] 6-2, 6-2; Manas Dhamne [5] bt Rethin Pranav Senthil Kumar 4-6, 6-1, 6-2; Aman Dahiya [2] bt Cahir Warik 6-2, 6-1.
Girls: Yu-Yun Li (Tpe) [1] Bt Rishitha Basireddy 6-2, 6-3; Lily Taylor (Aus) [6] bt Yu Kikawa (Jpn) 6-4, 6-2; Suhitha Maruri [5] bt Sue Yan Tan (Sgp) 5-7, 6-2, 6-4; Shruti Ahlawat [2] bt Rhea Makesar (Aus) 6-2, 6-3; Vaishnavi Adkar [4] Bt Sai Janvi 6-2, 6-0; Sonal Patil bt Lakshmi Prabha 0-6, 6-2, 6-4; Emerson Jones (Aus) [3] bt Shiho Tsujioka (Jpn) 6-1, 7-6 (2); Asylzhan Arystanbekova (Kaz) Bt Rioko Umekuni (Jpn).
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