JASSOWAL (Ludhiana), Oct 29 :Top seeds in the Under-18 category, both in boys and girls, were today knocked out in the AITA Championship Series being played at the Harvest Tennis Academy here, 30 km from Ludhiana. In the girls under-18 Punjab’s Rimpledeep Kaur shocked top seed Smriti Joon of Delhi,in straight sets, 6-4,6-2.
Seventh seed Vishvesh Sinha of Maharashtra caused the biggest upset as he stunned top seed K. Pradeep Reddy, of Andhra Pradesh in straight sets 6-4,6-1. In the boys Under-16, fifth seed Tushal Thawani from Maharashtra defeated the second seed Garry Singh Amor of Chandigarh 6-1,6-2.
The finals will start tomorrow at 9:00 a.m.
<strong>Results: Boys’ Singles Under-16 Quarter-finals: </strong>K. Pradeep Reddy (1)(AP) beat Prashanta Priyadarshi (Q)(UP) 7-5,6-1; Saurabh Dilip Patil (3)(Mah) beat Manish Kumar (Q)(Dli) 6-2,6-0; Pankaj Kumar (Q)(Chd) beat Resham Singh (Q)(Har) 6-4,6-0; Tushal Thawani (5)(Guj) beat Garry Singh Amor (2)(Chd) 6-1,6-2.
<strong>Boys’ Singles Under-18 Quarter-finals:</strong> Vishvesh Sinha (Q)(7)(Mah) beat K. Pradeep Reddy (Q)(1)(AP) 6-4,6-1; Kunal Anand (WC)(5)(Dli) beat Navneet Kumar (3)(UP) 6-2,6-1; Saurabh Dilip Patil (4)(Mah) beat Armaan Choudhary (6)(Chd) 5-7,6-3,6-4; Mandeep Singh Gill (Chd) beat Akshat Joshi (8)(Chd) 6-3,6-0.
<strong>Girls’ Singles Under 16 Semi-finals:</strong> Ravnoor Kaur (3)(Chd) beat Smriti Joon (1)(Dli) 6-3,6-3; Rimpledeep Kaur (4)(Pb) beat Harnoor Kaur Mann (2)(Chd) 6-1,6-1.
<strong>Girls’ Singles Under-18 Quarter-finals : </strong>Rajbir Kaur (WC)(Pb) beat Rimpledeep Kaur (Pb) 7-6(8-6),6-4; Mehak (3)(Chd) beat Jaspreet Kaur (7)(Pb) 6-2,6-0; Ravnoor Kaur (4)(Chd) beat Gundeep Kaur (8)(Pb) 6-1,6-4; Jaanesh M. Kaur (2)(Chd) beat Harnoor Kaur Mann (5)(Chd) 7-5,6-2.
<strong>Girls’ Singles Under 18 Semi-finals:</strong> Mehak (3)(Chd) beat Rajbir Kaur (WC)(Pb) 6-1,6-1; Ravnoor Kaur (4)(Chd) beat Jaanesh M. Kaur (2)(Chd) 6-4,7-6(7-2).
<strong>Boys’ Doubles Under 16 Semifinals:</strong> Sourabh Raghuvanshi (MP) & Yuvraj Kumar (Dli)(1) beat Aviraj Kamboj (Chd) & Mandeep Kumar (Chd) 5-3,5-3; Pankaj Kumar (Chd) & Madhurjya Dutta (Asm)(2) beat Resham Singh (Har) & Rishab Dev (Pb) 4-2,4-2.
<strong>Boys’ Doubles Under 18 Quarter-finals:</strong> Mandeep Gill (Pb) & Ankit Chopra (Chd)(2) beat Harry Singh Amor (Chd) & Garry Singh Amor (Chd) 5-3,4-2.
<strong>Girls’ Doubles Under 18 Quarter-finals:</strong> Mehak (Chd) & Smriti Joon (Dli)(1)beat Taruka Srivastav (UP) & Samia Rizvi (UP) 5-3,4-1; Gundeep Kaur (Pb) & Jaspreet Kaur (Pb)(4) beat Rajbir Kaur (Pb) & Sandeep Kaur Saran (Pb) 4-0,1-4,(10-8); Harnoor Kaur Mann (Chd) & Jaanesh M. Kaur (Chd)(2) beat Sukhmani Kaur Wadhwa (Mah) & Soumya Pulumati (AP) 5-4(7-2),4-0.