It was curtains for fourth seed Dhruti Venugopal who squandered a set lead to go down to Andrita Deb in the under-16 girls singles at the Fenesta Open National Tennis Championship on Wednesday. Despite losing the first set tamely,she came back to oust the Karnataka girl 1-6 6-2 6-2 and the upset result has sent her to the quarter-finals. There were no more surprises in the day as top seeds in both U-16 boys sailed into the quarter-finals without any hiccups. Snehadevi Reddy handed a straight-set mauling to Delhi girl Karman Kaur 6-3 6-1 while Andhra girl Moulika Ram failed to win even a single game against second seed Simran before making an embarrassing exit with a 0-6 0-6 loss. The first quarter-final will be a battle of the Reddy girls from Andhra Pradesh as fifth seed D Nayanika Reddy beat Himani Mor 6-1 6-2 to set up a match with Sneha. In the U-16 boys singles,second seed Fatehdeep Singh had a cakewalk of a match against BR Nikshep,whom he beat 6-0 6-1. Third seed Jude Raymond also made it to the quarter-finals with a comfortable 6-2 6-2 victory against SD Prajwal. Fourth seed Deepak Vishwakarma also cruised into the quarter-finals,overcoming a stiff challenge from 13th seed Vidit Vaghela before he won the three-set battle 6-3,4-6,6-2. IB Akshay and Vishnu Prasad (10th seed) were the other expected entries into the quarter-finals on Wednesday. Sachin Kumar,top seed in the U-14 boys singles,defeated Raghav Jaisingh 6-3 6-0,while BR Nikshep (3rd seed) joined him in the quarter-finals with a 6-2 6-1 win over Dhir Gala. In the girls U-14 semi-finals top seed Pranjala Yadlapalli thrashed Andhra girl Saranya Nagpal 6-1 6-0.
