Ayush upsets third seed,Aandrita shines in BTA tennis

In the second upset of the day,Om Dalvi of Maharashtra stunned second seed Sunny Dahiya of Haryana 5-7,4-6 to make the semis.

Top seed Bibaswan Deb and fourth seed Prem Singh have already secured last four berths,registering easy wins over their respective opponents. Deb beat Sanjib Regius Kerketta 6-1,6-4,while Prem Singh had to struggle past Ansh Patel of Gujarat 4-6,6-4,6-1.

In the boys’ under-14 singles quarter-finals,eighth seed Rahul Somani from Andhra defeated the second seed Kuwar Singh Tater of Assam 6-3,6-3. The semi-final line up for this event is Nishanth Anthony Rebello and Rahul Somai from Andhra Pradesh,Ishank Ravi from Bihar and P Vignesh Prabhu from Tamil Nadu.

In the girls’ singles under-14,there was a mini upset as local girl and fifth seed Aandrita Deb beat third seed Lavanya Sarvanan of Tamil Nadu 6-1,6-4.

The semi-finalists are top seed Megha Sehrawat of Delhi,fifth seed Aandrita Deb of West Bengal,Devanshi Bhimjyani of Maharashtra and Shreya Pasricha of Uttar Pradesh.

Megha Sehrawat of UP scripted an upset in the girls’ under-18 singles as she beat third seed Mohana Sarker 4-6,7-5,6-4.

In the second upset,seventh seeded Pamir Gogoi from Assam beat second seeded Manuella Gomes from Delhi 2-6,6-3,6-1.

The other semi-finalists are Amrita Mukherjee,the top seed from Kolkata and unseeded Shreya Pasricha from Uttar Pradesh.

Today’s results:

Boys’ under-14 singles first round: Ishaque Eqbal (7) (131) beat Nikunj Poddar (WC) (256) 6-1,6-3; Raghav Nevatia (LL) (439) beat Rakesh Yadav (LL)(617) 2-6,6-3,7-5. Boys’ under-14 singles quarter-finals: Nishath Anthony Rebello (1) (AP) (64) beat Ishaque Eqbal (7) (131) 6-1,6-3; Ishank Ravi (4) (Bih) (88) beat Shakti Ray (Ori) (185) 6-2,6-2; P Vignesh Prabhu (3) (TN) (84) beat N Ashwin Srivathsaav (Q) (TN) (234) 6 1,7-6 (7-4); Rahul Somani (8) (AP) (138) beat Kuwar Singh Tater (2) (Q) (Asm) (65) 6-3,6-3. Boys’ under-18 singles quarter-finals: Bibaswan Deb (1) (64) beat Sanjib Regius Kerketta (5) (127) 6-1,6-4; Ayush Dharewa (158) beat Pushkar Prateek Baxi (3) (Cg) (103) 7-5,5-7,6-3; Prem Singh (4) (126) beat Ansh Patel (Q) (Guj) (314) 4-6,6-4,6-1; Om Dalvi (Mah) (213) beat Sunny Dahiya (2) (Har) (93) 7-5,6-4.