Mayuk Rawat of Uttarakhand caused an upset in the All India Talent Series tennis tournament when he outclassed second seed Pushkar Aditya Singh of Uttar Pradesh by 8-2 in the boys under-14 singles pre-quarters,in Lucknow on Tuesday. A slight upset was caused in the girls under-14 singles quarter-finals when Manisha of Uttar Pradesh defeated seventh seed Muskan Ranjan of Karnataka by 7-5. Bihar player Shree Krishna who is top seed in both the boys under-14 and under-12 section,had an easy outing in the pre-quarters of both the sections. In the under-14 pre-quarters,Shree Krishna defeated Rudra Kapoor of UP by 8-0. In the under-12 pre-quarters,Shree Krishna defeated Rudra by 7-2. In the girls under-14 singles quarter-finals,top seed Bakul Negi of Delhi beat Ananya Agarwal of Uttar Pradesh by 7-2. The Results: Boys under-14 (Pre-quarterfinals): Shree Krishna (seed-1; Bih) beat Rudra Kapoor (UP) 8-0; Sachit Sikka (UP) bt Sidharth Anand (UP) 8-5; Arjun Singh (UP; seed-3) bt Shivam Shukla (Sports College) 8-1; N Vignesh (seed-6; Andhra Pradesh) bt Piyush Pandey (UP) 8-3; Mridul Kharkwal (UP; seed-5) bt Jayam Balani (UP) 8-1; Swapnil Prabhat Singh (UP; seed-4) bt Sidhant Singh (UP) 8-1; Ankit Rao (Andhra Pradesh; seed-7) bt Surya Pratap Singh (UP) 8-1(3); Mayuk Rawat (Utr) bt Pushkar Aditya Singh (UP) (seed-2) 8-2; Boys under-12 (Pre-quarterfinals): Shree Krishna (Bih; seed-1) bt Rudra Kapoor (UP) 7-2; Avi Gupta (UP) bt PS Sandeep 7-1; Ankit Rao (Andhra Pradesh; seed-4) bt Anujay Krishna (UP) 7-1; Srijan Singh (UP) bt Abdul Karim Khan (AP) 7-2; Arnav Mahajan (Dli) bt Jayam Balani (UP) 7-3; Mayuk Rawat (Utr; seed-3) bt Sanjit Singh (UP) 7-2; Sarthak Deorad (UP; seed-7) bt Bhavish Sharma (UP) 7-0; Anshumat Srivastav (Bih; seed-2) bt Tanay Srivastav (UP) 7-0; Girls under-14 (quarter-finals): Manisha (UP) bt Muskan Ranjan (Kar; seed-7) 7-5; Bakul Negi (Dli; seed-1) bt Ananya Agarwal (UP) 7-2; Shruti Gupta (WB; seed-4) bt Ananya Singhal (UP) 7-1; Sanskriti Ranjan (Kar; seed-5) bt Tanu Kaur (UP) 7-3; Moksha Thukraal (UP; seed-3) bt Varsha Mishra (UP) 7-1; Yashi Saxena (UP; seed-8) bt V Lakshmishree (Andhra Pradesh) 7-6(3); Shubhi Dwivedi (UP; seed-2) bt Shalmili (UP) 7-3.
