Top seeds Akshay,Kamran in quarters

The girl’s pre-quarter-final contest also witnessed a grim battle for supremacy between Kamran and her compatriot 14th seed Jahnvi Gupta,before the former managed to pull off a three sets victory. The Delhi lass was on a roll as she easily pocketed the first set,but she later encountered a stiff challenge from Jahnvi,who went on to win the second and level the scores. Kamran came good by winning the third to close out the match at 6-2,6-7(5),6-4.

In the biggest upset of the day,unseeded Udyan Bakar of Rajasthan overcame fifth seed Tejas Kapoor of Delhi in another boy’s under-16 singles clash,which also went the distance. Bakar lost the opening set but recovered well to win the next two to pull through at 2-6,6-1,6-3.

Result

(prefix number denotes seeding): Boy’s under-16 singles – pre-quarter-finals: 1-Akshay I.B. (TN) beat 16-Nikshep B.R. (Kar) 6-4,4-6,6-0; Nitin Kumar Sinha (WB) beat Dalwinder Singh (Pun) 7-5,6-0; Gagan Sharma (Raj) beat Indra Patwardhan (Mah) 7-5,6-2; Q-Paramveer Bajwa (Chd) beat Q-Osama Shaik 6-1,7-6(6); Udyan Bakar (Raj) beat 5-Tejas Kapoor (Del) 2-6,6-1,6-3; 3-Vishnu Prasad (Del) beat 14-Raswant Ravi (TN) 6-2,3-6,6-3; Ankush Arora (WB) beat Vasisht Cheruku (Ktk) 6-2,6-2; 2-Sachin Kumar (Chd) beat Rohan Punj (Del) 6-4,7-5. Girl’s under-16 singles – pre-quarter-finals: 1-Kamran Kaur (Del) beat 14-Jahnvi Gupta (Del) 6-2,6-7(5),6-4; 10-Bhavya Wadhwan (Chd) beat Arushi Bhasin (Del) 6-1,6-3; 4-Vanshika Sawhney (Del) beat Apekshita Alkesh (Del) 3-0 retired; 9-Akshara Iska (AP) beat 8-Moulika B. Ram (AP) 6-0,6-1; 6-Himani Mor (Har) beat 11-Rashmitha Reddy (AP) 6-1,6-3; 15-Vasanti Shinde (Mah) beat Neharika R. (AP) 6-1,6-2; 5-Devanshi Bhimjiyani (Mah) beat Victoria Chahal (Har) 6-3,6-3; Pranjala Yadlapalli (AP) beat Isha Budwal (MP) 6-2,6-0.