Two more seeds face early exits in AITA Challenger Series
LUCKNOW: As many as two seeded players bite the dust on the second day of the Under-16 AITA Championship Series, at the Vijayant Khand Stadium here on Tuesday.
Unseeded Kshitij Sinha of Uttar Pradesh knocked out seventh seeded Subhradip Mukhopadhyay of West Bengal in straight sets 6-0, 6-1 to book a place in the boy’s singles quarterfinals, whereas local challenger and unseeded Vaishnavi Lodhi surprised compatriot and fourth seeded Druti Dubey 6-1, 6-3 to make it to the girl’s singles semi-finals.
Earlier in the day on hard court, top seeded Pranav Mishra defeated Amogh Singh 6-0, 6-1, eight seeded Ritvik Dutt beat Rohin Raj 2-6, 7-6 (5), 6-1 in a thriller, third seeded Sanidhya dhar Dwiwedi beat Anay Srivastava 6-1, 6-1, second seeded Rishi Yadav beat Devansh Gangwar 6-2, 6-3, sixth seeded Anuj Kumar beat Arnav Chauhan 6-0, 6-1, Vansh Raj Jalota beat Faiz Ali Kidwai 6-1, 6-2 and fifth seeded Ansh Saxena beat Kanav Mall 6-1, 6-1.
The women’s singles quarterfinals also witnessed one-sided affairs as top seeded Yashashvi Sharma of West Bengal brushed aside Siddhi Singh in straight sets 6-0, 6-1, whereas third seeded Aairah outplayed Samudra Yadav 6-0, 6-1 before second seeded Arundhati Sungh Dagur defeated West Bengal’s Sumana Debinath 6-0, 6-1.
OTHER RESULTS Boys doubles (pre-quarters): Kanav Mall-Amogh Singh bt Aditya Singh-Devansh Kumar 4-1, 4-0; Arnav ChauhanAnantjit (TN) bt Kritagya Srivastava-Shantanu 4-0, 4-1; Devansh Gangwar-Dev Gangwar bt Ansh Saxena-Yashvardhan Singh 0-4, 4-3, 10-4; Kshitij Sinha-Rishi Yadav bt Rohin RajMehar Khosla 4-2, 2-4, 10-4.