Rishi, Ajay, Viren enter tennis pre-quarters

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 30

Top seed Rishi Jalota, 6th seed CHART trainee Ajay Singh and Viren Kumar defeated their opponents and reached the pre-quarter finals of the CLTA-AITA Talent Series (3) held at the CLTA, today.

In the first round of boys U-16 category, Abhinav beat Pranay Sharma 9-5 to move ahead in the next round.

In the first round of girls U-12, four matches were held Jyotsna Yadav beat Harleen Dhanda 2-4, 4-0, (7-3), Maitri Chahal beat Prachi Batra 2-4, 4-1, (8-6). Mrinalini Kaushik beat Vrinda Sharma 5-4(6), 3-5, (8-6) and Inayat Sandhu beat Snigdha Saran 5-3, 1-4, (7-0).

Results

Boys (U-12) first round: Harmanjot Singh bt Dilraj Dhillon 8-2; Arshjot Singh bt Vishwaditya Kadian 8-0; Aarush Sharma bt Dyumat Sachdeva 8-5; Sukhpreet Singh Jhoje bt Jai Dogra 8-0; Avish Verma bt Arnav Gupta 8-0; Preet Kamal bt Parth Khanna 8-4; Adit Gupta bt Aditya Goyat 8-4; Anuvansh Chugh bt Aditya Bhatnagar 8-0; Madhav Sharma bt. Gurmehar Singh Bedi 8-1; Jitin Kumar Chetry bt Chirag Malhotra 8-7(4); Viren Kumar bt Ajay Dutta 8-0; Jivaj Chawla bt. Sanyam Agarwal 8-3; Hitesh Chauhan bt. Debasish Sahoo 8-4; Devin Kansal bt. Arhan Pahwa 8-7(3); Aryan Mangal bt. Paras Chauhan 8-1; Raunav Saundh bt. Digvijay Rana 8-4.

Girls first round (U-12): Aadita Vashisht bt. Samaira Pahwa 4-0, 4-0; Jyotsna Yadav bt. Harleen Dhanda 2-4, 4-0, (7-3); Maitri Chahal bt. Prachi Batra 2-4, 4-1, (8-6); Mrinalini Sharma bt. Vrinda Sharma 5-4(6), 3-5, (8-6); Pawandeep Kaur bt. Shreya Singh 4-1, 4-1; Inayat Sandhu bt. Snigdha Saran 5-3, 1-4, (0); Sukriti Kaur Bedi bt. Navya Virk 4-0, 4-0; Jannat Kaur Anand bt. Pragya Pabbi 4-1, 4-0.

Boys first round (U-16): Abhinav bt Pranay Sharma 9-5; Manveer Singh bt Gurhmehak Singh 9-7; Saurabh Prashar bt Arman 9-1; Jashadeep Dhiman bt Kunal Singla 9-5; Aadish bt Tanvir Moudgil 9-4; Rashbeg Ahluwalia bt Gurfateh Singh 9-6; Rubal Sharma bt Harkeerat Singh 9-3; Nishank Thakur bt Dhairyaveer 9-4; Mayank Jain bt Ranveer Singh 9-0; Shrenik Bhalla bt Arsh Manocha 9-2; Gaurav Seth bt Sarabjit Kaler 9-0; Gagan Aheer bt Divy Tomar 9-1; Sehaj Sidhu bt Harshit Yadav 9-0; Varundeep Singh bt Ishan Puri 9-8 (7-3); Jaskaran Thapar bt Rahmat Singh (w/o).