Exodus of seeded players from ATF tennis tourney

In the second set, Nama tried to mount a fightback, succeeding partially, taking three games off Mor, but the latter collected himself, using his powerful groundstrokes to take the second, 6-3 and move into the third round. Amit Beniwal, the fifth seed, defeated Harshal Rukhiyar 6-2, 6-3 while Varun Vayko got past Vikram Patil 6-3, 6-1. Second seed,

Tushar Sharma, was downed by unseeded player, Abhishek Shukla, 6-4, 6-2 while Poojan Desai put out Ritvik Bollpalli 6-4, 6-0. Neel Garud defeated Vikrant Mehta 6-1, 6-1 while Aman Patel scraped past Gunjan Jadhav 7-6(6), 7-5. In the final boys fixture of the day, Atif Shaikh defeated Praneet Kudale 6-0, 6-3.

In the girl’s section, unseeded Ishwari Mathere put out a display of aggressive and confident tennis to blow away eighth seed, Anaya Thorat.

Mathere took the first set 6-2 before wrapping up the match, taking the second by the same scoreline. Second seed, Ratuja Jadhav, was shown the door by a feisty Shrivali Bhamidipaty. She won the first set 6-1 and then closed out the match in the second set, allowing Jadhav to win only two games, closing the set and match by a 6-2 margin.

In other matches, Panaya Bhalla defeated Sruthi Lakshmanan, 6-0, 6-3 while Vipasha Mehra, the top-seed prevailed over Nahed Khan 7-5, 6-4. Adhya Challa beat Sana Khanna 6-2, 6-2 while Sai Dedeepya Yeddula found her way past Tejasvi Kate, winning 6-1, 6-2. In the last
two matches of the day, Ameneni Shivani defeated Ashwagandha Parade 6-1, 6-2 and Prakriti Bhanwani downed Shreya Sagade
6-2, 6-1.