JOIN USKarnataka’s Hari Singh and Heman Nama entered the boys’ singles quarterfinal of the KTPPA-AITA under-18 junior tennis tournament at the KSLTA courts on Tuesday.
Sixth seeded Hari Singh beat Aproop Reddy 6-3, 6-4 while Heman Nama scored a hard-fought 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 win over Anikait Venkat .
In the girls singles, Karnataka’s Muskan Ranjan came back from behind to beat Nikita Tridala of Andhra Pradesh 4-6, 6-1, 6-3 to make to the quarters.
Results: pre-quarterfinals: singles: Boys: Dakshineshwar Suresh bt Rajneesh Bhandari 6-2, 6-2; Satya Maran bt Siddarth Ponala 7-5, 4-6, 6-3; Kaivalya bt Rohit Narasimhan 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4; Pranash Babu bt Deepak Senthil Kumar 6-2, 6-1; Hari Singh bt Aproop Reddy 6-3, 6-4; Theertha Sashank bt A K Rohit 3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (0); Heman Nama bt Anikait Venkat 4-6, 6-4, 6-4; S M Adithya bt Vikram Dhananjeya 6-1, 6-3. Girls: Shivani Manjanna bt Aadhya Chala 6-4, 6-3; Muskan Ranjan bt Nikita Tridala 4-6, 6-1, 6-3; Prathibha Prasad bt Srinidhi 6-2, 6-3.