Adil, Shiani enter quarters in junior tennis

Adil Kalyanpur and Shiani Manjanna, both of Karnataka, and top seeds in boys and girls singles, respectively, cruised into the quarterfinals of the SAT Open AITA National Series Under-16 Junior Tennis Championship here on Wednesday.

Adil, who won, a double crown in Hyderabad last week, defeated Gunjan Jhadav 6-2, 6-1 in the boys singles pre-quarter-final tie while Shivani outplayed teammate Ankita Nandakumar 6-1, 6-1.

The seventh seed, Sai Panav Ponaka of Karnatatka went down to Siddarth Thakaan 1-6, 3-6 while Nikita Reddy, who upset second seed Megh Patel in the second round, defeated Atharva Sharma 6-4, 4-6, 6-0 and entered the last eight.

The results (pre-quarter-finals):

Boys singles: Adil Kalyanpur bt Gunjan Jadhav 6-2, 6-1; Himanshu Mor bt Rahul Shankar 6-2, 6-0; S.M. Aadithya bt Vannem Reddy 6-1, 6-2; Siddarth Thakran bt Sai Pranav Ponaka 6-1, 6-3; Varun Venkat bt Amit Beniwal 6-2, 6-4; Srivatsa Ratakonda bt Deepak Kumar 6-4, 7-5; Sai Ganta bt M. Arjun 7-5, 6-4; Nikit M. Reddy bt Atharva Sharma 6-4, 4-6, 6-0.

Girls singles: Shivani Manjanna bt Ankita Nandakumar 6-1, 6-1; Nikita Reddy bt Ishwari Matere 6-4, 6-2; Lasya Patnaik bt Pratibha Prasad Narayna 6-2, 3-6, 7-6(3); S.B. Apoorva bt Annika Kannan 6-2, 6-1; Prarthana Prabhakar bt Neha Mokhasi 6-2, 6-0; Sonashe Bhatnagar bt Ashrita Nagpal 6-7(3), 6-3, 7-6(3); Sivanuja Peddada bt Divya Vaani 6-4, 6-3; Sharanya Gaware bt Sravya Shivani 6-1, 6-0.