U-12 tennis: Arjun, Prasanna among last eight

Karnataka's Arjun Sriram and PM Prasanna entered the quarterfinals of the boys singles in the KTPPA-AITA Under-12 National Series tennis championship with hard fought victories here Wednesday.

The diminutive Arjun, seeded seventh, subdued spirited Tamil Nadu challenger Rajesh Kannan 7-5, 4-6, 7-5 in a tie which lasted over two hours while the unseeded Prasanna continued his good run, beating Denim Yadav of Madhya Pradesh 6-4, 1-6, 6-3.

Meanwhile, fourth seed Eshan Lumba of Maharashtra also made it to the quarter-finals after scraping past VM Sandeep of Tamil Nadu 6-3, 5-7, 6-2 and joined the top three seeds Dev Javia of Gujarat, S Boopathy of Tamil Nadu and Mahesh Mohapatra of Orissa.

The results (all pre-quarterfinals):

Boys singles: Dev Javia (Guj) bt Nihar Patel (Guj) 6-1, 6-2; Gaurav Kurva (AP) bt Kanish Pal (Del) 6-3, 6-4; Eshan Lumba (Mah) bt VM Sandeep (TN) 6-3, 5-7, 7-6 (2); Adarsh Naga T (AP) bt Harshith Kosaraju (AP) 6-4, 6-4; Mahesh Mohapatra (Ori ) bt Girish D Chougle (Mah) 6-2, 6-0; PM Prasanna (Kar) bt Denim Yadav (MP) 6-4, 1-6, 6-3; Arjun sriram (Kar) bt Rajesh Kannan (TN) 7-5, 4-6, 7-5; S Boopathy (TN)v bt V Preetam (AP) 6-1, 6-4.

Girls singles: Mubashir Anjum Shaik (AP) bt Sudipta S (Mah) 6-1, 6-3; Parvvi Patil (Kar) bt Mushrath Anjum Shaik (AP) 6-0, 6-1; Bhakti B Parwani (Guj) bt Bhakti Shah (AP) 6-0, 6-3; Chandrika Joshi (Kar) bt Dhriti Kapoor (AP) 7-5, 6-2; Fatima Juveria (AP) bt Durva Deo (Mah) 6-4, 7-5; Reshma Maruri (Kar) bt Ananya Reddy (AP) 6-1, 6-1; SB Gauri (Mah) bt Prerna Vichare (Mah) 7-6 (3), 6-2; Richa D Chougle (Mah) bt Malika Marathe (Mah) 6-4, 6-7 (8), 6-4.