Arjeria, Reshma scalp seeds to enter quarters

Ayushman Arjeria of Madhya Pradesh and Reshma Maruri of Karnataka scalped seeded rivals to enter the singles quarter finals at the 13th Ramesh Desai Memorial U16 Tennis Nationals Wednesday.

Arjeria conquered 14th seed Yashraj Dalvi of Maharashtra in the boys' event while Reshma knocked out 16th seed Anjali Rathi of Haryana in the corresponding girls' event at the Cricket Club of India here.

Arjeria outplayed Dalvi 6-3, 6-1 in the boys' pre quarters while Reshma got pastAnjali Rathi 6-2, 6-3 in a girls' last 16 clash.

The results (Pre quarter finals): Boys under 16: Ayushman Arjeria(MP) bt Yashraj Dalvi(Mah) 6-3, 6-1; 2-Chirag Duhan (Har) bt 16-Nithilan Eric (Kar) 6-1, 6-0; 3-Denim Yadav (MP) bt Ajay Singh (Ch) 6-3, 2-6, 6-1; 4-Dhru Tangri (PB) bt Arjun Gohad (Mah) 6-2, 6-3; 9-Karan Singh (Har) bt Bushan Haobam (Man) 6-3, 6-1; 5-Krishna Hooda (Chd) bt Aman Dahiya (Har) 6-0, 6-4; Saheb Sodhi (Mah) bt Deep Munim (MP) 6-3, 6-2; Anargha Ganguly (Mah) bt Daksh Agarwal(Mah) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3. Girls under 16: Reshma Maruri (Kar) bt 16-Anjali Rathi (Har) 6-2, 6-3; 1-Sanjana Sirimalla (TS) bt Ananya S R (TN) 6-1, 6- 3; 7-Renne Singla (Har) bt Lakshmi Arunkumar (TN) 6-0, 7-5; 8 -Pari Singh (Har) bt Saniya Masand (Kar) 6-1, 4-6, 6-1; Diya Bhardwaj (Guj) bt Karthika Vijay (TN) 6-0, 6-3; Vidhi Jani (Guj) bt Abhaya Vemuri (TS) 6-3, 6-2; Bhumika Tripathi (Mah) bt Jannat Anand (Del) 6-2, 6-3; Naisha Srivastav (Kar) bt Tanushri Pandey (UP) 6-4, 6-0.