Maharashtra's Shinde, Sonal create upsets at tennis meet

Jaishnav Shinde and Sonal Patil, both of hosts Maharashtra, led an upset spree as ten seeds were dumped in the second round of the boys and girls singles at the 11th Ramesh Desai Memorial Under 12 Tennis Nationals here today.
In the boys' singles, Shinde upset third seed Karthik Vaddipalli of Andhra Pradesh, Assam's Andy Thaosen knocked out 11th seed Jasmeet Duhan of Haryana, while qualifier Siddharth Marathe shocked 12th seed Manas Dhamne in an all-Maharashtra tussle. All matches ended in two sets.
In the girls' event, a gritty Sonal Patil from Kolhapur upset fourth seed Lakshmi Gowda of Delhi in three sets, while unseeded D L Durganshi outplayed fifth seed Khushi Sharma of Maharashtra.

In other upsets, Gujarat's Parikh Pavitra out-rallied 6th seed Nandini Dixit of Haryana, while host state's Alisha Deogaonkar ousted 8th seed Vaibhavi Saxena of Karnataka.
Results (2nd round):
Boys singles: Aayush Bhat (Kar,1) bt Karthik Kavin (TN, 15) 6-1, 6-0; Siddharth Marathe (Mah) bt Manas Dhamne (Mah,12) 6-1, 6-3; Wyatt Obrien (WB,8) bt Kanav Dawer(Guj) 6-2, 6-2; Adhirit Awal (TN) bt Samuel Antony (TN) 2-6, 6-4, 6-1; Eapen Joshua (Mah,16) bt Agriya Yadav 7-5, 6-1; Andy Thaosen (AS) bt Jasmeet Duhan (Har,11) 6-3, 6-1; Rushil Khosla (UP,6) bt Arnav Oruganty (Mah) 6-2, 6-1; Arunava Majumdar (WB,5) bt Sree Kanugovi (TS) 6-0, 6-2; Niranjan Edison(TN,9) bt Jyotirmay Mehta (Guj) 6-2, 6-3; Jaishnav Shinde (Mah) bt Karthik Vaddipalli (AP,3) 6-3, 6-4; Arya Bhattachary(WB) bt Dhananjay Athreya(TN)6-4, 1-6, 6-4; Aryan Shah(Guj,14) bt Daksh Prasad(MP)7-6(5), 6-2; Prajwal Tewari(Mah,13) bt Sarnaav Ghosh(WB) 6-1, 6-0; Aditya Rathi(Har,2) bt Jason David (Kar) 6-3, 6-3.

Gilrs singles: Siddhi Khandelwal(Guj,1) bt Kyra Shetty (Mah) 6-0, 6-3; Anya Jacob (Mah) bt Suryanshi Tanwar (Har, 13) 6-1, 6-0; Abhaya Vemuri (TS,12) bt Sukhmanni Bhandari (Del) 6-0, 6-3; Durganshi DL (Del) bt Khushi Sharma (Mah,5) 6-3, 6-0; Sonal Patil (Mah) bt Lakshmi Gowda(Del,4) 7-6(6), 6-7(2), 6-1; Lakshmi Arunkumar(TN,12) bt Sameeksha Shroff (Mah) 6-3, 6-2; Madhurima Sawant (Mah,9) bt Soha Singh (Kar) 6-4, 6-4; Parikh Pavitra (Guj) bt Nandini Dixit (Har,6) 6-4, 6-3; Alisha Deogaonkar (Mah) bt Vaibhavi Saxena (Kar,8) 6-3, 6-0; Ananya SR (TN) bt Bhumi Shekhar (WB,11) 6-4, 6-0; Kundana Bandaru (TN) bt Sasa Katiyar (UP,16) 6-0, 6-0; Apurva Vemuri(TS,14) bt Nirali Padaniya (TS) 6-4, 3-6, 6-1; Pari Singh (Mah, 2) bt Niyeti Kukreti 6-0, 6-1.