Saradhi, Nayanika reach quarterfinals of U-18 MCC Nationals

Another Andra Pradesh girl, ninth seeded D Nayanika Reddy also caused a minor upset beating her state mate and sixth seeded Teertha Iska 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (3) to enter the quarters in the girls competition.

Following are the pre-quarterfinal results:

Boys: Rishab Agarwal (AP) bt Rishab Dev (PB 6-3,6-2; Garvit Batra (Del) bt Yash Deshpande (Mah) 6-0,4-6,6-4; B Sai saran Reddy (AP) bt Ajay Yadav (Har) 6-4,6-3; Shaikh Abdullah (AP) bt Rakshit Rishi (Del) 6-2,6-2; Rithvik Anand (TN) bt Raswant Ravi (TN) 6-0,6-4; Suraj R Prabodh (Kar) bt Shashank Nautiyal (Del) 6-2,6-2; A K Pardha Saradhi AP bt S10-Manish Kumar DL 6-4,6-0; Karan Salwan (Del) bt Sasi Kumar Mukund TN 6-7(4),6-5 retd.

Girls: Simran Kaur Sethi (Del) bt Mahitha Dadi Reddy (AP) 6-0,6-2; Spurti Shivalingai (Kar) bt Tarrannum Handa (Del) 6-2,6-3; Sri Vaishnavi Peddy Reddy (AP) bt Devanshi Bhimjiyan (Mah) 6-1,6-0; C Sai Samitha (TN) bt Akshara Iska (AP) 6-4,6-4; Parminder Kaur (Chd) bt Swetha Sree hari (TN) 6-3,6-3; Prathana Thombe (Mah) bt Rimpledeep Kaur (Pun) 6-4, 6-2, D Nayanika Reddy (AP) bt Teertha Iska (AP) 3-6,7-5,7-6(3); Snehadevi Reddy (TN) bt Bhuvana Kalva (AP) 7-5,6-1.