The hosts continued their dominant run on the third day of the Asian Junior Tennis Championships with six girls and nine boys advancing to the pre-quarterfinal of the event on Wednesday. Ankita Raina survived several anxious moments before getting the better of Pakistan’s Ushna Suhail 7-6 6-4 while seventh seed Rishika Sunkara registered an emphatic 6-0 6-1 victory over compatriot Abhilasha Ahuja in the girls singles. Tenth seed Kyra Shroff also easily got past compatriot Anushka Bhargava 6-2 6-2.
Andya Naik, Natasha Palha and Sharon Sanchana Paul also notched up respective wins to enter the pre-quarterfinals of the tournament, which is also a test event for the October 3-14 Commonwealth Games here. Naik pulled off an upset by beating 16th seed Tanaporbn Thongsing of Thailand 6-2 3-6 6-1 while Palha defeated Japanese Ayaka Okuno 7-5 6-1. Paul, seeded 15th, beat another Japanese Riko Sawayanagi 5-7 7-5 6-2 to enter the final-eight stage in the girls’ singles.
In the boys’ singles, fourth seed Sai Kartik Nakireddi beat Dmitriy Borodkin from Kazakhstan 6-0 6-4 while fifth seed Ronit Singh Bisht and sixth seed Vaidik Munshaw also secured their berths in the last 16. Among others, Sumeet Shinde, Mansingh Athare, Saurabh Singh, Rakshay Thakkar, Siddharth Rawat, Rishabdev Raman and Shahbaaz Khan advanced to the pre-quarterfinals at the RK Khanna Complex here.
Results: Girls singles (Rd III): Rishika Sunkara (IND) [7] beats Abhilasha Ahuja (IND) 6-0, 6-1; Kyra Shroff (IND) [10] beats Anushka Bhargava (IND) 6-2, 6-2; Eri Hozumi (JPN) [1] beats Nova Patel (IND) 6-3, 6-1; Lin Zhu (CHN) [5] beats Sharmada Balu(IND)7-5, 3-6, 6-2; Andya Naik (IND) beats Tanaporbn Thongsin (THA)[16] 6-2, 3-6, 6-1; Zhaoxeuan Yang (CHN) [11] beats Bhuvana Kalva (IND) 6-1, 6-1; Miyu Kato (JPN) [3] beats Sri Vaishnavi Peddi Reddy (IND) 6-1, 6-2; Zi Yang (CHN) [4] beats Nao Hibino (JPN) 6-2, 6-3; Sabina Sharipova (UZB) [8] beats Shweta Rana (IND) 6-0, 6-1; Ankita Raina (IND) [9] beats Ushna Suhail (PAK) 7-6, 6-4; Napatsakorn Sankaew (THA) [6] beats Natalla Khaniejo (IND) 6-1, 6-1; Ran TIAN (CHN) [2] beats Vaniya Dangwal (IND) 6-1, 6-0; Miho Kowase (JPN) [9] beats Prarthana G Thombare (IND) 6-0, 6-2; Li-Yun Tan (SIN)[13] beats Aishwarya Agrawal (IND) 6-0, 6-3; Natasha Palha (IND) beats Ayaka Okuno (JPN) 7-5, 6-1; Sharon Sanchana Paul (IND) [15] beats Riko Sawayanagi (JPN) 5-7, 7-5, 6-2.
Boys singles: Chuhan Wang (CHN) [1] beats Saurabh Patil(IND) 6-1, 6-2; Sumeet Shinde (IND) [11] beats Garry Tokas (IND) 6-0, 6-3; Ronit Singh Bisht (IND ) [5] beats Sai Saran Reddy 6-2, 3-0 (Conceded); Vaidik Munshaw (IND) [6] beats Justin To(HKG) 6-4, 6-2; XIN GAO (CHN) [3] Beats Wen-Chun Liang (TPE) 6-2, 6-0; Mansingh Athare (IND) beat Leander Lazaro (PHI) [16] 6-2, 2-6, 6-2;
Saurabh Singh ( IND ) [12] Yash Deshpande ( IND ) 6-3, 6-1; Warit Sornbutnark (THA) [8] beat Jatin Dahiya (IND) 6-0, 6-0; Sai Kartik Nakireddi (IND) [4] beat Dmitriy Borodkin (KAZ) 6-0, 6-4;
Rakshay Thakkar (IND) [9] beat Digvijay Singh Mehta (IND) 6-4, 6-2; Siddharth Rawat (IND) beat Rohit Bisht (IND) 7-6 (2), 6-1; Rishabdev Raman (IND) [14] beat Srikar Alla (IND) 3-6, 6-3, 6-2;
Kaichi Uchida (JPN) [7] beat Wen-Jao Liang [TPE] 6-4, 4-6, 6-2; Chi-Shan Jao (TPE) [15] beat Tarun Nath Surath (IND) 6-0, 6-0; Bowen Ouyang (CHN) [2] beat Chih-Jen Ho (TPE) 6-1, 6-3; Shahbaaz Khan ( IND ) beat Artem Tarasov (UZB) 7-6 (6), 6-4.