Fernandes, Rao post win via tie break to enter last four stage

Pune, Feb 27 (UNI) Close contests marked the day as Gavin Fernandes, Adish Rao scraped past their opponents to enter the semifinals today in the Boys under 10, at the 14h Royal Connaught Boat Club(RCBC) Open junior tennis championships being played at the club tennis courts.

While Trishala Menkar and Tarini Chandramouli went through harrowing time before making it to the semifinals in the Girls under 10 and Girls under 12 event.

Following are the results: Boys under 8: Quarter Finals: Ayush Prabhune bt Brijesh Mangudkar 6-0, Shlok Ranka bt Abhishek Ranade 6-1, Aditya Iyer bt Dhruv Bukinkere 6-3, Aryan Rai bt Parth Dahanukar 6-2, Boys under 10: Quarterfinals: Gavin Francis bt Aditya Bhargav 7-6(7-5), Aditya Varma bt Kaustubh Devkar 7-3, Adish Rao bt Allon Lobo 7-6(7-5), Mihir Damle bt Neel Lapalikar 7-4 Girls under 10: Quarterfinals: Kanishka Chawla bt Rrutika Kalbhor 7-2, Trishala Menkar bt Jui.Pusalkar 7-5, Ahilya Bhandarkar bt Madhura Kurhadkar 7-0, Rucha Kohok bt Shirlee Deshmukh 7-2, Boys under 12: Pre-Quarterfinals: Brent Dixon bt Vishwajit Paradkar 7-6(7-4), Mehul Gugale bt Neel Joshi 7-6(9-7), Abhishek Bendrey bt Arnav Chakravarthy 7-2, Ishaan Ranade bt R Harsh Navnit 7-4, Nigel Lobo bt Yash Agarwal 7-6(8-6), Jayesh Pungliya bt Piyush Deo 7-2, Shubham Pardeshi bt Aahan Tagare 7-5, Shubhankar Kothari bt Kunal Gawli 7-1, Girls under 12: Quarterfinals: Priti Bhandurge bt Anushka Hardikar 8-3, Anishka Sathe bt Simran Nathani 8-5, Tarini Chandramouli bt Karishma Gawli 8-6, Liyaan Akalkotkar bt Hena Raisinghani 8-0.

Boys under 14 : Quarterfinals Harshawardhan Baxi bt Sujay Dhiwar 8-4, Manish Dudhani bt Rohan Panchal 8-2, Divyat Rungta Bt Ashwin Wagh 8-5, Yash Mokashi bt Siddarth Agarwal 8-5.

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