Another unseeded Rajbir Kaur of Punjab went down fighting to another Punjab player and eighth seed Jaspreet Kaur at 3-6, 6-4, 3-6 in another hard-fought pre-quarter-final encounter.

Third seed Harnoor Kaur Mann of Chandigarh reached into quarter-final as she defeated Shreya Malhotra of Delhi in straight sets 6-1, 6-3. Top seed Pooja A. Naryana, Mehga Sherawat, Sandeep K. Saran and second seet Baljinder Kaur also moved into quarter-finals without facing any trouble.

Top seed Pankaj Kumar, second seed Kamal Kishore Maderana, Sunny Dahiya, Digvijay Naruka, Anikhit Prasad, Manish Kumar, Vilash Khate and Sushant Mohanti advanced into quarter-finals in the boys under-14 singles. Unseeded Sunny Dahiya of Haryana upset fifth seed Nischay Rawat of Chandigarh in a close and tough contest. Sunny won 76, (6) 5-7, 6-3.

Results:

Boys U-14 (Pre-Qtrs): Pankaj Kumar bt Sisir Chilikuri 6-1, 6-3, Sunny Dahiya bt Nischay Rawal 7-6, (6) 5-7, 6-3, Digvijay Naruka bt B. Saireddy 6-2, 6-4, Anikhit Prasad bt Manish Drall 7-5, 6-4, Manish Kumar bt Arush Sood 6-3, 6-2, Vilash Khate bt Naveen Anand 6-1, 6-3, Sushant Mohanti bt Hardeep Singh 6-0, 6-0, Kamal Kishore Maderana bt Udai S. Mann 6-3, 6-4.

Girls-U-14 (Pre-Qtrs): Likhita Sheety bt Tatira Bahtt 7-6 (4), 6-2, Megha Sehrawta bt Nehal Sahni 6-1, 6-1, Sabatini Anka Raju bt Vibhuti Khullar 6-1, 6-0, Rimpledeep Kaur bt Har Kirat Bains 6-1, 6-2, Rajbir Kaur bt Shivani Manchanda 6-0, 6-3, Simran K. Sethi bt Sonali Bansal 6-1, 6-3, Bhawika Wadhawan bt Radhika Krishan 6-4, 6-1, Ee Tee Mehta bt Shreya Malhotra 6-2, 6-3.

Boys U-16 (Pre-Qtrs): Naveen Kumar bt Jaspinder Singh 6-1, 6-2, Rishab Dev bt Kamal Kishore Maderana 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, Pankaj Kumar bt Raghav Singhal 3-6, 6-3, 6-1, Naveen Shankar bt Jaivardhan Gupta 7-5, 6-0, Ajay Yadav bt Bavneet Singh 6-1, 6-2, Gurinder Singh bt Harinder Singh Bedi 6-0, 6-1, Digvijay Naruka bt Sajal Choudhary 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (3), Manider Singh bt Jatinder Singh 6-0, 6-0,

Girls U-16 (Pre-Qtrs): Pooja A. Naryana bt Nehal Sahni 6-2, 6-3, Eetee Mehta bt Sonali Bansal 6-2, 6-1, Harnoor Kaur Mann bt Shreya Malhotra 6-1, 6-3, Mehga Sherawat bt Likhita Shety 6-2, 6-2, Jaspreet Kaur bt Rajbir Kaur 6-3. 4-6, 6-3, Ravnoor Kaur bt Ikttesh Chanhal 7-6 (4) 4-6, 7-5, Sandeep K. Saran bt Prabhamrit Kaur 7-6 (2), 6-4, Baljinder Kaur bt Bhavika Nadhanan 6-1, 6-0.

Girls Under 16 Doubles (Pre-Qtrs): Megha Sehrawat-Simran Sethi bt Ayna Arror-Nikita Deshmukh 6-0, 6-1, Vaibhavi Trivedi-Ee Tee Mehta bt Harkirat Bains-Charvi Saxena 6-2, 6-1, Prabhamrit Kaur-Harnoor Kaur bt Sandeep Kaur-Ramandeep Kaur 6-4, 6-4, Baljinder Kaur-Sabatini Ankaraju w/o Shubh Gulati-Nayna Goswami, Neehal Sahni-Likhita Shetty w/o Neyati Aggarwal-Nikita Desh Mukh.

Boys Under 16 Doubles (Pre- Quarters): Bhavtaran Singh-Aviraj Kamboj bt Jivites Kang-Jaivardhan Gupta 1-6, 6-4, 13-11, Harinder Singh-Chinmay Handa bt Taranbir Singh-Ramandeep Kushik 6-1, 7-6 (3).

Boys Under 16 Doubles (Quarters): Navneet Kumar-Naveen Shankar bt Harry Jindal- Ankit Goyal 6-1, 6-1, Ajay Yadav-Raghav Singhal bt Ashutosh Rana- Saransh Bhatia 6-1,6-0.