With an early sun shining at the PYC Gymkhana courts, the Pune lad subdued Mumbai's Sujay Mahadevan 6-1, 6-2 in the under-14 quarter-finals and then followed it up with an equally comfortable 6-4, 6-2 win against Shashank Kulkarni in the U-16 quarters.

The V K Patil school student, who had won both the titles at the first leg in Mumbai last week, now plays seventh seed Rishi Behl in the U-14 semis and second seed Vivek Jhaveri in U-16 semis tomorrow. The other semi-finalists in the U-14 section are: No. 2 Saurabh Kohli and No. 4 Krishna Tanna, while No. 1 Rohan Gajjar and No. 4 Gavryl Fernandis make up the U-16 semi-final line up. Krishna Tanna was given a run for his money before he stopped the giant killing spree of unseeded Pune boy Arjun Vaidya today. The tall Mumbai lad Tanna took the first set without dropping a point, but was tasted to his grits in the second before winning it 7-5.

Results (Prefix numbers denote seedings)
Boys
U-14 (Quarter-finals): 1. Vikrant Sane (Mah) bt 5. Sujay Mahadevan (Mah) 6-1, 6-2; 7. Rishi Behl (Mah) bt 3. Karan Rastogi (Mah) 6-2, 0-6, 6-0; 4. Krishna Tanna (Mah) bt Arjun Vaidya (Mah) 6-0, 7-5; 2. Saurabh Kohli (Mah) bt Keshvan Narsimhan (Mah) 6-2, 6-2.
U-16 (Quarter-finals): 1. Rohan Gajjar (Mah) bt Ankit Doshi (Mah) 6-1, 6-0; 4. Gavryl Fernandis (Mah) bt 7. Saurabh Kohli 6-4, 6-2; 2. Vivek Javeri (Mah) bt Anirudha Kulkarni (Mah) 6-0, 6-2; 3. Vikrant Sane (Mah) bt Shashank Kulkarni (Mah) 6-4, 6-2.
Girls
U-14 (Quarter-finals): 1. Isha Lakhani (Mah) bt 8. Reddhima Raina (Mah) 6-2, 6-3; 4. Krushmi Chheda (Mah) bt 5. Shruddha Lodha (Mah) 7-5, 7-6 (7-5); 3. Deepa Chakravarthy (WB) bt 6. Ronak Shah (Mah) 6-3, 2-6, 6-3; 2. Lata Asudani (Mah) bt 8. Ridhima Raina (Mah) 6-0, 6-2.
U-16 (Pre-Quarter-finals): 1. Megha Vakharia (Mah) bt Reddhima Raina (Mah) 6-3, 6-1; 7. Medhini Sharma (Mah) bt Lizenka Perrira (Mah) 6-0, 6-0; 8. Noopur Desai (Mah) bt Krushmi Chheda (Mah) 6-3, 6-2; 5. Lata Asudani (Mah) bt Vrushali Gawankar (Mah) 6-3, 6-1; 2. Isha Lakhani (Mah) bt Priyanka Metha (Mah) 6-2, 6-3; Deepa Chakravarty (WB) bt Kalpita Raje (Mah) 6-4, 6-2; 4. Ragini Vimal (WB) bt Uttara Rama Rao (Mah) 6-1, 6-1; 3. Redhina Parekh (WB) bt Priya Pachkawde (Mah) 6-1, 6-1.

State Ranking
Boys
U-18 (Pre-Q/F): Kedar Shah (Pune) bt Rushang Patel (Mum) 9-0; Aniket Joglekar (Pune) bt Jyotindra Kanekar (Pune) 9-5; Abhishek Tamhane (Pune) bt Rohan Chaugule (Kolhapur) 9-2; Varun Maggikar (Pune) bt Sarang Devi (Pune) 9-4; Vivek Jhaveri (Mum) bt Mehul Kamdar (Mum) 9-6; Farhad Ganjawala (Mum) bt Jimmy Timbadia (Khamgao) 9-6; Joshua Fonseca bt Aashay Deshmukh (Mum) 9-5; Shashank Kulkarni (Pune) bt Rewant Dutta (Mum) 9-4.

Girls
U-18 (Q/F): Radhika Tulpule bt Vrushali Gawhankar 9-3; Radhika Mandke bt Kalpita Raje 9-0; Redhina Parekh bt Noopur Desai 9-5; Sonal Phadke bt Ashlesha Lokhande 9-3.

Boys U-12 (Q/F): Keshvan Narsimhan (Mum) bt Sumit Saroskar (Pune) 9-0; Anmol Arora (Mum) bt Agnel Gladwin (Mum) 9-8 (7-2); Hrishikesh Pataskar (Pune) bt Arnav Jain (Mum) 9-4; Bhavik Selorka (Mum) bt Bhushan Bhopardikar (Pune) 9-0.

Girls U-12 (Q/F): Kartiki Bhat (Pune) bt Smita Paranjpe (Pune) 8-0; Moneeza Siddique (Mum) bt Kanisha Mehta (Mum) 8-5; Divya Gopal (Mum) bt Sajiri Deshpande (Pune) 8-1; Sagarika Phadke (Mum) bt Padmini Kulkarni (Pune) 8-5.

Boys U-10 (Q/F): Arnav Jain (Mum) bt Anuj Arora (Mum) 8-1; Akash Gujrathi (Pune) bt Devendra Das (Mum) 8-2; Jairaj Desai (Mum) bt Swapnil Akut (Mum) 8-4; Tejas Chaukulkar (Pune) bt Akash Wagh (Pune) 8-1.