Oormila storms into quarters, meets Anuja

Oormila storms into quarters, meets Anuja
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MUMBAI, OCTOBER 25: Wild card entrant Oormila Ram of Andhra Pradesh shocked fourth-seeded state rival Poonam Reddy in three sets to enter the quarter-finals of the girls under 18 singles in the Adidas AITA Juniors Tennis tournament here on Wednesday.

Oormila ousted Poonam, who has six AITA points to her credit, 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 to earn a quarter-final meeting with sixth seed Anuja Parikh of Maharashtra who got past wild card recipient Sonali Sanap, also of Maharashtra, 6-2, 7-6 (tie break 7-3) in another pre-quarter-final clash.

Top seed Medini Sharma thrashed fellow-Maharashtra player Aditi Vasant without dropping a game and will now take on fifth seed Gangotri Sandri, who drubbed Anjani Kant of Delhi 6-1, 6-0, in another quarter-final tie. Other seeds to advance to the last eight in this section were third seed Fatima Baig (Tamil Nadu), who got past Nidhi Shah of Maharashtra 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, and seventh seed Shradha Lodha of Maharashtra who defeated Astha Uppal of Delhi 6-1, 6-2 in the pre-quarterfinals.

In two other pre-quarterfinal ties, Toshi Sinha beat AP's Meghana Paritala 6-3, 6-4 while another Maharashtra girl Kartiki Bhat ousted her state rival Kanisha Mehta 6-1, 6-0.

Results Boy's U-14 singles (PQF): aran Rastogi (Mah) bt Tejaswi Rao (Mah) 6-1, 6-0; Somdip Appineni (AP) bt Aniket Ghaskadvi (Mah) 6-4, 3-6, 7-5; Ajal Selvaraj (TN) bt Arnav Jain (Mah) 6-1, 6-1; Anatha Bhaskar (TN) bt Rahil Makharia (Mah) 6-1, 6-1; Dhruv Saundar (Kar) bt Krishank Shah (Mah) 7-6, 7-5, 6-3; NK Narshimhan (Mah) bt Abhishek Mahadik (Mah) 6-2, 6-2; M Vinod (TN) bt Shandril Shah (Guj) 6-0, 6-0; S Prashant (TN) bt Hari Prasad (TN) 6-1, 6-0.