Venkat, Devpriya sail into quarterfinals

Patna, October 12, 2010: Local lads Venkat Siddharth and Devpriya Jaiswal cruised into the quarterfinals of the boys’ under -18 singles event of the AITA talent search tennis tournament at the Patliputra Colony tennis court here on Tuesday.

Vankat Siddarth tamed Adarsh Anand (Bihar) 6-0, 7-6 (3) while Devpriya Jaiswal (blanked Satwik Raj Sinha (West Bengal) 6-0, 6-0. In the boys’ U-12 section, Nitin Kumar Sinha, Sanchit Sikka (both from West Bengal), Asher Khndajhil (UP), Milind Malik and Ankit Anand (Both from Bihar) entered the singles quarterfinals.

Results:

Boys U-12 singles (pre-quarter-finals): Nitin Kumar Sinha (WB) bt Ritwik Bhriguvanshi (Bihar) 6-2, 6-2; Milind Malik (Bihar) bt Raman Ayush 6-1, 6-1; Asher Khndajhil (UP) bt Siddharth Raj (Bihar) 6-1, 6-0; Sanchit Sikka (WB) bt Sanoj Kumar (Bihar) 6-0, 6-0 an Ankit Anand (Bihar) bt Advevaa Sharma (WB) 6-1, 6-0.

Boys’ under-18 singles (pre-quarter-finals): Venkat Siddharth (Bihar) bt Adarsh Anand (Bihar) 6-0, 7-1 (3); Devpriya Jaiswal (Bihar) bt Satwik Raj Sinha (WB) 6-0, 6-0; Tarun Nama (Delhi) bt Parikshit Somani (Assam) 7-6 (4), 7-6 (10); Aman Kumar (Bihar) bt Anish Anupam (Bihar) 6-3, 7-5; Adamya Vikrant (Bihar) bt Anshumat Srivastava (Bihar) 6-0, 6-2 and Amaritanjay Kumar (UP) bt Ishank Ravi (Bihar) 7-5, 6-2.

Girls’ under-18 singles (pre-quarter-finals): Isha Verma (Bihar) bt Fatima Packer (Bihar) 6-4, 6-1; Meenu Pandey (UP) bt Shwetangi Shah (Bihar) 6-3, 6-3 and Avishka Gupta (Haryana) bt Sweta Kumari (Bihar) 4-6, 6-0, 6-0.

Photo caption: Venkat Siddarth (top), Devpriya Jaiswal (middle) and Adamya Vikrant (bottom) in action during their respective singles match in Patna on October 12, 2010.

Photo: BLTA