Shamika, Priyam, Adrija, Medhavi cruise into quarterfinals

 Shamika Dhar

 Medhavi Singh

Arjun Mariyappa 

Patna, March 29, 2017: Shamika Dhar of Karnataka beat Shilpi Swarupa Das of Odisha 4-6, 7-5, 6-4 to enter the women’s quarterfinals of the Chandrashekhar Prasad Memorial All India Ranking Tennis Tournament at the Patliputra tennis Centres courts here.

Priryam Kumari of Bihar, Adrija Bisas of West Bengal and Medhavi Singh (Bihar) also moved in to the last eight stage.

Priyam Kumari beat Meenu Pandey (UP) 6-1, 6-1, Adrija Biswas (WB) beat Monika Mumar (WB) 6-3, 6-3 and Medhavi Singh beat Shruti Gupta (WB) 6-4, 6-3.

Men’s singles (pre-quarterfinals)

Ansu Bhuyan (OD) bt Abhiveer Singh Shekhawat (RJ) 6-4, 6-3; Shimon Shastri (MH) bt Shaik Umair (AP)  0-6, 6-3, 7-6; Pagalavan D. (TN) bt Chinmay Bakshi (DL) 6-0, 6-0

P. Harshith Sankar Satakarni (AP) bt D. Surya Reddy (AP) 7-6, 6-3; Amit Bzad (HR) bt. Burra Ramsai (AP) 6-0, 6-2; Arjun Mariyappa (KA) bt. Shekhar Jaiswal (MH) 6-4, 6-2; Nagendra Rai (UP) bt Rewant Raj (BR) 6-3, 6-3.