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Varsha Dutta makes semifinals

NEW DELHI APRIL 10. The fifth-seeded Varsha Dutta defeated the top-seeded Parija Maloo 6-2, 6-3 to move into the semifinals of the girls' under-14 section in the AITA Super Series junior tennis tournament at the DLTA Complex here on Thursday.

Parija, however, had the satisfaction of making it to the semifinals of the under-18 section, as she beat the fourth-seeded Gayatri Krishnan 6-4, 6-3 in the pre-quarterfinals.

Wrik Ganguly knocked out the second-seeded Divij Sharan 6-3, 6-4 to make the semifinals of the boys' under-18 section.

The results: Boys (under-18): quarterfinals: Rupesh Roy bt Aditya Madkekar 6-7 (6-8), 6-1, 6-3; Sanam Singh bt R.K. Praveen 6-2, 7-5; J. Vishnu Vardhan bt Jitin Bishnoi 6-2, 2-6, 6-3; Wrik Ganguly bt Divij Sharan 6-3, 6-4; pre-quarterfinals: Rupesh Roy bt Tejeshwi Rao 6-3, 7-6 (7-4); Aditya Madkekar bt Yannick Nelord 6-4, 6-2; Sanam Singh bt Sandeep Kumar 6-0, 6-2; R.K. Praveen bt Siddharth Gulati 7-6 (10-8), 6-4; Jitin Bishnoi bt Rahil Makharia 3-6, 7-5, 6-2; J. Vishnu Vardhan bt Saurabh Kohli 6-1, 6-1; Wrik Ganguly bt Sendur Gautham 7-5, 6-2; Divij Sharan bt Vivek Shokeen 6-2, 7-5.

Under-14 (quarterfinals): Kinshuk Sharma bt Akshay Kohli 6-3, 6-3; Navneetha Kannan bt Debender Das 6-4, 4-6, 6-3; Kaushik Das bt Navinder Pal Singh 6-2, 6-3; Mesheer Vaswani bt Tejas Chukulkar 6-7 (2-7), 6-2, 6-1; pre-quarterfinals: Kinshuk Sharma bt Vijayant Malik 6-2, 6-3; Akshay Kohli bt Sujith Sachitanand 6-4, 3-6, 6-2; Navneetha Kannan bt Yuki Bhambri 6-3, 6-2; Debender Das bt Suman Debnath 7-5, 6-1; Navinder Pal Singh bt Ajesh Anthati 6-1, 6-1; Kaushik Das bt Ajay Kumar 6-0, 6-3; Tejas Chukulkar bt Amit Garg 6-2, 6-0; Mesheer Vaswani bt Arjit Goswami 3-6, 6-4, 6-2.

Girls: under-18 (quarterfinals): Parul Goswami bt Taskeen Bains 6-2, 6-1; Parija Maloo bt Gayatri Krishnan 6-4, 6-3; DeepaChakraborty bt Akshita Raj 7-5, 6-2; D. Tejaswini bt Sanjana Kapoor 6-4, 6-1; pre-quarterfinals: Parul Goswami bt Shalini Sahoo 6-1, 6-0; Taskeen Bains bt Amrita Seth 6-4, 6-4; Gayatri Krishnan bt Simmer 6-0, 6-2; Parija Maloo bt Neha Rana 6-2, 6-2; Deepa Chakraborty bt Aeshita Dwivedi 6-3, 6-0; Akshita Raj bt Daksha Mulay 6-2, 6-1; D. Tejaswini bt Varsha Dutta 6-4, 6-2; Sanjana Kapoor bt Shivika Burman 6-2, 7-6 (7-5).

Under-14 (quarterfinals): Varsha Dutta bt Parija Maloo 6-2, 6-3; Takseen Bains bt Jilke Nelord 6-0, 6-1; Amrita Seth bt Daksha Mulay 6-3, 6-2; Gayatri Krishnan bt Akshita Raj 6-1, 4-6, 6-0; pre-quarterfinals: Parija Maloo bt Anushka Kapoor 6-0, 6-2; Varsha Dutta bt Sushrutha Reddy 6-2, 6-1; Jilke Nelord bt Shivika Burman 4-6, 6-4, 7-5; Takseen Bains bt Vishakha Sheoran 3-6, 6-1, 6-4; Amrita Seth bt Neha Rana 6-1, 6-2; Daksha Mulay bt Nandita Krishnan 6-2, 6-4; Akshita Raj bt Inayat Khosla 1-1 (conceded); Gayatri Krishnan bt Rishika Sankara 6-0, 6-0.

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