Malikaa Marathe in action in Guwahati on Tuesday. Picture by UB Photos

Guwahati, July 15: Unseeded Anurag Buragohain of Assam caused an upset on the second day of the OIL-AITA Super Series Tennis Championship under way at All Assam Tennis Association Complex here today.

Anurag stunned third-seed Gaurav Kurva of Andhra Pradesh 4-2, 4-2 in the boys’ under-12 singles pre- quarterfinals to cause the only upset on a day when matches were delayed by four hours of the scheduled start time because of rain. In some other pre-quarters matches played in the same event, Javia Dev, Nikhil Niranjan, Girish D. Chougule, V.M. Sandeep and Divesh Gehlot triumphed to join Anurag in the round of eight. In the girls’ under-12 singles, Sarah Dev, Richa Chougule, Janashree Saikia, Sanya Singh, Gauri Bhagia, Bhakti Parwani, Rachana Reddy and Mubashira Anjum made it to the quarter-finals.

The seeds had a smooth sail in the boys’ under-16 singles first round played today.

Under-12 girls’ singles: Sarah Dev (Pune) beat Shreya Reddy (Karnataka) 4-0, 4-0, Richa Chougule (Maharashtra) beat Medhavi Singh (Bihar) 4-0, 2-4, 10-4, Janashree Saikia (Assam) beat Malikaa Marathe (Maharashtra) 4-2, 4-0, Sanya Singh (Maharashtra) beat Tanisha Kashyap (Assam) 4-1, 0-4, 10-7, Gauri Bhagia (Maharashtra) beat Mushrath Anjum (Andhra Pradesh) 4-0, 4-0, Bhakti Parwani (Gujarat) beat Ishika Chakma (Assam) 4-1, 4-0, Rachana Reddy (Andhra Pradesh) beat Shatavisa Ghosh (Bengal) 4-0, 4-1, Mubashira Anjum (Andhra Pradesh) beat Kanika Sivaraman (Tamil Nadu) 4-1, 4-1

Under-12 boys’ singles pre-quarters: Javia Dev (Gujarat) beat Hasith Srujan (Andhra Pradesh) 4-0, 4-0, Nikhil Niranjan (Karnataka) beat Divyansh Agrahari (Uttar Pradesh) 4-2, 4-2, Anurag Buragohain (Assam) beat Gaurav Kurva (Andhra Pradesh) 4-2, 4-2, Girish D. Chougule (Maharashtra) beat Shreejit Sen (Maharashtra) 4-1, 4-0, V.M. Sandeep (Tamil Nadu) beat Udit Gogoi (Assam) 4-2, 5-3, Divesh Gahlot (Haryana) beat Amrutjoy Mohanty (Assam) 4-0, 4-2.