Assam’s Arkashish Talukdar returns a shot during the meet on Monday. Picture by Eastern Projections

Guwahati, May 21: Assam girls Anangsha Alomyan and Pratiksha Sarma have booked berths in the pre-quarterfinals of the OIL-AITA Super Series (under-14) Tennis tournament that began at the All Assam Tennis Association’s Chachal Tennis Complex today.

Another Assam girl, Rizuwana Begum, who is representing the National Tennis Academy, also made it to the pre-quarters today.

However, Assam’s Marisha Dutta, Jyotishmita Khound and Sanghamitra Thakur bowed out today.

The others who entered the round of 16 include Srijita Ghose and Angana Mukherjee of West Bengal, Mallika Saharia and Niyati Aggarwal of Delhi, and Sambhavi Dixit of Andhra Pradesh.

On the boys’ singles court, all the seeded players sailed into the pre-quarterfinals with ease. Top seed Surya Pavan of Andhra Pradesh blanked Assam’s Parth S. Kalita 6-0, 6-0, while second seed local lad Rupam Gogoi beat compatriot Nilav Dutta by an identical margin.

Seventh seed Sidhant Deka, also from Assam, came from a set down to wrest a 5-7, 6-4, 6-0 win over Gujarat opponent Anvit Dendre.

The meet was inaugurated by OIL group general manager S.N. Borah in the presence of veteran sports personality Pulin Das and others.

Other first-round winners:

Third seed Suraj Kanwar (Guj), fourth seed Vinod Gowda (Kar), fifth seed Manab Chakma (Asm), sixth seed Trinayan Talukdar (Asm), eighth seed Ansu Kr Bhuyan (Ors), Alok Kr Tripathi (Asm), Madhurjya Dutta (Asm), Arunangshu Borthakur (Asm), Abhinash Kaushik (Asm), Vilasier Khate (NTA), Shreedhar Gaggar (WB), Kunwar Singh Tater (Asm) and Sushanta Mohanty (NTA).