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| Anurag Buragohain returns a shot in Guwahati on Monday. Picture by UB Photos |
Guwahati, July 21: Assam girls Lenien Jamir, Tanisha Kashyap and Raina Zaffar made it to the pre-quarterfinals of both the under-14 and under-16 girls’ singles in the OIL-AITA Super Series under-14 and under-16 tennis championship that got under way at the All Assam Tennis Association complex here today.
Eva Raj Sah, Naziya Ahmed and Janashree Saikia of Assam bit the dust in both the age groups’ first round today. The under-14 boys’ courts also saw most of the Assam players, barring Sadhinoor Jyoti and Snehal Nayan, making first round exits today.
Top seed Assam girl Priyana Kalita had an easy through to the pre-quarters blanking Rashmika Bandipatty of Andhra Pradesh 4-0, 4-0.
Results: Girls’ under-14 round 1: Shivani Amineni (Andhra Pradesh) beat Janashree Saikia (Assam), Bhakti Parwani (Gujarat) bt Anaam Almas (Odisha), Lenien Jamir (Asssm) bt Nikhar Roy Choudhury (Bengal), Mubashira Anjum Shaik (Andhra Pradesh) bt Naziya Ahmed (Assam), Anaya Thorat (Maharashtra) bt Mahima Kumar (Bengal), Debangana Barkataki (Assam) bt Gauri Gunjyal (Assam), Alisha Samal (Odisha) bt Megha Roy (Bengal), Rachana Reddy (Andhra Pradesh) bt Avyakta Thorat (Maharashtra), Kiran Kalkal (Delhi) bt Monika Kumar (Bengal), Raina Zaffar (Assam) bt Kristi Boro (Assam), Richa Chougule (Maharashtra) bt Jagriti Borah (Assam), Adrija Biswas (Bengal) bt Rituparna Choudhury (Odisha), Rashmika Bandipatty (Andhra Pradesh) bt Ishika Chakma (Assam), Tanisha Kashyap (Assam) bt Eva Raj Sah (Assam), Sanya Singh (Maharashtra) bt Mushrath Anjum Shaikh (Andhra Pradesh), Yubrani Banerjee (Bengal) bt Punyatoya Mahapatra (Odisha).
Boys’ under-14 round 1: Sadhinoor Jyoti (Assam) beat Abhijay Hazarika (Assam), Snehal Nayan (Assam) bt Tarun Karra (Andhra Pradesh), Md Fardeen (Bengal) bt Ayush Poddar (Delhi), Heman Nama (Karnataka) bt Taraknath Singh (Andhra Pradesh), D. Suresh (Tamil Nadu) bt H. Devasis Singh (Delhi), Rudra Kapoor (Uttar Pradesh) bt Sunder Arvind (Karnataka), Dev Javia (Gujarat) bt Arjun Shriram (Karnataka), Calvin Golmei (Chandigarh) bt Mudit Bhagat (Bengal), T. Shashank (Andhra Pradesh) bt Jishnu Baruah (Assam), Ronit Bora (Assam) bt Divesh Gahlot (Haryana), Sandesh Kantimahanti (Karnataka) bt P. Bagade (Maharashtra), Rohit Aynapudi (Andhra Pradesh) bt Rajdeep Singh (Assam), Tushar Sharma (Uttar Pradesh) bt B. Ritwick (Andhra Pradesh), Harsit Selvaraj (Karnataka) bt V.M. Sandeep (Tamil Nadu), Gaurav Kurva (Andhra Pradesh) bt Anurag Buragohain (Assam), Amit Beniwal (Haryana) bt Mahesh Mahapatra (Odisha).
Girls’ under-16 round 1: Priyana Kalita (Assam) bt Rashmika Bandipatty (Andhra Pradesh), Tanisha Kashyap (Assam) bt Nikhar Roy Coudhury (Bengal), Lenien Jamir (Assam) bt Neethi Baruah (Assam), Rachana Reddy (Andhra Pradesh) bt Janashree Saikia (Assam), Yubrani Banerjee (Bengal) bt Kalaga Bhargavi (Odisha), Megha Roy (Bengal) bt Natasha Baruah (Assam), Mubashira A. Shaikh (Andhra Pradesh) bt Kiran Kalkal (Delhi), Rituparna Choudhury (Odisha) bt Swathishi Suresh (Tamil Nadu) w/o, Raina Zaffar (Assam) bt Eva Raj Sah (Assam), Alisha Samal (Odisha) bt Chongthum Bunty (Manipur) w/o, Shivani Ameneni (Andhra Pradesh) bt Monika Kumar (Bengal), Adrija Biswas (Bengal) bt Anaya Thorat (Maharashtra), Punyatoya Mahapatra (Odisha) bt Annie Thaosen (Assam), Sanya Singh (Maharashtra) bt Naziya Ahmed (Assam), Neeru (Haryana) bt Manoneeta Banerjee (Bengal).
