Qualifiers spotted for girls` singles main draw

Four girls qualified for the singles main draw of the Asian Under-14 Tennis Tournament being played at Kalinga Stadium courts in Bhubaneswar today. The four included D Mahitha, V Hanish Reddy, Alisa Samal and Bhavani Balakumar. In the lone qualifying match, Bhavani Balakumar beat Ashka Soni 8-7(2). In boys’ singles, M Sai Nikhil, Maka Krishna Chaitanya and Chilukuri Sisir inched closer to the main draw by winning two rounds each in the qualifying competition. The third and fourth qualifying rounds will be played on Sunday, followed by the main draw matches from Monday. Results (Qualifying): Boys singles: 1st round: M Sai Nikhil bt Ramchandra Dodda 8-1: Shaurya Dhankar bt Yash Puri 8-5: Maka Krishna Chaitanya bt Sourya Prasad 8-0: Ravinder Singh bt Mohammed Vali 8-2: Chilukuri Sisir bt Rishab Kumar 8-6: Kanuganit Rawal bt Rahul Patnaik 8-2: M Veera Kumar bt Aman Dua 8-3: Rishabh Shah bt Ayush Panda 8-0: Devang Singh Saxena bt Sumit Patel 8-1: Pranav Malhotra bt Yuraj Bains 8-4. Second round: MS Nikhil bt Abhishek Patwardan 8-1: MK Chaitanya bt Y Dhankar 8-7(7): B Supreet bt Ravinder Singh 8-7(5): C Sisir bt K Rawal 8-2: Aditya Vikram bt Veera Kumar 8-0: BS Rahul bt Rishab Shah 8-3: P Malhotra bt DS Saxena 8-7(4): Sai Sundeep bt MMK Ramineni 8-3.