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Upcoming Orissa boys Adwithiya Patnaik and Shakti Ray entered quarterfinals of the AITA junior circuit tournaments being played at different places of the country today. Adwithiya beat Sumit Pal Singh (J&K) 4-0, 4-2 in an under-14 Championship Series tournament at Dehradun. Adwithiya’s Gurukul Tennis Academy partner Shakti booked the last eight berth in both under-14 and under-16 categories of a Talent Series tournament at Jamshedpur.
In the under-14 pre-quarterfinals, Bhubaneswar lad Shakti blanked Varun Nayar (Jharkhand) 6-0, 6-0 and would next meet top seed Sukrit Guha. Shakti won his under-16 pre-quarter match against M Krishna Chaitanya (AP) 6-4, 6-4.
