U-16 All India Tennis Association Championship Series: Top seeds Aryan, Harleen enter quarterfinals

While Aryan beat Mehraab Singh Rai 8-0, Harleen thrashed Radha Sadhra 8-2.

Top seeds Aryan Thakur and Harleen Kaur Dhanda recorded easy victories in the U-16 boys and girls pre-quarterfinal matches, respectively, during the ongoing All India Tennis Association Championship Series at the Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association stadium in Sector 10 on Monday.

Yash playing a shot during the AITA tournament at CLTA, Sector 10, in Chandigarh on Monday. (Ravi Kumar/HT)

With the wins, both the top seeds enter the quarter-finals. While Aryan beat Mehraab Singh Rai 8-0, Harleen thrashed Radha Sadhra 8-2.

In other U-16 boys matches, second seed Navya Verma overpowered Yash Solanky 8-0, Arnav Bishnoi defeated Arpit Garg 8-4 and sixth seed Anirudh Sangra got the better of Manvir Singh Hundal 8-1.

In the U-16 girls matches, second seed Radhika Vasudeva, Vanya Arora and Harleen Kaur Dhanda moved into quarter-finals. Radhika Vasudeva defeated Shriya Singh 8-3 in easy tie. Unseeded Gurmanat Kaur Sandhu upset seventh seed Bhumi Kakkar in a close contested match 8-6.

Gurmanat played consistently with good momentum, to defeat Bhumi Kakkar. Fourth seed Vanya Arora blanked Saira 8-0. Ananya Dogra, Maitreyi Phogat, Bhumika Gupta and Riya Kaushik also advanced into quarter-finals.