Pareen, Mahak enter girls singles semi-finals at U-16 meet

S Pareen Shivekar and Mahak Jain of Maharashtra advanced into the girls singles semi finals of the MSLTA Yonex Sunrise Ramesh Desai memorial under-16 tennis nationals here today.
Also through to the last four in this section were top seed Sama Sathwika of Telangana and no 4 seed Sabhyata Nihalani of Delhi.
In the quarter finals, Mumbai girl Pareen stopped the giant-killing run of Shrivalli Rashmikaa of Telengana 6-4 6-1 while her city mate and second seed Mahak Jain recorded a 6-4 7-6(3) win over Vaidehi Chaudhari of Gujarat.
Sama was stretched by state-mate Shivani Amineni before winning 6-3 4-6 6-2 after a three-hour tussle while Sabhyata drubbed Haryana's Shreya Gulia 6-0 6-1 to complete the semifinal line up.

Other results:
Girls doubles (Final): 1-Shivani Swarup Ingle (Mah)/Sama Sathwika (Telangana) bt 2-Mahak Jain (Mah)/Sabhyata Nihalani (Dli) 4-6 6-4 10-7.
Boys doubles (Final): 2-Adil Kalyanpur (Kar)/Parikshit Somani (Asm) bt 1-Siddhant Banthia (Mah)/Dhruv Sunish (Mah) 6-3 6-3.