Pune lad and Under-14 national champion Siddanth Banthia, Nick Consalvo of Australia and Sama Sathwika defeated seeded players to enter the quarterfinals of the boys and girls events at the Gadre-MSLTA ITF Junior Tennis Championships here today.
Wild card entrant Banthia scored a 6-3 6-2 upset win over seventh seed Ballekere Ravikumar Nikshep in the pre- quarterfinals, where he was joined by unseeded Consalvo, who posted the biggest upset of the day by packing off second seed Kareem Allaf of Syria 6-2 7-5 at the Mhalunge-Balewadi tennis stadium.
In the girls' event, Sama scored a 6-4 6-3 win over her eighth seeded Indian compatriot Jennifer Luikham to also make it to the last-eight stage.
Top seed Tamachan Momkoonthod of Thailand led the girls' top seven seeds into the last eight.
In the boys' section, top seed Jay Clarke of Britain entered the quarters, along with third seed Vasisht Cheruku of India and his compatriots - firth seed Aryan Goveas, sixth seed Paramveer Singh Bajwa and wild card Rian Pandole. Fourth seed Jack Macfarlane of UK, too, entered the last eight.
Results: (pre-quarterfinal round):
Boys singles: Jay Clarke(GBR,1) bt A Chandrashekhar (Ind) 6-3, 6-4; Paramveer Singh Bajwa (Ind,6) bt Parikshit Somani (Ind) 6-3, 6-3; Vasisht Cheruku (Ind,3) bt Salvador Bandeira (POR,13) 6-1, 6-1; Rian Pandole (Ind) bt Nihit Rawal (Ind) 6-1, 6-0; Siddhant Banthia(Ind) bt Ballekere Ravikumar Nikshep (Ind, 7) 6-3, 6-2; Jack Macfarlane (GBR,4) bt Shrey Gupta (Ind,15) 6-4, 3-6, 7-5; Aryan Goveas (Ind,5) bt Rana-roop Singh Bhullar(Ind, 10) 6-4, 6-2; Nick Consalvo(AUS) bt Kareem Allaf (SYR, 2) 6-2, 7-5.
Girls: Tamachan Momkoonthod (THA,1) bt Ruoya Chen(CHN) 7-6(2), 6-2; Zeel Desai(Ind,6) bt Nidhi Surapaneni (Ind) 1-6, 6-4, 6-3; Mihika Yadav (Ind,3) bt Georgia Lawson(Ind) 6-1, 6-1; Huang Hsiang Wen (TPE,7) bt Devanshi Bhimjiyani (Ind) 6-2, 6-2; Georgina Axon (GBR,5) bt Shivani Ingle (Ind) 6-3, 6-3; Vasanti Shinde (Ind,4) bt Soha Sadiq (Ind) 6-3, 6-0; Sama Sathwika(Ind) bt Jennifer Luikham (Ind,8) 6-4, 6-3; Plobrung Plipuch (THA, 2) bt Sabhyata Nihalani (Ind) 6-2, 6-0.
