Jain Creates Biggest Upset at AITA Men's Championship

Bengaluru: Young Manav Jain created the biggest upset of the Rs.1 lakh prize money AITA Men's Championship here on Wednesday when he defeated second seed SurajPrabodh to enter quarterfinals.

The 17-year-old Jain, the youngest player in the tournament, beat Prabodh 6-4, 1-6, 6-2 at the at the PBI-CSE Tennis Academy, Padukone-Dravid Centre for Sports Excellence.

In another upsets of the day, Manish Ganesh and NikshepBallekere beat fourth seed YashYadav of Madhya Pradesh and eight seed IrfanHussain of Tamil Nadu respectively while TarunAnirudh of Telangana (TS) showed fourth seed DheerajKodanchaSrinivasan of Tamil Nadu the door.

Meanwhile, GandharyKotapalli is on a dream run as he first ousted fourth seed AradhayaDwivedi in a marathon three setter 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (1) to enter the quarterfinals of the boys under-14 category of the AITA TS 7. Gandhary brushed aside the challenge of SakshamSuman 6-2, 6-4 to enter the last-four stage.

The matches in the girls category followed the form except a minor upset, when seventh seed Sushmita Ravi showed third seed SnigdaKanta the door with a 6-2, 7-5 victory. (IANS)

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