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Disha Santosh had a field day when she entered the Girls U-18 semifinals with back to back upset victories in the ASTA-AITA CS3 U-18 championship at the FSA courts here on Wednesday. Disha first upset the second seed Sanjitha Ramesh 8-6 in the pre-quarterfinal bout and then sent seventh seed Nidi Buvilla home with a 9-8 (10-8) victory to storm into the last four. Earlier, Kaajal Ramisetty who had upset the top seed Meenakshi Lavakumar 8-3 in the last 16 encounter, succumbed to Athmika Srieenivas in the quarterfinals going down 1-9.

Meanwhile in the Boys category, Kevin Titus continued his dream run when he felled the eighth seed Tannush Ghildiyal 9-8 (10-8) to book a semifinal berth.

Results (Quarterfinals)

Boys U-18 singles

6-Akshay Prasad bt 1-Jason Michael David 9-7; 5-Priyansh Solanki bt Aditya Mohapatra 9-4; Kevin Titus bt 8-Tannush Ghildiyal 9-8 (10-8); 7-Sehej Singh Pawar bt 2-Sushanka BS 8-3.

Girls U-18 Singles

6-Athmika Sreenivas bt Kaajal Ramisetty 9-1; 9-Kashish Kant bt 3-Surabhi Srinivas 9-1; Disha Santosh bt 7-Nidi Buvilla 9-8 (8-6); Presha Shanthamoorthy bt 4-Subhrata Shubranjali 9-1