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Mandya girl Kashvi Sunil stunned the top seed Mahika Reddy to storm into the semifinals in the Girls category of the Transform Tennis Academy AITA CS7 Under-14 tennis tournament held under the aegis of KSLTA here on Wednesday. In the quarterfinals, Kashvi sent home the fancied player in straight sets 6-2, 6-3. In another upset result of the day, Shreenithi Chowdhury beat third seed Zynah Amber 6-4, 6-3 to enter the last four stage.

Meanwhile, the top seed in the Boysixth seed Pranav Mahesh of Puducherry 6-2, 6-1 to enter the semifinals along with third seed Sehaj Singh who beat Nikhil Sreenivas 6-4, 6-2.

Kashvi, who had lost to Mahika in their earlier encounter, took to the courts today, oblivious of the billing of her opponent. After a hard fought first game where Mahika lost her serve after seven deuces, the 12-year-old Kashvi did not look back, racing to a 4-0 lead before winning the first set 6-2. In a similar fashion, Kashvi went 4-2 up in the second and signed off with a 6-3 win.

Results (pre-fix denotes seeding) (All from Karnataka unless mentioned in brackets)

Boys Singles Quarterfinals

1-Aaradhaya Dwivedi bt 6-Pranav Mahesh (PY) 6-2, 6-1; 3-Sehaj Singh bt Nikhil Sreenivas 6-4, 6-2; 4-Leethaesh bt 7-Abhishek Subramanian 6-0,6-2; Abhradeep bt Kristo Babu 7-5, 6-2.

Girls Singles Quarter Finals:

Kashvi Sunil bt 1-Mahika Reddy 6-2, 6-3; Shreenithi Chowdhury bt 3-Zynah Amber 6-4, 6-3; 5-Sushmitha Ravi bt Meghana GD 6-4, 6-4; 6-Saanvi Misra W/o 4-Umam Ahmad.