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Raghu Vijay scored the first upset victory of the tournament when he ousted sixth seed Ananth Krishnan in an opening round fixture of the FSA AITA Talent Series-3 U-14 tennis tournament held under the aegis of KSLTA and conducted by Fortune Sports Academy here on Monday. Raghu prevailed 8-6 to advance to the pre-quarterfinals in the Boys category.

Meanwhile, top seeds Lethaeesh Kombil and Mahika Reddy registered easy wins in the boys and girls categories respectively. While Lethaeesh was a 8-4 victory over Thanish Vepanapalli, Mahika blanked Indusha N 8-0 to enter the last-16 stage.  

Results (pre-fix denotes seedings)

(Round-1) (completed matches)

Boys U-14

1-Lethaeesh S Kombil bt Thanish Vepanapalli 8-4; Vishnu Mohan bt Daksh Mudunoori 8-1; Mohd. Ayaan bt Leroy Laszber 8-4; Raghu Vijay Sumukh bt 6-Ananth Krishnan 8-6; 3-Prakaash Sarran bt Mohd. Arhaan 8-2; Aahil Ayaz Vs. Leroy Lazlo 8-3; Akshay Bharadwaj bt Daiwik Shetty 8-7 (4); 8-Kristo Babu bt Likith Gowda 8-2; Darsh Khedekar lost to Abhradeep Bhattacharya 4-8; Thareenish GS lost to Nikhil Srinivas 3-8; 4-Pranav Mahesh bt Kishore Sriram 8-1; 7-Sanchit Sudhir Rau bt Tejas R 8-0; Shreyanth M bt Anirudh Palanisamy 8-3; Abhishek Subramanian bt Rithek Jayanth 8-7 (8-6).

Girls U-14

1-Mahika Reddy bt Indusha N 8-0; Yahana Arora bt Vanshika Borkar 8-3; Prutha Rao lost to  Sangeetha BM 2-8; Saanvi M Urs lost to 6-Kavya Sarvanan 1-8; Manasvi Abbavaram bt Navya Murali 8-1; 7-Jeevika Channabyregowda bt Jahnavi Chowdary 8-0.