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Rethin Pranav showed some brilliant resilience against the second seed Arjun Premkumar and register a comeback win to enter the semifinals in the Boys U-18 category of the Sportle AITA U-18 CS-7 National ranking Championship being held at the Topspin Tennis Academy.

In the quarterfinal played here on Wednesday, Rethin, after having lost the first set 5-7 and 2-3 down in the second, erased the deficit before claiming the set 6-4. He kept on improving as the game progressed to easily win the decider at 6-2.  Skanda Prasanna Rao, seeded fourth was the only seed left in fray after his quarterfinal win over Rishivandan.

Meanwhile qualifier Somya Ronde’s dream run continued as she scored an easy 6-1, 6-0 victory over Kashish Kant to reach the last four stage in the Girls U-18 category.

Results (Quarterfinals) (Seedings in pre-fix) (States unless Karnataka in parenthesis)

Boys U-18 Singles

Adith Amarnath bt Gowin Sehwag 6-4, 6-4; Akarsh V Gaonkar bt Vivaan Gupta 6-2, 6-4; 4-Skanda Prasanna Rao bt Rishivandan 6-3, 6-0; Rethin Pranav bt 2-Arjun Premkumar 5-7, 6-4, 6-2.

Girls U-18 Singles

Q-Soumya Ronde bt Kashish Kant 6-1, 6-0; 5-Sanya Masand bt Amodini Vijay Naik 6-2, 7-5; Athmika Chaitanya Sreenivas bt LL-Nidhi B Sreenivas 4-6, 7-5, 6-3; 2- Samiksha Dabas bt Q-Bharathiyana Babu Reddy 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-2