Aditya, Yashraj, Shrushti knock out seeds to enter last 8 at CityBlog Open Tennis.

Pune , MArch 1: Unseeded Aditya Iyer, Yashraj Dalvi and Shrushti Dass upset seeds to make it to the quarterfinals in thier events at the first ever CityBlog Open Junior National Ranking and state ranking tennis tournament organized jointly by Deccan Gymkhana and the Om Dalvi Memorial Foundation at the Deccan Gymkhana tennis courts


In the Boys under 10 event Yashraj Dalvi scraped past eighth seeded Nihar Kothari 6-5(3) in the second round, while Aditya Iyer outplayed third seeded Atharva Sharma 7-3 in a Boys under 12 encounter. In the Girls under 16 event Shrushti Dass upset seventh seeded Suprabha Pujari 8-4

Following are the results: Main Draw: Second Round:

Boys under 10: Vikrant Mehta bt Harshal Apte 6-0, Harshal Rukhiya bt Nilesh Waghmare 6-0, Yashraj Dalvi bt S.8 Nihar Kothari 6-5(3), Akash Bhujang bt Tanmay Nandurdikar 6-4

Boys under 12: Ayush Prabhune bt Sarang Phadnis 7-2, Piyush Salelkar bt Manav peshwani 7-2, Shubankar HArdikar bt Harshal Rukhiya 7-0, Aditya Iyer bt S.3 Atharva Sharma 7-3

Boys under 14 : Sahil Gaware bt Ajinkya Vyas 8-1, Yash Sabnis bt Shaunak Kulkarni 8-7(7), Shubam Kale bt Prajeet Oswal 8-7(7), Ved Bhandare bt Shardul Gopujkar 8-7(6), Atharva Iyer bt Aditya Challu 8-5, Yash Lele bt Piyush Salelkar 8-4

Boys under 16: Jayesh Pungaliya bt Tanmay Khandait 8-1, Ahan Tagare bt Shaunit Ghia 8-5,Yash Agarwal bt Aniket Barwekar 8-2,

Girls under 12: Dyanda PAtil bt Isha Pangaonkar 7=3, Akansha Niture bt Riya Chaphekar 7-3
Nisha Waghmare bt Tanvi jagtap 7-3, Shivani Ingle bt Tejasvi Kate 7-2, Malika Karmarkar bt Ketaki Shinde

Girls under 14: Shirlee Deshmukh bt Dakshita Omkar 8-0, Kanishka Chawla bt Sneha Renuse 8-2, Vaibhavi Deshmukh bt Mallika Karmarkar 8-1, Amruta Zadge bt Neha Mokashi 8-1

Girls Under 16: Shirlee Deshmukh bt Vaishnavi Shinde 8-2, Kanishka chawla bt Supriya Zende 8-3, Shrushti Dass bt (S.7)Suprabha Pujari 8-4, Swara Kulkarni bt Mahima Omkar 8-3