Bengaluru, March 21: Channemallikarjuna Yale survived two tough qualifying rounds on the weekend and began the main round with a bang ousting second seed Likhith Gowda with a straight sets 7-5, 6-2 victory in the SAT AITA U-14 CS 7 tennis tournament which began at the Srinath Academy of Tennis courts here on Monday.
Barring Likhith, all the other seeded players advanced to the pre-quarterfinals. The girls U-14 matches were delayed to overnight rain.
Results (
Boys U-14 (Round-1)
1-Meer Fazal Ali bt M Puneeth 6-1, 6-0; Aarush Mallanavar bt Ruthvik Ravi 6-1, 6-2; Anirudh Palanisamy bt Siddharth Sathyanarayanan 6-1, 6-1; 5-Ahil Ayaz bt Surya Babu Raj 6-3, 6-1; 4-M Diganth bt Keerthan Vishwas 6-0, 6-1; Hridhay Vivekanandan bt Balganesh Patel 6-3, 6-4; 8-VS Raghu bt Rishab Ramanan 6-0, 6-4; 6-Ananth Krishnan bt Nithan Harshal 6-1, 6-0; Girish Narayan bt Pradeep Holla 7-5, 1-6, 11-9; Pranav Rajesh bt Ishaan Yadlapalli 7-6 (3), 6-1; 3-Rithik Jayanth bt Arjun Soori 6-3, 6-2; 7-Vishnu Mohan bt Derik Simon 6-0, 6-1; R Tejas bt Vedanth Harsha 6-1, 6-0; Saksham Bhansali bt Madhav Dadhich 6-0, 6-0; Channemallikarjuna Yale bt 2-Likhith Gowda 7-5, 6-2.
