Bengaluru, Jan 5: Local lad and top seed Nithilan Eric will take on the challenge of Arunava Majumder of West Bengal in the summit clash of the AITA Under-18 Championship Series tennis tournament hosted by the Rohan Bopanna The Sports School Tennis Academy. In the semifinals played here on Tuesday, ย Nithilan and Ritabrata, both who belong to the host Academy, beat Ritabrata Sarkar (West Bengal) and Skanda Prasanna Rao (Karnataka) with a scoreline of 9-4 and 9-3 respectively. Earlier Ritabrata had felled third seed Ninad Ravi in the quarterfinals.
The Maruru sisters from the host state โ Reshma and Suhitha ranked No.1 and No.2 respectively will fight it out for honours. While Reshma was a 9-3 winner over Sreenidhi Balaji in the first semifial, Suhitha prevailed over fourth seed Samiksha Dabas of Delhi 9-5 in the secnd last-four clash.
Results (seedings / domicile in parenthesis)
Boys U-18
Semifinals: Nithilan Eric (1) (KAR) bt Ritabrata Sarkar (WB) 9-4; Arunava Majumder (WB) bt Skanda Prasanna Rao (KAR) 9-3
Quarterfinals: Nithilan Eric (1) (KAR) bt Rishi Vandhan (KAR) 9-1; Ritabrata Sarkar (WB) bt Ninad Ravi (3) (KAR) 9-4; Skanda Prasanna Rao (KAR) (4) bt Adith Amarnath (KAR) 9-7
Arunava Majumder (WB) bt Akarsh Gaokar (KAR) 9-2Girls U-18
Semifinals: Reshma Maruri (1) (KAR) bt Sreenidhi Balaji (KAR) 9-3; Suhitha Maruri (2) (KAR) bt Samiksha Dabas (4) (DEL) 9-5
Quarterfinals: Reshma Maruri (1) (KAR) bt Yashika Venu (6) (KAR) 9-2; Sreenidhi Balaji (KAR) bt Zynah Amber Salar (KAR) 9-2; Samiksha Dabas (DEL) (4) bt Tanisha Desai (GUJ) 9-7; Suhitha Maruri (2) (KAR) bt Amodini Vijay Naik (KAR) 9-4
