Mohali: Naman Gupta and Adeesh Bansal moved into the quarterfinals of boys U-12 event in the Manav Mangal Total Tennis Tournament being played at the Total Tennis Academy in Manav Mangal Smart School, Phase X, Mohali.

Naman was lucky enough to move into the quarterfinals by just one point in a tie-breaker 7-6 (7-5). Adeesh Bansal of Chandigarh toyed with Indresh in a one-sided match.

Hirday Partap Singh of Millennium School, Mohali, and Sumer Sandhu of Strawberry World School, Chandigarh, played neck to neck till 4-4, but Hirday, the tallest boy of the tournament (6 ft 4inches), got his rhythm and served hard to convert the match in his favour 6-4.

Results

Boys U-10: Yuvraj bt Mridul 6-2; Soni Akshit bt Srinath 6-3; Jaskaran bt Jayvardhan 6-3; Aryan bt Sarabjot 6-1; Jaspreet bt Gurtirath 6-2 and Rana Manav bt Jainder 6-2.

Pre-quarters: Akshit Chabra bt Jaskaran 7-5; Archit bt Aryan 6-2; Parnav Chopra bt Parnav Puri 6-2; Jaspreet bt Chirag 6-2; Udayveer bt Mankirat 6-2; Rana Manav bt Yashvardhan 6-2 and Manveer bt Anmol 6-0.

Boys U-12: Jujjhar bt Jaideep 6-1; Adeesh Manroi bt Navjot 6-4; Sourabh bt Gourav Seth 6-1; Shivam Vij bt Jasman 6-2; Karan Bhalla bt Gursit 6-2 and Naman Gupta bt Seryash 7-6(7-5).

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