Wild cards Ruma Gaikaiwari and Saina Deshpande knocked out seeds to enter the girls singles quarterfinals of the MSLTA KPIT...

Wild cards Ruma Gaikaiwari and Saina Deshpande knocked out seeds to enter the girls singles quarterfinals of the MSLTA KPIT - Arun Wakankar Memorial ATF Asian under 14 Series Tennis Tournament here today.In the girls second round, Ruma upset seventh seed Saumya Ronde 6-4,7-6(5), while Saina toppled eighth seed Kaashvi Thapliyal 6-2, 6-2 to enter the last eight.In the boys section, fifth seed Daksh Agarwal struggled to get past Joshua Eapen 7-5,5-7,6-2, while Saharia came from loss of the opening set to survive against

Ruma Gaikaiwari

Ashwin Manikandan 4-6,7-5,6-2.Top seed Shivam Kadam staved off a challenge from wild card Siddharth Marathe 6-7(4),6-2,6-0 to make it to the last eight stage.The results: Boys Under 14 (2nd round): Shivam Kadam(IND)(1) bt (WC)Siddharth Marathe  (IND)6-7(4) ,6-2,6-0; Daksh Agarwal (IND)(5) bt (Q)Joshua Eapen (IND)7-5,5-7,6-2; Anargha Ganguly (IND)(3) bt Ishan Jigali (IND)6-2,6-2; Manuel Josh(GBR)(6) bt Ananmay Upadhyay (IND)6-2,6-1; Manas Dhamne (IND) bt Samar Malhotra(IND)6-0, 6-3; Nithis Nallusamy

Shivam Kadam

(IND)(4) bt Pranav Gadgil (IND)6-1, 6-1; Omaansh Saharia (IND) bt Ashwin Manikandan (IND)4-6,7-5,6-2; Krishang Raghuvanshi (IND)(2) bt Varshith Kumar Marreddy (IND)6-0,7-5.Girls under 14 (2ndround): Pari Singh(IND)(1) bt (WC)Kashish Bote (IND)6-3, 7-5; Ruma Gaikaiwari (IND) bt Saumya Ronde (IND)(7) 6-4,7-6(5); Shruti Ahlawat (IND)(3) btShrwani Khawale (IND) 6-1,6-1; Abinaya Sweeton(CAN)(6) bt Shubhangee Laxmi Shah(NEP)6-1, 6-1; Nandini Dixit(IND)(5) bt Gautami Khaire (IND)6-4, 6-2 (WC)

Saina Deshpande (USA) bt Kaashvi Thapliyal (IND)(8) 6-2, 6-2; Veda Prapurna (IND)(4) bt Anya Jecob (IND)6-3, 6-4; Sonal Patil(IND) bt Rijul Sidnale (IND)7-6(6), 6-4.