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All the fancied players in the Boys category found the going easy in the Sportle Topspin AITA CS3 U-14 tennis tournament played under the aegis of KSLTA here on Monday. Heavy showers curtailed play, disturbing the first-round matches in the Girls category.

Top seed Aaradhya Dwiwedi blanked SR Rithik Jayanth 8-0 while second seed Lethaeesh K overcame a fighting Thanish V 8-7 (7-2) to advance to the pre-quarterfinals. Joining the last 16 stage were third seed Prajval Heggere and fourth seed Abhishek Subramanian who beat their respective opponents - Kishore Sriram and Daksh M with an identical scoreline of 8-2. 

Results (1st Round) (Prefix denotes seedings) 

Boys U-14 

1-Aaradhya Dwiwedi bt S R Rithik Jayanth 8-0; Nihaar bt Anirudh P 8-5; Likith Gowda bt Kristo Babu 8-6; 8-Srikar Doni bt J Kevin Jonathan 8-6; 4-Abhishek Subramanian bt Daksh M 8-2; Nikhil Sreenivas bt Vishnu Mohan 8-6; Ananth K bt Darsh Kedekar 8-2; 6-S Pranav Mahesh bt Daiwik S 8-0; 5-Prakash Sarran bt Dhanush MB 8-0; Abhradeep Bhattacharya bt MD Arhaan 8-1; Eashan V Meru bt M Shreyanth 8-6; 3-Prajval Heggere bt Kishore Sriram 8-2; 7-Kaushik Rajesh bt Soham Kamble 8-7 (8-6); Arihant Kaul bt Vijay Sumukh 8-4; Sanchith Rau bt Ranveer Singh 8-6; 2-Lethaeesh K bt Thanish V 8-7 (7-2).