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Chennai lass Sanmitha Harini caused the biggest upset of the tournament when she ousted the top seed and local girl Thanu Vishwas in a dramatic fashion to reach the girls quarterfinals of the KSLTA-AITA U-12 CS 7 tennis tournament, an event on the Tattvam Junior Circuit at the KSLTA Courts here on Tuesday.

On a rain-marred day, Sanmitha was down three set points at 1-5 in the first set. The 11-year-old then made a superb comeback and won the next six games on a trot to take the set 7-5, thanks to her long rallies that seemed to tire her opponent. The second set saw the fancied player dominating the game. Sanmitha bounced back late in the set but lost 4-6. The final set completely belonged to the visitor as she not only played better but also took advantage of the many errors committed by Thanu to grab the decider 6-1.

It was an exodus of seeds in the boys category with local lad Arjun Soori sending the fourth seed Darsh Khedekar of Maharashtra in three sets 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 while Aryan Dhakshish routed sixth seed Ruhan Komandur 6-2, 6-2. A little later, Rithik Jeyant of Tamil Nadu defeated seventh seed Anurag Kallambella of Karnataka 6-3, 6-3.

Results Round-2 (Pre-fix denotes seedings)

All from Karnataka unless mentioned in brackets

Boys U-12

1-Meer Fazal Ali (TN) bt Manish Shetty 6-0, 6-0; Aryan Dhakshish bt 6-Ruhan Komandur 6-2, 6-2; Arjun Soori bt 4-Darsh Khedekar (MH) 3-6, 6-2, 6-2; 5-Likith S Gowda bt Ishaan Sohni (TS) 6-3, 6-0; 8-Yashas Raj M bt Keerthan Vishwas 6-4, 6-3; 3-Thanish Vepanapalli bt Arya Thirumurthi (TN) 7-5, 6-3; Rithik Jeyant (TN) bt 7-Anurag Kallambella 6-3, 6-3; 2-Prakaash Sarran bt Suresh Govardhan 6-2, 6-2

Girls U-12

Sanmitha Harini (TN) bt 1-Thanu Vishwas 7-5, 4-6, 6-1; 8-Ritisha Choudhary bt Elin Johnson 6-3, 6-1; 3-Jeevika Channabyregowda bt Akshara RV 6-4, 6-4; 5-Shravya Numburi (TN) bt Paavani Bisht (OD) 6-0, 6-0; Yashitha Ereti (TS) bt 7-Sara Rajesh 6-1, 6-2; Pooja Nagaraj bt Riya Pudiyokkada 6-3, 5-7, 6-1; 6-Aahida Singh bt Purvi Pavan 6-3, 6-3; 2-Shrishti Kiran bt Indusha Nimakayala 6-0, 6-1.