Indians Yadlapalli, Jain in last eight at the ITF Asian Junior Tennis Championships
FIFTH SEEDED PRANJALA YADLAPALLI and unseeded Mahek Jain were the only Indians to enter the Last eight stage in the girls event as three seeds Included Indian Zeel Desai were shown the door in the pre-quarterfinals of the ITF Asian Junior Tennis Championships the Mhalunge Balewadi tennis Complex in Pune.
Fifth seeded currently ranked 94 in the world Pranjala Yadlapalli survived a 2 hour 20 minute battle against 229 ranked Chinese Yanni Liu winning ) 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 , while unseeded Mahak Jain ranked 120 currently registered a tough 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 win over Japanese Anri Nagata.
In the upsets of the day Zhuoma Ni Ma of Japan ranked 149 ousted second seeded and world no 72 and second seeded Mayuka Aikawa of Japan 6-4, 6-3 , another Chinese Xiyu Wang ranked a lowly 206 upset third seed Indian Zeel Desai 6-3, 7-6(3) in just 1 hour and 55 minutes , while unseeded Filipino Khim Iglupas upset fourth seeded and 81 ranked Zhima Du of China 6-3, 6-4 in a one sided battle.
The Indian Challenge in the boys section ended with the lone survivor Adil Kalyanpur falling by the way side in the round of sixteen . Second seeded and world ranked 31 Lim Alberto of Philippines scored outplayed Kalyanpur 6-3, 6-2 to make it to the last eight stage
The local interest in the girls doubles was kept alive by the pair of Mahak Jain and local girl Snehal Mane as they made it to the quarterfinals edging out Juleta Budiman and Priyana Kalita 6-7(5), 6-2(10-8) , Yadlapalli also made it tothe last eight in doubles alongwith Japanese partner Mayuka Aikawa the pair scored a 6-4,6-4 win against Sama Sathwika and Mihika Yadav
