Vaishnavi Adkar in semifinals of ITF juniors in Pune

Vaishnavi Adkar continued to fight her way forward and got past Sandeepti Singh Rao 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(9) in the girls quarterfinals of the Gadre Marine ITF grade-3 junior tennis tournament at the Deccan Gymkhana in Pune on Thursday.

In the semifinlas, Vaishnavi will challenge top seed Maria Sholokhova of Russia.

In the boys semifinal, Dev Javia will play Rostislav Galfinger of Kazakhstan, whom he had beaten in the final last week in Delhi.

The results:

Under-18 boys (quarterfinals): Patorn Hanchaikul (Tha) bt Udit Gogoi 6-1, 6-2; Vitek Horak (Cze) bt Jack Loutit (Nzl) 6-3, 6-1; Rostislav Galfinger (Kaz) bt Aryaan Bhatia 7-6(4), 3-6, 6-4; Dev Javia bt Arnav Pathange 6-0, 7-6(5).

Doubles (semifinals): Rostislav Galfinger (Kaz) & Dev Javia bt Chirag Duhan & Denim Yadav 7-5, 4-6, [10-5]; Aryaan Bhatia & Uddayvir Singh bt Patorn Hanchaikul (Tha) & Nishant Dabas 6-4, 6-3.

Under-18 girls (quarterfinals): Maria Sholokhova (Rus) bt Zijun Jiang (Chn) 6-3, 6-1; Vaishnavi Adkar bt Sandeepti Singh Rao 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(9); Mei Hasegawa (Jpn) bt Lanlana Tararudee (Tha) 2-6, 7-5, 6-4; Tianmi Mi (Chn) bt Tomoko Kato (Jpn) 6-3, 6-3.

Doubles (semifinals): Yu-Yun Li (TPE) & Vipasha Mehra bt Mei Hasegawa & Tomoko Kato (JPN) 7-6(2), 6-4; Kirara Morioka (JPN) & Maria Sholokhova (RUS) bt Skia Kung (TPE) & Chao-Yi Wang (TPE) 6-3, 6-3.

(Courtesy: The Hindu)