{"id":12524,"date":"2018-06-05T17:34:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T17:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=12524"},"modified":"2018-06-05T17:34:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T17:34:30","slug":"wild-cards-ruma-saina-in-last-eight-at-tennis-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/?p=12524","title":{"rendered":"Wild cards Ruma, Saina in last eight at tennis tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Pune, Jun 5 (DIN NEWS)<\/b>\u00a0Wild cards Ruma Gaikaiwari and Saina Deshpande knocked out seeds to enter the girls singles quarterfinals of the MSLTA KPIT &#8211; Arun Wakankar Memorial ATF Asian under 14 Series Tennis Tournament here today.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 Ashwin Manikandan 4-6,7-5,6-2.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 (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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pune, Jun 5 (DIN NEWS)\u00a0Wild cards Ruma Gaikaiwari and Saina Deshpande knocked out seeds to enter the girls singles quarterfinals of the MSLTA KPIT &#8211; 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&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12526,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12524\/revisions\/12526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dinnews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}