Vanshika stuns top seed Samhitha

Hyderabad: On a day of sensational upsets, the two top women seeds were shown the door by rank outsiders in the women singles quarterfinals players were ousted by unseeded player to enter the semifinals of the Phoenix Live AITA men and women tournament, conducted by DRC Sports Foundation, at Leonia Holistic Destination in Shamirpet, here on Thursday. Vanshika Sawhney surprised top seed Sai Samhitha Chamarthi 8-4 while Amritha Mukherjee beat second seed Akshara Iska 8-3.

Results (All quarterfinals): Women: Singles: Vanshika Sawhney bt 1-Sai Samhitha Chamarthi 8-4; Sneha Padamata bt Soha S 8-1; 4-Himani Mor bt 6-Aarthi M 8-2; Amritha Mukherjee bt 2-Akshara Iska 8-3; Doubles: 1-Amritha Mukherjee/ Teertha Iska bt Anjali Thakur/ Saumya Vig 6-0,6-1; Asha Nanda Kumar/ Soha S bt Simran Kejriwal/ Sai Avanthika 3-6,6-3,10-7; 2-Sai Samhitha Chamarthi/Akshara Iska bt Shilpi Swarupa Das/Silky Sachdeva 6-1,6-2; Men: Singles: PC Vighnesh bt Vaishnav Bendalam 8-1; 4-Nitten Kirrtane bt Rishabdev Raman Rajshekar 8-5; 3-Anvit Bendre bt 8-Jayesh Pungliya 8-3; 5-Siddharth Vishwakarma bt 2-Suraj R Prabodh 8-5; Doubles: 1-Sahil Gaware/ Kunal Vazirani bt Amit Beniwal/ Mohit Bharadwaj 6-2,6-4; 3-Shaik Abdullah/ Shaik Osama bt Ansu Kumar Bhuyan/ Sandeep Choudhary 6-7(2),6-3,10-2; Rishabdev Raman Rajshekar/ Ajai Selvaraj bt Srinivas Kondri/ Prithvi Sekhar 6-4,6-4; Suraj R Prabodh/Prajwal Dev SD bt Siddharth Ponnala / Tarun Anirudh 6-3,6-3.