Karnataka’s Pragathi Natraj stayed on course for claiming a double by reaching the girls’ under-16 and under-18 finals in the AITA Championship Series tennis tournament at the JIRS courts here on Thursday.
Seventh seed Pragathi shocked top seed Shambhavi Dixit of Andhra Pradesh 7-5, 6-3 in the under-18 semifinals and then the second seed got the better of eighth seed Isha Budwal of Madhya Pradesh 6-2, 6-3 in the under-16 last-four encounter.
Results (semifinals, prefix denotes seedings): Boys: U-18: 1-Ashok Kashyap (Kar) bt 4-I B Akshay (TN) 6-4, 4-6, 3-6; 5-Raymond T S Jude (AP) bt 3-Gagan Sharma (Raj) 6-2, 6-3.
Doubles: Raymond T S Jude (AP)/ Ashok Kashyap (Kar) bt Saurabh Ajnar/ Sahaj Dave 8-1; Anthony Savio (Kar)/ Harsha Manjunatha bt B S Rahul (Kar)/ Patwardhan Indra (Mah) 8-3.
U-16: 1-I B Akshay (TN) bt Baruah Amlanjyoti (Asm) 6-3, 6-3; 2-Sharma Gagan (Raj) bt 3-Patwardhan Indra (Mah) 6-4, 6-3.
Girls: U-18: 2-Preeti Gokhale bt 6-Aksatha Ananth 6-4, 6-1; 7-Pragathi Natraj (Kar) bt 1-Shambhavi Dixit (AP) 7-5, 6-3.
Doubles: Isha Budwal (MP)/ Vasvi G S (TN) bt Amritha Nath/ Jayathi Sharma (Asm) 8-1; Akashtha Ananth (TN)/ Preethi Gokhale (Kar) bt Pragathi Natraj/ Thanushree P (TN) 8-5.
U-16: 3-Thanushree Palanivale (TN) bt G S Vasavi (TN) 6-7, 7-5, 6-2; 2-Pragathi Natraj (Kar) bt 8-Isha Budwal (MP) 6-2, 6-3.