Pooja and Prasad Ingale advance to Reitz National mixed doubles semis

Maharashtra’s Pooja Ingale and Prasad Ingale defeated Bharathiyana Babu and M Kandhavel 7-5, 6-4 to reach the semifinals of the Reitz National Mixed Doubles Tennis Championship in Hyderabad. Three other pairs also won their quarterfinal matches on Wednesday

Hyderabad: Maharashtra’s Pooja Ingale and Prasad Ingale defeated Bharathiyana Babu of Karnataka and M Kandhavel of Tamil Nadu 7-5, 6-4 in the quarterfinals of the Reitz National Mixed Doubles Tennis Championship at the Jubilee Hills International Centre here on Wednesday.

The results:

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Quarterfinals:

Pooja Ingale and Prasad Ingale (Maha) bt Bharathiyana Babu (Kar) and M Kandhavel (TN) 7-5, 6-4; Irfan Husain and Samhitha Chamarthi (TN) bt Arzan Khorakiwala and Preetham Arunkumar (Kar) 6-1, 6-0; Adil Kalyanpur and Soha Sadiq (Kar) bt Anup Bangargi (Maha) and Lakshmi Arunkumar (TN) 6-3, 6-0; Jagmeet Singh and Jennifer Luikham (Har) bt Sai Karteek Ganta and Laxmi Siri Dandu (TG) 6-3, 3-6, 11-9.