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Prashanth Selvaraj (Tamil Nadu) played to his qualities and vanquished fourth seed Rishi Reddy (Karnakata) 6-3, 7-6(4) in a men's singles pre-quarterfinal match of the Proserve AITA 50k National positioning tennis competition at the Perks Tennis Center here on Tuesday. 

Prasanth, who is back following a five-year break, did not appreciate an awesome a week ago. He neglected to book a primary draw compartment. In any case, this time around, he got his work done well. He cleared the qualifiers and looked hungry to chase down his rivals and Rishi was the casualty today. 

Prashanth, a serve on volley player, concentrated on the basics yet was still adequate to secure the main set 6-3. In any case, in the second, he took the unsafe course of surging up to the net. He sufficiently earned opportunities to score indicates yet fizzled change over them further bolstering his good fortune. 

Rishi clung to his serves thus did Prashanth. 

With the sudden death round on, Prashanth chose to go for the execute. He thought of some stinging serves and rich volleys to wrap up the set and match 7-6(4). 

Dahiya stuns Fahad 

Later, Vikrant Dahiya of Haryana revitalized from a set down to shock second seed Mohammad Fahad of Chennai 1-6, 7-6(4), 6-1 for a spot in the last eight. 

The outcomes (pre-quarterfinals): Men: Singles: Anshukumar Bhuyan (Odi) bt Nawaz Syed Abrar (Kar) 6-1, 6-0; Ominder Baisoya (Har) bt L.R. Balaji (TN) 6-0, 6-2; Ponnala Siddharth (TS) bt Pagalavan (TN) 6-3, 7-6(2); Sivadeep Kosaraju (TS) bt Samyukth Balaji (TN) 7-6(4), 7-6(1); Rithvik Anand (TN) bt Rithwik Choudhury (TS) 6-0, 7-6(2); Prashanth Selvaraj (TN) bt Rishi Reddy (Kar) 6-3, 7-6(4); Jagmeet Singh (Har) bt Deepak Senthil Kumar (TN) 6-3, 6-3; Vikrant Dahiya (Har) bt Mohammad Fahad 1-6, 7-6(4), 6-1. 

Pairs: Hursh Pandole and Darshana Srinivasa bt Nandhakumar and Pagalavan 6-3, 6-3; Vigneshwaran and Vignesh Veerabadran bt Akilesh Reddy and Vikram Dhananjay 6-0, 6-0; Gautam and Anirudha bt Anshumat Srivastava and Ominder Baisoya 3-6, 6-1, 12-10; Nawaz Syed Abrar and Rohan Bhatia bt Sandeep S. Bedada and Ram Saiburra 6-4, 3-6, 10-7; Anshukumar Bhuyan and Siddharth Ponnala bt Rithwik Choudhury and Durga Himakesh 6-2, 6-4.