LUCKNOW, April 15 -- Unseeded Aarav Verma caused a major upset AITA Talent Series, outplaying second seeded Rudra Chaurasiya 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 to make it to the quarterfinals, at the Vijayant Khand Stadium here on Tuesday. The other upset of the day came in the girls section as unseeded Siya Singh beat fourth seeded Hiya Chauhan 6-2, 6-2. In other pre-quarters in the boys section, Hamdaan beat Anshuman Singh 6-1, 6-0, Advik Jain beat Kiaan Mulchandani 6-0, 6-2, Asvik Srivastava beat Adhiraj Rajput 6-1, 6-2, Arnav Srivastava beat Krithik Srivastava 6-1, 6-3, Avighna Verma beat Ritvik Asthana 6-2, 6-4, Pranay Shukla beat Vedant Singh 6-2, 7-5, Aarish Sethi beat Shivansh 1-6, 7-6 (4), 6-1. Girls singles (pre-quarters): Navya Rawal bt Anya Chaudhary 7-5, 6-2, Anya bt Akshita Mishra 6-0, 6-1, Virika Agarwal bt Sanvi jaiswal 6-2, 6-2. Local challenger Siddhi Singh on Tuesday notched up the most thrilling win in the girls singles pre-quarterfinal of the AITA Championship Series-7 National Tennis Tournament in Prayagraj. Playing true to her reputation, Siddhi defeated Anika Srivastava 7-5, 6-4 in straight sets. In other pre-quarters, at the Gymkhana Tennis Academy, Ira defeated Shripriya Singh 6-2, 6-3, Neeti Dubey beat Aruja Jain 6-1, 6-0, Manusmriti Singh defeated Charvi Singh 6-1, 6-1, Reeti Singh Patel beat Swastika Kesari 6-2, 6-3, Tashi Kiran beat Adyanshi Singh 6-0, 6-1 and Purva Singh beat Yashasvi Srivastava 6-2, 6-0. The boys singles pre-quarters also witnessed some of the exciting matches. Local boy Kinjalak Srivastava beat Vanshraj Jalota 6-3, 3-6, 7-6. In other matches of the day, Anuruddh Kumar beat Aman Singh 6-4, 6-1, Abhyuday Singh beat Samarth Bhatnagar 6-0, 6-1, Meher Khosla beat Vishesh Shukla 6-0, 6-3, Rohin Raj beat Amartya Chaudhary 6-2, 6-3, Arjun Sharma beat Aarush Vijval 6-1, 6-2, Rishant Jaiswal beat Neelotpal Singh 6-0, 6-1 and Faiz Ali Kidwai beat Aditya Vaibhav 7-5, 6-1. Boys doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Aditya Vaibhav-Arjun Sharma bt Anuyaj Bajpai-Harsh V Singh 6-2, 6-1, Samarth Bhatnagar-Aarush Vijval beat Aruj Dubey-Raghav Sharan 6-1, 6-3, Neelotpal Singh-Balkrishna Verma beat Shaurya Bisht-Ekagra Singh 6-0, 6-1, Aman Singh-Amartya Chaudhary beat Shreyansh Mukherjee-Vishesh Shukla 6-4, 6-3....