Parag Jain fights through to final in AITA Super series tennis

Parag Jain was quite gutsy at the jaws of defeat as he pipped top seed Vansh Nandal 5-7, 7-6(8), 7-6(6) in the under-14 boys semifinals of the AITA Super series junior tennis tournament at the Chamunda Tennis Academy on Thursday. In the final, Parag will play Bhavya Singhmar.

In the girls under-14 event, Chandni Srinivasan set up a title clash against Samiksha Dabas as the two won in three sets each against Riya Sachdeva and Sanjana Devineni respectively.

Sanjana won the doubles final with Raja Kilaru and made the singles final of the under-12 event where she will meet Samiksha Dabas.

The results:
Boys:
Under-14 (semifinals): Parag Jain bt Vansh Nandal 5-7, 7-6(8), 7-6(6); Bhavya Singhmar bt Aditya Chauhan 6-4, 6-3.
Doubles (final): Vansh Nandal & Vitin Rathee bt Lakshya Gupta & Aditya Chauhan 6-2, 7-5.

Under-12 (semifinals): Krish Ajay Tyagi bt Dhruv Ghanghas 6-0, 6-2; Ekamjeet Singh Cheema bt Akshat Dhull 6-1, 6-1.
Doubles (final): Prathyush Goel & Aarav Chawla bt Mayank Tewary & Rudra Batham 6-3, 6-4.

Girls:
Under-14 (semifinals): Chandni Srinivasan bt Riya Sachdeva 6-2, 4-6, 6-2; Samiksha Dabas bt Sanjana Devineni 6-4, 4-6, 6-3.
Doubles (final): Sanjana Devineni & Raja Kilaru bt Manshi Singh & Divya Sharma 6-3, 6-2.

Under-12 (semifinals): Sanjana Devineni bt Sohini Sanjay Mohanti 6-4, 6-1; 
Samiksha Dabas bt Riya Sachdeva 5-7, 6-3, 7-5.
Doubles (final): Riya Sachdeva & Samiksha Dabas bt Sohini Sanjay Mohanty & Ana Varshney 2-6, 6-4, [10-7].

(Courtesy: The Hindu)