Sacchitt Sharma, the only Indian seeded player in ITF junior tennis

Sacchitt Sharma has been seeded second behind Kasidit Samrej of Thailand in the boys section in the ITF grade-2 junior tennis tournament to be played at the DLTA Complex from Monday.

The quality of competition for the home players could be understood from the fact that Sacchitt was the only seed from India across the boys and girls singles events.

In fact, no Indian player could win any of the qualifying spots owing to the high quality of players.

The seedings: 
Boys: 1. Kasidit Samrej (THA); 2. Sacchitt Sharma; 3. Stijn Pel (NED); 4. Arthur Craig Pantino (PHI); 5. Younes Lalami Laaroussi (MAR); 6.Alexander Gaponenko (ISR); 7. Sahar Simon (ISR); 8. Guy Den Ouden (NED).

Girls: 1. Weronika Baszak (POL); 2. Federica Sacco (ITA); 3. Mai Napatt Nirundorn (THA); 4. Jiangxue Han (CHN); 5. Lunda Kumhom (THA); 6. Ting-Pei Chang (TPE); 7. Melissa Boyden (NED); 8. Anastasia Astakhova (KAZ).

The results:
Boys (third and final qualifying round): Bikramjeet Singh Chawla (USA) bt Anurag Agarwal 6-4, 7-6(2); Fons Van Sambeek (NED) bt VM Sandeep 7-5, 6-1; Adil Karimov (UZB) bt Arjun Sriram 6-2, 2-6, 6-4; Yan Cheng Chen (TPE) bt Credit Chaiyarin (THA) 6-3, 6-4.

Girls (third and final qualifying round): Jiangxue Han (CHN) bt Jagmeet Kaur Grewal 6-4, 3-6, 6-1; Shuoran Wang (CHN) bt Rutuja Chaphalkar (USA) 6-2, 4-6, 6-2; Meshkatolzahhra Safi (IRI) bt Chandrika Joshi 6-1, 6-0; Xinyue Hu (CHN) bt Malaika Rapolu (USA) 7-5, 3-6, 7-5.