Sacchitt Sharma, Shivani Amineni head the seeds in ITF juniors

Sacchitt Sharma and Shivani Amineni have been seeded No.1 in the boys and girls sections respectively in the ITF grade-4 junior tennis tournament to be played at the DLTA Complex here form Monday.

Dev Javia, Suresh Dakshineswar and Aaryan Zaveri are the other Indian boys to be seeded in a strong field featuring players from Thailand, Japan, Sweden, Malaysia, Belgium, US and Britain.

Salsa Aher, Kaavya Sahney, Malikaa Marathe and Muskan Gupta are the other Indian girls to be seeded, in an equally strong field featuring players from Chinese Taipei, Russia, Korea, Thailand, US and Britain.

Sharannya Gaware who won her maiden title in the ITF junior circuit last week in Guwahati will open against Lanlana Tararudee of Thailand, whom she had beaten in the final.

Sanjana Sirimalla fought hard in two tough three-setters to get past Riya Uboveja and Vanshika Choudhary to fetch a main draw first round against seventh seed Malikaa Marathe.

The seedings:

Boys: 1. Sacchitt Sharma, 2. Kasidt Samrej (Tha), 3.Dev Javia, 4. Ryuhei Azuma (Jpn), 5. Roman Faucon (Bel), 6. Laucelot Carmello (Swe), 7. Suresh Dakshineswar, 8. Aaryan Zaveri.

Girls: 1. Shivani Amineni, 2. Erin Richardson (GBR), 3. Pimrada Jattavapornvanit (Tha), 4. Salsa Aher, 5. Kaavya Sawhney, 6. Chae Hyun Sim (Kor), 7. Malikaa Marathe, 8. Muskan Gupta.

The results:
Boys (qualifying event third and final round): Sarthak Suden bt Kartik Saxena 6-0, 6-4; Sushant Dabas bt Divesh Gahlot 7-6(6), 6-2; Ajay malik bt Yash Chaurasia 6-2, 6-3; Tarush Bagai bt Gourav Gulia 6-4, 7-6(1).
Second round: Sarthak Suden bt Udit Gogoi 6-3, 5-7, 6-2; Kartik Saxena bt Iqbal Mohd. Khan 6-2, 6-2; Sushant Dabas bt Karthik Singh Panwar 6-4, 6-3; Divesh Gahlot bt Deepender Grewal 6-4, 6-3; Ajay Malik bt Chirag Duhan 6-3, 6-4; Yash Chaurasia bt Tushar Madan 3-6, 6-4, 6-4; Gourav Gulia bt Udit Kamboj 7-5, 6-4; Tarush Bagai bt Sourabh Sehrawat 6-4, 6-4.

Girls (qualifying event third and final round): Sanjana Sirimalla bt Vanshika Choudhary 6-7(5), 6-3, 7-6(5); Farhat Aleen Qamar bt Akshaya Suresh 6-2, 6-0; Jagmeet Kaur Grewal bt Renne Singla 6-3, 6-0; Gargi Pawar bt Priyanshi Sharma 6-1, 6-2.
Second round: Sanjana Sirimalla bt Riya Uboveja 6-7(4), 7-6(5), 6-2; Vanshika Choudhary bt Tanvikhaa Saravanan 6-1, 6-3; Akshaya Suresh bt Sanvi Ahluwalia 6-3, 6-4; Farhat Aleen Qamar bt Divya Bhardwaj 6-0, 6-1; Jagmeet Kaur Grewaal bt Chavana Mallela Sreenath 6-1, 6-2; Renne Singla bt Ritu Rai 6-0, 6-3; Gargi Pawar bt Harivarshine Murugesan 6-1, 6-2; Priyanshi Sharma bt Sri Sanchana Sampath 6-1, 6-3.