Yuvan Nandal to challenge top seed Chirag Duhan in first round
The Fenesta National sub-junior tennis championship will open with a cracker of a contest between top seed Chirag Duhan and one of the best players emerging from the under-14 ranks, Yuvan Nandal, on Monday.
It is the luck of the draw, in a field of 64 players, that the two meet in the first round. The 6’ 2’’ tall Chirag had already given a good account of his game by reaching the quarterfinals of the under-18 event.
Udit Gogoi, the under-18 finalist, has been seededNo.2 in the under-16 event which features other good players like Dhruv Tangri, Karan Singh, Aayush Bhat and Denim Yadav.
In the under-16 girls event, Reshma Maruri and Sanjana Sirimalla have been seeded at the top. Pari Singh will have a lot to play for as the third seed in the under-16 event and the top seed in the under-14 event.
The under-16 girls field also has other good players like Renee Singh, Anjali Rathi, Sai Bhoyar, Vaishnavi Adkar and Sanvi Ahluwalia.
Shruti Ahlwat, Chandni Srinivasan, Nandini Dixit, Suhitha Maruri, Lakshmi Prabha, Riya Sachdeva and Kundana Bandaru will be other leading players in the udner-14 girls section.
After the successful conduct of the first week of the championship that featured the men’s, women’s and under-18 events for boys and girls, the tournament is set for more lively action, as the youngsters have a lot of hunger to show case their improving game.
The results (final qualifying round):
Under-16 boys: KS Kavin bt Raghav Poonia 6-3, 6-1; Arjun Premkumar bt Ajnabi Dahiya 6-2, 6-1; Omaansh Choudhary bt Shafaat Asghar 6-4, 6-4; Divanshu Hooda bt Daksh Prasad 6-4, 6-1; Ananth Muni bt Saksham Chauhan 6-1, 6-0; Manas Dhamne bt Samar Singh 6-4, 3-6, 6-1; Bhicky Sagolshem bt Dhanush Patel 6-1, 7-6(2); Maan Kesharwani bt Raghav Harsh 6-1, 6-3.
Under-16 girls: Jeetesh Kumari bt Meher Mishra 6-1, 7-5; Pavitra Parikh bt NIyati Kukreti 6-2, 6-0; Harshita Bangera bt Asmi Wadhwa 6-3, 6-3; Vidhi Jani bt Harleen Dhanda 6-2, 6-0; Sanjami Arora bt Ridhi Poka 6-0, 6-2; Madhurima Sawant bt Pushti Laddha 6-1, 6-1; Deepshika Sriram bt Bhumika Dahiya 6-1, 6-1; Iram Zaidi bt Vanya Tyagi 6-4, 6-3.
Under-14 boys: Aryan Shah bt Ahaan Dhekial 6-4, 6-1; Tejas Ahuja bt Kanav Dawer 6-1, 6-4; Aryan Arora bt Dhruv Kumar 6-4, 7-5; Saksham Attray bt Siddharth Marathe 7-5, 6-0; Venkat Batlanki bt Sahajpreet Bajwa 7-5, 6-1; Anshul Satav bt Parag Jain 6-4, 6-0; Moksh Puri bt Vaheen Patel 6-2, 6-0; Tarun Korwar bt Rishi Sadeeshkumar 7-5, 6-2.
Under-14 girls: Nandini Dixit bt Naina Gulati 6-1, 6-2; Sahira bt Vamika Sharma 6-2, 6-0; Gia Alana Pereira bt Kashvi Shukla 3-6, 6-3, 6-1; Kaira Chetnani bt Raja Saravagnya Kilaru 3-6, 6-4, 6-2; Maahi Shah bt Vishita Kumar 6-1, 6-0; Tamanna Takoria bt Trisha Malik 6-4, 6-4; Samaira Malik bt Lakshmi Gowda 6-4, 0-6, 7-5; Saniya Khan bt Sreenidhi Amireddy 6-4, 6-3.
(Courtesy: The Hindu)
