Sushant Dabas knocks out Romain Faucon of Belgium
Talented left-hander with a fierce fighting spirit Sushant Dabas kncoked out eighth seed Romain Faucon of Belgium 6-4, 6-2 in the boys first round of the Gadre Marines ITF grade-3 junior tennis tournament at the Deccan Gymkhana Club in Pune.
In the girls section, Shrivalli Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty outclassed seventh seed Chae Hyun Sim of Korea. Eighth seed Malikaa Marathe bowed out to Japanese Erika Matsuda rather easily, but joined another Japanese, Mei Hasegawa to beat the second seeds Shivani Amineni and Sharannya Gaware in the doubles pre-quarterfinals.
The results:
Boys (first round): Siddhant Banthia bt Girish Chougule 6-1, 6-0; Aryaan Bhatia bt Darrshan Suresh (Mas) 6-1, 6-3; Sanjith Devineni (USA) bt Additya Vishal Balsekar 6-3, 3-6, 7-5; Piotr Pawlak (POL) bt Aman Patel 6-3, 6-1; Sacchitt Sharma bt Arthav Neema 6-1, 6-1; Jack Pinnington JOnes (GBR) bt Kartik Saxena 6-2, 6-2; Krish Patel bt Natthayut Nithithananont (THA) 7-6(4), 6-4; Ryuhei Azuma (JPN) bt Faiz Nasyam 6-4, 6-2; Dev Javia bt Tejasvi Mehra 6-2, 6-2; Lancelot Carnello (SWE) bt Suhith Reddy Lanka 6-3, 6-2; Jan Wajdemajer (POL) bt Anargha Ganguly 6-0, 6-1; Kasidit Samrej (THA) bt Prasanna Pravin Bagade 6-4,3 -6, 6-3; Sushant Dabas bt Romain Faucon (BEL) 6-4, 6-2; Denim Yadav bt Taiyo Hirano (JPN) 6-4, 6-1; Madhwin Kamath bt Arun Venkat Guruswamy (USA) 6-2, 6-3; Mann Shah bt Prabjeet Singh Chandhok 6-1, 6-1.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Dev Javia & Mann shah bt Sanjith Devineni (USA) & Faiz Nasyam 6-2, 6-2; Jack Pinnington Jones (GBR) & Jan Wajdemajer (POL) bt Prabjeet Singh Chandhok & Anargha Ganguly 6-1, 6-1; Romain Faucon (BEL) & Piotr Pawlak (POL) bt Arthav Neema & Denim Yadav 6-1, 6-3; Prasanna Pravin Bagade bt Aryaan Bhatia bt Lancelot Carnello (SWE) & Natthayut Nithithananont (THA) 7-5, 6-4; Ryuhei Azuma & Taiyo Hirano (JPN) bt Tejasvi Mehra & Aman Patel 6-3, 6-2; Siddhant Banthia & Madhwin Kamath bt Darrshan Suresh (MAS) & Sushant Dabas 6-2, 6-2; Arun Venkat Guruswamy (USA) & Aditya Vishal Balsekar bt Arjun Gohad & Siddharth Jadli 6-4, 6-4; Kasidit Samrej (THA) & Sacchitt Sharma bt Suhith Reddy Lanka & Kartik Saxena 6-1, 6-0.
Girls (first round): Shivani Amineni bt Muskan Gupta 6-2,7-6(1); Gargi Pawar bt Rutuja Chaphalkar (USA) 6-2, 6-1; Yu-Yun Li (TPE) bt Priyanshi Bhandari 6-3, 6-0; Shrivalli Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty bt Chae Hyun Sim (KOR) 6-1, 6-2; Matilda Mutavdzic (GBR) bt Nikita Vishwase 6-3, 2-6, 6-3; Sharannya Gawae bt Pooja ingale 6-1, 6-2; Jagmeet Kaur Grewal bt Mei Hasegawa (JPN) 6-2, 6-3; Pimrada Jattavapornvanit (THA) bt Bhakti Parwani 6-4, 6-1; Salsa Aher bt Malvika Shukla 6-2, 6-3; Lanlana Tararudee (THA) bt Smriti Bhasin 6-1, 7-5; Prerna Vichare bt Gauri Bhagia 6-2, 6-3; Koharu Niimi (JPN) bt Sanjana Sirimalla 6-3, 7-5; Erika Matsuda (JPN) bt Malikaa Marathe 6-2, 6-2; Evelina Kontareva (RUS) bt Hrudaya Shah 6-2, 6-2; Sandeepti Singh Rao bt Vipasha Mehra 6-3, 6-2; Erin Richardson (GBR) bt Bhakti Shah 6-4, 6-1.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Matilda Mutavdzic & Erin Richardson (GBR) bt Vipasha Mehra & Bhakti Parwani 6-1, 6-2; Shrivalli rAshmikaa Bhamidipaty & Chae Hyun Sim (KOR) bt Priyanshi Bhandari & Sudipta kumar 3-6, 6-3, 10-6; Yu-Yun Li (TPE) & Koharu Niimi (JPN) bt Gargi Pawar & Bhakti Shah 6-4, 7-6(0); Pimrada Jattavapronvanit & Lanlana Tararudee (THA) bt Pooja Ingale & Sandeepti Singh Rao 6-0, 6-2; Rutuja Chaphalkar (USA) & Hrudaya Shah bt Sarah Dev & Muskan Gupta 6-2, 6-4; Erika Matsuda (JPN) & Salsa Aher bt Jagmeet Kaur Grewal & Prerna Vichare 7-6(2), 6-2; Evelina Kontareva (RUS) & Nikita Vishwase bt Gauri Bhagia & Smriti Bhasin 6-2, 6-2; Mei Hasegawa (JPN) & Malikaa Marathe bt Shivani Amineni & Sharannya Gaware 6-1, 6-3.
