Sanjana Sirimalla gets past Vaishnavi Adkar

Fifth seed Sanjana Sirimalla stopped the fine run of Vaishnavi Adkar with a 7-5, 6-7(3), 7-5 in the girls semifinals of the ITF grade-5 junior tennis tournament at the Shanti Academy in Dehradun on Friday.

In the final, Sanjana will face Prerna Vichare who beat Renne Singla for the loss of five games.

In the boys event, Muhammmed Kaan Erel of Turkkey beat top seed Denim Yadav 6-3, 6-4 in the semifinal. He will play Chirag Duhan who bounced back from the brink of defeat to beat Nikhil NIranjan of the US in three sets.

The results:
Boys (semifinals): Muhammed Kaan Erel (TUR) bt Denim Yadav 6-3, 6-4; Chirag Duhan bt Nikhil NIranjan (US) 5-7, 7-6(2), 6-1.

Doubles (final): Yash Chaurasia & Ajay Malik bt Sushant Dabas & Denim Yadav 3-6, 6-1, [12-10].

Girls (semifinals): Sanjana Sirimalla bt Vaishnavi Adkar 7-5, 6-7(3), 7-5; Prerna Vichare bt Renne Singla 7-5, 6-0.

Doubles (final): Zang Qianglin & Zhao Yimei (CHN) bt Jagmeet Kaur Grewal & Gargi Pawar 6-4, 6-4.