Sandeepti Singh Rao beats fourth seed Eva Gartseva of Russia
Sandeepti Singh Rao knocked out fourth seed Eva Gartseva of Russia in the girls first round of the ITF grade-3 junior tennis tournament at the Deccan Gymkhana in Pune on Monday.
In the pre-quarterfinals, Sandeepti will play Kirara Morioka of Japan.
Vaishnavi Adkar battled past fifth seed Yu-Yun Li of Chinese Taipei for a 6-2, 4-6, 7-6(5) victory.
In the boys section, Udit Gogoi ousted sixth seed Dragos Petre Popeanga of Romana 6-1, 6-3. He will play Sushant Dabas in the second round.
Chirag Duhan beat fourth seed Uddayvir Singh in three sets to set up a second round against Vitek Horak of Czech Republic.
The results (first round):
Boys: Patorn Hanchaikul (THA) bt Nishant Dabas 6-1, 6-1; Akhilendran Indrabalan bt Nikhil Niranjan (US) 7-6(5), 6-3; Sushant Dabas bt Jaishvin Sidana 4-6, 7-5, 6-2; Udit Gogoi bt Dragos Petre Popeanga (ROU) 6-1, 6-3; Chirag Duhan bt Uddayvir Singh 6-3, 6-7(3), 6-1; Vitek Horak (CZE) bt Vansh Kapoor 6-2, 6-0; Jack Loutit (NZL) bt Krishan Hooda 6-2, 6-4; Daisuke Inagawa (JPN) bt Dhruv Tangri 7-5, 0-6, 6-2; Aryaan Bhatia bt Kartik Saxena 6-1, 6-1; Rikuto Yamaguchi (JPN) bt Anargha Ganguly 7-5, 6-1; Rostislav Galfinger (KAZ) bt Denim Yadav 6-3, 6-2; Mathias Musil (CZE) bt Daksh Agarwal 6-0, 6-0.
Girls: Maria Sholokhova (RUS) bt Bhakti Parwani 6-0, 6-2; Sayaka Ishii (JPN) bt Sanjana Sirimalla 6-2, 6-2; zijun Jiang (CHN) bt Prerna Vichare 7-6(7), 6-3; Lanlana Tararudee (THA) bt Malikaa Marathe 4-0 (retired); Xiaoyan Xue (CHN) bt Reshma Maruri 7-5, 6-3; Vaishnavi Adkar bt Yu-Yun Li (TPE) 6-2, 4-6, 7-6(5); Qianyu Liu (CHN) bt Jagmeet Kaur Grewal 6-3, 1-6, 6-3; Kirara Morioka (JPN) bt Hrudaya Shah 6-1, 6-3; Sandeepti Singh Rao bt Eva Gartseva (RUS) 6-3, 6-4; Salakthip Ounmuang (THA) bt Rutuja Chaphalkar (US) 6-3, 6-2; Tianmi Mi (CHN) bt Gargi Pawar 6-2, 6-0; Vipasha Mehra bt Chao-Yi Wang (TPE) 6-4, 6-2.
(Courtsy: The Hindu)
