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| A participant plays a shot during his match on Monday. Picture by UB Photos |
Guwahati, Nov. 21: Top seed Sheikh Abdulla of Andhra Pradesh went down to a spirited Fatehdeep Singh of Punjab 3-6, 3-6 in the first round of ITF Juniors (under-18) tennis tournament at the Assam Tennis Association complex at Chachal here today.
The boys from the Northeast had a good day though, with Manab Kumar Chakma (Assam) getting past a fighting Dhruv Goel of Delhi 6-2, 3-6, 7-5. Vilasier Khate of Nagaland got the better of Rohan Bhatia 6-2, 6-3 while Keneisezotou Whourie of Nagaland defeated Manash Kumar 6-4, 7-6.
Among the girls, Assam’s Priyana Kalita was stretched before she got the better of Syeda Rehnuma 7-5, 6-4 while another Assam girl, Sumaiya Begum, had to sweat it out before getting past statemate Protiksha Sharma 6-3, 3-6, 6-4.
Other results: (Boys) Shashank Nautiyal beat Richie Agarwal 6-1, 6-1; N.K. Poonacha beat Nichay Rawal 6-4, 3-6, 6-4; Rajanvir Singh Dharni defeated Garry Tokas 6-2, 6-3; Karan Salwan beat Siddhant Deka 6-2, 6-3; Rakshit Rishi defeated Varun Desai 6-2, 3-6, 6-2; K.P.S. Adavelly beat Siddharth Reddy 6-3 6-7(6), 6-3; Chinmay Handa beat Ashok Kashyap 2-6, 6-4, 6-2; V.J. Raymond beat Aditya Deswal 6-2, 6-2.
(Girls): Kavya Bharat beat Charoo Agarwal 6-2, 6-0, Molly Red (Britain) beat Jayati Sharma 6-0, 6-0; Amrita Mukherjee beat Vasant Shinde 6-1, 6-3; Roma Chandrayan beat Amrita Nath 6-1, 6-2; Dhruti Venugopal beat Suranjeta Saikia 6-0, Sweta Sree Hari beat Murchana Saharia 6-0, 6-1; Pasricha Shreya beat Anand Nikita 6-4, 6-0; S. Chamarthi beat Prabhuti Singhania 6-0, 6-2; Aboli Goghari beat Saumya Vig 6-2, 6-2 and A. Nilsson beat Sumeera Kamil 6-4, 6-1.
