ITF JUNIORS TENNIS
Guwahati, Nov. 21: Third seed Abhimanyu Vennemreddy and eighth seed Karan Srivastava crashed out of the under-18 boys' singles event on the opening day of the ITF Juniors World Ranking Tennis Tournament at the All- Assam Tennis Association Complex here today.
Unseeded Sumitpal Singh surprised Vennem Reddy 6-4, 6-2 whileSaarang Pandit, another unseeded player, had a relatively comfortable second set to upset Srivastava 7-6, 6-3.
All the other seeds, however, moved to the second round.
Top seed Parikshit Somanidefeated Amit Beniwal 6-3, 7-6 to move to the second round while second seed Nitin Kumar Sinha blanked Sacchitt Sharrma 6-0, 6-0.
Fourth seed Aditya Vashistha beat Siddharth Thakran 6-1, 6-1. Fifth seed Srivatsa Ratakonda, however, won after losing the first set.
In the girls' under-18first round, top seed Eunhye Lee of Korea drubbed Chaithalli Adinath Narde (India) 6-0, 6-0, third seed Shivani Swarup Ingle got the better of Sai Dedeepya Yeddula 6-3,6-2 while fourth seed Vaidehi Chaudhury won all games against Himadri Kashyap for a comprehensive 6-0, 6-0 victory.
Other results:
Boys' under-18 singles: Sixth seed Rishab Sharda defeated Drona Walia; seventh seed Kabir Manrai beat Atharva Sharma; Sundar Arvind beat Kavan Somu Kumar; Himanshu Mor beat Jugal Baruah; Naitholin Golmei beat Arnold I.A. Prabhakar; Subham Malhotra beat Rohit Krishna Aynampudi; Ashutosh Tiwari beat Dharmil Shah; Aditya Satpathy beat Mohammed Iftikhar Sheikh; Bharat Nishok Kumaran defeated Nikit Reddy of USA; Mingkhi Talom beat Arjin C. Honnapa.
Girls' under-18 singles : Rutuparna Choudhury beat Gauri Bhagia; Kiran Kalkal beat Rachana Reddy Somannagari;Divya Vaani M. defeated Kanika Sivaraman; sixth seed Aaliya Ebrahim defeated Bhavya Ramineni; Prinkle Singh beatGauri Agarwal; seventh seed Sravya Shivani Chilakalapudi beat Sharannya Gaware; eighth seed Harsha Sai Challa beat Adrija Biswas; Rashmika Ranjan beat Lenien Jamir.
