Third-seeded Himanshu Mor fought his way past Ashutosh Tiwari 7-5, 6-7(4), 7-6(6) in a battle of wits, that lasted three hours and 35 minutes, in the boys’ under-14 first round of the Fenesta National sub-junior tennis championship here on Monday.
He will next face Maulik Shah, who fought for three hours and 25 minutes in taming qualifier Manan Singh 6-7(7), 7-5, 7-5.
In the same section, Nikit Reddy ousted an injured fourth seed Amit Beniwal 6-0, 6-0.
In the boys’ under-16 event, Chinmaya Dev Chauhan got past fifth-seeded Rian Pandole 6-1, 6-2. The top-seeds in under-16 and under-14 sections, B.R. Nikshep and Siddhant Banthia cruised comfortably.
The results (first round):
Boys: Under-16: B.R. Nikshep bt Kunj Kotak 6-1, 6-1; Rishab Sharda bt Vikram Dhananjaya 6-4, 6-3; Raghav Jaisinghania bt Saurav Kalkal 7-5, 6-2; Siddhant Banthia bt Amit Beniwal 6-0, 6-0; Amarnath Arora bt Sabrang Sandal 6-3, 6-3; Sivadeep Kosaraju bt Utkarsh Bhardwaj 6-3, 6-2; Chinmaya Dev Chauhan bt Rian Pandole 6-1, 6-2; Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Teertha Shashank 6-3, 6-4; Adil Kalyanpur bt Rohan Reddy 6-0, 6-2; Vikrant Dahiya bt Siddharth Basnet 6-2, 6-2; Paras Dahiya bt Aman Patel 6-3, 7-5; Mritunjay Badola bt Calvin Golmei 6-4, 6-4; S.M. Aadithya 6-2, 6-0.
Under-14: Siddhant Banthia bt Deepak Senthil Kumar 6-1, 6-0; Divesh Gahlot bt Vaibhav Kundu 7-5, 6-3; S. Saran bt Harshit Yadav 6-0, 7-6(4); S. M. Aadithya bt M. Nidhish 6-3, 6-1; Rithvik Choudhary bt Javia Dev 6-3, 1-6, 7-5; Sanket Tomar bt Kushal Ydela 7-5, 6-4; Dipin Wadhwa bt Madhwin Kamath 2-6, 7-5, 7-6(4); Suresh Dakshineshwar bt Nama Heman 6-0, 6-0; Nikit Reddy bt Amit Beniwal 6-0, 6-0; Kiran Devaa bt Tribhuvan Reddy 6-4, 6-4; Aaryan Zaveri bt Kushan Shah 6-1, 6-3; Kabir Manrai bt Naman Sehrawat 6-2, 6-1; Calvin Golmei bt Drona Walia 6-3, 6-1; Tarun Karra bt Atharva Sharma 6-4, 6-2; Sahishnu Sharma bt Ishan Sethi 7-6(4), 6-3; Rohan Reddy bt Roshan Kumar 6-1, 6-1; Saurav Kalkal bt Pralok Ikkurthy 6-0, 6-1; Bikramjeet Singh bt Sundari Arvind 6-3, 6-4; Teertha Shashank bt Rhythm Malhotra 6-2, 7-6(5); Sachhitt Sharma bt S. Boopathy 6-2, 6-4; Aman Patel bt Karan Srivastava 6-3, 5-7, 6-2; Aakash Ahlawat bt Kaivalya Rawal 7-5, 6-3; Maulik Shah bt Manan Singh 6-7(7), 7-5, 7-5; Himanshu Mor bt Ashutosh Tiwari 7-5, 6-7(4), 7-6(6); Rishabh Sharda bt Chaitanya Dev Chauhan 6-0, 6-0; Karteek Reddy bt Anmol Rattan Kamboj 6-1, 6-1; Vipul Mehta bt Kyle Cummings 6-3, 6-3; Digvijay Pratap Singh bt Kevin Patel 6-3, 6-1; Piyush Salekar bt Prakrut Kartik Patel 7-6(3), 6-2; Tushar Sharma bt Mahesh Mohapatra 6-1, 6-2; Jagtar Arora bt Gaurav Kurva 3-6, 6-2, 6-1; Megh Bhargav Kumar bt Siddharth Thakran 6-1, 6-3.
Girls: Under-16: Sonashe Bhatnagar bt Shivani Sravya 6-3, 7-5; Urmi Pandya bt Ishwari Anant 6-3, 7-5; Rashmikaa Shrivalli bt Shivangi Sharma 6-2, 6-3; Shivani Amineni bt Anu Verma 6-2, 6-2; Aarja Chakraborty bt Neha Mokhasi 6-1, 7-5; Humera Shaikh bt Shruti Gupta 6-2, 6-0; Sarah Dev bt Bhavya Ramineni 6-4, 6-2; Muskan Gupta bt Peddada Sivanajua 7-6(2), 6-4; Kritika Chhabra bt Anjum Shaik 6-3, 6-3; Aesha Hiten Patel bt Nairuti Vyas 6-1, 6-2; Akshara Iska bt Neeru 6-0, 6-4; Rashmika Rajan bt Shrey Gulia 6-2, 6-3; Seerat Sidhu bt Rutvi Shah 6-1, 6-0; Swathishi Suresh bt Abhirami Prakasan 6-4, 6-1; Lathika Premkumar bt Megha Muthukumaran 6-4, 1-6, 6-4; Dharana Mudaliar bt Adrija Biswas 6-0, 6-0.
Under-14: Kritika Chhabra bt Adrija Biswas 6-2, 6-0; Shreya Gulia bt Muskan Gupta 7-6(6), 6-1; Riddhi Sharma bt Ashpreet Kaur Bajwa 6-3, 4-6, 6-3; Reetika Grewal bt Kiran Kalkal 6-3, 6-1; Bhakti Parwani bt Nairuti Vyas 6-2, 6-1; Swathishi Suresh bt Ishwari Anant 6-3, 6-3; Megha Muthukumaran bt Chelsea Stephen 6-0, 2-6, 6-1; Shivani Sravya bt Smriti Singh 6-0, 6-3; Ratuparna Choudhury bt Prarthana Prabha 6-3, 6-1; Neha Mokhasi bt Sonashe Bhatnagar 6-2, 6-4; Rashmikaa Shrivalli bt Shajiha Begum 6-3, 6-2; Bhavya Ramineni bt Raina Zaffar 6-1, 6-0; Anaiya Kaka bt Radhika Yadav 6-2, 6-3; Aesha Hiten Patel bt Mubashira Anjum 7-5, 6-3; Sanya Singh bt Rachana Reddy 6-2, 6-4; Anu Verma bt Rutvi Chaudhari 6-0, 6-0.