Defending champion and third seed Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash beat Statemate Mithun Murali 6-4, 6-3 in the opening match of the men’s singles at the Fenesta Open National Tennis Championship here on Monday.
The match began on equal terms, but soon Mohit took the upper hand, relying on his powerful serves and deep returns. From 0-2 down, Mithin came back against the big-serving Mohit to level the set 2-2.
The match went with serve till the ninth game before Mohit finally broke Mithun to wrest the initiative.
Mithun lost the momentum and became inconsistent. Despite managing to hold serve for three games in the second set with some impressive volleys, he failed to challenge Mohit. The defending champion increased his domination and made good use of his powerful serves to force errors. He broke an erratic Mithun in the eighth game before sealing the win with a backhand crosscourt winner in the next.
In the women’s section, Prerna Bhambri began her title defence with a facile 6-0, 6-1 win over Renu Sharma. With a strong serve and an impressive forehand, Prerna ran away with the first set and almost did the same in the second.
Her opponent struggled to not only reach the balls, but even get her serves in. The only chance Renu had was in the fourth game of the first set, when she managed to stretch the game to deuce on serve before double faulting to gift away the game.
She finally managed to hold on in the penultimate game of the match, positioning her returns well to keep the ball away from Prerna’s reach. But that was too late as the latter simply served her way into the second round in the next game.
The results:
First round: Men: Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash bt Mithun Murali 6-4, 6-3; Kunal Anand bt Aryan Goveas 6-1, 6-2; Chandril Sood bt Ganesh Srinivasan 6-3, 6-2; Ronit Bisht bt Ranjeet Singh 6-2, 6-3; Siddharth Vishwakarma bt Ankit Sachdeva 7-5, 6-3.
Women: Prerna Bhambri bt Renu Sharma 6-0, 6-1; Manya Nagpal bt Vaniya Dangwal 6-3, 6-2; Anjali Thakur bt Sanya Madan 6-1, 6-2.
Boys U-18: Prajwal Dev S.D. bt Abhishek Gaur 6-2, 4-6, 6-3; B.R. Nikshep bt Parikshit Somani 6-3, 6-4; Yugal Bansal bt Paramveer Bajwa 2-6, 6-2, 7-6(4); Vasisht Vinod Cheruki bt Siddarth Ponnala 6-1, 6-3; Aditya Deswal bt Vaishnav Bendalam 7-5, 7-5; Rahul Robin Manoah bt Puru N. Upadhyay 7-5, 6-2.
Raghav Talwar bt Taha Kapadia 7-6(3), 1-6, 6-2; Nikhil Sai Mannepalli bt Chinmaya Dev Chauhan 6-4, 7-5; Amarnath Arora bt Dhakshinesh Suresh 6-4, 6-4; Raghav Jaisinghani bt Rian Pandole 6-4, 5-7, 6-2; Vidit D. Vaghela bt Manav Pondkule 6-3, 6-1; Faisal Qamar bt Jagmeet Singh 6-3, 6-0; Kushaan Nath bt Mayank Yadav 6-0, 6-0; Shrey Gupta bt Kavin M. 6-4, 7-6(2); Dheer Anus Bhatti bt Akash Nandwal 6-1, 6-4; Gokul Suresh bt Utsav J. Patel 6-1, 6-1; S.M. Aadithya bt Ronit Singh Bisht 6-1, 6-1; Ishaque Eqbal bt Elan Elangovan 6-2, 6-1; Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Deepak Vishvakarma 3-6, 7-5, 6-0; Sagar Bains bt Anurag Nenwani 6-4, 6-4; Sanil Jagtiani bt Akhil Kanagaraj 6-7, 6-4, 6-1; Jaydeep S. Chudasama bt Sanket Tomer 6-1, 6-2; Aryan Goveas bt Krishna Teja Ankam 6-1, 7-5; Manish Suresh Kumar bt Mohit Bhardwaj 6-1, 6-3; Sasikumar Mukund bt Paras Dahiya 6-3, 6-3; Param Pun bt Mayukh Rawat 2-6, 6-2, 6-4; Dalwinder Singh bt Manjot Singh 6-4, 7-5; Yuvraj Singh bt Rahul Seth 6-3, 6-2; Vikrant Dahiya bt Lavish Nehra 6-4, 6-2; Anirudh Chandrsekhar bt Nihit Rawal 6-3, 6-1; Maitreya Bhagat bt Vishu Prasad 7-6(7), 6-0.
Girls U-18: Shivani Swarup Ingle bt Abhirami 6-1, 6-3; Thanushree Palanivale bt Harshita Chugh 6-2, 6-2; Muskan Gupta bt Suprabha R. Pujari 6-3, 6-2; Vineeta Singh bt Rashmitha Pasula 7-5, 6-2; Shivani Amineni bt Diana Abi S. 6-4, 6-2.
Harsha Sai Challa bt Teertha Iska 6-7, 5-2 (retd.); Akshara Iska bt Rishika Ravindran 5-7, 6-4, 6-1; Prinkle Singh bt Ridhi Sharma 6-0, 6-2; Shruti Gupta bt Deepshikha 6-4, 6-0; Mahak Jain bt Nikita Pinto 6-0, 6-3; Lalita Devarakonda bt G.S. Vasavi 6-3, 6-2; Sabhyata Nihalani bt Nida Shahid Kamal 6-1, 6-1; Avanthika Sai R. bt Megha Muthu Kumari 6-1, 6-1; Y. Dedeepya Sai bt Neeru 7-5, 6-4; Gayatri Kumaraiah bt Urmi Pandya 7-5, 6-4.
