Srivatsa Ratakonda knocked out third seed Rishi Reddy 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the boys’ first round of the ITF grade-5 junior tennis tournament at the Indore Tennis Club courts on Tuesday.
Mritunjay Badola eliminated the fifth seed, Christian Cummings, with ease for the loss of four games.
In the girls’ section, top seed Mahak Jain sailed past Shreya Tatavarthy for the loss of three games.
In boys’ doubles, Calvin Golmei and Sabrang Sandal got past top seeds Adil Kalyanpur and Rishi Reddy 10-7 in the super tie-break.
The results:
Boys (first round): Srivatsa Ratakonda bt Rishi Reddy 3-6, 6-3, 7-5; Sagar Sehrawat bt Harsh Meswani 6-2, 6-3; Mritunjay Badola bt Christian Cummings 6-2, 6-2; Rishabh Sharda bt Suyash Gupta 6-1, 6-4.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Calvin Golmei & Sabrang Sandal bt Adil Kalyanpur & Rishi Reddy 4-6, 6-4, 10-7; Mritunjay Badola & Gurot Sidhu bt Arghya Das & Saurav Kalkal 6-1, 6-0; Digvijay Pratap Singh & Aditya Vashist bt Dev Javia & Shashank Theertha 7-6(5), 4-6, 11-9; Karan Srivastava & Mingkhi Talom bt Vandit Jaiswal & Tejasvi Mehra 6-7(3), 6-1, 10-2; Devanand Mohan & Srivatsa Ratakonda bt Ketan Mishra & Udit Yadav 3-6, 6-3, 10-6; Kunj Kotak & Akash Nandwal bt Sagar Bains & Yugal Bansal 6-4, 6-4; Rishabh Sharda & Drona Walia bt Kaivalya Vamanrao Kalambe & Kabir Manrai 6-3, 6-2; Udayan Bhakar & Christian Cummings bt Dharmil Shah & Kushagra Sharma 6-1, 6-4.
Girls (first round): Mahak Jain bt Shreya Tatavarthy 6-2, 6-1; Priyana Kalita bt Kiran Kalkal 6-2, 6-2; Salsa Aher bt Deeksha Manju Prasad 6-0, 6-4; Baani Singh bt Sonashe Bhatnagar 6-2, 6-4.
Doubles (pre-quarterfinals): Abinikka Renganathan & Shivani Ingle bt Shrivalli Rashmikaa & Sravya Shivani 2-6, 6-1, 10-5; Da Ye Kim & Doun Ock (Kor) bt Bhakti Parwani & Lasya Patnaik 6-4, 6-1; Gauri Agarwal & Sonashe Bhatnagar w.o. Kaaviya Balasubramanian & Shivani Manjanna; Kiran Kalkal & Riddhi Ramesh Sharma bt Salsa Aher & Deeksha Manju Prasad 6-4, 7-5; Tanisha Kashyap & Baani Singh bt Bhavya Ramineni & Shreya Tatavarthy 6-3, 3-6, 10-6; Dharana Mudaliar & Urmi Pandya bt Aarja Chakrabborty & Angella Raman 6-3, 3-6, 11-9; Ganeshi Aniya & Panya Bhalla bt Muskan Gupta & Jitasha Shastri 6-3, 6-4; Priyana Kalita & Aesha Patel bt Shefali Arora & Nikhita Simi-Ambhatla 6-1, 6-0.
