Vipul drubs top seed Yugal

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 16

Top seed players had a harsh day to come over unseeded players in the ongoing Shivalik Public School CLTA-AITA Super Series Tennis Tournament being held at the CLTA tennis courts in Sector 10 here today.

In the (U-16) boys’ category, top seed Yugal Bansal lost to Vipul Mehta in straight sets. Vipul commanded the opponent and defeated him in straight sets 6-3 and 6-1. In another upset, boys (U-12) category, Divesh Gahlot lost a marathon three-setter against unseeded Nihar Patel. Nihar named the opening set at 7-5 however, faced resistance in the second set before losing by a score of 5-7. In the final set, the winner maintained a good show and posted a 6-4 victory over his rival.

In other matches, Yuvraj Pandit faced resistance from CLTA trainee Gaurav Kumar. Yuvraj won the game in three sets 6-3, 4-6 and 6-2. Eighth seed Harish Gummuluru lost to Shreejit Sen by 0-6 and 2-6.

In the boys (U-16) see-saw matches, CHART trainee eighth seed Digvijay Pratap faced resistance from Calvin Golmei of CLTA. Digvijay won the long three-setter clash by 6-3, 3-6, 7-6(4) while Danish Ahmad defeated Gurjot Sidhu after losing the opening set. He lost the first set by 1-6 however registered back-to-back victories in the next two sets by 6-4, 6-4 to claim the game.

Results

Boys (U-12) round I: Nihar Patel bt Divesh Gahlot 7-5, 5-7, 6-4; Aditya Mann bt Manik Singh 7-6 (2), 7-5; Kartik Saxena bt Sarabjot Singh 6-0, 6-0; Nishant Dabas bt Uddayvir Singh 6-0, 7-5; Vishal Pagadala bt Kartik Parihar 6-0, 6-0; Krishan Hooda bt Rishi Jalota 6-4, 6-1; Pranav Chopra bt Rakshit Utsav 6-2, 6-4; Shrut Mohan Nargeta bt Mahismat Kumar 6-2, 6-2; Shreejit Sen bt Harish Gummuluru 6-0, 6-2; Yash Dabas bt Ravinesh Rai 6-2, 7-5; Yashraj Dalvi bt Sidharth Goel 6-1, 6-2; Nikhil Niranjan bt Vikramaditya Kadian 6-4, 6-3; Dhruv Tangri bt Maanav Jain 6-1, 6-1; Ajay Singh bt Saideep Rao 6-3, 6-3; Yuvraj Pandit bt Gaurav Kumar 6-3, 4-6, 6-2; Gaurav Kurva bt Sarabjot Singh 6-3, 4-6, 6-0.

Boys (U-16) round I: Vipul Mehta bt Yugal Bansal 6-3, 6-1; Drona Walia bt Divesh Gehlot 6-2, 6-4; Danish Ahmad bt Gurjot Sidhu 1-6, 6-4, 6-4; Aditya Vashisht bt Rhythm Malhotra 6-1, 6-1; Arnabh Bhardwaj bt Paranjay Kukreti 6-2, 6-2; Ramanjot Dhindsa bt Parmeet Deol 6-0, 6-3; Rishabh Sharda bt Vaibhav Kundu 6-3, 6-3; Amit Beniwal bt Harshit Yadav 6-2, 6-2; Rohit Kumar bt Jagdeep Bajwa 6-3, 6-3; Suresh Dakshineshwar bt Kabir Manrai 6-1, 6-3; Sagar Sehrawat bt Chaitanya Chauhan 6-3, 6-2; Sohrab Singh bt Aman Patel 6-2, 6-4; Sumit Pal Singh bt Prithvi Khanna 6-0, 6-2.

Girls (U-12) round I: Avneet Virk bt Snigdha Saran 6-0, 6-0; Maansi Singh bt Sanya Yadav 6-2, 6-4; Ananya Yadav bt Nehmat Sandhu 6-1, 6-0; Mallika Marathe bt Kuhoo Atrey 6-2, 6-0; Rhythm Aswal bt Apurva Chauhan W/O; Vrinda Sharma bt Anushka Belwal 6-1, 6-3; Rahat Mangat bt Harleen Dhanda 6-0, 6-0; Poorvi Bhatt bt Amreen Sidhu 6-3, 6-2; Bindu Kulhriya bt Lagan Bidhan 4-6, 6-2, 7-5; Priyanka Khanna bt Nimrat Atwal 6-4, 6-0; Vanshika Chaudhary bt Kaashvi Thapliyal 6-0, 6-0; Sandepti Rao bt Priyanshi Bhadari 6-3, 6-0; Renne Singla bt Maitri Chahal 6-1, 6-2; Nikita Kharangra bt Sehajveer Bhandal 6-3, 6-2.