Bhupendra stuns top seed to enter pre-quarterfinals

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, April 11

Bhupender Dahiya defeated top seed Bhavesh Aggarwal in the first round of the boys U-16 category in the CLTA-AITA Championship Series (CS-7) Tennis Tournament at the Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association Complex, Sector 10. 

Bhupender won the first set 6-4 and was leading 4-0 in the second set when Bhavesh conceded the match. 

In another match, Naresh Badgujar blanked Kartik Parhar 6-0 6-0. Other local trainees Shrut Mohan Nargeta, Yuvraj Kooka, Parveen Kumar, Archit Juneja, Manveer Singh and Shashikant Rajput also won their respective matches.

In the boys U-14 category, Jitin Kumar Chetry defeated Vaibhav Dhanda 6-3 6-4. 

In the girls U-14 category, Lagan Bidhan blanked Radhika Vasudeva 6-0 6-0.  

In the girls U-16 category, Simran Pritam defeated CLTA trainee Yamini Issar 6-2 6-3 and Bhavya Sangri posted a 6-2 6-0 win against Arzoo Gill. 

Results:  (Girls U-14 first round): Ojas Jain bt Harmandeep Kaur 7-5 6-2, Anushka Sharma bt Tamnna Gill 6-1 6-0, Ridhima Mehra bt Joanne Ferenandes 6-2 6-0,Lagan Bidhan bt Radhika Vasudeva 6-0 6-0, Nimrat Kaur Atwal bt Renee Sharma 6-3 6-2, Mrinalini Sharma bt Banita Azad 6-1 6-2, Snigdha Sran bt Mahar Kohli 6-7(5) 6-4 6-0, Omisha Nishchal bt Ananya Dogra 6-3 6-4, Harleen Kaur Dhanda bt Shreya Jain 6-3 1-6 6-2, (Boys U-14 first round): Dhruv Tangri bt Sidharth Nijhawan 6-2 6-1, Rishi Jalota bt Dhananjay Singh 6-3 7-5, Divyanshu Hooda bt Kartik Parhar 6-4 7-6 (5), Yuvraj Pandit bt Sidharth B. 6-3 6-4, Uddayvir Singh bt Sehaj Naangal 7-5 6-2, Jitin Kumar Chetry bt Vaibhav Dhanda 6-3 6-4, Sukhpreet Jhoje bt Harsha Pardeep Kumar 6-2 6-1, Abhay Mohan bt Hardik Malik 6-7(5) 7-5 6-2, Bhupender Dahiya bt Aarav Gill 6-3 6-1, Ajay Singh bt Parth Goel 6-0 6-3, Gaurav Kumar bt Shrenik Bhalla 6-3 6-3, Aditya Roy Chawdhary bt Abhinav 6-2 6-0, Vikramaditya Kadian bt Saideep Kilaru 6-2 6-3, Sidharth Goel bt Bhavnish Sangwan 6-2 6-0, Pranav Chopra bt Prateek Saroha 2-2 (40-40) Concd., Shrut Mohan Nargeta bt Avish Verma 6-0 6-1; (Girls U-16 first round): Vriti Panwar bt Mehar Kohli 6-0 6-1, Shrishti Dhir bt Jyotsna Yadav 6-0 6-0, Bhavya Sangri bt Aarzoo Gill 6-2 6-0, Shamita Yadav bt Luvya Lamba 6-3 6-1, Simran Pritam bt Yamini Issar 6-2 6-3, Saisha Khanna bt Ridhima Mehra 6-3 6-0, Renee Sharma bt Japjot Kaur 7-5 6-2, Lagan Bidhan bt Lavanya Sabharwal 6-1 6-3; (Boys U-16 first round): Ayush Sharma bt Yuvraj Pandit 4-6 6-4 6-2, Shrut Mohan bt Divyansh Agrahari 6-3 6-3, Udit Kamboj bt Vikramaditya Kadian 6-3 3-6 6-1, Yuvraj Singh Kooka bt Hardik Malik 6-0 6-1, Nikhil Singh bt Sehaj Naangal 6-1 6-0, Sarvesh Maria bt Gurjosh Singh 6-3 6-1, Parveen Kumar bt Sehaj Punj 6-2 6-3, Bhupender Dahiya bt Bhavesh Aggarwal 6-4 4-0 Concd., Archit Juneja bt Shrenik Bhalla 6-0 6-1, Naresh Badgujar bt Kartik Parhar 6-0 6-0, Dhruv Tangri bt Uddayvir Singh 6-3 6-4, Manveer Singh bt Gaurav Kumar 6-3 5-7 6-2, Chirag Bansal bt MD Sameer 6-1 6-3, Shashikant Rajput bt Alam Dhanoa 6-1 2-1 Concd.