Ananya defeats top seed Ekam to enter tennis final

Chandigarh, July 6

Ananya Sharma today fought well against top seed Ekam Kaur Shergill to make her way into the girls’ U-12 final at the ongoing CLTA-AITA Championship Series (CS-7) Tennis Tournament. Ananya won the first set 6-3 but Ekam bounced back to win the second set 3-6. In the final set, Ananya logged a 7-5 win to sail into the final.

Second seed Rabiah Dullet defeated Maahira Bhatia 7-6(4) 6-2.

In the girls’ U-178 quarterfinals, top seed Riya Kaushik defeated Rubani Kaur Sidhu 6-3, 6-1 and Bhumi Kakkar ousted Rhosyn William 6-1, 6-0. Seventh seed Vanya Arora defeated Ananya Chaudhary 6-4, 6-2 and Radha Sadhra ousted Saanvi Garg 2-6, 6-2, 6-4.

In the boys’ U-18 quarterfinals, Svarmanyu Singh registered a comeback win (3-6, 6-4, 6-4) over Arnav Bishnoi. Third seed Bhicky Sagolshem ousted Daksh Gupta 6-0, 6-0 and Anirudh Sangra defeated Aaradhaya Dwivedi 6-2, 6-2. Yagna Pradip Patel outplayed Keshav Dangi 6-2, 7-5.

In the boys’ U-12 categories, top seed Heet Kandoriya outplayed Mohit Singh 6-0, 6-1, Ranbir Singh defeated Manav Shatrunga 6-2, 6-1, Aarush Jain outplayed Taksheel Naagar 6-2, 6-1 and Ashwin Chauhan defeated Ashish Kumar 6-3, 6-0.

Doubles semifinals

Boys’ U-18: Bhicky Sagolsem and Ashwajit Senjam defeated Krishanpal Rajput/Daksh Prem Rajpurohit 6-1, 6-1 while Aanirudh Sangra/Arnav Bishnoi beat Lakshay Gupta/Keshav Dangi 6-1, 6-2

Boys’ U-12: Prabhroop Kalsi and Ribhav Saroha beat Sankalp Sachdeva and Mohit Singh 6-3, 6-3, and Ranbir Singh-Heet Kandohriya got better of Ayaan Chandel-Samarth Kwatra 7-5, 6-4.