Priyanshi from Punjab sails into next round

Punjab’s Priyanshi Katial defeated Assam’s Namrata Das 6-1 6-4 to clear the women’s qualifying first round on the opening day of the CLTA-AITA National Ranking Tennis Championship.

Sara Yadav of Madhya Pradesh defeated local challenger Krittika Katoch 6-0 6-2 and Delhi’s Durganshi Kumar outplayed Haryana’s Bhumika Rohilla 6-2 6-1. Radha Sadhra defeated Avni Sahraya 6-3 6-2, Snigdha Ruhil outclassed Sanya Diwedi without losing a single game, Alexa Singh beat Sharanya Ramasubramanian 6-1 6-1 in other qualifiers.

Ekta Ingle got the better of Khushi Sen and Anandita Sharma ousted Vanshika Agarwal by identical scores of 6-0 6-0 in their respective matches.

In the men’s category, Prem Yadav beat Arjun Kapoor 7-6(5) 5-3, while Prashant Proacha defeated Rohit Ohja 6-1 6-0. Mithun Aravind also logged an identical 6-1 6-0 win over Priyanshu Gargm and Shivam Devam easily defeated Tanishq Jood 6-2 6-2. Yashasvi Balhara also advanced further by defeating Deepak Kumar 6-1 6-2 and Pragun Thakur ousted Abhinav Kumar Sharma 6-2 6-2. Advit Tiwari logged a comeback 2-6 6-1 10-6 win over Prigal Chechi and Aniket Singh also struggled hard to defeat local player Shorya Jishtu 3-6 6-3 10-8. Abhay Chaudhary faced some resistance before defeating Gaurish Madan 2-6 6-4 10-7.

Further, Pernil Patel beat Joy Das 6-4 6-2, Anshumat Srivastava defeated Amrit Raj 6-0 6-0, Manjot Singh Ahuja ousted Aakash Kumar 6-0 6-0, Parmeet Singh Deol outclassed Archit Dahale 6-3 6-0 and Anup Giri pipped Kushanra Batra 6-0 6-0.

Ankush Mishra defeated Aryan Aggarwal 6-3 7-5, Aditya Ralhan routed Yashpreet Singh 6-3 6-4, Virat Tomar trounced Anmol Goyal 6-0 6-0, Shiddharth Rao outclassed SohaM Raut 6-0 6-1, Aryan Vij beat Sujit Kumar Pathak 6-0 6-1 and Aksh Jood overpowered Tejas Singh 3-6 7-6(2) 10-5, Akshit Amithkumar got the better of Sudhir Singh 6-3 6-4, Hiren Malik defeated Yuvraj Singh 6-2 6-0 and Abhinav Sharma beat Tushar Bali 7-5 (conceded).

In other matches, Aryan Jolly routed Sachin Rana 7-5 7-6(6), Arntya Ohlyan prevailed over Hrijeek Patel 6-2 6-3, Jasraj Singh Jagdev slammed Utkarsh Yadav 6-0 6-2, Aadith K A defeated Tanmay Siriah 7-5 6-3 and Aryan Chauhan overpowered Lakshay Dahiya 6-0 7-5.