Raphael, Mika claim titles
ITF World Tour Juniors: Win boys and girls finals, respectively
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Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, January 11
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Fourth seed Raphael Collignon of Belgium and Israel’s Mika Fruchtman Dagan won the ITF World Tennis Tour Juniors (Grade-III) Tournament for boys and girls, respectively, at the Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association (CLTA) courts in Sector 10 today.
In a one-sided boys U-18 final, Collignon defeated Martin Katz 7-5 6-2 to win the title.
The sixth-seeded Mika, meanwhile, faced a tough challenge from Sabrina Kalandarov in the girls U-18 final. She won the first set 6-4 but Sabrina bounced back in the second by registering taking it 6-3. In the final set, both players were on serve at 4-4, but at this stage Sabrina’s game was deeply affected by pain in her right leg. She tried to fight hard, but got broken and lost the deciding set 5-7 and with it, the match.
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In the boys U-18 doubles final, third-seeded Belgian duo of Collignon and Martin Katz faced tough resistance from Taym Alazmeh and Tanapatt Nirundorn before recording a 6-2 4-6 (10-5) victory.
In the girls U-18 doubles category, the second-seeded duo of Jiaqi Huang and Yu Yun Li ousted top seeds Jasmine Conway and Alessandra Simone 7-6 (6) 6-0 to claim the coveted trophy.
CLTA members Rajan Kashyap (founder and life president), SM Sharma (vice president), Dr Reet Mohinder Singh (member executive) and Megh Raj (COO) awarded the winners.
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