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Tennis tourney: Top seed Niyati enters main draw

Tennis tourney: Top seed Niyati enters main draw

A player returns a shot during the ITF World Tennis Tour Juniors Tournament at the CLTA in Chandigarh on Sunday. Pradeep Tewari



Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 2

Top seed Indian player Niyati Kukreti outclassed Sreenidhi Reddy Amireddy in straight sets (6-4, 6-3) to confirm her berth in the girls’ U-16 main draw on the second day of the ITF World Tour Tennis Juniors Tournament at the CLTA Complex in Sector 10 here today.

Fifth seed Janani Ramesh registered a comeback win over Hitakamya Singh Narwal, while Suryanshi India easily defeated Harleen Kaur Dhanda.

In the boys’ final qualifying round, top seed Deep Munim had to struggle hard before defeating Krish Tyagi. Sixth seed Akarsh Gaonkar outplayed Aryan Arora, while fifth seed Kabir Chhabria stunned third seed Arunava Majumder. Fourth seed Senthil Kumar R had a tough time against eighth seed Hitesh Chauhan before logging a win.

Earlier, in the second round (qualifiers), Munim defeated Tharakesh Ashokar. Krish Tyagi ousted seventh seed Chandan Shivaraj, Aryan Arora defeated Arnav Yadav, sixth seed Akarsh Gaonkar outplayed Rakshit Dhankar R and Arunava Majumder outplayed Yashvardhan Gaur.


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