Top seed Vanya sails into tennis quarters

Tribune News Service

Mohali, August 30

Top seed Vanya Arora defeated Saravnoor Kaur 8-1 to march ahead into the girls’ U-16 quarterfinals on the opening day of the Roots-AITA CS3 National Ranking U-16 Championship.

Jasmine Kaur defeated Mehakpreet Kaur and Diya Chaudhary outplayed Saanvi Garg by identical scores of 8-3, while Rasha Dhaliwal defeated Ajenika Puri 8-1. Sidhak Kaur also defeated Tamanna Walia 8-4, Ayushi Prajapat outplayed Agampreet Kaur 8-6 and Radha Sadra thrashed Poonam 8-3 in other matches.

Meanwhile, in the first round of the boys’ U-16 category, top seed Aniruddh Sangra thrashed Karan Pratap Singh 8-0. Second seed Akshat Dhull also moved to the next round by defeating Khwab Chawla 8-3 and Haralam Singh defeated Priyanshu Dhull 8-5. Parth Sharma ousted Birkaran Singh 8-6, Hardik Khanduja defeated Prabhav Sibbal 8-1, Varchasva outplayed Japnaam Singh 8-1 and Keshav Dangi beat Aryan Jolly 8-2.

Results (first round)

Boys’ U-16: Arnav Bishnoi bt Parmarth Kaushik 8-2, Anhad Singh bt Aabhishek Luthra 8-1, Daksh Kapoor bt Abhinav Sangra 8-6, Samarpit Bhatia bt Aarya Vaibhav 8-5, Yash Jindal bt Satvik Singla 8-4, Harwin Singh bt Advit Tiwari 8-0, Devansh Parajuli bt Shorya Jishtu 8-4.

Girls’ U-16: Saravnoor Kaur bt Mannat Awasthi 8-5, Jasmine Kaur bt Soumya Hooda 8-2, Ajenika Puri bt Mankirat Kaur 8-3, Diya Chaudhary bt Vanshika Yadav 8-1, Tamanna Walia bt Priyanshi Katial 8-3, Mokshika Yadav beat Pratishtha Sharma 8-3, Agampreet Kaur bt Naisha Garg 8-3, Poonam bt Rhosyn William 8-5.