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Chandigarh, May 11
Gujarat’s Dhanya K Shah dumped top seed Ashish Bawra of Haryana in the boys’ U-18 qualifiers on the opening day of the CLTA-AITA Super Series Tennis Tournament here on Saturday. Shah won 9-1.
Manveer Singh of Punjab stunned fourth seed Rohan Mittal of Haryana 9-4, while Jasmeet Duhan upset sixth seed Vansh Yadav of Uttar Pradesh 9-5.
Punjab’s Samar Bir Singh Sidhu overcame state-mate and seventh seed Siddharth Ravidu Jadli, while Delhi’s Tushar Madan got the better of eighth seed Siddharth Malik. Second seed Ashwin Mudar Bhat pipped Punjab’s Aarav Singh Gill 9-7.
Third seed Siddharth Basaiti of Haryana beat Rajat Punia 9-7 and fifth seed Aditya Nandal got past Punjab’s Sukhpreet Singh Jhoje. Nandal won 9-8(7).
Ajay advances
In the boys’ U-16 category, top seed Ajay Singh of Haryana drubbed Punjab’s Manjot Singh 9-0.
Second seed Aryan Thakur blanked Sabyasachi Pruthi, while third seed Himanshu Sharma of Haryana registered a 9-3 win over Punjab’s Tarun Sharma. Fourth seed Abay Yuvraj Singh of Haryana edged out Yashvardhan Gaur 9-1.
Fifth seed Sukhraj Singh of Punjab humbled Haryana’s Rijul Bhatia 9-2. Uttar Pradesh’s Hardik Choudhary stunned sixth seed Rishi Dahiya of Punjab 9-8(2), while seventh seed Lakshay Batra dismissed Punjab’s Aarush Sharma 9-0.
Eighth seed Gurnoor Singh Kular of Punjab overcame Chandigarh’s Mahismat Kumar 9-8(2), while 10th seed Gaurav Kumar registered a 9-3 win over Punjab’s Dhruv Agarwal.
Shreya outplays Leera
Shreya Chakraborty of West Bengal downed Delhi’s Leera Raju 9-1 in the opening match of the girls’ U-18 qualifiers.
Meher Mishra of Uttar Pradesh beat Haryana’s Princy Panchal 9-4, while Punjab’s Simran Pritam defeated Ilina Jha of Delhi 9-5. Chandigarh’s Radhika Vasudeva overcame Telangana’s Renee Sharma 9-7.
Konika Singh Dhull, also from Chandigarh, prevailed 9-8(4) over Punjab’s Pawandeep Kaur. Ashpreet Kaur Bajwa of Punjab blanked Haryana’s Priyanka Jakhar 9-0 and Sweta Samanta of West Bengal humbled Punjab’s Jaskirat Kaur 9-4.
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