Kritika upsets 2nd seed Yana on Day 1

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 6

Punjab’s Kritika Sharma recorded a major upset by defeating second seed Yana Gupta of Haryana 9-3 to march into the girls’ U-16 quarterfinals, on the opening day of the CLTA-AITA Championship Series (CS-3) Tennis Tournament today.

Top seed Vanya Arora outplayed Punjab’s Saravnoor Kaur 9-0, while Punjab’s Sidak Kaur defeated local contender Rhosyn William 9-3. Radha Sadhra of Himachal Pradesh defeated Chandigarh’s Paavni Panwar 9-1.

In the boys’ U-16 pre-quarterfinals, top seed Satvik Singla faced some resistance from Arnav Chaudhary before recording an 8-5 victory.

Punjab’s Devanshu Parajuli defeated second seed Shourya Gupta of Uttarakhand 8-0, while Punjab’s Arpit Garg outplayed Chandigarh’s Gaurish Madaan 8-1.

Fourth seed local contender Parmarth Kaushik defeated Punjab’s Anant Gupta 8-4, while fifth seed Aditya Bhatnagar got the better of Delhi’s Manav Singh 8-3.

Haryana’s Prabhav Sibbal ousted Hardit Singh 8-0, whereas Chandigarh’s Karen Singh struggled hard to defeat Pragun Thakur 8-7(5). Punjab’s Sumukh Marya defeated Haryana’s Devverat Kadian 8-2.

Results (1st round)

Boys’ U-16: Arnav Chaudhary bt Ayaan Chandel 8-0, Manav Singh bt Anish Sharma 8-4, Anant Gupta bt Pratyush Gupta 8-0, Pragun Thakur bt Tejas Khosla 8-5, Gaurish Madaan bt Samarth Kwatra 8-3, Devverat Kadian bt Sachit Thakur 8-6, Devanshu Parajuli bt Abhinav Sangra 8-1

Girls’ U-16: Saravnoor Kaur bt Diza Juneja 8-2, Sidak Kaur bt Akshita Vashisht 8-3, Rhosyn William bt Mehakpreet Kaur 8-4, Paavni Panwar bt Jannat Dudeja 8-7(6), Radha Sadhra bt Mannat Awasthi 8-0, Kritika Sharma bt Dhriti Parashar 8-5, Yana Gupta bt Maaliha Ahuja 8-2