Eqbal brothers crash out

It turned out to be a bad day for the Eqbal brothers as both Ishaque and Nishat crashed out of the first round of the boys’ Under-16 category AITA Championship Series Tennis Tournament being played at Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association (CLTA) courts,Sector 10,on Monday. While younger brother Ishaque lost to Jatinder Singh 0-6,2-6,Nishat,the elder one,went down tamely to Kamal Kishore 0-6,1-6. However,he made amendments for that when he won his Under-12 singles match against Ankit Rao 6-1,6-3. It was a good day for the CLTA trainee Fatehdeep Singh as he completely dominated his opponent Sean Yip 6-1,6-2 to cruise into the next round. Pranav Suri also played some superb shots to oust Tejas Kapoor 6-1,6-2. Meanwhile,the most exciting match of the day was played between Shalinder Boniface and Sachin Kumar where the former made a great comeback into the match and won by 4-6,7-5,6-2. After losing the first set by 4-6,Shalinder regrouped his energies and matched his opponent shot for shot. Then with the passage of time he picked up his game and won the next two sets to record a superb win. In the girls’ Under-16 category,Harsimran Kaur lost her match to Victoria Chahal 3-6,4-6,while Manjot Kaur went down to Shriya Kalia 1-6,3-6. Vanshika Sawhney and Harkeerat Bains were engaged in a thrilling duel but the former recorded a hard 7-5,6-3 win over Bains. Rising star Sumit Pal Singh outplayed Mayuk Rawat 6-1,6-1,while Param Pun defeated Rohan Sagar 6-1,6-3. Shrey Gupta prevailed over Waga Arya via tie-breaker 7-6(4),6-3.

Results:
Boys: U-16-Singles: Rishabh Dev bt Vikas Berwal 6-1,6-0; Ayush Mintri bt Aditya Sharma 6-1,3-6,6-1; Shalinder Boniface bt Sachin Kumar 4-6,7-5,6-2; Jatinder Singh bt Ishaque Eqbal 6-0,6-2; Atul Shri Patel bt Dhruv Pal 6-2,6-0; Dheeranush S. Bhatti bt Aman Rawat 6-4,6-4; Pranav Suri bt Tejas Kapoor 6-1,6-2; Naveen Anand bt Trivesh Singh 7-5,6-2; Bhavtaranpreet Singh bt Andrew Pradeep 6-3,6-1; Kamal Kishore bt Nishat Eqbal 6-0,6-1; Ranjeet Singh bt Jagtar Singh 6-1,6-3; Hardeep Singh bt Tegbir Singh 6-1,6-4; Ravinder bt Arindam Datta 6-3,6-2; Jajbir Singh bt Kunwar Singh 6-2,6-3; Dhruv Aggarwal bt Sumit Pal Singh 6-3,6-3; Fatehdeep Singh bt Sean Yip 6-1,6-2; U-12:

singles: Ishaque Eqbal bt Ankit Rao 6-1,6-3; Param Pun bt Rohan Sagar 6-1,6-3; Udayan Bhaskar bt Paras Mittal 6-0,6-1; Sumit Pal Singh bt Mayuk Rawat 6-1,6-1; Yash Yadav bt Nishant Kumar 6-3,6-3; Ankrish Khanna bt Kemp O’Brien 6-1,6-0,Yugal Bansal bt Parmeet Singh 6-3,6-0; Karandeep Singh bt Sabrang Sandal 6-0,6-1,Faizal Qumar bt Chinmay 6-4,6-2; Gurdil Khera bt Sidharth Meena 6-4,7-5; Avilash Mishra bt Kabir Manrai 6-1,6-1; Nihit Rawal bt Kumaran Nishoka 6-3,6-2; Rishab Sharda w/o Paramveer Singh Bajwa; Utkarsh Bhardwaj bt Manik Dawon 6-3,6-4; Dhruv Arya bt Sagar Bains 6-2,6-1; Shrey Gupta bt Waga Arya 7-6(4) 6-3.

Girls: U-16: singles: Riya Bhatia bt Dimpy Khirwal 6-0,6-0; Shriya Kalia bt Manjot Kaur 6-1,6-3; Medha Toor bt Rahat Manrai 6-1,6-1; Victoria Chahal bt Harsimran Kaur 6-3,6-4; Nandini Sharma bt Shikha Dasani 6-0,6-3; Shweta Sangwan bt Ayna Arora 6-0,6-4; Aboli Gogahi bt Simran Kapoor 6-1,6-0; Vanshika Sawhney bt Harkeerat Bains 7-5,6-3; Charvi Saxena bt K. Gaytri 6-1,6-3; Nikita Bishnoi w/o Suryanarayani Kavita Mishra bt Valentina 6-0,6-1; Himani Mor bt Vaishnavi 7-5,6-2;

U-12: singles: Harman Kaur bt Sachi Berwal 6-0,6-1; Hiya Choudhary bt Hanshika 6-0,6-0; Akaksha bt Ridhi Ramesh 6-3,6-4; Himani Mor w/o Shristi Vasudeva; Harsimran bt Shriya Kalia 6-2,6-4; Vaishnavi bt Gulmehar 6-0,6-0; Aboli Gogahi bt Seerat Sidhu 6-1,6-0; Mihika Yadav bt Shrishty Dhanda 6-3,6-3; Neelanchal Gupta bt Aashta Malhotra 1-6,6-2,6-4; Saumya Saxena bt Nimrat Walia 6-3,6-4; Zeel Desai w/o Bakul Negi; Snehal bt Suryanarayani 6-0,6-1; Rubani Ahluwalia bt Mehakdeep 6-2,4-6,7-5; Prinkle Singh bt Zeel Gandhi 6-3,6-1; Vanshika Sawhney bt Shea Bhasin 6-0,6-0; Nandini Sharma bt Bani 6-0,6-1.