Pranav shown exit door

Pitted against a player who has an AITA rank far better than him seemed to have brought out the best in Sachin Kumar.

Pitted against a player who has an AITA rank far better than him seemed to have brought out the best in Sachin Kumar. Playing with full confidence,the city lad demolished Pranav Suri in the boys’ Under-16 quarterfinals to surge ahead in the St Stephen’s AITA Talent Series Tennis Tournament for Under-12 and Under-16 Boys and Girls at CLTA Tennis stadium,Sector 10,on Wednesday.

After claiming the first set 6-3,a confident Sachin didn’t allow Pranav to settle down and lost just one game to seal the set 6-1 in his favour and caused a major upset. Joining him in the last four are Uday Singh Mann,Dheeranush Singh Bhatti and Ranjeet Singh. While Uday beat Nirbhay Singh Soin 6-4,6-2,Dheeranush had to toil hard to dispose of Allen Johnson’s challenge 6-3,7-5. Ranjeet Singh secured a comfortable 6-4,6-2 win over Andrew Pardeep.

Meanwhile,upcoming talent Sagar Sains was shown the exit door as he lost 4-2,5-4 (5),2-4 in an exciting quarter-final match in the boys’ Under-12 category. Param Pun enjoyed an easy 4-2,4-2 win over Digvijay Pratap Singh,while Paramveer Singh Bajwa cantered to a comfortable 4-1,4-2 win over Sacchit Sharrma.

Results:

Boys: U-16: singles: quarter-finals: Sachin Kumar (CHD) bt Pranav Suri (CHD) 6-3,6-1; Uday Singh Mann (CHD) bt Nirbhay Singh Soin (GUJ) 6-4,6-2; Dheeranush Singh Bhatti (CHD) bt Allen Johnson 6-3,7-5; Ranjeet Singh (CHD) bt Andrew Pardeep (CHD) 6-4,6-2; Doubles: quarter-final: Pranav Suri (CHD) & Sean Yip (CHD) bt Dhruv Puniani (CHD) & Barun Singh Gill (CHD) 4-1,4-2; Vikas Berwal (HR) & Dheeranush Singh Bhatti (CHD) bt Yashvardhan Singh (HR) & Parasdeep Virk (HR) 4-2,5-3; Sachin Kumar (CHD) & Nirbhay Singh Soin (GUJ) bt Prabhsimran Singh Bal (CHD) Aditya Deswal (DLI) 4-1,4-1; Ranjeet Singh (CHD) & Udai Singh Mann (CHD) bt Rishabh Dahiya (DLI) & Prashant Solanki (DLI) 4-1,4-2; U-12: singles: Param Pun (CHD) bt Digvijay Pratap Singh (CHD) 4-2,4-2; Uttkarsh Bhardwaj (UT) bt Sagar Bains (CHD) 2-4,5-4(5),4-2; Siddharth Basnet (CHD) bt Yugal Bansal (DLI) 1-4,4-0,4-2; Paramveer Singh Bajwa (CHD) bt Sacchit Sharrma (DLI) 4-1,4-2; Doubles: Quarterfinals: Param Pun (CHD) & Paramveer Singh Bajwa (CHD) bt Rohit Kumar (HR) & Digvijay Pratap Singh (HR) 4-2,4-0; Rishabh Sharda (CHD) & Sagar bains (CHD) bt Sabrang Sandal (CHD) & Uttkarsh Bhardwaj (UTR) 4-2,5-3; Kabir Manrai (CHD) & Arman Anand (DLI) bt Jagdeep Singh (CHD) & Angrez Singh (CHD) 4-0,4-1; Yugul Bansal (DLI) & Sacchitt Sharrma (DLI) bt Gaurav Seth (CHD) & Himanshu Bansla (CHD) 4-0,4-0; Girls: Under-16: singles: quarter-finals: Pooja Mourya (PB) bt Simerjeet Kaur (PB) 7-5,3-6,6-0; Bhavya Wadhawan (CHD) bt Nandini Sharma (CHD) 7-5,2-6,6-1; Nimrat Walia (CHD) bt Valentina Shikhar (KAR) 6-3,7-5; Kavita Mishra (MAH) bt Charvi Saxena (CHD) 6-4,6-2; Doubles: Quarterfinals: Bani (PB) & Harsimran Kaur (PB) e/o Sharishty Dhanda (HR) & Nimrat Walia (CHD); Valentina Shekhar (PB) & Kavita Mishra (PB) bt Sarah Dev (PB) & Tanysha Dissanke 4-1,4-0; Under-12: quarter-finals: Saumya Saxena (CHD) bt Bani (PB) 2-4,4-1,4-1; Shriya Kalia (HP) bt Aastha Malhotra (CHD) 4-1,4-0; Tanysha Dussabje bt Neelanchal Gupta (CHD) 4-0,4-1; Sarah Dev bt Bakul Negi (DLI) 5-4(7),2-4,4-2.

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