Final qualifying rounds washed away

CHANDIGARH, May 23: Inclement weather conditions in the afternoon today forced the organisers to postponed the final qualifying rounds in...

CHANDIGARH, May 23: Inclement weather conditions in the afternoon today forced the organisers to postponed the final qualifying rounds in the under-16 and under-14 boys group and under-16 girls category of the Adidas Junior Zonal tennis circuit which is being played here at the Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association CLTA courts in Sector 10. The matches will now be held tomorrow at 6.30 a.m.

However, eight players have made it to the main draw of the under-14 girls category. The players are Dhanashree C Giri, Saloni Khanna, Gurpreet Virdi, Bhar Paul, Sanjan Kapoor, Maninder Kaur, Anukriti Prasad and Anuradha Shankar.

Meanwhile wild card entries in both boys and girls section has been decided.Four wild card entries in the under-16 boys section are Varun Giri, Saurabh Singh, Tushar Liberhan and Ankit Raj. In the under-14 section, Rohan Bhandari, Ardaman Singh, Sanam Krishan and Gurdit Singh have got the wild cards.

Saneya Judge, Simmer, Khushleen Kaur, Prabhleen Chauhan are the wild card entrant in the under-16 girls section. Ashta Choudahry, Shaleen Chauhan, Shaira Sehgal and Gunjeet Bains are four wild card entries in the under-14 girls group.

Results
Boys
Under-16 third round: Gurneet Singh bt Paras Thakur 8-1; Manish Chofla bt Viraj Bharghav 8-1; Devanand Jha bt Sumit Kohli 8-4; Aneesh Narang bt Neilabh Avasthi 8-5; Sanam K Singh bt Rathindra Dakoti 8-4; Bharat Sachdeva bt Raghav Nanda 8-3; Vishu Singh bt Vaihbav Agarwal 8-5; Rajat Madan bt Sumit Choudhary 8-0; Vivek Sukheen bt Sahil Thapa 8-4; Sahil Manchanda bt Jitin Bishnoi 8-4; Ritesh Sabarwal bt GP Manish 8-2; Arjun Uppal bt Bhuwan Bhatia 8-0; Nakul Yadav bt Indruj Singh 8-0; Vishal Sachdeva bt Harneet Singh 8-2; Arjun Talwar bt Lovepreet Singh 8-4; Yuvraj bt Ardaman Singh 8-7 2.
Under-14 third round: Bakul Kehra bt Gursher Harika 8-3; Sharanish Joshi bt Honey Rana 8-7 5; Simaranjit Cheema bt Kinshuk Sharma 8-6; Jitin Bishnoi b Pritam Singh 8-1; Neilabh Avashi bt Saurabh Rishi 8-4; Nikhil Goswamy bt Aman Puri 8-1; GP Manish bt Paras Thakur 8-1; Rohan Gaddh bt Bhuvan Agarwal 8-2; Ritesh Sabarwal bt Rachat Bansal 8-2; Raghav Nanda bt Sanjog Kapoor 8-1; Sahil Vasudeva bt Bhuven Bhatia 8-4; Yanik Nelord Bt Harman Singh 8-7 3; Bharat Srinivasan bt Vaibhav Agarwal 8-5; Saurabh Kumar bt Aditya Sharma 8-6; Vishnu Singh bt Sameer Jain 8-6; Abhinav Grover bt Mehar Pratap Sandhu 8-2.

Girls
Under-16 first round: Summer Bhullar bt Sakshi Kamboj 8-2; Bahar Paul bt Shaira Seghal 8-6; Pooja Kamboj bt Taskeen Bains 8-5; Neha Rana bt Shaleen Chouhan 8-6.
Under-14 final round: Dhanshree C Giri bt Harleen Uppal 8-4; Saloni Khanna bt Inayat Khosla 8-0; Gurpreet Virdi bt Bhawana Trimurthy 8-6; Bahar Paul bt Amarpreet Kaur 8-1; Sanjana Kapoor bt Sakshi Kamboj 8-1; Maninder Kaur bt Taskeen Bains 8-5; Anukirit Prasad bt Pooja Kamboj 8-5.