Sunil wins title in ITF meet

CHANDGIARH, Feb 5: Wild card entrant Sunil Kumar upset fellow Indian and top-seeded Kedar Tembe 6-4, 6-3 to clinch the boys singles title...

CHANDGIARH, Feb 5: Wild card entrant Sunil Kumar upset fellow Indian and top-seeded Kedar Tembe 6-4, 6-3 to clinch the boys singles title in the ITF Junior circuit Tennis championship, which concluded at Delhi today.

According to information received here, Sunil, who upset fifth-seeded Mark Weaver of Britain in the semifinals yesterday, faced no difficulty in ousting the top seed in the final. Tembe struggled to find his rhythm and could not give a tough fight to Sunil, who played well throughout to win the match.

Top-seeded Sheethal Gautham of India prevailed over compatriot Sonal Phadke 7-5, 6-4, to take home the girls singles title.

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In the first set both Sheethal and Sonal matched each other well. But Sheethal was able to break Sonal at crucial points to take the first set (7-5).

Sheethal did not have much trouble taking the second set to wear the girls crown.

Sheethal, yesterday won the girls doubles pairing with Shruti Dhawan.

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SK Rathore and Hari Om Sharma with 2.5 points each were placed second. Results: Hari Om Sharma bt SK Rathore; Milind Gowde bt Sujoy Bhattacharya; SK Sinha bt RKB Panchal; SK Srivastava bt SK Gosain; BN Prasad bt PR Harsh; Debashish Barua bt NV Ramakrishna.

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