Mehta beats Shinde in Praveen Trophy national championship

Pune, Dec 17 (UNI) Nekunj Mehta, Anvit Bendre, Kshitij Gajbiye, and Rajnweer Darni put their best feet forward to beat severe opposition to qualify into the main draw in the boys under-14 category of the 21st Praveen Trophy national ranking tennis championship at the Hillside Gymkhana courts here today.

Mehta, after winning the first set in a tie-breaker, fought back and won the next two sets, ending Sangram Shinde's challenge.

Anvit Bendre, after winning the first set, saw his opponent level up the score before he got on top of the game to end Mihir Akolkar's challenge.

Following are the results: Boys U-14 (Final Qualifying round): Kshitij Gajbiye bt Praladh Pawar 4-0, 5-3, Nekunj Mehta bt Sangram Shinde 5-4 (8-6), 4-1, 5-3, Anvit Bendre bt Mihir Akolkar 5-3, 4-0, Rajnweer Darni bt Amol Pujari 4-0, 4-1, Aditya Vyas bt Sidhant Agarwal 4-0, 4-2, Sagar Shah bt Vahib Shaikh 4-0, 4-2, Ishan Choubal bt Sidhant Jain 4-1, 4-1, Ravi Salelkat bt Yogesh Ahere 5-3, 4-1.

Girls U-14 (Final Qualifying round): Vaishanwi More bt Reva Patil 4-1, 4-1, Lawina Chawla bt Aishwarya Ingale 0-4, 4-2, 4-0, Byacapodi Bharati bt Majid Rifat 4-1, 4-2, Dhumal Gouri bt Rutuja Pokharankar 1-4, 4-1, 4-0, Nupura Deshpande bt Sati Kamya 4-2, 4-1, Archita Shruti bt Hiral Shah 4-0, 4-0, Nupur Shinde bt Shruti Bamburde 7-5, 4-7, 4-2, Boys U-12 (Qualifying round): Adarsh Jalan bt Kunal Vajrani 7-6 (9-7), Ashay Shekatkar bt Jignesh Patel 6-4, Garth Parera bt Anish Salelkar 6-4, Richi Agarwal 6-4, Kalati Parthsarathi bt Anirudha Topiwala 6-2, Varun Shivastan bt Harish Rajshekahran 6-3.

Following is the seeding: Boys U-14: 1 Surya Pawan, 2 Tushal Thawani, 3 Surya Sirala, 4 Karan Awlani, 5 Rakhsy Thakkar, 6 Arjun Kadhe, 7 Rohan Bhatiya, 8 Sourabh Patil.

Boys U-12: 1 Arjun Kadhe, 2 Anirudha Darp, 3 Rohan Bhatiya, 4 Aditya Vyas, 5 Ishan Choubal, 6 Rajnweer Dharni, 7 Ajinkya Bachaw, 8 Yash Deshpande.

Boys U-10: 1 Nikhil Passi, 2 Sourabh Hegade, 3 Sahil Deshmukh, 4 Varun Pathare, 5 Rakshay Thakkar, 6 Karan Mehta, 7 Dheer Bhala, 8 Sujay Dhiwar.

Girls U-14: 1 Surya Tejaswini, 2 Madhuri Pathare, 3 Namita Bal, 4 Ridhee Hegade, 5 Ishika Thirhta, 6 Tanaya Gosawi, 7 Sayali Patil, 8 Sana Sovani.

Girls U-12: 1 Ridhee Hegade, 2 Gouri Bendur, 3 Avani Gosawi, 4 Bharati Bailapuri, 5 Kavita Mishra, 6 Sanskruti Jangale, 7 Swikruti Mokha, 8 Ashana Sharma.

Girls U-10: 1 Kavita Mishra, 2 Ashana Sharma, 3 Rutuja Sharma, 4 Harleen Wadhawa, 5 Swikruti Mokha, 6 Raina Phatiya, 7 Rucha Moghe, 8 Wasanti Shinde, UNI IS SSS PDS BST0019