Jaya Kapoor, Samarth Sahita in 2nd Qualifying round

  Jaya Kapoor, Samarth Sahita in 2nd Qualifying round

 CHANDIGARH, JAN 11     

Indians Samarth Sahita and Shanker Heisnam advanced into second round qualifying for boys singles in the  J200 Chandigarh ITF World Tennis Tour Juniors Tournament for Boys and Girls under-18 at the Sector 10 Tennis Stadium here today.

 Second seed Samarth Sahita outplayed Aarya Vaibhav Nigam (IND) 6-1, 6-1 in a one sided match. Samarth played solid match and dominant throughout the match. 

In the another match Shanker Heisnam (IND) defeated Shourya Bhattacharya (USA) 6-2, 6-1 in straight sets. Adhiraj Thakur (IND), Nikita Nikolenko (KAZ), Dongmin Kim (KOR), Daniel Tazabekov (KAZ) and Kuan-Huai Mao (TPE)  also advanced into second round in boys singles.    

 In the girls singles Jaya Kapoor (IND) and Sunira Thapa (NEP) entered into second round. Jaya Kapoor played in a top form and conceded only one game against Aadirai K A (IND) 6-0, 6-1. 

In the another match Sunira Thapa (NEP) defeated Parthsarthi Arun Mundhe (IND) in a 3 setter super tie break match 3-6, 6-3, [10-8]. Those players who moved into next round are Yerkezhan Zhanatayeva (KAZ), Gurmanat Kaur Sandhu (AUS)  and Prachi Malik (IND) etc. in girls singles.   

Results Singles Qualifying (1st round ):   

Boys singles:  Aashravya Mehra (IND) bt. Shubham Kaushik (IND) 6-0, 6-0,   Nikita Nikolenko (KAZ) [6] bt. Divvansh Dhupar (IND) 6-0, 6-0, Samarth Sahita (IND) [2] bt. Aarya Vaibhav Nigam (IND) 6-1, 6-1,  Praneel Sharma(IND) bt. Shorya Jishtu (IND) 6-0, 6-0, Sharan Somasi (IND) bt. Anuj Pal (IND) 6-3, 6-4,   Dongmin Kim (KOR) [5] bt. Dev Vipul Patel (IND) 5-7, 6-2 [10-8],  Tanussh Ghildyal (IND) bt. Vincent Dullinger (GER) [3] 5-4 Retd, Shanker Heisnam (IND) bt. Shourya Bhattacharya (USA) 6-2, 6-1,  Uttam Karthik (IND) bt. Ayaan Choudhary (IND) 6-2, 2-6, [10-8],  Daniel Tazabekov (KAZ) [8] bt. Ribhav Saroha (IND) 6-0, 6-0,   Kunanan Pantaratorn (THA) [4] bt. Abhinav Bisht (IND) 6-0, 6-0,  Adhiraj Thakur (IND) bt. Abhinav Sangra (ND) 6-3, 6-2,   Aditya Mor (IND) bt. Vraj Gohil (IDN) 7-6(3), 6-3,  Kuan-Huai Mao (TPE) [7] bt. Swatanter Veer Singh Kajal (IND) 6-0, 6-1. 

Girls singkes;  Jaya Kapoor (IND) bt. Aadirai K A (IND) 6-0, 6-1,   Riya Sachdeva (IND) bt. Snigdha Ruhil (IND) 6-4, 6-3,   Anushka Bhola (IND) bt. Ajenika Puri (IND) 6-0, 6-1,  Prachi Malik (IND) bt. Rubani Kaur Sidhu (IND) 6-3, 6-1,   Yerkezhan Zhanatayeva (KAZ) [8] bt. Saanvi Misra (IND) 7-5, 6-0,  Swasti Singh (IND) bt. Mansi Singh (IND) 6-2, 6-2,  Gurmanat Kaur Sandhu (AUS) bt. Aahida Singh (IND) 6-2, 6-3, Harshini N Nagaraj (IND) [7] bt. Nancy Singh (IND) 6-4, 6-0,  Sunira Thapa (NEP) bt. Parthsarthi Arun Mundhe (IND) 3-6, 6-3, [10-8],  Divya Ungrish (IND) bt. Shrawasti Kundilya (IND) 6-1, 7-6(2),

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