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Irfan Hussain wins under-16 title

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YOUNG CHAMPS: The winners in various age-groups.

Chennai: Top-seed Irfan Hussain won the boys’ under-16 singles title at the 24th TTT junior tennis tournament at the TTT Courts, YMCA, Nandanam, beating R. Ramkumar 6-3, 6-2 in the final on Saturday. Bhavani Ravishankar defeated Sai Samitha 6-1, 6-4, in the girls’ under-16 final.

Irfan’s pace and depth were too much for Ramkumar. The 15-year-old Irfan was strong at both attack and defence. Ramkumar, 13, tried hard, but was impatient and was consistently lured into errors.

Sai Samitha won the girls’ under-14 title, beating A. Sharmila 7-5, 6-1.

The results:

Boys: Under-16: Singles: Final: Irfan Hussain bt R. Ramkumar 6-3, 6-2; Semifinal: Irfan bt Sai Bharatwaj 6-1, 6-0. Doubles: Final: Ramkumar & Bharatwaj bt Karan P. Kurup & Venkatesh Krishna 8-1; Semifinals: Ramkumar & Bharatwaj bt Keerthi Rangan & Subash Kaushik 8-1; Karan & Venkatesh w/o Neeraj & Md. Yunus

Under-14: Final: Ramkumar bt Neeraj Elangovan 6-2, 6-0.

Under-12: Singles: Final: Vignesh Prabhu bt Akhil Elango 6-2, 6-0; Doubles: Final: L. Aakash & S. Gokul bt M. Karthikeyan & Reshwanth Ravi 6-4, 6-1; Semifinals: Aakash & Gokul bt Vignesh & Vishnu JJ Shree 8-6; Karthikeyan & Reshwanth Ravi bt C. Sanjay Mohan & Vasudev V. Raman 8-4.

Girls: Under-16: Singles: Final: Bhavani Ravishankar bt Sai Samitha 6-1, 6-4; Doubles: Final: Sai Samitha & Nithya V. Raj bt Bhavani Ravisankar & S.G. Abhinaya 8-5; Semifinals: Sai Samitha & Nithya bt Kavya & Madhumitha 8-2.

Under-14: Singles: Final: Sai Samitha bt A. Sharmila 7-5, 6-1; Under-12: Singles: Final: Kavya Bharat beat Priya Selvakumar 6-2, 6-2;

Children under-10: Final: Bharath Nishok bt A. Shameema 6-3, 6-3; Semifinals: Shameema bt Rohan Sagar 7-6(6), 6-3; Bharath bt Abinav Sanjeev 6-2, 7-6(6).