DEHRA DUN: Arthav Neema fought his way past lucky-loser Aditya Vardhan Roy Chowdhury 5-7, 6-3, 7-6(5) in the boys first round of the ITF grade-5 junior tennis tournament at the Shanti Academy courts.
In the pre-quarterfinals, Arthav will play second Aarya Zaveri, who cruised past qualifier Naresh Badgujar for the loss of two games.
In the girls section, Kaavya Sawhney outplayed Gargi Pawar 6-1, 6-1 in the first round while Srujana Rayarala bounced back to beat Hrudaya Shah 3-6, 6-3, 6-2.
The results (first round):
Boys: Calvin Golmei bt Anurag Agarwal 6-4, 7-5; Uddayvir Singh bt Pranav Khanal (Nep) 6-2, 6-1; Prasanna Pravin Bagade bt Shaurya Piplani 4-6, 6-3, 6-3; Kirshan Hooda bt Dharmil Shah 6-4, 6-2; Madhwin Kamath bt Sushant Dabas 6-4, 6-4; Timothy Phung (US) bt Rishab Agarwal 6-1, 6-1; Ishan Sethi bt Shaurya Senwal 6-0, 6-0; Jashvinn Sidana bt Tejasvi Mehra 6-3, 2-6, 6-3; Arjju Channathimmiah Honnappa bt Aman Patel 6-4, 6-2; Shashikant Rajput bt Rudraksha Rishi Mitra 6-2, 1-6, 6-2; Sarthak Suden bt Amit Beniwal 6-4, 6-4; Kabir Hans bt Aman Patel 6-1, 6-3; Michael Mathayomchand (Tha) bt Dhruv Tangri 6-3, 6-2; Arnav Pathange bt Abhinav Nallapa Reddy 7-5, 6-1; Arthav Neema bt Aditya Vardhan Roy Chowdhury 5-7, 6-3, 7-6(5); Aaryan Zaveri bt Naresh Badgujar 6-1, 6-1.
Girls: Kaavya Sawhney bt Gargi Pawar 6-2, 6-2; Ananya Kothakdta (US) bt Aasifa Parveen 6-0, 6-0; Pimrada Jattavapornvanit (Tha) bt Kuhoo Atrey 6-0, 6-1; Reetika Grewal bt Sanya Singh 6-3, 6-2; Yu-Yun Li (Tpe) bt Kritika Chhabra 6-4, 7-5; Akshaya Suresh bt Yashaswini Panwar 7-5, 4-6, 6-1; Bhakti Shah bt Malvika Shukla 6-1, 6-1; Maanya Viswanath bt Amina Zeba 6-1, 6-0; Archita Mahalwal bt Rutuja Chaphalkar (US) 6-2, 6-2; Srujana Rayarala bt Hrudaya Shah 3-6, 6-3, 6-2; Shreya Chakraborty bt Sana Khanna 6-1, 6-3; Vipasha Mehra bt Priyanshi Bhandari 6-2, 6-3; Rishta Vyas bt Nikita Salkar 6-1, 6-3; Sandeepti Singh Rao bt Sarah Dev 6-3, 6-0; Skia Kung (Tpe) bt Ruju Chauhan 6-2, 3-6, 6-3; Prinkle Singh bt Nikhita Simhambhatla 6-1, 6-2.
