Top-seeded Nikshep Dahiya of Karnataka rallied to beat Haryana’s Abishek Ghar 5-7, 6-3, 6-0 in a boys’ first-round match of the adidas-MCC National junior under-18 tennis championship, here on Monday.
While the first set was a relatively close affair, Dahiya bounced back to clinch the next two and settle the issue. In a big upset, unseeded Param Pun (Chandigarh) defeated second seed S.D. Prajwal Dev of Karnataka 6-4, 6-3.
The results (first round): Boys: Nikshep Dahiya (Kar) bt Abishek Ghar (Har) 5-7, 6-3, 6-0; Paras Dahiya (Har) bt Jagmeet Singh (Har) 6-4, 3-6, 6-2; Sanil Jagtani (WB) bt Dhruv Pal (Utr) 6-4, 6-3; Rian D. Pandole (Mah) bt Shrey Gupta (Har) 6-3, 6-4; Akhil Kanakaraj (TN) bt Nikhil Mannepalli (AP) 7-6(2), 7-5; Utsav J. Patel (Guj) bt R.S. Mohit (TN) 6-4, 7-6(0); Akash Nanddhwal (MP) bt Ribhav (Kar) 6-2, 6-2; Manav Pondkule (Mah) bt Yugal Bhansal (Del) 5-7, 7-5, 6-0; Vaishnav Bendalam (AP) bt Parth Agarwal (Del) 6-0, 5-7, 6-2; Siddharth Ponnala (AP) bt Maitreya Bhagat (Mah) 6-2, 6-3; Dhakshineshwar (TN) bt I.B. Akshay (TN) 6-3, 6-1.
Basil Khuma (Del) bt Ishaque Eqbal (WB) 6-2, 6-1; Vassisht Vinod (Kar) bt Anush Dheer Singh (Cha) 6-2, 6-1; Jayesh Pungliya (Mah) bt Rithwik Bhriguvanshi (Bih) 6-1, 6-2; Anirudh Chandrasekar (AP) bt Jaydeep Chudasama (Guj) 4-6, 6-3, 6-1; Aryan Goveas (Mah) bt Abinav Sanjeev (TN) 6-4, 6-3; Paramveer Singh (Pun) bt M. Kavin (TN) 6-1, 6-0; Mayukh Rawat (Utr) bt S.M. Aaditya (TN) 3-6, 6-2, 6-4; Faisal Qamar (Raj) bt Ominder Baisoya (Har) 6-7(3), 6-2, 6-1; Nitin Kumar Sinha (WB) bt Anirudh Bindiganavile (Kar) 6-2, 6-0; Aditya Gokhale (Mah) bt Chinmaya Dev Chauhan (UP) 6-3, 6-2; Vishnu Prasad (Del) bt Mohit Bharadwaj (Del) 6-4, 7-5; Param Pun (Cha) bt S.D. Prajwal Dev (Kar) 6-4, 6-3; Rahul Robinson (TN) bt Amarnath Arora (Del) 6-2, 3-6, 6-3; Arjun Ramakrishnan (TN) bt Vikrant Dahiya (Har) 7-5, 6-3; Vasudev Vijayaraman (TN) bt Sivadeep Kosaraju (AP) 6-1, 6-3; S. Manish (TN) bt Elan Elangovan (TN) 6-2, 6-0; Venkata Gnana Bhaskar (TN) bt Ankush Arora (Pun) 6-4, 6-1.
Raghav Jai Singhani (MP) bt Parikshit Somani (Asm) 6-2, 6-3; Gokul Suresh (TN) bt Devanand Mohan (TN) 5-7, 6-3, 6-4; Yuvraj Singh (Har) bt Anurag Nenwani (Del) 6-2, 6-3.
Girls: Sai Avantika (TN) bt Sofia Khan (Bih) 6-0, 6-0; Priyana Kalita (Asm) bt Nikita Pinto (Kar) 6-3, 6-3; Dedeppya Sai (AP) bt Anushka Kondaveeti (AP) 6-2, 6-1; Sonashe Bhatnagr (Kar) bt Shivani Srisai (AP) 6-2, 6-7(7), 6-0; Mahak Jain (Mah) bt Meenakshi Madumitha (TN) 6-3, 6-2; Prinkle Singh (Jhr) bt Simran Wadwa (Del) 7-5, 6-3; Akansha Bhan (Guj) bt Nida Shahid Kamal (Mah) 6-2, 6-1; Shruti Gupta (WB) bt Suprabha R. Pujari (Mah) 6-2, 3-6, 6-4; Rishika Ravi (TN) bt Aksha Sai Challa (AP) 6-4, 6-3; Rashmitha Pasula (AP) bt Kaviya Balasubramaniyam (TN) 6-2, 6-1; Vaidehi Chaudhary (Guj) bt Shamika Dhar (Kar) 6-1, 6-2; Praveena (TN) bt Sansriti Ranjan (Kar) 5-7, 6-4, 6-4; Tanushree Vale (TN) bt Gopika Madhu (Kar) 6-1, 6-0; G.S. Vasavi (TN) bt Diana Abi (TN) 7-5, 6-2; Yubrani Banerjee (WB) bt Nupur Uma Shankar (Kar) 7-5, 6-1. — Principal Correspondent