Nitin Kumar Sinha of West Bengal beat local boy Manish Suresh Kumar 7-5, 7-6(3) to win the boys’ singles event in the adidas MCC National clay court tennis championships here on Saturday.
Manish encountered an opponent who employed same tactic of trying to dominate from the baseline with fluent ground strokes but Nitin played the big points well at the end of each set.
Roaring startIn the girls’ final, Shivani Amineni of Telangana beat Shivani Ingle of Maharashtra to clinch the title.
In the opening set, Amineni got off to a roaring start as she led 5-2 and won 6-3.
In the second set, Amineni became error-prone losing it 6-4. In the final set, Amineni broke Ingle in the fourth game to lead 3-1.
They traded breaks twice as Amineni surged ahead.
She finally won the set 6-3 and the match.
Vijay Sankar, vice-president Tamil Nadu Tennis Association and Srivats Subramaniam, president, Madras Cricket Club, gave away the prizes.
The winners were given a kit contract of Rs. 100,000 by the title sponsor adidas while the runners-up got a kit contract of Rs. 75,000.
The results (finals): Boys: Nitin Kumar Sinha (WB) bt Manish Suresh Kumar (TN) 7-5, 7-6(3). Girls: Shivani Amineni (TS) bt Sivani Swarup Ingle (Mah) 6-3, 4-6, 6-3.
