ITF grade-5 junior tennis: Madhumita beats Isha

Madhumita Meenakshi beat the third-seeded Isha Budwal 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 in a girls’ first round match of the ITF grade-5 junior tennis tournament here on Monday.

The seventh-seeded Angella Raman fought her way past Yun Chen Hsieh of Chinese Taipei 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(5).

In the boys’ section, Adil Kalyanpur beat the fourth-seeded Anurag Nenwani 3-6, 6-1, 6-2. In another lively encounter, Siddhant Banthia recovered from the brink of elimination to beat Mayukh Rawat 3-6, 7-6(3), 6-4.

The results (first round): Boys: B.R. Nikshep bt Sumitpal Singh 6-1, 6-0; Dhruv Sunish bt Rishi Reddy 6-2, 6-2; Adil Kalyanpur bt Anurag Nenwani 3-6, 6-1, 6-2; Yun Ruei Wen (Tpe) bt Vandit Jaiswal 6-0, 6-2; Udit Yadav bt Siddharth Basnet 6-4, 6-2; Anirudh Chandrasekar bt Durga Himakesh Sankineni 6-4, 6-2; Venkata Gnana Bhaskar bt Parth Aggarwal 6-2, 6-2; Siddhant Banthia bt Mayukh Rawat 3-6, 7-6(3), 6-4; Kunj Kotak bt Giritharan Devendiran (Sin) 6-3, 6-3; Pranash Babu bt Anshuman Gulia 6-3, 6-1; Udayan Bhakar bt Yash Yadav 7-6(5), 6-3.

Girls: Akanksha Bhan bt Jaipet Anontaweesil (Tha) 6-2, 6-1; Aarja Chakraborty bt Anandita Mitra 6-1, 6-0; Shrishti Daas bt Tuhina Chopra 4-6, 6-2, 6-2; Shivani Swarup Ingle bt Nida Shahid Kamal 6-4, 6-2; Madhumitha Meenakshi bt Isha Budwal 3-6, 6-3, 6-1; Sonashe Bhatnagar bt Nikhita Simhambhatla 6-0, 6-2; En Shuo Liang (Tpe) bt Ganeshi Aniya 6-1, 6-0; Sai Dedeepya bt Nikitha Tirdala 6-3 6-4; Shivani Manjanna bt Priyana Kalita 6-0, 6-1; Angella Raman bt Yun-Chen Hsieh (Tpe) 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(5); Rashmika Rajan bt chaithali Adinath Narde 6-1, 6-1; Kaaviya Balasubramanian bt Urmi Pandya 6-2, 6-1.