Top-seeded Mihika Yadav fought her way past Mushouna Mushouna of China 6-1, 6-7(6), 6-2 in the girls’ first round of the ITF grade-2 junior tennis tournament at the DLTA Complex here on Monday.
In another match, qualifier Rishika Ravindran knocked out sixth seed Rouxi Janse van Rensburg of South Africa. Fifth-seeded Zeel Desai, the National junior champion, lost to Inci Ogut of Turkey 6-4, 7-6(3).
In the boys’ section, wild-card Siddhant Banthia beat Kaya Gore of Turkey 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, to set up a pre-quarterfinal against fifth-seeded Nawakarn Khunjan of Thailand.
The results (first round):
Boys: Yuya Ito (Jpn) bt Aditya Anant Gokhale 6-1, 6-2; Yun Ruei Wen (Tpe) bt Nihit Rawal 6-4, 6-2; Siddhant Banthia bt Kaya Gore (Tur) 6-3, 3-6, 6-2; Nawakarn Khunjan (Tha) bt Anirudh Chandrasekar 6-2, 7-5; Garvit Batra bt Venkata Gnana Bhaskar 6-3, 7-5; Nitin Kumar Sinha bt Sharobiddin Abzalov (Uzb) 6-4, 6-3; Arjun Ramakrishnan bt Achad Iman Marue (Ina) 7-5, 6-2; Alberto Lim (Phi) bt B.R. Nikshep 6-2, 6-2; Cing-Yang Meng (Tpe) bt Vikrant Dahiya 6-4, 6-2; Eric Olivarez jr. (Phi) bt Bijay Kumar Mohanty 6-3, 6-1.
Rana Roop Singh Bhullar bt Kushaan Nath 7-5, 6-3; Aryan Goveas bt Paras Dahiya 6-4, 6-1; Alex Solanki bt Paramveer Singh Bajwa 7-5, 6-4; Udayan Bhakar bt Cagatay Sami Soke (Tur) 6-4, 6-1; Hua-Chen Yu (Tpe) bt Adil Kalyanpur 6-3, 6-4; Alexis Canter (GBR) bt Shrey Gupta 7-5, 6-3.
Girls: Mihika Yadav bt Mushouna Mushona (Chn) 6-1, 6-7(6), 6-2; Yinglak Jittakoat (Tha) bt Lalita Devarakonda 6-3, 6-3; Yang Lee (Tpe) bt Isha Budwal 6-0, 6-3; Rishika Ravindran bt Rouxanne Janse van Rensburg (RSA) 6-3, 2-6, 6-3.
Georgina Axon (GBR) bt Sabhyata Nihalani 6-2, 6-3; Fang-Hsien Wu (Tpe) bt Shivani Manjanna 6-3, 6-2; Qianhui Tang (Chn) bt Shivani Swarup Ingle 6-1, 6-1; Inci Ogut (Tur) bt Zeel Desai 6-4, 7-6(3); Bunyawi Thamchaiwat (Tha) bt Mahak Jain 4-6, 6-2, 6-0; SAthwika Sama bt Nina Van Oost (Bel) 6-2, 6-2; Vanshika Sawhney bt Ye Xin Ma (Chn) 6-2, 6-0; Pei Hsuan Chen (Tpe) bt Saya Usui (Jpn) 7-5, 6-3; Wiktoria Kulik (Pol) bt Jennifer Luikham 4-6, 7-6(1), 6-3; Kwan Yau Ng (Hkg) bt Angella Raman 6-1, 7-6(2); En Shuo Liang (Tpe) bt Nidhi Surapaneni 2-6, 6-3, 6-2; Karman Kaur Thandi bt Zhuoma Ni Ma (Chn) 6-4, 6-3.
