It was a routine day at office for most of the seeded players even as quite a few of them found the city's hot and humid weather conditions difficult to handle on the opening day of the Asian closed junior (under-18) tennis championships here on Monday.
China's Gao Xin and Ayaka Okuno of Japan, the boys' and girls' No.1 seeds respectively, drubbed their opponents to book a place in the second round. As many four players retired midway unable to cope with the conditions.
Jurence Zosimo Mendoza of Philippines, Thailand's Chanudom Wiryajanyong and Siriporn Phakamad and Rajat Maheshwari of India were victims of intense heat.
While three foreigners conceded complaining of stomach cramps, Rajat created a flutter when he fainted inside the toilet after losing the first set to Manish Kumar.
Ronit Bisht withdrew from the tournament citing medical reasons.
Mohit Mayur's case was unusual. After having received a wild card, it turned out later that he had been ‘suspended for a month' (April-May) by the International Tennis Federation for entering his name in two tournaments in Europe and not giving reasons for withdrawing from them. Representing Great Britain, Arjun Dutta was allowed to play as he is a Person of Indian Origin (his mother hails from India).
Earlier, M.A. Alagappan, President, TNTA, inaugurated the championships.
The results (Indians unless otherwise mentioned): First round:
Boys: Gao Xin (Chn) bt Raswant Ravi 6-0, 6-1; Aman Agarwal bt Anvit Bendre 6-2, 6-1; Teeradon Tortrakul (Tha) bt Tarun Nath Surath 6-1, 6-1; Rohit Bisht bt Nischit Prasad Adusumilli 6-1, 6-1;Yash Deshpande bt Chanudom Wiryajanyong (Tha) 7-6(6), 2-1 (retd.); Karan Salwan bt Sandeep Tirdala 6-3, 6-2; K. Pradeep Reddy bt Sasi Kumar Mukund 7-5, 4-6, 6-1; Saurabh Singh bt Chinmay Handa 6-0, 6-1; Rakshay Thakkar bt Tushar Mandlekar 6-3, 6-2; Sahil Deshmukh bt Rakshit Rishi 6-0, 6-2; Niranjan R Ram bt Maninder Singh 6-1, 6-2; Shashank Nautiyal bt Jurence Zosimo Mendoza (Phi) 4-6, 7-5, 2-0 (retd.), Kelvin Lam (Hkg) bt Mohd.Yunus Hidayathullah 6-0, 6-4; Nattan Benjasupawan (Tha) bt Varun Desai 6-1, 6-2; Manav Kumar bt Sai Saran Reddy 6-4, 6-1; Manish Kumar bt Rajat Maheshwari 6-2 (retd.); Yuki Muramatsu (Jpn) bt Nischay Rawal 6-1, 6-1; Vinod Gowda bt Arjun Dutta (Gbr) 6-1, 6-0; Siyre Liu (Chn) bt Rishab Agarwal 6-4, 6-3; Ziad Sultan (Kuw) bt Sidharth Rawat 6-2, 6-1; Arjun Kadhe bt Goel Dhruv 6-1, 6-2.
Girls: Ayaka Okuno (Jpn) bt Binu Ravikumar 6-0, 6-1; Sri Vaishnavi Peddy Reddy bt Likitha Shetty 4-6, 7-5, 7-5; Spurti Shivalingaiah bt Siriporn Phakamad (Tha) 7-6 (2), 3-2 (retd.); Rutuja Bhosale bt Swetha Sree Hari 6-0, 6-2; Cheng-Wen Hsu (Tpe) bt V. Shruti Narayani 6-0, 6-1; Jiayuan Xue (Chn) bt Ayushi Dhar 6-0, 6-0; Gornganok Tirugonak (Tha) bt Parminder Kaur 6-3, 6-0; Kanika Vaidya bt Roma Chandiran 6-0, 6-0; Simran Kaur Sethi bt Natasha Palha 3-6, 6-4, 6-3; Amrita Mukherjee bt Tahira Bhatti 6-4, 1-6, 6-2; Apichaya Runglerdkriangkrai (Tha) bt Sumeera Kamil 6-0, 6-1; Ambika Pande bt Mahitha Dadi Reddy 6-3, 6-4; Anna Clarice Patrimonia (Phi) bt Sahitya Mahesh 6-1, 6-2; Tarrannum Hande bt Dhruthi Tatachar Venugopal 6-4, 1-6, 6-4; Sai Samhita bt Anushka Bhargava 6-4, 6-3; G. Prarthana Thombare bt Uthra Venkatesh 6-1, 6-1; Bhavani Balakumar bt Divya Muralidharan 7-5, 6-2; Bhuvana Kalva bt Smriti Joon 6-3, 6-2.
