Jeevan kick starts campaign in style, eases past Vijay

Top seed and Tamil Nadu’s Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan broke little sweat during his 6-2, 6-2 victory over Vijay Kannan to enter the men’s singles second round of the Fenesta National tennis championship on Monday.

Jeevan played solidly and did not lose momentum against a somewhat sluggish Kannan.

Jeevan’s good friend and second seed Ranjeet Virali Murugesan, too, had an easy foray into the next round. He was 6-0 up when his opponent Rajat Maheswari retired hurt.
However, two seeds tumbled in the four men’s singles matches scheduled for the day. Seventh-seeded Abhijeet Tiwari was shown the door by Mahrastra’s Tejas Chaukalka, winning 6-3, 6-3. Tamil Nadu’s Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash took out eighth-seeded Chandril Sood of Delhi 6-2, 7-5.

In the women’s singles, the top seeds had it easy. Delhi girl Tarranum Handa made her way into the second round with a 6-2, 6-0 victory over Abhilasha Ahuja, while Sonal Phadke also advanced after Anushka Bhargava retired in the third set, trailing 1-6, 6-4, 3-2.

Results (first round): Men: 1-Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan bt Vijay Kannan 6-2, 6-2; Tejas Chaukalkar bt 7-Abhijeet Tiwari 6-3, 6-3; Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash bt 8-Chandril Sood 6-2, 7-5; 2-Ranjeet Virali Murugesan bt Rajat Maheswari 6-0 (retd).

Women: Megha Sehrawat bt Disha Saigal 6-3, 6-2; Natasha Palha bt Amrita Mukherjee 6-1, 6-3; Damini Sharma bt Manya Nagpal 7-5, 4-6, 6-2; Sonal Phadke bt Anushka Bhargawa 1-6, 6-4, 3-2 (retd); 5-Eettee Mehta bt Natalia Khanijo 6-1, 6-0; 6-Sri Vaishnavi  Peddireddy bt Neha Sahni 6-1, 6-3; 4-Shweta Rana bt Shreya Pasricha 6-4, 6-4; Tarranum Handa bt Abhilasha Ahuja 6-2, 6-0

Girls: Thanushree Palani Vale bt Avika Sagwal 6-2 (retd); Isha Budwal bt Anjali Thakur 6-4, 6-4; Moulika Ram bt Abu Diana 7-5, 6-2; Sumeera Kamil bt Nikita Bishnoi 5-7, 7-5, 6-4; Arushi Bhasin bt Simran Wadhwa 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; Bindiya Khanwani bt Sakshi Singh 6-0, 6-0; Ramya Natrajan bt Parinita Arya 6-2, 6-1; Snehal Mane bt Mihika Yadav 6-4, 6-4; Kanishka Chawla bt Jahnvi Gupta 6-2, 6-4; Eeshita Pande bt Astha Babasaheb 6-4, 6-1; Zeel Desai bt A Shameema 6-3, 6-0; Pranjala Yadlapalli bt R Sai Avantika 6-0, 6-1; Himani Mor bt Apekshita Alkesh 6-2, 6-1; Gungunati Sruta Kirti bt Amreen Naaz 7-5, 6-1; Nehal Sahni bt Gayathri Kumaraiah 6-4, 6-3; Rajbir Kaur  bt Vineeta Singh  6-1, 6-0
Boys: 1-Rishab Aggarwal bt Dhruv Goyal 6-4, 6-2; Deepak Vishwakarma bt Ishaan Saigal 6-1, 6-2; Aditya Gokhale bt Rahul BS 6-1, 6-2; Gokul Suresh bt 16-TS Jude Raymond 3-6, 6-1, 6-4; 9-Yash Deshpande bt Dheeranshu Bhatti 6-3, 6-1; Akhil Reddy bt Nazim Dawla 6-0, 6-2; Vishu B Prasad bt Manav Chakma 6-4, 6-4; M Sai Nikhil bt Rishab Dev 7-6 (7-5), 2-6, 7-6 (10-8); 4-Suraj Prabodh bt Dalwinder Singh 5-7, 6-1, 6-4; Fatehdeep Singh bt  Tushar Mandlekar 6-0, 6-1; Neeraj Elangovan bt Rahul Robinson 6-2, 6-0; 13-Anvit Bendre bt Mohit Jain 6-2, 6-0; 10-Rakshit Rishi bt Ronit Bisht 4-6, 7-6 (8-6), 1-0 (retd); Rahul Singh bt Shrey Gupta 6-0, 6-1; B Sai Savan Reddy bt Rohan Punj 6-2, 6-3; 6-AK Saradhi bt PV Bhaskar 6-0, 6-1; 8-Rithvik Anand Gagan Sharma 6-1, 6-7 (6-8), 6-2; Hardeep Sandhu bt Neeraj Choudhary 6-3, 6-2; Sachin Kumar bt Alex Solanki 4-6, 6-4, 6-3; Dhruv Pal bt 12-Niki Poonacha 6-4, 6-3; Nischay Rawal bt 14-Shashank Nautiyal 6-4, 6-2; Keneizotou Whourie bt Garry Tokas 6-1, 5-7, 6-3; Minki Talom bt Raswant Ravi 7-5, 7-5; 3-Karan Salwan bt Tejas Kapoor 6-1, 6-0; 5-Vilaser Khate bt Sharlendar Boniface 6-0, 6-1; Lavish Nehra bt Vijyansh Sachdeva 7-5, 6-1; Indra Patwardhan bt Aditya Deswal 7-5, 7-5; Ranjeet Singh bt 11-Jajbir Saran 6-3, 6-3; Abhinanshu Borthakur 2-6, 6-1, 6-0; BR Nishkep bt Sujib Chopra  6-1, 6-0; Vasudev Vijayaraman bt IB Akshay  6-2, 7-6 (7-3); 12-Shaikh Abdullah bt Chinmay Handa 7-5, 6-0.
Doubles: 1-Anvit Bendre/ Abdullah Shaikh bt Neeraj Choudhary/ Abhinanshu Borthakur 6-2, 6-0.