JOIN USTop seed Nikshep BR handed Manish S the dreaded double bagel to kick-start his Asian under-14 Junior Series tennis tournament on a thumping note here on Monday.
Fresh from his Sunfeast AITA Super Series victory in Kolkata on Saturday, Nikshep took off from where he had left off, dismantling Manish 6-0, 6-0 in the opening round at the Jain International Residential School.
However, it was not so rosy for girls’ top seed Saranya Nagpal, who had to battle past Tanvi Bhat. Saranya took the opening set 6-1 but lost the second 4-6 before winning the third 6-4 to secure her spot in round two.
Results (round one, prefix denotes seedong): Boys: 1-Nikshep BR bt Manish S 6-0, 6-0; Zheng Zebadiah bt Dhruv Sunish 6-1, 6-2; Adil Kalyanpur bt Varun Venkat 7-6 (7-3), 6-2; Abhimanyu V Reddy bt Sai Pranav Ponaka 7-5, 6-0; 8-Jeevan V bt Satya Maran 6-1, 6-0; Vaishnav B bt Kabir Manrai 6-3, 6-3; 5-Sanil Jagtiani bt Balaji LR 6-1, 6-0; Kosaraju Shiv Deep bt Apuroop Reddy 3-6, 6-2, 6-1; 3-Parikshit Somani bt Aditya Iyer 6-4, 6-0; 6-Eklavya Singh bt Dodda R Reddy 6-0, 6-1; 7-Raghav Jaisinghani bt Shramay Dhawan 6-2, 6-1; 4-Bijay Mohanty bt Babu Pranash 1-6, 6-4, 7-5; Siddhant Banthia bt Sri Balaji 6-1, 6-2; Nikit M Reddy bt Hemanth K 6-4, 5-7, 6-3; 2-Alex Solanki bt Tanmay C Thakkar 6-2, 6-3; Amit Batta bt Siddhant AVR 6-0, 6-1.
Girls: 1-Saranya Nagpal bt Tanvi Bhat 6-1, 4-6, 6-4; Shristi Das bt Aditi Dilip 6-2, 6-2; Shivani Manjanna bt Nisha Shenoy 6-3, 7-6 (7-2); 5-Jennifer Luikham bt Nikita Pinto 6-2, 6-1; 3-Abhinika R bt Monalisa Chakraborthy 6-4, 6-2; Sai Nikita Ch bt Shrayashree T 6-1, 6-2; Aashtha Dargude bt Trisha Punamiya 6-4, 6-2; 7-Sama Sathwika bt Salima Saleem 6-4, 6-7 (4-7), 6-1; 8-Mansi Reddy S bt Thangam Chandy 6-2, 6-4; Dhwani Kumar bt Abhinaya R 6-0, 6-1; Tuhina Chopra bt Sonakshi Bhatnagar 6-2, 6-1; 4-Snehal Umesh Mane bt Prerana Kalwar 6-1, 6-0; 6-Karman Kaur bt Rehana SK 6-1, 6-0; Rashmika Rajan bt Muskaan Ranjan 6-2, 6-4; Soha S bt Kavya B 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (8-6); 2-Sruta Kirti Sunaganti bt Anisha J Jain 6-0, 6-0.