Karnataka bow to Haryana

Karnataka girls went down 1-2 to Haryana in a League A match in the AITA Inter-State National under-14 tennis tournament  at the Delhi Lawn Tennis Association complex here on Monday.

Played in short-set format, Karnataka’s Muskan Ranjan won the opening singles 5-4 (1), 4-2 to put her team ahead but Haryana’s Jennifer beat Rashmika Rajan 4-1, 5-3 to draw parity. Haryana went on to clinch the doubles rubber to pocket the tie.

Results: Boys: League A: Tamil Nadu bt Maharashtra 2-1 (Manish S bt Siddhanth Banthia 4-1, 4-1;  Pranash bt Dhruv Sunish 4-3, 3-5, 10-8; Manish/ Pranash lt to Sunish/ Vatsin 1-4, 4-5 (3)); Gujarat bt Madhya Pradesh 2-1 (Nikhil Deshmukh lt to Kushagra Sharma 1-4, 0-4; Kunj Kotak bt Prateek Upadhayay   4-1, 4-0; Kotak/ Deshmukh bt Sharma/ Siddharth 4-1, 4-0).

League B: Delhi bt Andhra Pradesh 2-1 (Shramay Dhawan bt Ratakonda Srivatsa 4-0, 4-2; Yugal Bansal bt Sivadeep Kosaraju 4-1, 4-1; Bansal/ Dhawan lt to Kosaraju/ Srivastsa 4-1, 5-3); Haryana bt Uttar Pradesh 3-0 (Amit Beniwal bt Ashutosh Tiwari 4-2, 4-2; Ankit Rao bt Srijan Singh 5-3, 5-4 (5); Beniwal/Bharadwaj bt  Tanmay/ Ashutosh 4-2, 4-5 (5), 10-7).

Girls: League A: Maharashtra bt Delhi 3-0 (Aastha Dargude bt Sabhyata 5-4( 5), 4-2; Snehal Mane bt Apekshita 4-1, 4-1; Mane/ Shivani Ingle bt Sabhyata/ Apekshita 5-4 (5), 4-0); Haryana bt Karnataka 2-1 (Sharisthy lt to Muskan Ranjan 5-4 (1), 4-2; Jennifer bt Rashmika Rajan 4-1, 5-3; Neeru/ Jennifer bt Rajan/ Kumar 4-2, 4-1). League B: Tamil Nadu bt Gujarat 3-0 (Ramya Natrajan bt Rutuvi Shah 4-1, 4-0; Avantika Sai bt Urmi Pandya 4-2, 4-2; Natrajan/ Sai bt Pandya/ Shah 4-1, 4-1); Uttar Pradesh bt Madhya Pradesh 2-1 (Rhea Verma bt Prakriti Banwani 4-5 (8), 4-2, 4-1; Aarja Chakra­varthy bt Tuhina Chopra 4-1, 4-0; Verma/ Chakravarthy lt Banwani/ Tuhina 4-5 (4), 4-1, 11-13).