JOIN USWild card Madhuri Patere of Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh’s Nidhi Chilumula had to wage grim battles before reaching the under-16 girls’ singles second round in the third Ramesh Desai Memorial National Junior tennis championship on Tuesday.
Nidhi prevailed over Karnataka’s Likhita Shetty 4-6, 7-5, 6-2.
First-round results: Rutuja Bhosale (Mah) bt Shivani Dabas (Del) 6-1, 6-0; Roma Chandran (TN) bt Shreya Pasricha (UP) 6-3, 7-5; Megha Sherawat (Ben) bt Sayesha Dalal (Del) 6-2, 6-3; Sansitha Nandakumar (TN) bt SG Abhinaya (TN) 6-1, 6-0; Kanika Vaidya (Mah) bt Sanjana M Kumar (TN) 6-1, 6-0; Jasmine K Bajaj () bt Preethi Ujjini (Kar) 6-2, 6-1; Ojaswinee Singh (MP) bt Vaibhavi Trivedi (Guj) 6-4, 7-6 (8-6); Ridhi Hegde (Mah) bt Kotade Karandeep (Mah) 6-1, 6-1; Ashwini Suresh (TN) bt Nikita Anand (Chd) 6-4, 6-1; Simran Sethi Kaur (Del) bt Tarranum Handa (Del) 7-6 (9-7), 6-1; Nehal Sahni (Del) bt Rajbit Kaur (Pun) 7-5, 6-4; Kompally Anjana (AP) bt Akshya Chandiran (TN) 6-0, 6-1; Madhuri Patere (Mah) bt Andrita Deb (Ben) 6-2, 1-6, 6-4; Nidhi Chilumula (AP) bt Likhita Shetty (AP) 4-6, 7-5, 6-2; J Priya Doondy (AP) bt Bhavika Wadhawan (Chd) 6-1, 6-4.