Kumara knocks out top seed Abdulla to enter final; Sneha moves past Dhruti

Adavelly Kumara upset top seed Shaikh Abdulla 7-5, 6-3 in an all-Andhra boys’ semifinal of the Junior National tennis championship here on Friday.  The girls singles final will be between top seed Sneha S Reddy who overcame Karnataka’s Dhruti T Venugopal 6-3, 6-3 and Samhitha Sai , a 6-2, 6-2 winner over Nandini Das.

Results (Semifinals) Singles: Boys: (Prefix denotes seedings): Neeraj Elangovan (TN) bt Nitin Kumar Sinha (WB) 6-3, 6-3; 4-Adavelly Kumara P (AP) bt 1- Shaikh Abdulla (AP) 7-5, 6-3. Girls: 1- Sneha S Reddy (TN) bt 7-Dhruthi T Venugopal (KA) 6-3, 6-3; Samhitha Sai C (TN) bt Nandini Das (Mah) 6-2, 6-2. Doubles: Final: Boys: Nikshep BR (Kar)/Alex Solanki (Kar) bt Shaikh Abdulla (AP)/ Sahil Deshmukh (Mah) 6-4, 6-3. Girls: Ojasvinee Singh (UP)/Karman Kaur Thandi (Del) bt Himani Mor (Har)/ Vanshika Sawhney (Del) 6-3, 6-7 (7-4), 10-7.