Pranav overcomes battling Sai

Pranav prevailed over Sai Siddarth 8-7 (11) in a close best of 15 first-round game of the boys’ singles in the STC-AITA South Noze national ranking under-14 talent series tennis championship here on Saturday.

In some of the other results in the day, Susruth Konapur bt Rupesh 8-7 (4), while Sailesh Natraj downed Vignesh Krishnan 8-6.

Venkat Srikrishna fought hard to quell Vishruth’s challenge 8-7 (5).

Anirudh Murthy and Prarthana Prabhakar, both from Karnataka, are the top seeds in the boys and girls sections respectively.

Results: Boys singles: Ruthuvik Bavale bt Sai Ganesh 8-0; Karthik bt Visal Ganesh 8-7 ( 3 ); Pranav bt Sai Siddarth 8-7 (11); Karan Kumar bt Souvik 8-0;  Gagan Ganapathy bt R Srinath 8-6; Venkat Srikrishna bt Vishruth 8-7 ( 5 ); Sailesh Natraj bt Vignesh Krishnan 8-6; Deepak bt Rujul Gowda 8-7 ( 5 ); Kaushik Das bt Harshil 8-3; Manish bt T Malpani 8-3; Sai Krishna Parkhya bt Harsha Singh 8-6; Dhruv Sricharan bt Sashank Adinath Narde 8-5; Susruth Konapur bt Rupesh 8-7 ( 4 ).