Sonashe wins girls' crown

TN's Pranash clinches boys' title

Karnataka’s Sonashe Bhatnagar and Pranash Babu of Tamil Nadu clinched the girls’ and boys’ titles respectively in the KSLTA-AITA under-18 Talent Series tennis tournament at the KSLTA courts here on Monday.

In an all Karnataka final, Sonashe, a trainee at the Srinath Academy of Tennis (SAT), defeated Pragathi Narayan Prasad ​6-3, 6-3.

The boys’s title clash was an all Tamil Nadu affair where Pranash defeated Hari Singh 7-6 (7-5), 6-4.

Meanwhile, in the opening round of the KTPPA under-12 National series tennis championship at the Tennis Village courts, Karnataka’s Nikhil Thirumale Niranjan posted a hard-fought 9-8 (4) win over Andhra Pradesh’s Iqbal Mohd Khan.

U-12 results (first round):

Boys: Dev Javia bt Deepak A 9-5; Shubham Kundu bt Kousik Kumar Reddy V 9-4; Nihar Patel bt Pranav S Ikkurthy 9-7; Aditya Sriram S bt Manav Sree Kumar 9-0; Gaurav Kurva bt Rahul Chandna 9-0; Nikhil Thirumale Niranjan bt Iqbal Mohd Khan 9-8 (4); Kanishk Pal bt Sarabjot Singh 9-0; Adarsh Arun bt Divesh Gahlot 9-7; Eshaan Lumba bt Sriram K Das 9-0;

Hithen Sreelesh bt S Sharaniyan 9-7; Anmol Pankaj Jain bt Vansh Kapoor 9-5; Sandeep VM bt Uddayvir Singh 9-3; Adarsh Naga Tippabhat bt K S Vishisht Raam 9-7; Pratyush Mohanty bt Aditya Kodakalla 9-2; Anish Rampolan bt Abhijit Singh 9-6; Harshit Kosaraju bt Arya Rajath 9-1; Mahesh Mohapatra bt Ritik Rana 9-3; Anirudh Kumar bt Omkar Agnihotri 3-1 (retd); Bhuvan Ambekallu bt Akarsh Gaonkar 9-5; Girish Dadasaheb Chougule bt Nishant Dabas 9-5;

Asav Kumar bt Vishal Reddy Pagadala 9-8 (1); Prasanna P M bt Aakash Anne 9-4; Denim Yadav bt Siram Lokaditya Vardh 9-2; Sandesh Kantimahanti bt Anmayyogesh 9-2; Arjun Sriram bt Y Sudhirth 9-2; Sanjith Devineni bt Shrut Mohan Nargeta 9-7; Rajesh Kannan RS bt Hasith Srujan Gummulu 9-4; Sammar Raina bt Aryaan Bhatia 9-3; Preetam Vallabhaneni bt Shreejit Sen 9-1; Karthik Neal Vaddepalli bt Deepak Vayara 9-5; Jaishvin Singh Sidana bt Manav Jain 9-0; Boopathy S bt Siddarth Sunil 9-6 .

Girls: Vanshita Pathana bt Tanvika S 9-3; Bipasha bt Sharon Williams 9-6; Aditi Narayan bt Sahishna 9-4; Anisha Rayudu bt Nidhi 9-3; Sri Harshita bt Suhita Maruri 9-7;  Smriti Bhasin bt Bhavyukta 9-3; M Vineetha bt Aashrita 9-2; Bala Gayathri Snighdha bt Aditi 8-1; Megha Asheer bt Vidisha Reddy 9-3; U Riya bt Avanthika 9-2; Malika Marathe bt Sanskriti Gupta 9-2; Naisha bt P Sumana 9-1.