Arnav ,Akruti lead. Seven other upsets at Gadre Marine MSLTA – ITF Grade 3 Junior Tennis Championship

Pune, December 5, 2023: Arnav Paparkar and Akruti Sonkusare lad seven other upsets at the Gadre Marine MSLTA – ITF Junior Grade 3 U18 tennis Championships organized by Deccan Gymkhana Under the auspices of ITF, Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association and Pune Metropolitan District Tennis Association to be played at the Deccan Gymkhana Tennis Courts

In the. Boys section wild Card Arnav Paparkar upset. Fifth seeded Cahir Warik (Ind) 7-6(6), 4-6, 6-3 in a battle lasting over 3 hours to move into the round of 16

In the girls Second round Unseeded
Aakruti Sonkusare upset third seeded Jo-Leen Saw of Malaysia 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 , in other upsetsAmodini Naik scalped Russian ninth seed Leila Akhmetova 6-2, 6-1
Aishi Bisht toppled another Russian and thirteenth seeded Eva Khrustaleva 6-1, 7-5;
Harshini N Nagaraj put out local girl and fifteenth seed Prisha Shinde 6-3, 2-6, 6-3

Dhiraj Reddy Vennapusa scored a credible win over ninth seed Aleksandar Daskalovic of Serbia 6-3, 7-6(2) while
Bushan Haobam upset seventh seeded Debasis Sahoo 7-6(8), 6-4;

In other upsets Kandhavel Mahalingam Akilandeshwari upset twelfth seed Sehaj Singh Pawar (Ind) [12] 6-1, 6-1 while USA player Venkat Rishi Batlanki rallied past fourteenth seeded Rayan Sajjid Koothrat 7-6(5), 7-5;

Results: Second Round: Boys:
Hiromasa Koyama (Jpn) [16] bt Svarmanyu Singh (Ind) 3-6, 7-5, 6-1;
Ivan Iutkin [1] bt Tanishq Jadhav (Ind) 6-1, 6-2;
Kandhavel Mahalingam Akilandeshwari (Ind) bt Sehaj Singh Pawar (Ind) [12] 6-1, 6-1;
Hitesh Chauhan (Ind) [6] bt Rushikesh Sonawane (Ind) 5-7, 6-2,6-1;
Kazuma Kimura (Jpn) [4] bt Egor Shcherbakov 6-4, 6-4;
Rethin Pranav Senthil Kumar (Ind) [3] bt Vishal Prakash (Ind)6-3, 4-6, 6-3;
Arnav Paparkar (Ind) bt Cahir Warik (Ind) [5] 7-6(6), 4-6, 6-3;
Moise Kouame (Fra) [15] bt Prakaash Sarran (Ind)6-4, 6-2;
Juan Kim (Kor) [8] bt Shanker Heisnam (Ind)3-6, 7-6(6), 6-1;
Aarjun Pandit (Ind) [11] bt Neel Kelkar (Ind) 6-2, 6-2;
Dhiraj Reddy Vennapusa (Ind) bt Aleksandar Daskalovic (Srb) [9] 6-3, 7-6(2);
Vihaan Reddy (Ind) bt Ved Shetty (Ind)6-4, 6-2;
Jaden Dewandaka Tan (Ina) [10] bt Kashit Nagrale (Ind) 6-3, 6-7(3), 6-2;
Venkat Rishi Batlanki (Usa) bt Rayan Sajjid Koothrat (Ind) [14] 7-6(5), 7-5;
Kriish Tyagi (Ind) [2] bt Samprit Sharma (Ind) 6-1, 6-1;
Bushan Haobam(Ind) bt Debasis Sahoo(Ind)[7] 7-6(8), 6-4;

Girls:
Amodini Naik (Ind) bt Leila Akhmetova [9] 6-2, 6-1;
Maaya Revathi (Ind) [1] bt Lara Isabella Kralus (Ger)7-6(5), 6-3;
Yasmin Vavrova (Svk) [7] bt Aarushi Raval (Ind) 6-3, 6-3;
Aishi Bisht (Ind) bt Eva Khrustaleva [13] 6-1, 7-5;
Aakruti Sonkusare(Ind) bt Jo-Leen Saw (Mas) [3] 6-4, 1-6, 6-3;
Harshini N Nagaraj (Ind) bt Prisha Shinde (Ind) [15] 6-3, 2-6, 6-3;
Rishitha Reddy Basireddy (Ind) [8] bt Saumya Ronde (Ind) 6-3, 6-1;