Ojus, Jay, Kavya, Sahana score upset wins at D.E.S. Fergusson College AITA Championship series U-18 Tennis Tournament
Pune, April 25, 2022: Unseeded players Ojus Dabas,Jay Dixit , Kavya Deshmukh ,Sahana Kamalakannan scored upset wins to enter the second round of the Boys and the Girls event at the D.E.S. Fergusson College Championship series Under 18 Tennis Tournament organized by Fergusson College and Nandan Bal Tennis Academy Under the auspices of MSLTA and AITA and played at Fergusson College Tennis Courts.
In the boys main draw first round unseeded Ojus Dabas caused the biggest upset knocking out top seeded Pranav Korade 6-4, 6-3 , while in a match between local lads Jay Dixit ousted third seeded Arjun Abhyankar 6-3, 6-2 to enter the second round .
In the Girls event qualifier Sahana Kamalakannan upset third seeded Dhanvi Kale of Gujarat 7-6(4), 7-6(5) while Lucky loser Kavya Deshmukh toppled fifth seeded Ishwari Markande 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 in one of the toughest matches of the day .
Results: First Round: Boys:
Ojus Dabas(Mah) bt Pranav Korade(Mah)[1] 6-4, 6-3;
Jay Dixit(Mah) bt Arjun Abhyankar(Mah)[3] 6-3, 6-2;
Anmol Nagpure(Mah)[4] bt Abhiram Nilakhe(Mah) 6-3, 4-6, 6-4;
Aryan Kotasthane(Mah)[5] bt (Q)Laksh Gujrathi(Mah) 6-3, 6-2;
(Q)Siddharth Marathe(Mah) bt Radheya Shahane(Mah)6-3, 6-0;
Tanishq Jadhav(Mah)[6] bt Ved Thakur(Mah) 6-1, 6-1;
Nishit Rahane(Mah)[7] bt Manan Chitania 6-4, 6-3;
Raghav Amin(Mah) bt (Q)Omkar Shinde(Mah) 7-6(1), 6-3;
Anish Ranjalkar(Mah)[8] bt Balavir Singh(Mah) 6-0, 6-0;
Girls:
JS Sai Shriyaa(Kar)[1] bt Yagmaseni Chakraborty 6-0, 6-0;
[LL]Durga Birajdar bt [LL]Aarzu Thakker(Mah) 6-3, 6-1;
Hiya Mehta(TS) bt Vaishnavi Chauhan(Mah) 6-1, 6-2;
[LL]Kavya Deshmukh(Mah) bt Ishwari Markande(Mah)[5] 5-7, 6-2, 6-2;
(Q) Sahana Kamalakannan(Mah) bt Dhanvi Kale(Guj)[3] 7-6(4), 7-6(5);
(Q) Prisha Shinde(Mah) bt Bhavana Agarwal(Mah) 6-0, 6-0;
Asmi Adkar(Mah)[6] bt Vrishitha Samathakumar 6-2, 6-0.