Pune: Sawant shocks favourite Adkar in Round 1 of Aryan Pumps Asian Junior Championships

Pune, 7th December 2021: In the battle between city players Madhurima Sawant rallied from one set down to oust favourite Vaishnavi Adkar 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the first round of the Aryan Pumps Asian Junior Tennis Championship organised by Deccan Gymkhana Under the auspices of ITF, Maharashtra State Lawn Tennis Association and Pune Metropolitan District Tennis Association and played at the Deccan Gymkhana Tennis courts in Pune on Tuesday.

Sawant was on the back foot in the first set as runner up of Gadre Grade 3 Under 18 junior championship, Adkar was hitting the ball hard and she wrapped up the first set 6-4.

In the second set, Sawant was 2-1 down before she regained the momentum and won the next two sets.

“I took little time to gain the momentum, and I just kept my basic rights which allowed me to come back in the match,” said Sawant, who trains at PYC Gymkhana under the coach Hemant Bendrey.

Along Vaishnavi, her 13-year-old sister Asmi Adkar who made waves qualifying for the main draw also had an off day at court as she went down 3-6, 2-6 against a senior player Sanjana Sirimalla.

Top seed Aruzhan Sagandikova of Kazakhstan scored a comfortable 6-0, 6-0 victory over Veda Prapurna.

Among boys, it turned out to be a good day for Indian players, as second-seeded Nishant Dabas scored an easy 6-2, 6-2 win over Wyatt Obrien.

Fourth-seeded Aman Dahiya registered a credible win over So Ogiri of Japan 7-6 (7-5), 6-1 and Vineeth Mutyala (Ind) rallied our Dhananjay Athreya 6-4, 6-2.

Following are the Results:

Singles: First Round: Boys: Woobin Shin (Kor) [1] bt Shivam Kadam (Ind)6-4,6-2; Nishant Dabas (Ind) [2] bt Wyatt Obrien (Ind) 6-2, 6-2; Aman Dahiya (Ind) [4] bt So Ogiri (Jpn) 7-6(5), 6-1; Vineeth Mutyala (Ind) bt Dhananjay Athreya (Ind)6-4, 6-2;

Singles: First Round: Girls: Aruzhan Sagandikova (Kaz) [1] bt Veda Prapurna (Ind) 6-0, 6-0; Madhurima Sawant (Ind) bt Vaishnavi Adkar (Ind) 4-6, 6-3, 7-5; Sanjana Sirimalla (Ind) bt Asmi Adkar (Ind) 6-3, 6-2.

Doubles: First Round: Boys: Aditya Nandal (Ind)/Denim Yadav (Ind) bt Sandesh Dattatray Kurale (Ind) /Aryan Sutar (Ind) 6-1, 6-3; Daniil Felker (Kaz) /Islam Orynbasar (Kaz) bt Sarth Bansode (Ind) /Tanishq Jadhav (Ind) 6-2, 6-3; Max Batyutenko (Kaz) [4] /Artur Khairutdinov (Kaz) bt Daksh Ashok Agarwal (Ind) /Aryan Lakshmanan (Ind) 6-0, 6-4; Tanapatt Nirundorn (Tha)/Woobin Shin (Kor) [1] bt Yuvan Nandal (Ind) /Saheb Sodhi (Ind) 6-2, 6-1; Aman Dahiya (Ind) /Rushil Khosla (Ind) [3] bt Dhananjay A Threya (Ind) /Wyatt Obrien (Ind) 6-0, 7-6(2); Muni Ananth Mani (Ind) /Anargha Ganguly (Ind) bt Shivam Sandeep Kadam (Ind) / Pranav Rethin Senthil Kumar (Ind) 6-3, 6-7(1)(13-11); Nikhil Mukherjee (Ind) /Jaishnav Shinde (Ind) bt Shingo Masuda (Jpn) /So Ogiri (Jpn) 7-5, 6-7(2)(10-4); Nishant Dabas (Ind) [2] /Chirag Duhan (Ind) bt Maanav Jain (Ind) /Aryan Shah (Ind) 7-5, 6-1

Doubles: First Round: Girls: Arunkumar Lakshmi Prabha (Ind) /Honoka Umeda (Jpn) bt Pari Chavan (Ind) /Kotistha Modak (Ind) 6-1, 6-0; Erkezhan Arystanbekova (Kaz) /Zhanel Rustemova (Kaz) [4] bt Ruma Gaikaiwari (Ind) /Sonal Patil (Ind) 7-6(6), 6-1; Sandugash Kenzhibayeva (Kaz) [3] /Suhitha Maruri (Ind) bt Kkaira Siddharth Chetnani (Ind) /Siddhi Khot (Ind) 6-0, 6-1; Hayu Kino Shita (Jpn) [2] /Sara Saito (Jpn) bt Nandini Dixit (Ind) /Suryanshi India (Ind) 6-2, 6-3; Yu-Yun Li (Tpe) /Aruzhan Sagandikova (Kaz) [1] bt Lakshmi Gowda (Ind) /Nemha Sarah Kispotta (Ind) 6-0, 6-0;Tejasvi Dabas (Ind) /Sanjana Sirimalla (Ind) bt Chahana Budhbhatti (Ind) /Aarni Reddy Yellu (Ind) 6-2, 6-3; Shruti Ahlawat (Ind) /Riya Uboveja (Ind) bt Sanjivani Kutwal (Ind) /Madhurima Sawant (Ind) 6-0, 6-0; Kristi Boro (Ind) /Veda Prapurna (Ind) bt Anya Jacob (Ind) /Shravani Sachin Khawale (Ind) 6-3, 6-2.

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