Top seed Punjab’s Navya Verma registered an easy 8-1 win over Keshav Dangi to march into the boy’s U-18 quarterfinals on the opening day CLTA-AITA Championship Series (CS-3) Tennis Tournament, at the Sector 10 CLTA Complex, on Monday. Second seed Haryana’s Aditya Chauhan ousted Anirudh Sangra 8-5 and third seed Lakshya Gupta also logged an easy win over Arpit Garg 8-5. Fourth seed Haryana’s Upnishad Bhardwaj outplayed Aryan Jolly 8-1, Arnav Bishnoi also marched ahead by defeating Punjab’s Shantanu Nagrath 8-3 and Suryansh Nagar ousted Pravar Sgarna 8-0. Yashashvi Balhara struggled hard to defeat Agnivesh Bhardwaj 8-7(5) and Sankalp Satyan Nair defeated Tarun Sharma 8-2 in other matches. In the girls’ U-18 pre-quarterfinals, top seed Riya Kaushik managed to defeat Sanvi Garg 8-6. Rahika Vasudeva also outplayed Radha Sadhra 8-3 and Anahat Pannu moved ahead by defeating sixth seed Ananya Dogra 8-3. Fourth seeded Anusha Verma defeated Mankirat Kaur 8-2, Khushleen Kaur outplayed Pratishtha Sharma 8-3, Milli Pandit of Chandigarh overpowered Angelina Singh 8-2, Vanya Arora ousted Mehakpreet Kaur 8-0 and Gursimrat Kaur outplayed Agrima Gandhi 8-6 in other matches.
Results (1st round)
Boys’ U-18
Navya Verma bt Raghav Chaudhary 8-0, Keshav Dangi bt Dhruv Chaudhary 8-0, Arnav Bishnoi bt Satvik Singla 8-0, Shantanu Nagrath bt Hriday Malhotra 8-1, Lakshya Gupta bt Arya Vaibhav Nigam 8-3, Arpit Garg bt Mehraab Singh Rai 8-3, Pravar Sgarna bt Anmol Sharma 8-0, Suryansh Nagar bt Adik Sharma 8-0, Yashashvi Balhara bt Yashvardhan Gaur 8-5, Agnivesh Bhardwaj bt Abhinav Sangra 8-3, Aryan Jolly bt Akash Yadav 8-6, Upnishad Bhardwaj bt Parmarth Kaushik 8-0, Tarun Sharma bt Manav Malik 8-2, Sankalp Satyan Nair bt Devansh Parajuli 8-6, Anirudh Sangra bt Tanav Gupta 8-0, Aditya Chauhan bt Samarpit Bhatia 8-1
Girls’ U-18
Anahat Pannu bt Kritika Katoch 8-2
