ITF junior grade 5 tournaments, India- March-April 2018

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It seems like we have got additional 3 grade 5 tournaments as compared with usual quota of ITF junior tournaments. That is good news for our younger players who are starting out on junior tour.

It started with a grade 5 in Dehardun this week which will be followed by one in Raipur and the last week is in Madurai on clay.

These are the results of Deharadun grade 5-

Boys-

1st Round
Naithaolin Calvin GOLMEI (IND) [1] 6-4 7-5 Anurag AGARWAL (IND)
Uddayvir SINGH (IND) 6-2 6-1 Pranav KHANAL (NEP)
Prasanna Pravin BAGADE (IND) 4-6 6-3 6-3 Shaurya PIPLANI (IND)
Krishan HOODA (IND) 6-4 6-2 Dharmil SHAH (IND) [7]
Madhwin KAMATH (IND) [4] 6-4 6-4 Sushant DABAS (IND)
Timothy PHUNG (USA) 6-1 6-1 Rishab AGARWAL (IND)
Ishan SETHI (IND) 6-0 6-0 Shaurya SENWAL (IND)
Jaishvin SIDANA (IND) [6] 6-3 2-6 6-3 Tejasvi R MEHRA (IND)
Arjun CHANNATHIMMIAH HONNAPPA (IND) [5] 6-4 6-2 Aman B. PATEL (IND)
Shashikant RAJPUT (IND) 6-2 1-6 6-2 Rudraksha Rishi MITRA (IND)
Sarthak SUDEN (IND) 6-4 6-4 Amit BENIWAL (IND)
Kabir HANS (IND) 6-1 6-3 Aman K PATEL (IND) [3]
Michael MATHAYOMCHAND (THA) [8] 6-3 6-2 Dhruv TANGRI (IND)
Arnav PATHANGE (IND) 7-5 6-1 Abhinav NALLAPAREDDY (IND)
Arthav NEEMA (IND) 5-7 6-3 7-6(5) ADITYA VARDHAN ROY CHOWDHURY (IND)
Aaryan ZAVERI (IND) [2] 6-1 6-1 Naresh BADGUJAR (IND)

2nd Round
Naithaolin Calvin GOLMEI (IND) [1] 6-2 6-3 Uddayvir SINGH (IND)
Prasanna Pravin BAGADE (IND) Walkover Krishan HOODA (IND)
Madhwin KAMATH (IND) [4] 6-4 6-3 Timothy PHUNG (USA)
Jaishvin SIDANA (IND) [6] 6-4 6-2 Ishan SETHI (IND)
Arjun CHANNATHIMMIAH HONNAPPA (IND) [5] 7-6(6) 6-3 Shashikant RAJPUT (IND)
Kabir HANS (IND) 6-4 6-3 Sarthak SUDEN (IND)
Michael MATHAYOMCHAND (THA) [8] 6-4 6-2 Arnav PATHANGE (IND)
Aaryan ZAVERI (IND) [2] 4-6 7-5 6-3 Arthav NEEMA (IND)

Quarterfinal
Naithaolin Calvin GOLMEI (IND) [1] 6-4 6-3 Prasanna Pravin BAGADE (IND)
Madhwin KAMATH (IND) [4] 6-1 6-1 Jaishvin SIDANA (IND) [6]
Kabir HANS (IND) 6-4 6-2 Arjun CHANNATHIMMIAH HONNAPPA (IND) [5]
Michael MATHAYOMCHAND (THA) [8] 6-4 6-0 Aaryan ZAVERI (IND) [2]

Semifinal
Naithaolin Calvin GOLMEI (IND) [1] 7-6(4) 3-6 6-4 Madhwin KAMATH (IND) [4]
Kabir HANS (IND) 6-4 6-4 Michael MATHAYOMCHAND (THA) [8]

Final
Naithaolin Calvin GOLMEI (IND) [1] 6-4 6-3 Kabir HANS (IND)

17 year old Golmei won a match in an ITF futures last week. So, we will keep an eye on him although for a 17 year old it may not be great win win a grade 5 tournament.

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These are results of girls event -

1st Round
Kaavya SAWHNEY (IND) [1] 6-2 6-2 Gargi PAWAR (IND)
Ananya KOTHAKOTA (USA) 6-0 6-0 Aasifa AASIFA PARVEEN (IND)
Pimrada JATTAVAPORNVANIT (THA) 6-0 6-1 Kuhoo ATREY (IND)
Reetika GREWAL (IND) 6-3 6-2 Sanya SINGH (IND) [6]
Yu-Yun LI (TPE) [3] 6-4 7-5 Kritika CHHABRA (IND)
Akshaya SURESH (IND) 7-5 4-6 6-1 Yashaswini PANWAR (IND)
Bhakti SHAH (IND) 6-1 6-1 Malvika SHUKLA (IND)
Maanya VISWANATH (IND) [5] 6-1 6-0 Amina ZEBA (IND)
Archita MAHALWAL (IND) 6-2 6-2 Rutuja CHAPHALKAR (USA) [8]
Srujana RAYARALA (IND) 3-6 6-3 6-2 Hrudaya SHAH (IND)
Shreya CHAKRABORTY (IND) 6-1 6-3 Sana KHANNA (IND)
Vipasha MEHRA (IND) [4] 6-2 6-3 Priyanshi BHANDARI (IND)
Rishita VYAS (IND) [7] 6-1 6-3 Nikita SALKAR (IND)
Sandeepti Singh RAO (IND) 6-3 6-0 Sarah DEV (IND)
Skia KUNG (TPE) 6-2 3-6 6-3 Ruju CHAUHAN (IND)
Prinkle SINGH (IND) [2] 6-1 6-2 Nikhita SIMHAMBHATLA (IND)

2nd Round
Kaavya SAWHNEY (IND) [1] 6-3 6-2 Ananya KOTHAKOTA (USA)
Pimrada JATTAVAPORNVANIT (THA) Walkover Reetika GREWAL (IND)
Yu-Yun LI (TPE) [3] 6-2 6-2 Akshaya SURESH (IND)
Maanya VISWANATH (IND) [5] 6-3 6-3 Bhakti SHAH (IND)
Srujana RAYARALA (IND) 7-6(5) 6-3 Archita MAHALWAL (IND)
Vipasha MEHRA (IND) [4] 6-1 6-1 Shreya CHAKRABORTY (IND)
Sandeepti Singh RAO (IND) 7-6(6) 6-1 Rishita VYAS (IND) [7]
Prinkle SINGH (IND) [2] 6-1 6-3 Skia KUNG (TPE)

Quarterfinal
Pimrada JATTAVAPORNVANIT (THA) 6-4 7-6(4) Kaavya SAWHNEY (IND) [1]
Yu-Yun LI (TPE) [3] 6-2 3-6 6-4 Maanya VISWANATH (IND) [5]
Vipasha MEHRA (IND) [4] 6-0 6-3 Srujana RAYARALA (IND)
Sandeepti Singh RAO (IND) 6-3 6-3 Prinkle SINGH (IND) [2]

Semifinal
Pimrada JATTAVAPORNVANIT (THA) 6-4 1-6 7-6(0) Yu-Yun LI (TPE) [3]
Sandeepti Singh RAO (IND) 6-3 6-1 Vipasha MEHRA (IND) [4]

Final
Pimrada JATTAVAPORNVANIT (THA) 6-1 7-5 Sandeepti Singh RAO (IND)

14 year old Thai girl proved too good for 14 year old Indian Sandeepti.

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Found this 3-year old article on Golmei. With strong northeastern roots, we could be looking at be our next Somdev if he gets the right coaching and resources required for training.

This week at the G5 event in Raipur, he reached SF. We should start interviewing our local nextgen players to shed some light on our future talents. Indian Men's tennis has a huge vacuum after Yuki, Ramk, Sumit, Prajnesh.

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True, Dinesh. We are currently in our best phase in a while in mens tennis as 3 of the best talents we have discovered in last 30 years or more are all playing at the same time - Yuki, RamK and Sumit. But, as you said after Sumit junior pipeline seems to be drying up in last few years. 18 year old Manish Sureshkumar appears to be the best of the lot below 20 it seems. The likes of Siddhanth Banthia, Adil Kalyanpur, Nitin Kumar Sinha, Aryan Goves etc. seems to have stagnated. We need bright young talent to come along on the boys side soon.

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These are the results this week at grade 5 in Raipur-

Boys -

1st Round
Naithaolin Calvin GOLMEI (IND) [1] 6-0 6-0 Rishab AGARWAL (IND)
Udit KAMBOJ (IND) 6-3 6-4 Abhishek SHUKLA (IND)
Tarush BAGAI (IND) 5-7 6-4 6-2 Tejasvi R MEHRA (IND)
Jaishvin SIDANA (IND) [8] 6-3 6-4 Prasanna Pravin BAGADE (IND)
Piyush Surendra SALEKAR (IND) [3] 6-3 6-3 Arthav NEEMA (IND)
Nishant DABAS (IND) 6-4 4-6 6-3 Uddayvir SINGH (IND)
Kabir HANS (IND) 6-3 7-6(4) Dharmil SHAH (IND)
Madhwin KAMATH (IND) [6] 6-2 6-4 Pranav KHANAL (NEP)
Arjun CHANNATHIMMIAH HONNAPPA (IND) [7] 6-4 6-0 Krish PATEL (IND)
Krishan HOODA (IND) 2-6 6-3 6-2 Faiz NASYAM (IND)
Dhruv TANGRI (IND) 3-6 6-3 6-4 Timothy PHUNG (USA)
Sai Karteek Reddy GANTA (IND) [4] 6-2 6-1 Abhinav NALLAPAREDDY (IND)
Aman K PATEL (IND) [5] 6-2 2-6 6-4 Shashikant RAJPUT (IND)
Jagtar ARORA (IND) 6-3 6-2 Anurag AGARWAL (IND)
Ishan SETHI (IND) 6-2 6-0 Shourya MANIK (IND)
Aaryan ZAVERI (IND) [2] 6-1 6-4 Bhupender DAHIYA (IND)

2nd Round
Naithaolin Calvin GOLMEI (IND) [1] 6-2 6-2 Udit KAMBOJ (IND)
Jaishvin SIDANA (IND) [8] 0-6 6-1 6-3 Tarush BAGAI (IND)
Piyush Surendra SALEKAR (IND) [3] 3-6 6-4 6-3 Nishant DABAS (IND)
Madhwin KAMATH (IND) [6] 7-6(5) 6-4 Kabir HANS (IND)
Krishan HOODA (IND) 7-6(4) 6-4 Arjun CHANNATHIMMIAH HONNAPPA (IND) [7]
Sai Karteek Reddy GANTA (IND) [4] 7-5 6-7(5) 6-2 Dhruv TANGRI (IND)
Jagtar ARORA (IND) 6-2 6-2 Aman K PATEL (IND) [5]
Aaryan ZAVERI (IND) [2] 6-3 7-6(3) Ishan SETHI (IND)

Quarterfinal
Naithaolin Calvin GOLMEI (IND) [1] 6-3 6-1 Jaishvin SIDANA (IND) [8]
Madhwin KAMATH (IND) [6] 6-4 6-4 Piyush Surendra SALEKAR (IND) [3]
Krishan HOODA (IND) 6-2 6-4 Sai Karteek Reddy GANTA (IND) [4]
Jagtar ARORA (IND) 3-6 6-2 6-3 Aaryan ZAVERI (IND) [2]

Semifinal
Naithaolin Calvin GOLMEI (IND) [1] 7-6(6) 2-6 6-3 Madhwin KAMATH (IND) [6]
Jagtar ARORA (IND) 6-2 3-6 6-2 Krishan HOODA (IND)

Final
Naithaolin Calvin GOLMEI (IND) [1] 6-4 6-3 Jagtar ARORA (IND)

Second consecutive title for Golmei.

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Girls results -

1st Round
Kaavya SAWHNEY (IND) [1] 6-4 6-2 Mayanka RANA (NEP)
Sarah DEV (IND) 6-3 6-2 Yashaswini PANWAR (IND)
Shreya CHAKRABORTY (IND) 6-4 6-2 Hrudaya SHAH (IND)
Maanya VISWANATH (IND) [5] 6-0 6-3 Srinidhi SRIDHAR (IND)
Reetika GREWAL (IND) 6-0 6-3 Vipasha MEHRA (IND) [4]
Bhakti SHAH (IND) 6-1 6-2 Nikita SALKAR (IND)
Sanjana SIRIMALLA (IND) 2-6 6-4 7-6(4) Anand Dharana MUDALIAR (IND)
Priyanshi BHANDARI (IND) 6-4 6-0 Rutuja CHAPHALKAR (USA) [8]
Sudipta KUMAR (IND) 6-2 4-6 6-3 Sanya SINGH (IND) [6]
Sana KHANNA (IND) 6-1 6-4 Mahika RANA (NEP)
Archita MAHALWAL (IND) 6-1 6-3 Steisha BUDDHALA (IND)
Sharannya GAWARE (IND) [3] 6-4 6-4 Srujana RAYARALA (IND)
Ananya KOTHAKOTA (USA) 6-4 6-3 Rishita VYAS (IND) [7]
Malvika SHUKLA (IND) 6-3 6-0 Sakshi MISHRA (IND)
Pimrada JATTAVAPORNVANIT (THA) 6-0 6-4 Vanshita PATHANIA (IND)
Prinkle SINGH (IND) [2] 4-6 6-3 6-1 Gargi PAWAR (IND)

2nd Round
Kaavya SAWHNEY (IND) [1] 6-4 6-3 Sarah DEV (IND)
Maanya VISWANATH (IND) [5] 6-0 6-2 Shreya CHAKRABORTY (IND)
Reetika GREWAL (IND) 6-4 6-3 Bhakti SHAH (IND)
Priyanshi BHANDARI (IND) 6-0 6-3 Sanjana SIRIMALLA (IND)
Sudipta KUMAR (IND) 6-1 6-0 Sana KHANNA (IND)
Sharannya GAWARE (IND) [3] 6-1 7-5 Archita MAHALWAL (IND)
Malvika SHUKLA (IND) 6-2 6-4 Ananya KOTHAKOTA (USA)
Pimrada JATTAVAPORNVANIT (THA) 6-2 5-7 6-3 Prinkle SINGH (IND) [2]

Quarterfinal
Kaavya SAWHNEY (IND) [1] 7-5 7-5 Maanya VISWANATH (IND) [5]
Priyanshi BHANDARI (IND) 6-4 6-3 Reetika GREWAL (IND)
Sudipta KUMAR (IND) 6-4 6-1 Sharannya GAWARE (IND) [3]
Pimrada JATTAVAPORNVANIT (THA) 7-6(4) 6-1 Malvika SHUKLA (IND)

Semifinal
Kaavya SAWHNEY (IND) [1] 6-3 4-6 6-3 Priyanshi BHANDARI (IND)
Sudipta KUMAR (IND) 6-4 7-6(2) Pimrada JATTAVAPORNVANIT (THA)

Final
Kaavya SAWHNEY (IND) [1] 6-3 6-4 Sudipta KUMAR (IND)