Asia Oceania Junior Championships (JB1), Pune- Sept 19-25 , 2022

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Chance for Indian juniors to win something significant and gain a lot of points as Asia Oceania junior championships start tomorrow in Pune.

In boys singles, we have 4 of the seeds - second seed Aman Dahiya, third seed Yavan Nandal, fifth seed Manas Dhamne and Sixth seed Aryan Shah. Other 4 seeds are 2 from Australia ( including top seed Hayden Jones), Korea and Japan. Some of our younger promising players too are there- Rushil Khosla, Krish Tyagi, Rethin Pranav etc. Hope they beat some foreign players. 15 Indians in 32 player draw.

In girls singles, we have 3 seeds - second seed Shruti Ahlawat, fourth seed Vaishnavi Adkar and fifth seed Suhitha Maruri. 4 of the other 5 seeds are Australians except top seed who is from Taiwan.

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Today nice upset win by 16 year old Arunkumar Laxmiprabha against 8th seeded Australian in first round. Also some nice wins by Indian players against foreign ones.

These are full first round results for boys-

Hayden Jones (Aus) [1] bt (Q)Siddharth Marathe (Ind) 6-2, 6-4
Takamasa Mishiro (Jpn) Bt (Q)Prajwal Tewari (Ind) 6-3, 6-4
Rethin Pranav Senthil Kumar(Ind) Bt Siwanat Auytayakul (Tha) 6-3, 6-4
Manas Dhamne (Ind) [5] Bt (Q)Iliyas Maratuly (Kaz) 6-3, 7-6(4)
Yuvan Nandal (Ind) [3] Bt Poonthong Komopisut (Tha) 6-4, 5-7, 6-3
Bushan Haobam (Ind) Bt Vitaliy Zatsepin (Kaz) 6-3, 6-3
Daksh Prasad (Ind) Bt(WC) Luke Koh (SGP) 6-1, 6-2
Reiya Hattori (JPN) [8] Bt (WC)Aryan Lakshmanan (Ind) 6-3, 6-4
Aryan Shah (IND) [6] Bt. Rajata Thamcharoensatit (THA) 6-3 6-1
Kriish Tyagi (Ind) Bt Shingo Masuda (Jpn) 6-3, 6-3
Denim Yadav (IND) Bt Yerassyl Yerdilda (KAZ) 3-6, 6-1, 6-0
Woohyukuk Chang (Kor) [4] Bt Satoru Nakajima (Jpn) 6-0, 3-6, 6-4;
Jeremy Zhang (Aus) [7]Bt Rushil Khosla (Ind) 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-4
Cahir Warik (IND) Bt Matthew Johnstone (SIN) 7-6 7-6(5)
Aman Dahiya (IND) [2] Bt Yuta Tomida (JPN) 7-6(4) 7-6(3)

So, 10 Indians in last 16 and there are 4 all Indian match-ups in second round ( Manas-Rethin, Yuvan-Bushan,Aryan-Krish and Cahir-Aman) which means 4 Indians are guranteed in QF while Denim and Daksh will try to upset seeds to get into QF.

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Girls singles -

(1) Yu-Yun Li TWN Bt. (WC) Asmi Adkar IND 61 63
(Q) Rishitha Reddy Basireddy IND bt Pavitra Parikh IND 60 60
Sonal Patil IND bt Ademi Amankeldi KAZ 61 63
Arunkumar Lakshmi Prabha IND bt. (8) Lily Fairclough AUS 57 64 64
(4,WC) Vaishnavi Adkar IND bt. Vladislava Andreevskaya KGZ 61 63
(Q) Sai Janvi IND bt. Saumrita Jagatdeo Verma IND 76(0) 63
(Q) Yu Kikawa JPN bt Ruma Gaikaiwari IND 61 46 64
(6) Lily Taylor AUS bt Aoka Nagasawa JPN 61 62
(5) Suhitha Maruri IND bt Aiya Nupbay KAZ 46 61 63
Sue Yan Tan SIN bt Nandini Dixit IND 62 60
Shiho Tsujioka JPN bt Madhurima Sawant IND 60 62
(3) Emerson Jones AUS bt Hannah Nagpal IND 64 60
Asylzhan Arystanbekova KAZ bt (7) Zara Larke AUS 62 60
(Q) Rioko Umekuni (JPN) bt(WC) Riya Sachdeva IND 57 61 61
Rhea Makesar AUS bt (WC) Niyati Kukreti IND 62 64
(2) Shruti Ahlawat IND bt Jo-Leen Saw MAS 62 60

So, 7 Indian in last 16 with 2 all Indian clashes in round of 16.

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4 Indian boys and 4 Indian girls are in singles QF.

Boys

R2
Takamasa Mishiro (Jpn) bt Hayden Jones (Aus) [1] 6-2, 6-4
Manas Dhamne (Ind) [5] bt Rethin Pranav Senthil Kumar (Ind)4-6, 6-1, 6-2;
Yuvan Nandal (Ind) [3] bt Bushan Haobam (Ind) 6-1, 6-2
Reiya Hattori (Jpn) [8] bt Daksh Prasad (Ind)2-6, 6-3, 6-2;
Aryan Shah (Ind) [6] bt Kriish Tyagi (Ind) 6-4, 3-6, 6-2;
Woohyuk Chang (Kor) [4] bt Denim Yadav (Ind) 6-2, 6-1;
Suphawat Saeoui (Tha) bt Jeremy Zhang (Aus) [7] 6-2, 6-2;
Aman Dahiya (Ind) [2] bt Cahir Warik (Ind) 6-2, 6-1;

4 Indians, 2 Japanese, a Korean and a Thai in QF.

Girls
Yu-Yun Li (Tpe) [1] Bt Rishitha Reddy Basireddy (Ind) 6-2, 6-3;
Sonal Patil (Ind) bt Arunkumar Lakshmi Prabha (Ind) 0-6, 6-2, 6-4;
Vaishnavi Adkar (Ind) [4] Bt Sai Janvi (Ind) 6-2,6-0
Lily Taylor (Aus) [6] bt Yu Kikawa(Jpn) 6-4, 6-2;
Suhitha Maruri (Ind) [5] bt Sue Yan Tan (Sgp) 5-7,6-2,6-4
Emerson Jones (Aus) [3] bt Shiho Tsujioka (Jpn) 6-1, 7-6(2);
Asylzhan Arystanbekova (Kaz) Bt Rioko Umekuni (Jpn) 6-1,6-1
Shruti Ahlawat (Ind) [2] bt Rhea Makesar (Aus) 6-2, 6-3;

4 Indians, 2 Australians , a Taiwanese and a Kazakh have made it to the QF.

Interestingly, all 8 Indians are playing t foreign players in the QF which is very to see.

[PKBasu]

The QFs will be an important test for the Indian contingent. 14 year old Manas is the one I'm paying greatest attention to here. I hope his handlers are paying as much attention to his fitness and physical training as to his tennis.

Shruti Ahlawat's form is also of interest.

[PKBasu]

One girls' and one boys' result from the QF:

Shruti Ahlawat (Ind) [2] d. Asylzhan Arystanbekova (Kaz) 61 60

Manas Dhamne (Ind) [5] d. Takamasa Mishiro (Jpn) 62 64

[PKBasu]

All the Indian boys won their quarter-finals, so it will be an all-Indian SF line-up in Pune. Pretty impressive for the "Asia-Oceania Junior Championships". We will have an Indian boy as the "Asia-Oceania Junior Champion, 2022" -- a nice credential to carry through the next phases of life.

[sameerph]

Yes, all boys SF but only 1 girl in the SF.

These are full QF results-

Boys

(5) Manas Dhamne (IND) d. Takamasa Mishiro (JPN) 62 64
(3) Yuvan Nandal (IND) d. (8) Reiya Hattori (JPN) 62 75
(6) Aryan Shah (IND) d. (4) Woohyuk Chang (KOR) 64 64
(2) Aman Dahiya (IND) d. Suphawat Saeoui (THA) 61 64

Girls

(1) Yu-Yun Li (TPE) d. Sonal Patil (IND) 62 62
(6) Lily Taylor (AUS) d. (4) Vaishnavi Adkar (IND) 57 63 46
(3) Emerson Jones (AUS) d. (5) Suhitha Maruri (IND) 63 62
(2) Shruti Ahlawat (IND) d. Asylzhan Arystanbekova (KAZ) 61 60

So, big chance grabbed by Indian boys to take big points here and claim their place in Australian open juniors for next year. Aman Dahiya is not eligible for juniors next year but Manas, Yuvan and Aryan all are eligible next year for juniors ( Aryan for 2 more year and Manas for 3 more years in fact). So, one of them winning the title this week will almost seal the place for them for AO juniors.

Same goes for Shruti. But, she will have to overcome 2 tough matches against foreign players to win a title here.

[arjun2761]

Wow, great results by the Indians! I thought our juniors were not showing much promise, so this is a nice surprise especially by those that have junior eligibility for several years.

[gbelday]

So, big chance grabbed by Indian boys to take big points here and claim their place in Australian open juniors for next year. Aman Dahiya is not eligible for juniors next year but Manas, Yuvan and Aryan all are eligible next year for juniors ( Aryan for 2 more year and Manas for 3 more years in fact). So, one of them winning the title this week will almost seal the place for them for AO juniors.

Same goes for Shruti. But, she will have to overcome 2 tough matches against foreign players to win a title here.

Good show by our boys!!

Aryan Shah and Yuvan are 2005 born. They are eligible to play slams for one year (2023).

Manas is 2007. So he has 3 years of eligibility.

Shruti is 2006 born and is eligible to play slams for next 2 years

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Shruti is thru to singles final with an excellent comeback win from 26 14 down.

[SF] (2) Shruti Ahlawat (IND) d. (3) Emerson Jones (AUS) 26 64 75

Up against another Australian in the final.

[F] (2) Shruti Ahlawat (IND) vs. (6) Lily Taylor (AUS)

Boys singles semi finals will be played tomorrow. In the meantime, team of Rushil Khosla and Yuvan Nandal have made it to the doubles final and will third seeded Korean/Japanese team in the final.

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All Indian boys finals will be between Manas and Aryan.

[SF] (5) Manas Dhamne (IND) d. (3) Yuvan Nandal (IND) 63 36 63
[SF] (6) Aryan Shah (IND) d. (2) Aman Dahiya (IND) 62 76(4)

With that 14 year old Manas is set to get to around 105 in ITF junior rankings and 16 year old Aryan will rise to around 115. Both do not have any points to defend any more points this year. So, at the least their year end rankings will be around this which means with half of 2014 boys going out of rankings at the start of next year, they both will be around 55-65 in new rankings and almost guaranteed Australian open junior main draw. A title for either of them will absolutely seal it. And of course expect them to win more points in rest of the year.

Rushil Khosla and Yuvan Nandal won the boys doubles title. With that 17 year old Yuvan too will be very close to making the AO main draw. 16 year old Rushil would have go deep in a couple of tournaments to try to get into AO qualies at least.

In girls doubles, sister pairing of Vaishnavi and Asmi Adkar upset 2nd seeded Australian pair in the SF to move into final against another Australian pair seeded third.

[suresh]

(via ITD FB page)

[F] (2) Shruti Ahlawat (IND) d (6) Lily Taylor (AUS) 6-1 6-4

[suresh]

[F] (5) Manas Dhamne (IND) d. (6) Aryan Shah (IND) 7-6(4) 6-4

[F] Vaishnavi and Asmi Adkar (IND) d (3) L. Fairclough/Z. Larke (AUS) 4-6 7-5 STB: 11-9

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Great week for Indian juniors.

Ranking projections-

Manas will be somewhere close top 75- he has no points to defend till end of the year- so when 2014 borns go out of rankings at the end of the year, Manas should be top 40 and is guranteed a main draw spot at Australian open even if he does not win anything for rest of the year. Unless someone younger makes a big move up the ranking till end of the year, Manas will be youngest in the field.

Aryan Shah who is 16 will be around 115, he should be around 60 at the start of next year and should make it to AO juniors main draw.

17 year Yuvan Nandal will be around 105 but he has 100 points to defend till end of the year. So, in worst case scenario of him not winning anything from now on, he will still be around 70 at the start of the year and can make the AO main draw and will certainly make qualies draw.

16 year old Rushil will be around 190 but he has to defend 120 points this year, so will need some good results in rest of the year to make it AO qualifying draw at least.

On girls side, Shruti Ahalwat will be in top 50 now. She has 270 singles points to defend for rest of the year though and some in doubles too. In worst case scenerio, she should be ranked somewhere 75 at the start of next year, certain for AO qualies. 60-80 points somewhere will take her to main draw.

Aman Dahiya and Vaishnavi Adkar will also have good rise in the ranking but they are in their last year of junior eligibility.

So, after a drought in junior slams for last couple of years, we should have 3 boys ( possibly 4 ) in boys and 1 in girls. Some surprise good performances from players below can get them into qualies too.