Domestic Junior Circ./ Upcoming u15 players

[sameerph]

14 year old Mahek Jain is someone to watch out for. This is her first ITF juniors title and with that she will move close 330 in the rankings and she is one of the top 8-10, 2001 born players in the world.

On the boys side, none is clearly emerging as a prospect post Sumit Nagal. Lot of players are beating each other up. I had expected Vasishta Cheruku to break out by now but he lost early in these 2 weeks.

[sameerph]

Like last year, this year a tournament among our best 18 year olds is being held in DLTA on newly laid clay courts there named Rendezvous Roland Garros. The boys and girls winners at this event, will compete at Roland Garros with similar winners from China, Brazil, Korea and Japan and the ultimate winners of that event will get a wild card to the 2016 junior French open juniors tournament.

Among girls, our top 4 girls - Paranjala, Karman, Zeel Desai and Mihika Yadav are not competing. They would be keen to make it French open main draw based on their ranking. Our boys no. 1, Vasishta Cheruku is also not playing, not sure why.

These are the results of Quarter finals and semi finals -

QF

Boys: Adil Kalyanpur bt Paramveer Singh Bajwa 0-6, 6-4, 7-5; Abhimanyu Vannam Reddy bt Dhruv Sunish 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; Manish Sureshkumar bt Sanil Jagtiani 6-3, 6-2.

Girls: Humera Shaik bt Sathwika Sama 6-4, 1-6, 7-5; Rishika Ravindran bt Lalita Devarakonda 6-3, 6-4; Akanksha Bhan bt Sabhyata Nihalani 6-1, 6-4; Mahak Jain bt Abinikka Renganathan 6-2, 6-4.

SF

Boys: Adil Kalyanpur bt Abhimanyu Vannem Reddy 6-1, 6-3; Manish Sureshkumar bt Alex Solanki 6-3, 3-6, 6-3.

Girls: Humera Shaik bt Rishika Ravindran 2-6, 6-2, 6-3; Mahak Jain bt Akanksha Bhan 7-5, 4-6, 6-3.

Incidentally, AITA has also announced that the winner of this event will get a main draw wild card for Delhi open next week. So, great chance for winners here to play a big challenger level event apart from chance to compete at Roland Garros.

[vatsal323]

And the runners-up will get a qualifying wildcard!

[sameerph]

Adil Kalyanpur and Mahek Jain won the finals today to win the titles and earned their spot in Roland Garros junior wild card tournament in Paris.

[F] Adil Kalyanpur bt Manish Sureshkumar 64 64

[F] Mahak Jain bt Humera Shaik 62 63

They also get main draw wild cards for Delhi open next week.

This the related article -

Adil and Mahek emerge winners at " Rendezvous Roland Garros "

[sameerph]

Both Adil and Mahek lost in the Rendezvous Roland Garros French Open junior wild card tennis event in Paris .

This is the report -

Adil, Mahak bite the dust

[vatsal323]

It's Manish Sureshkumar vs Nitin Kumar Sinha in the final of the Adidas MCC Junior Nationals, Chennai. Manish beat Adil Kalyanpur in the quarters, while Nitin took out BR Nikshep in the semis. Hoping that Nitin pulls through in the final!

[vatsal323]

Nitin beats Manish 7-5 7-6 to win the nationals. Kudos!

[PKBasu]

Good to see Nitin Kumar Sinha win, perhaps the first talent to emerge from Calcutta in about 15 years. Like in much else, Calcutta's tennis tradition too has faded in the past couple of decades. Reflecting this, Nitin's top junior ranking is in the 300s and his current one in the 700s. At 17, it is time for him to play more internationally.

[sameerph]

Yes, that is because he has played only 2 ITF junior tournaments the whole year, 2 in India early this year. Needs to play more to take his ranking to a certain level which will allow him to play at least higher level junior tournaments.

[Abish arul]

Nithin never plays outside India that's his problem

[vatsal323]

Nithin never plays outside India that's his problem

One needs the money man.

[vatsal323]

Yes, that is because he has played only 2 ITF junior tournaments the whole year, 2 in India early this year. Needs to play more to take his ranking to a certain level which will allow him to play at least higher level junior tournaments.

He was out for a few months due to a groin injury. This is his first tournament after the injury. So a big effort to win the whole thing in a pretty tough field, where the likes of Adil Kalyanpur(training at Rafa Nadal Academy), Siddhant Banthia(just came back from a training stint in Canada), BR Nikshep(India No.2), etc were playing.

[sameerph]

Shivani Amineni is the final of u-16 at WTA futures stars event this year while Tanisha Kashyap lost in the SF of under 14 event.

This is a report -

Shivani in under-16 final

[sameerph]

Shivani lost to the Australian girl Violet Apisah 5-7 4-6 in the final of under 16 event of the WTA futures starts tournament in Singapore.

[Abish arul]

In this week violet apisah is representing PNG in the grade 2 event in Korea weird ah! !