Junior Circuits Abroad for Indian Kids...

[sameerph]

Not much success at all for our juniors at J300 in Kitching, Malyasia.

3 Indian boys- Rethin, Krish Tyagi and Kadhavel Mahaligam went to second round in boys singles. Than, 8th seed Rethin got upset in second round , Kadhavel too lost, 11th seed Kriish Tyagi went to third round but lost there to 6th seed.

In girls, Maaya made it to second round but lost tamely against 3rd seeded Japanese.

They will be at J200 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia next week.

[jayakris]

The J200 in KL seem to have an even tougher field than this J300 though. around 6 top-100 player each in the two entry lists. One of the toughest J200s I have seen in Asia!

Hitesh and Penn Charusorn (THA) are in the doubles QF with 2 wins and an upset of the 7th seeds, and face 4th Rethin and Kriish... Maaya and Shihomi Li Xuan Leong (MAS) won 2 rounds with an upset of the 8th seeds to get to QF too. 7th seeds Krisha Mahendran and Maya Dutta (USA) are also in the QFs. So at least that is left at the Kuching J300. [Update: Rethin and Kriish beat Hitesh and Penn to reach the SF, which will be against the top seeds tomorrow]

[jayakris]

Arnav Paparkar, 3rd seed, is in the semis at the J60 in Doha - which also seems to have a slightly better field than normal J60s. The top 2 seeds got upset early.

[sameerph]

Arnav Paparkar lost in a close match 67 63 36 in the SF at J60 in Doha.

With 18 points. Arnav will move inside top 400 and just sneaks into India top 10 in ITF junior rankings.