AITA Fenesta Nationals

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Jeevan and Prerna are National hardcourt champions!

Jeevan and Prerna are National Hardcourt champions

Men's Final
(1) Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan (TN) bt (WC) Arjun Kadhe (MAH) 76(4) 61

Women's Final
(2) Prerna Bhambri (DEL) bt (1) Rishika Sunkara (DEL) 26 76 (7) 4-1 Retd. (due to fever)

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Arjun hit a backhand to net to hand the 2-1 lead to Jeevan and could never recover from that. He could not hold his serve after that and Jeevan easily pocketed the match,Rs 1.5 lakh as prize money and a wild card to the main draw of the next month's ATP Challenger event here.

Hmm did they mention this for WTA Challenger in Delhi next month .If yes then Prerna is really lucky to grab some points and money

Prerna owed a thank you to Sania Mirza, who gave away the winners trophies, since it was on her suggestion that the organisers increased the prize money for women's winner from Rs 1 lakh to 1.5 lakh, at par with men's prize money and runners-up now get Rs 1 lakh instead of Rs 65,000.

Good job by Sania

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Doubles Main Draw Results:

Doubles Main Draw

R1:

(1) Kaza Vinayak Sharma/Vivek Shokeen def Archit Jain/Vishwanath Savadi 63 52 retd
Nitten Kirtane/Saurav Sukul def Tejas Chaukulkar/Ronak Mahuja 62 63
Elwin Antony/Neeraj Elangovan def (4) Abhijeet Tiwari/Ashwin Vijayraghavan 64 63
Vinod Sridhar/Vishal Uppal def Pulkit Mishra/Ankit Sachdeva 63 64
Chandril Sood/Lakshit Sood def Suraj Beniwal/Sameep Maheta 60 61
(3) Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash/Ramkumar Ramanathan def Sagar Manjana/Saurabh Singh 75 46 10-7
Rohan Gide/Arjun Khade def Kunal Anand/Vaidik Munshaw 62 64
Jatin Dahiya/Yogesh Phogat def (2) P.C. Vignesh/Ajai Selvaraj 61 16 10-3

QF:

(1) Kaza Vinayak Sharma/Vivek Shokeen def Nitten Kirtane/Saurav Sukul 75 75
Elwin Antony/Neeraj Elangovan def Vinod Sridhar/Vishal Uppal 63 64
(3) Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash/Ramkumar Ramanathan def Chandril Sood/Lakshit Sood 62 75
Rohan Gide/Arjun Khade def Jatin Dahiya/Yogesh Phogat 63 64

SF:

(1) Kaza Vinayak Sharma/Vivek Shokeen def Elwin Antony/Neeraj Elangovan 63 06 10-7
(3) Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash/Ramkumar Ramanathan def Rohan Gide/Arjun Khade 62 62

F:

(3) Mohit Mayur Jayaprakash/Ramkumar Ramanathan def (1) Kaza Vinayak Sharma/Vivek Shokeen 57 76 10-3


Overall a good outing for Mohit/Ramk and Arjun Guess the winners already sealed their Chennai Open doubles draw WC

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Women's Doubles Draw

(1) Sri Vaishnavi Peddy Reddy/Prarthana Thombare BYE
Amrita Mukherjee/Shreya Pasricha def Amala Amol Warrick/Sayali Bhilare 63 60
(3) Prerna Bhambri/Rishika Sunkara def Sagarika Phadke/Sonal Phadke 61 62
C Samhita Sai/Eetee Maheta def Victoria Chehal/Damini Sharma 61 62
Nehal Sahini/Sumeera Kamil def Abhilasha Ahuja/Smriti Joon 75 57 10-8
(4) Tarranum Handa/Manya Nagpal def Simran Wadhwa/Saumya Vig 60 62
Treta Bhattacharya/Natasha Palha def Megha Sherawat/Likitha Shetty 75 62
(2) Vaniya Dangwal/Shweta Rana BYE

QF:

(1) Sri Vaishnavi Peddy Reddy/Prarthana Thombare def Amrita Mukherjee/Shreya Pasricha 06 36 10-8
(3) Prerna Bhambri/Rishika Sunkara def C Samhita Sai/Eetee Maheta 60 61
(4) Tarranum Handa/Manya Nagpal def Nehal Sahini/Sumeera Kamil 60 62
Treta Bhattacharya/Natasha Palha def (2) Vaniya Dangwal/Shweta Rana 60 62

SF:

(3) Prerna Bhambri/Rishika Sunkara def (1) Sri Vaishnavi Peddy Reddy/Prarthana Thombare 36 61 10-8
Treta Bhattacharya/Natasha Palha def (4) Tarranum Handa/Manya Nagpal 61 61

F:

Treta Bhattacharya/Natasha Palha def (3) Prerna Bhambri/Rishika Sunkara 64 06 10-7

Good to see Treta still hanging out there winning matches Wish she will return to ITF circuit.

[jaydeep]

Congrats to first time winners, Jeevan and Prerna ...

Yuki's post ...

Another national champion in the family. My cousin Prerna won the women's event. She was down 6-2, 5-2 to turn it around. Now that's what you call a comeback
So 3 women's champion and 1 men's

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Hope Rishika travels to Nigeria and recover soon

[sameerph]

Jeevan & Prerna were the favourites going into this tournament - Jeevan being the only one among top 10 Indians present here & Prerna being in the best form among those playing. They fully justified this with Jeevan winning without dropping a set in the tournament & Prerna making a great comeback in the final.

Now, both need to get back to pro tour & try to build on this confidence to reach at least top 300 in the pro rankings to start with.

[sameerph]

These are junior final results -

Boys singles -

[F] (1) Rishab Aggarwal bt. (3) Karan Salwan 61 62

Girls singles -

[F] Pranjala Yadlapalli bt. (7) Tarranum Handa 67(8) 60 75

Rishab seems a dominant player in juniors now going by the way he won all his matches this week with ease. But, more striking is the superb run to the title by 13 year old Pranjala Yadlapalli coming back from a set down in the final. I think a 13 year old winning an under 18 national title is something rare & we seem to have found the next big thing in girls tennis.

[PKBasu]

Pranjala is clearly an exciting talent that we need to start nurturing carefully. Arjun Khade's run to the men's final was also very nice to see.

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These are the results of the finals of under 14 & under 16 events -

Boys: Under-16: Garvit Batra bt Shashank Nautiyal 7-5, 4-6, 6-2.
Under-14: B. R. Nikshep bt Sanil Jagtiani 6-1, 6-0.
Girls: Under-16: Snehadevi Reddy bt Pranjala Yadlapalli 2-6, 6-4, 6-1.
Under-14: Vanshika Sawhney bt Mihika Yadav 6-4, 7-6(4).

Report from Hindu -

Batra fights off Nautiyal for title

It seems Pranjala lost to the top seed Sneha Reddy after leading 6-2, 3-1. Must have got a bit tired going to the finals second week in a row. Sheha herself is a talented player too .
Vanshika was also part of girls under 14 team with Pranjala which particiated in world team finals in Europe early this year & Garvit Batra ( brother of Ratika Batra ) is another one to keep an eye on.

[sameerph]

Hard court nationals are taking place in Delhi this week. I am continuing in this thread instead of opening a new one just for few posts.

It is badly depleted field this year specially in mens with none among top 15 Indian player playing here. Slightly better field in women with few top 10 players playing here.

These are the results for PQF & QF -

PQF

Men: Mohit Mayur bt Saurabh Patil 4-0 retired; Mukund Sasikumar bt Kunal anand 6-4, 7-6(5); Nitten Kirrtane bt Vilasier Khate 6-1, 6-0; Gurinder Singh bt Saurav Sukul 6-7(3), 6-3, 3-1 retired; Saurabh Singh bt Ajay Yadav 4-6, 6-4, 6-2; Chandril Sood w/o Anvit Bendre; Arjun Kadhe bt Rishab Agarwal 7-6(3), 6-3; P.C. Vignesh bt Shaikh Abdullah 7-5, 6-3.

Women: Shweta Rana bt Nehel Sahni 6-2, 6-2; Mahitha Dadi Reddy bt Karman Kaur 4-6, 6-3, 6-3; Eetee Maheta bt R. Abinikka 4-6, 6-2, 6-1; Sharmada Balu bt Manya Nagpal 6-2, 4-6, 6-3; Sai Samhitha bt Nitha Raj Baburaj 1-0 retired; Snehadevi Reddy bt Amala Amol Warrick 6-0, 6-1; Rushmi Chakravarthi bt Sahan Shetty 6-2, 6-4; Prerna Bhambri bt Devanshi Bhimjiyani 6-1, 6-3.

Under-18: Boys: Udayan Bhakar bt Shaikh Abdullah 6-3, 6-4; Nikki Poonacha bt Venkata Paramatmuni 6-2, 2-6, 6-3; Hardeep Singh Sandhu bt Shashank Nautiyal 6-1, 6-1; S. D. Prajwal Dev bt Anvit Bendre 6-2, 2-1 retired; Shrey Gupta bt Aryan Goveas 7-6(3), 6-3; Mukund Sasikumar bt Balaji Lakshmanan 6-1, 6-1; Dalwinder Singh bt Parikshit Somani 6-4, 6-0; B.R. Nikshep bt Amaranth Arora 6-0, 6-1.

Girls: Simran Kaur Sethi bt Moulika Ram 6-0, 6-3; Jennifer Luikham bt Vanshika Sawhney 4-6, 6-3, 6-2; Mihika Yadav bt Rajbir Kaur 6-1, 6-0; Karman Kaur bt Himani Mor 6-1, 6-3; Teertha Iska bt R. Abinikka 3-6, 7-5, 6-3; Shrishti Slaria bt Sathwika Sama 6-2, 6-4; Devanshi Bhimjiyani bt eeshita Pande 6-0, 6-0; Sai Samhitha bt Rimpledeep Kaur 6-2, 7-5.

QF

Men :-
(1) Mohit Mayur bt Mukund Sasikumar 63 75
(3) Nitten Kirrtane bt Gurinder Singh 63 62
(4) Chandril Sood bt Saurabh Singh 63 75
Arjun Kadhe bt P.C. Vignesh 62 61

Women :-
(1) Shweta Rana bt (7)Mahitha Dadi Reddy 76(6) 61
(5)Sharmada Balu bt (3)Eetee Maheta 76(5) 26 62
(6) Sai Samhitha bt Snehadevi Reddy 26 63 61
(2) Prerna Bhambri bt (8) Rushmi Chakravarthi 63 62

Under-18: Boys:
Udayan Bhakar bt Nikki Poonacha 57 64 64
Hardeep Singh Sandhu bt S. D. Prajwal Dev 46 62 63
Mukund Sasikumar bt Shrey Gupta 61 60
Dalwinder Singh bt B.R. Nikshep 61 63

Girls :
Simran Kaur Sethi bt Jennifer Luikham 64 64
Karman Kaur bt Mihika Yadav 64 46 75
Teertha Iska bt Shrishti Slaria 67(3) 62 76(2)
Sai Samhitha bt Devanshi Bhimjiyani 63 61

[Atithee]

Shouldn't the players' association be doing something for advancement of Indian tennis here? Where have they disappeared? Do they have a website? I'd like to know the status of their results vis-a-vis the objectives they wanted to meet.

[PKBasu]

It is completely ridiculous to call this travesty of a tournament the National tennis championship -- with about 15 of India's top players missing. Playing it now makes no sense either: why don't they just stick to December, when a lot of the pros can also turn up?

[sameerph]

Even if it is kept in December, I am not sure how many top players will turn up for the nationals. Considering that it does not offer any ATP/WTA rankings points , it is not worth wasting a week for top players here . They have to increase the prize money a long way to attract top players or wild cards to Chennai open or something if that helps. But, with current relationships between AITA & TNTA that also looks out of question.

[Atithee]

Shouldn't the players' association be doing something for advancement of Indian tennis here? Where have they disappeared? Do they have a website? I'd like to know the status of their results vis-a-vis the objectives they wanted to meet.

OK. I found the ITPA website. It hasn't been updated for a while.

http://www.itpa.co.in/