Siddhant Banthia and Vaidehi Chaudhari start as favourites

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Siddhant Banthia and Vaidehi Chaudhari start as favourites

NEW DELHI, OCT. 9: State player Siddhant Banthia and Gujarat's Vaidehi Chaudhari will not only start as the top seeds but as the favourites as well in strong fields of talented players in the Fenesta National sub-junior tennis championship to be played at the DLTA Complex here from Monday.

While Siddhant Banthia, the UK under-14 champion in Wimbledon two years ago was away competing in the Junior Davis Cup World Group in Hungary, Vaidehi gave a fine performance in both the women’s and junior sections last week.

Siddhant who has been competing well in the iTF junior circuit in recent times, will strong competition from Abhimanyu Vannem Reddy and Sacchitt Sharma who had wont he UK under-14 title last year. Suresh Dhakshineswar, towering at 6’ 3’’ did give a glimpse of his game last week. For sheer potential, he will be the player to watch.

In the girls section, Humera Shaik, Tanisha Kashyap, Prinkle Singh, Sanya Singh, Sarah Dev will be some names possibly striking the headlines in the under-16 and under-14 events.

Overall, it should be another interesting week of competition among the country’s best junior talent in main draws featuring 64 players each.

The seedings:

Under-16 boys: 1. Siddhant Banthia, 2. Abhimanyu Vannem Reddy, 3. Sacchitt Sharma, 4. Megh Bhargav Patel, 5. Suresh Dhakshinewsar, 6. Rishabh Sharda, 7. Muthu Aadhitiya Senthilkumar, 8. Rohit Kirshna Aynampudi.

Under-14 boys: 1. Aaryan Zaveri, 2. Dev Javia, 3. VM Sandeep, 4. Jaishvin Singh Sidana, 5. S.Boopathy, 6. Divesh Gahlot, 7. RS Rajesh, 8. Kanishk Pal.

Under-16 girls: 1. Vaidehi Chaudhari, 2. Humera Shaik, 3. Aesha Patel, 4. Tanisha Kashyap, 5. Prinkle Singh, 6. Salsa Aher, 7. Sai Dedeepya, 8. Dharana Mudaliar.

Under-14 girls: 1. Sanya Singh, 2. Bhakti Parwani, 3. Sharannya Gaware, 4. Sarah Dev, 5. Richa Chougule, 6. Gargi Pawar, 7. Sudipta Sen Kumar, 8. Bhakti Shah.

The results:

Qualifying event (third and final round):

Under-16 boys: Nishant Dabas bt Arnav Pthange 6-4, 6-2; Mohnish Shah bt Udit Kamboj 6-4, 1-6, 6-1; Kushan Shah bt Dhruv Tangri 6-2, 7-5; Yashdeep Duggal bt Nidhish Murali 6-4, 2-6, 7-6(1); Krishan Hooda bt Shubham Saini 6-1, 6-1; Udit Gogoi bt Naresh Badgujar 2-6, 7-6(6), 7-5; Lohith Bathrinath bt Aryan Bhatia 6-1, 6-1; Krish Patel bt lokender Pun 6-2, 7-6.

Under-14 boys: Pranav Ikurthy bt Maanav Jain 6-4, 6-4; Siddharth Nijhawan bt Ajay Singh 6-4, 7-5; Sumir srivastava bt Chirag Duhan 6-3, 6-0; Abhishek Mohapatra bt Dhanya Shah 6-4, 6-2; Anmol pankaj Jain bt Ritik Mann 6-3, 7-5; Sanjith Devineni bt Pranav Chopra 6-1, 6-2; Abhay Mohan bt Pranay Choudhary 7-6(2), 6-4; Dhananjay Singh bt Vansh Kapoor 6-4, 6-3.

Under-16 girls: Malikaa Marathe bt Likitha Kalva 6-2, 6-1; Naisha Srivastav bt Reshma Maruri 6-2, 6-1; Rayarala Srujana bt Akshita Sharma 6-0, 6-1; Riya Uboveja bt Renne Singla 6-0, 6-3; Anu Verma bt Ashna Kapoor 6-2, 6-3; Vineetha Mummadi bt Kashish Bhatia 2-6, 6-4, 6-2; Sandeepti Singh Rao bt Priyansh Bhandari 6-2, 6-1; Bela Tamhankar bt Srishti Dhir 6-1, 7-5.

Under-14 girls: Divya Bhardwaj bt Deepalakshmi Vanaraja 7-5, 2-6, 6-2; Simran Pritam bt Shreya Charaborty 5-7, 6-4, 6-3; Chandrika Joshi bt Renee Singh 5-7, 6-3, 6-3; Kalyani Singh bt Meena Rubita 6-2, 6-7(2), 6-2; Yana Dhamija bt Viveha Sivaraman 6-2, 5-7, 7-6(1); Medhavi Singh bt Divija Godse 6-1, 1-6, 6-4; Adithi Venkatakrishnan bt Ananya Yadav 6-1, 6-1; Sanya Yadav bt Jigyasa Sharma 7-6(6), 6-1 .