Salsa Aher clinch Fenesta Nationals title

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Salsa Aher clinch Fenesta Nationals title

 

Sixth seeded Salsa Aher of Maharashtra lived up to the expectation at the 22nd edition of the Fenesta Open tennis championship winning girls under 16 singles title. Salsa beat fifth seeded Prinkle Singh of Jammu and Kashmir 6-2, 6-0 in a one-sided contest.

Salsa employed his variety of play and better groundstrokes to dominate the first set comfortably before Prinkle started fighting back in the second set.

In the finals, Siddhant Banthia, the top seed and UK under-14 champion in Wimbledon two years ago lost on winning the singles title as he was outplayed by Tamil Nadu’s Dhakshines Suresh. In the finals fifth seeded Dhakshines Suresh scored a 5-7,7-5,7-6(1)  win to claim the Boys under 16 singles title.

In the girls under-14 section, fourth seeded Sarah Dev beat the third seed Sharanya Gaware, 6-1,4-6,6-3 in the finals.

Malikaa Marathe of Maharashtra in partnership with Sandeepti Singh Rao of Haryana won the doubles title, beating Mushrath Anjum Shaik of Andra Pradesh and Rijul Sidanale of Telangana 2-6, 6-2(10-8) in the finals

 

Following are the results

Finals Girls Under 14 Singles: - Sarah Dev bt Sharanya Gaware 6-1,4-6,6-3

Finals Boys Under 16 Singles: - Dhakshineswar Suresh bt Siddhant Banthia 5-7,7-5,7-6(1)

Finals Girls Under 16 Singles: - Salsa Aher bt Prinkle Singh 6-2,6-0

Finals Doubles Girls under 14: - Malikaa Marathe / Sandeepti Singh Rao bt Mushrath Anjum Shaik /Rijul Sidanale 2-6, 6-2(10-8)

Finals Doubles Girls under 16: - Vaidehi Chaudhari (GJ) / Yubrani Banerjee (WB) bt Salsa Aher (MH) / Dedeepya Sai Y 6-2, 2-6 (12-4)

Finals Doubles Boys under 16: - Siddarth Banthia and Megh Bhargav Kumar Patel (GJ) bt Rohit Aynampudi (TS) and Dhakshineswar Suresh (TN) 6-2, 6-2