Chandigarh December 2, 2008:- The much awaited YMCA Total Tennis Championship started today with a bang at Total Tennis Academy’s Sector 11 premises. Mr. Amitabh Chandel, Managing Director, The Fort Ramgarh opened the championship. Almost 300 participants from all over the region are participating in this championship.
The championship started with boys under 10 age category. Jasman, Rehan, Sabrang, Rehan Sareen, Viksit Verma, Arvind Sethi, Prabhman Singh and Vaibhav Rattan through to the second round to be played tomorrow with ease.
In the boys under 12 age category Jash, Aditya, Sahil Rawat, Divyaansh Pandey, Sachit Malhotra, Ankrish, Jaskirat, Sidharth Bhardwaj, Rahul Seth, Swastak Bhardwaj, Rehan Sareen, Utkarsh Khosla, Ayush Grover, Gurpratap Agam, Rishabh Khanna, Sameer Vats and Ratik Setia made their place in the second round by beating their respective opponents with ease.
In the boys under 14 age category top seed Ranjit Singh of CLTA beat Andrew Pardeep of Total Tennis by 6-3, now Ranjit will face Rohin Vinayak in the second round tomorrow. Rohin beat Simar Duggal 6-0. Second seed Nishat Eqbal of West Bengal beat Dhruv Puniani with ease at 6-2. Pallav of Ambala beat Shubham Vij with ease 6-2.
According to Mr. Devinder Kapoor, Tournament Director, the boys under 10, under 12 and boys under 14 second round matches to be played tomorrow from 9:00 AM followed by the boys under 16 and boys under 18 first round matches. The Girls under 10, 12 and under 14 matches to be played from 4th December from 11 AM.
Following are the results: –
Boys under 10 first round
Jasman beat Akshit 6-2
Rehan beat Peransh 6-3
Sabrang beat Sidharth 6-2
Rehan Sareen beat Anchit Gupta 6-2
Viksit Verma beat Karamveer 6-3
Dishat Verma beat Sabneet 6-1
Arvind Sethi beat Abhimanyu 6-2
Prabhman Singh beat Ashray Bhardwaj 6-2
Vaibhav Rattan beat Sohraab Singh 6-3
Boys under 12 first round
Jash beat Kashish Sehgal 6-2
Aditya beat Aditya Srivastva 6-0
Sahil Rawat beat Akshit Khungar 6-0
Divyaansh Pandey beat Sushant Verma 6-0
Sachit Malhotra beat Akhil 6-5(3)
Ankrish beat Viksit 6-5(4)
Jaskirat Singh w/o Sabrang
Sidharth Bhardwaj beat Abhjit Gill 6-1
Rahul Seth beat Gursehaj Singh 6-1
Swasthak Bhardwaj beat Anchit Gupta 6-0
Rehan beat Sunny 6-2
Utkarsh Khosla beat Palvinder Singh 6-1
Ayush Grover w/o Arvind Sethi
Gurpratap Agam beat Raghav Mittal 6-2
Rishabh Khanna beat Yaanish 6-1
Sameer Vats beat Prabhman Singh 6-3
Ratik Setia beat Anumanit 6-2
Boys under 14 first round
Ranjit Singh beat Andrew Pardeep 6-3
Rohin Vinayak beat Simar Duggal 6-0
Kanwal Bhatti beat Swasthak Bhardwaj 6-0
Pallav beat Shubham Vij 6-2
Millind Mehta beat Ankush Thakur 6-5(5)
Mannat Singh beat Sunny 6-5(6)
Karan Prakash beat Sushant Sethi 6-0
Sachin Kumar beat Uday Shergill 6-3
Ranjodh Singh beat Nikhil 6-0
Manav Poddar beat Abhjit Gill 6-4
Anish Goel beat Ratik Setia 6-5(2)
Utkarsh Khosla w/o Ankush
Divyaansh Pandey beat Chandan Agnihotri 6-0
Sharan beat Jasamrit 6-1
Akhil beat Shashant Poddar 6-3
Nishat Eqbal beat Dhruv Puniani 6-2