Chandigarh, January 06 :Spectators could watch some top class tennis in ITF Juniors Grade-3 World Ranking Juniors Tournament today. Top seed Terandon Tortrakul from Thailand faced some resistance from unseeded Mandresy Rakotomalala of France. Both the players displayed top class tennis in this match where number 1 seed won in little longer than three hours 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-3.
5th seed Garvit Batra defeated Tiago Cacao of Portugal after losing 1st set in tie breaker. Garvit won next 2 sets 6-4, 6-4. 2nd seed Liang Yu Richard of Taipei defeated Alexis Carter of Great Britain 6-4, 6-4. Geoffrey Blancaneaux of France defeated Pramveer Singh Bajwa by winning in less than one hour 6-0, 6-0. 3rd seed Wei De Lin defeated Nikshep Ballekere Ravikumar in straight sets 6-3, 6-1.
Cing Yang Meng of Taipei conceded only 4 games to defeat CHART trainee Vikrant Dahiya. Alex Solanki of India defeated Efekan Bulbul of Turkey 6-2, 6-1.
In the Girls Singles 4th seed Plobrung Plipuech of Thailand beat Snehal Mane 6-1, 7-5. 5th seed Hana Mortagy of Egypt defeated Nidhi Surapenani 6-1, 6-4. Vanshika Sawhney defeated Wei Tan of Taipei in three sets. Wei Tang took the 1st set 6-3 but Vanshika played a solid defensive game to break Wei Tang’s rhythm and won the next 2 sets by conceding only 3 games. 6th seed Vasanti Shinde defeted Katie Poluta of South Africa 6-4, 6-0.
Other matches are in progress. Remaining 8 Singles matches of boys and girls will be held tomorrow at 9:00 a.m.
All the Doubles matches will be held tomorrow.
Other results are as below:-
Boys Singles 1st Round:-
1. Teeradon Tortrakul bt. Mandresy Rakotomalala 6-3, 6-7(2), 6-3
2. Cing Yang Meng bt. Vikrant Dahiya 6-2, 6-2
3. Garvit Batra bt. Tiago Cacao 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-4
4. Geoffrey Blancaneaux bt. Paramveeri Singh Bajwa 6-0, 6-0
5. Wei De Lin bt. Nikshep Ballekere Ravikumar 6-3, 6-1
6. Isa Mammetgulyvev bt. Anudeep Kodali 7-5, 6-4
7. Alex Solanki bt Efekan Bulbul 6-2, 6-1
8. Xander Veys bt. Sharmal Dissanayake 6-0, 6-4
9. Shao Fan Liu bt. Ciement Larriere 0-6, 6-4, 6-4
10. Sameer Kumar bt. Aryan Goveas 6-1, 6-4
11. Nawakaran Khunjan bt. Raghav Jaisighani 6-4, 6-0
12. Liang Yu Richard Lin Alexis Canter 6-4, 6-4
Girls Singles 1st round
1. Rifanty Kahfiani bt. Jennifer Luikham 6-3, 6-3
2. Plobrung Plipuech bt. Snehal Mane 6-1, 7-5
3. Vanshika Sawhne bt. Wei Tang 3-6, 6-3, 6-0
4. Yu Ting Hsieh bt. Nikita Tirdala 6-0, 6-1
5. Vananti Shinde bt. Katie Poluta 6-4, 6-0