Murali wins, as juniors fall by wayside at $15000 Deccan Gymkhana –AITA Men’s Tennis Futures.
Pune, October 5: Wild card Mithun Murali put out Ching Yu Huang ofTaipei, as two other wild card entrants and juniors Akash Wagh, SumeetShinde and local lad Rohan Gide fell by the wayside in the openinground of the $15000 Deccan Gymkhana-AITA Men’s ITF Tennis Futureswhich will be organized by the Deccan Gymkhana Club at their tenniscourts from October 3rd to 10th.
The tournament being organized under All India TennisAssociation’s Special programme for Indian probables as a part ofCommonwealth Games Preparation saw wild card entrant Murali score a6-4, 6-4 win over Ching Yu Huang of Taipei in 1 hour 34 minutes.
In the other singles matches wild card entrants local boys Akash Waghand Sumeet Shinde and South paw Rohan Gide found themselves out of thesingles.
Vinod Shridhar outplayed Rohan Gide of Indian Navy 6-3,6-1, while N.Shriram Balaji gave a lesson in tennis to junior Sumeet Shinde 6-3,6-2in 1 hr 15 minutes . Akash Wagh showed some promise initially but wentdown fighting to Yannick Nelord 7-6(3), 6-4 in 1 hr 33 minutes.
In the Murali- Huang tussle Murali broke the Taipei player in the 9thgame in the first set and the very 1st game in the second set toregister a 6-4, 6-4 win and make it to the second round.
In the double first round old warhorse Nitten Kirrtane teamed upwith his Western Railway teammate Aditya Madkekar to score ashocking 6-7 (11),7-6(1) 11-9 win over third seeded pair of RupeshRoy and Vivek Shokeen to make it to the last eight of the doubles.
The tournament was inaugurated at the hands of Pune PoliceCommissioner Satyapal Singh and Kavita Bhandari of Bilcare Foundation.Tournament Director Nitin Joshi welcomed the guests, while organizingcommittee member Dr Nitin Bhave proposed the vote of thanks.
Following are the results( First Round)Mithun Murali (Ind) bt Ching Yu Huang (Taipei) 6-4, 6-4Vinod Shridhar(Ind) bt Rohan Gide (Ind Navy) 6-3,6-1N. Shriram Balaji(Ind) bt Sumeet Shinde ( Ind) 6-3,6-2Akash Wagh(Ind) bt Yannick Nelord (Ind) 7-6(3), 6-4
Doubles (First Round)Nitten Kirrtane / Aditya Madkekar bt S.3 Rupesh Roy/ Vivek Shokeen6-7(11),7-6(1),11-9 , Chandril Sood/ Lakshit Sood bt Shahbaaz Khan / Ram kumar 6-4,6-3, (S.1)Rohan Gajjar/Purav Raja bt N. Srirambalaji/ V. M Ranjeet 6-3,6-4,(S2). Divij Sharan /Vishnu Vardhan bt Rohan Gide /Yew Ming Si (Mas)7-6(6) , 6-3 bt Abhijeet Tiwari / Akash Wagh bt (S4). Chen I Ta / P. CVignesh Bhishma Desai / Krishik Divakar bt Mansingh Athare / Sumeet Shinde 7-6(5),6-3 Mithun Murali / N Vijay Sundar bt Vijayant Malik / Ronak Manuja 6-1,7-5Yannick Nelord/ Vikram Reddy bt Su Chen / Chin Yu Huang (Tpe) 2-6, 6-4,10-3
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