DECCAN TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP

Deccan Tennis Championship was inaugurated yesterday morning by Shri Shrirang Godbole and CHINTU. The kids had a gala time meeting CHINTU and his friends. Youngsters Naad Dhantale and Tanishk Deshpande won hard-fought games against their opponents to move into the next round of the Boys’ Under-10 section in the Deccan Tennis Championship 2012 at the home courts, on Friday. Playing in familiar surroundings, both Naad and Tanishk won ten-game thrillers by registering identical 6-4 wins over Ved Satav (NCL) and Aditya Ramdas. The day otherwise proved to be one-sided for all victors. The longest match of the day was the game between Kedar Shiralkar and Tanmay Talekar where neither spared an inch in a long drawn 13-game battle. Kedar eventually prevailed 7-5. In the boys’ Under-12 section, Harshawardhan Yadav downed Yash Mittal (PYC Gymkhana) 6-2 in the only match of the section wherein the opponent managed to win two games. RESULTS Boys; Under-10: Omkar Agnihotri (Deccan Gymkhana) bt Nupur Chaudhary (PCMC) 6-1; Hrishikesh Vaidya (NCL) bt Shriram Jorwekar (PYC Gymkhana) 6-1; Pratham Bhujbal (PCMC) w/o Vishvak Chinlapally (Magarpatta); Naad Dhantale (Deccan Gymkhana) bt Ved Satav (NCL) 6-4; Arnav Dharne (PCMC) w/o Jay Shelar (NRTA); Mayank Joshi (Deccan Gymkhana) bt Sahil Tambat (PCMC) 6-0; Yeshraj Dalvi (Solaris) bt Nirmit Chanal (PCMC) 6-0; Shubham Patil (NYTA) bt Chinmay Dhandekar (MWTA) 6-2; Jay Dixit (Deccan Gymkhana) bt Shardul Mugikar 6-2; Anirudha Nikam (Hill Side Gymkhana) bt Aditya Jawale (Hill Side Gymkhana) 6-2; Tanishk Deshpande (Deccan Gymkhana) bt Aditya Ramdas (MWTA) 6-4; Kedar Shiralkar bt Tanmay Talekar 7-5; Arnav Kashyap (MP) bt Shaunak Karmarkar 6-2; Shivkumar Ranade (MWTA) bt Arjun Gohad 6-3; Jay Devkar (PCMC) bt Abhirav Patankar 6-0 (Deccan Gymkhana) 6-0. Boys; Under-12: Pravan Kadam (PCMC) w/o Manas Tembre; Kapish Khandagle (PYC Gymkhana) bt Tanay Talekar (NRTA) 6-0; Manas Thukral (PYC Gymkhana) bt Yash Sant 6-1; Harshawardhan Yadav (NRTA) bt Yash Mittal (PYC) 6-2; Hrishikesh Vaidya (NCL) bt Aryan Shirale (Deccan Gymkhana) 6-1; Aditya Ganolkar w/o Shishir Singh; Pratik Bhosrekar bt Yash Jagtap 6-0.