Goveas, Plipuech lift Gadre-MSLTA ITF junior tennis titles

India's Aryan Goveas and Thailand's Plobrung Plipuech lifted the boys and the girls singles title of the Gadre-MSLTA ITF Junior Tennis Championships at the Mhalunge Balewadi Tennis stadium here Saturday.

In the boys final, fifth seed Goveas toppled top seed Jay Clarke of Great Britain 7-6(6), 6-3 in an hour and 45 minutes, while second seed Plipuech defeated compatriot Tamachan Momkoonthod 7-5, 6-4 to lift the girls title.

Goveas served six aces in the match and broke the Briton in the second game of the second set after winning the first set in the tie break. Goveas played brilliantly from the baseline hitting a series of winners at the hard serving Clarke.

It was the second win a row for the Mumbai-based Goveas whose ranking will move into around 180 in the world.

It was a bad day for Clarke as he along with his Syrian doubles partner Kareem Allaff also went down 6-2,6-3 to the Indian pair of Vashisht Cheruku and Sahil Deshmukh.

In the girls singles final, Plipuech broke her rival in the 12th game of the first set and the ninth game of the second set to win against top seed Momkoonthod 7-5, 6-4 in an hour and 47 minutes.

The girls doubles final was won by Huang Hsiang-Wei of Chinese Taipei and Zeel Desai of India, who edged out the pair of Briton Georgina Axon and India's Vasanti Shinde 6-3, 6-3 (10-6).

Results (Boys):

Singles: Aryan Goveas (Ind,5) bt Jay Clarke (GBR,1) 7-6(6), 6-3.

Doubles: Vasisht Cheruku/Sahil Deshmukh (Ind) bt Jay Clarke (GBR) / Kareem Allaf (SYR) 6-2, 6-3.

Girls:

Singles: Plobrung Plipuch (THA,2) bt Tamachan Momkoonthod (THA,1) 7-5, 6-4.

Doubles: Huang Hsiang-Wei (TPE)/Zeel Desai (Ind) bt Georgina Axon (GBR)/Vasanti Shinde (Ind) 6-3, 6-3(10-6).