Mahek, Siddanth win in junior tennis

Siddanth Banthia and Mahek Jain started their campaign on a winning note by making it to Round 2 of the Gadre-MSLTA ITF Junior Tennis Championships being played at the Mhalunge Balewadi Tennis Stadium here Monday.

Pune's Siddanth accounted for Vijai Vijayaraman 7-6(3), 6-0 while Sahil Deshmukh won a close match, scraping past Goa boy Tejas Shevde 7-6(2), 7-5.

In the girls event, Shivani Manjana accounted for Australian Shubhika Dubey 6-3, 6-3 while Dakshata Patel ousted Cara Samways of Britain 6-3, 6-1. National Under-14 champion Mahek scored a convincing 6-0, 6-4 win over Ishwari Mathere.

First round results:

Boys: A. Chandrashekhar (Ind) bt Mayukh Rawat (Ind) 6-2, 6-2; Raghav Jaisighani (Ind) bt Taha Kapadia (Ind) 6-4, 6-3; Daosaengsawang S. (THA) bt Ankam Teja Krishna (Ind) 6-1, 6-2; Dhir Gala (Ind) bt Cristian Cummings (Ind) 6-2, 6-3; Nihit Rawal (Ind) bt Dhruv Sunish (Ind) 7-5, 7-6(5); Rian Pandole (Ind) bt Vikrant Dahiya (Ind) 7-6(1), 6-3; Ankush Arora (Ind) bt Rishi Reddy (Ind) 7-6(5), 6-4; Siddanth Banthia (Ind) bt V. Vijayaraman (Ind) 7-6(3), 6-0; Sahil Deshmukh (Ind) bt Tejas Shevde (Ind) 7-6(2), 7-5; Anshuman Gulia (Ind) bt Mohit Jain (Ind) 6-1, 6-7(4), 6-3; Yash Yadav (Ind) bt Mohan Devanand (Ind) 7-6(3), 5-7, 6-4.

Girls: Shivani Manjana (Ind) bt Shubhika Dubey (Aus) 6-3, 6-3; Kritika Chhabra (Ind) bt K. Chawla (Ind) 6-0, 6-2; D. Patel (Ind) bt Cara Samways (GBR) 6-3, 6-1; Akansha Bhan (Ind) bt Rish Ravindran (Ind) 6-2, 6-2; S. Yedulla(Ind) bt Tanasha Khandpur (Ind) 6-4, 6-3; Mahek Jain (Ind) bt Ishwari Mathere (Ind) 6-0, 6-4; Soha Sadiq (Ind) bt Neha Mokashi (Ind) 6-1, 6-4; I. Devarakonda (Ind) bt Aniya Ganeshi (Ind) 6-0, 6-0; Sama Sathwika (Ind) bt A. Mudliyar (Ind) 6-0, 6-0.