Tennis: Siddarth survives a scare

Siddarth Gowda staved off a strong challenge from his Karnataka team mate Varun Venkat to prevail at 7-5, 0-6, 6-4 in a first round tie of the KTPPA-National Series Under-16 tennis tournament here Monday.

Top seed C. Vasisht had it easy against another Karnataka player, Rahul Shankar 6-0, 6-1 and moved into the second round. Eighth seed Vignesh Subrmanaya also made it to the second round with facile win.

In the girls singles, all the seeded players received a first round bye and the local girls who made it to the second round with well-earned wins included Prarthana Prabhakar, N.P. Prathiba, N.P. Pragathi, Sonashe Bhatnagar and Chelsea Stephen.

The results (First round):

Boys singles: C Vasishst bt Rahul Shankar 6-0, 6-1; S Komaraju bt M Siddhanth 6-2, 6-0; A Mishra bt Rishwant 6-0, 6-1; Anshum G bt Suyash 6-2, 7-5; Manaz bt Sundar Arvind 6-2, 6-2; M.Kavan bt Praneeth 6-3, 6-0 ; Tugal bansal bt Yuvaraj 6-0, 6-2; P.C.Anirudh bt Aditya Rao 6-0, 7-5; G.Sidhu bt Akash 1-6, 6-3 , 6-0; Pranash Babu bt Dasarath 6-1, 6-0 ; Akash bt Thukaram 6-2, 6-0; Karthik C. bt Nithin G. 6-4, 7-5; P.C.Anirudh bt B.Mrithyunjai 6-7 ( 3 ), 6-4, 6-4; Vignesh S. bt Tatagath 6-1, 6-2; Hari Singh bt Vignesh 6-0, 6-1; Achint Bhagat bt Harshit Selvaraj 6-4, 6-1; Siddarth Gowda bt Varun Venkat 7-5, 0-6, 6-4; Sai Krishna bt Rigdev 7-5, 6-3; S.Vivek bt Rohit M. 7-5, 6-3; Dhruv Sunish bt R.Shekwat 6-4, 6-3; Shramay Dhawan bt Sai Pranav Ponaka 6-3, 6-3.

Girls singles: Prathana Prabhakar bt Riya C. 6-0, 6-1; S.B.Apoorva bt Likhita L. 6-1, 6-1; T.Shravyashree bt Shimran 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 ; Ankita Nandakumar bt Reshma Maruri 3-6, 6-2, 6-2; Prathiba P.N. bt Monika Choudhry 6-0, 6-1; Sonashe Bhatnagar bt Jessica Gideon 6-0, 6-1; Pragathi P.N> bt Nikita Tiwari 6-3, 6-1; Anjum Shaikh bt Rithika 7-5, 6-1; Anisha Jain b Antara Johary 6-3, 6-2; Vrinda D. bt Manoja 4-6, 6-4, 6-4; Advaitha S. bt Tanmayee P. 6-1, 6-0 ; Chelsea Stephen bt Jahnavi H.Reddy 6-3, 6-2; Shikh Tahoora bt Bhumika Srihari 6-4, 6-0; Dhwani Kumar bt Chandana 6-2, 6-4; Rashi Shukla bt Parvvi Patil 6-2, 6-4; Deeksha Prasad bt Trisha Vinod 6-2, 6-0.