Top seed Banthia starts campaign in style

Top seed Siddanth Banthia of Maharashtra started his campaign in style with a fluent 6-1 6-0 win over Jaisvin Singh Sidana in the opening round of the boys under 16 singles at the 10th MSLTA-Yonex Sunrise Ramesh Desai Junior tennis national today.
In other boys singles opening round matches, Arjun Honnappa of Karnataka toppled fifth seed Golmei Naithaolin of Chandigarh 2-6 7-5 6-4 while Iftikhar Shaikh edged out Vaibhav Kundu 1-6 6-4 6-4.
In the girls'singles, Maharashtra's Richa Chougule, Gauri Bhagia, Sudipta Kumar, Tejaswi Kate and Swarda Parab moved into the second round by scoring one-sided victories.
Lucky loser Kalava Likhitha overcame Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty of Telangana 1-6 6-0 6-2, while Tatavarthy Shreya of Tamil Nadu got past Delhi girl Kiran Kalkal 6-2 3-6 6-2.

Results (1st round): Girls singles: Richa Chougule bt Adrija Biswas 6-3 6-0; Patnaik Lasya bt Chandrika Joshi 7-6 (7-4) 6-3; Kalava Likhitha bt Rashmikaa Bhamidipaty 1-6 6-0 6-2; Reddy Rachare bt Bela S Tamhankar 6-3 6-3; Mudaliar Anand bt Prathiba Prasad 6-1 6-3; Tatavarthy Shreya bt Kiran Kalkal 6-2 3-6 6-2; Gauri Bhagia bt Vanshika Choudhary 6-1 6-3; Apoorva S B bt Radhika Yadav 6-4 6-4; Maanya Viswanath bt Zaffar Raina 6-1 6-3; Sudipta Kumar bt Kaavya Sawhney 6-4 6-2; Tejasvi Kate bt Ashwgandha Parade 6-4 6-0; Swarda Parab bt Trisha Vinod 6-4 6-3; Sonashe Bhatnagar bt Vineetha Mummadi 6-3 6-2; Bhakti Parwani bt Lenien Jamir 6-2 6-3; Prathiba Prasad bt Gauri Agarwal 6-1 6-3.

Boys singles: Siddhant Banthia bt Jaishvin Sidana 6-1 6-0; Vipul Mehta bt Beweja Hritik 6-1 6-4; Kevin Mrugesh bt Tejasvi Mehra 6-3 6-4; Theyjo Oges bt Sanjay GS 6-3 6-2; Iftikhar Shaikh bt Vaibhav Kundu 1-6 6-4 6-4; Dev Javia bt Ratakonda Srivatsa 6-1 6-3; Shashikant Rajput bt Tanisq Mallpani 7-5 6-3; Arjun Honnappa bt Golmei Naithaolin 2-6 7-5 6-4.