Fourth seed Megh Patel recovered from a slow start to beat Rithik Rana 6-7(4), 6-1, 6-0 in the under-16 boys first round of the Fenesta National sub-junior tennis championship at the DLTA Complex here on Monday. In the under-14 boys event, Aman Dahiya knocked out eighth seed Kanishk Pal 6-1, 6-3. In the under-14 girls event, in which the 16 seeded players got a bye in the first rund, Likhitha Kalava beat Sanjana Sirimalla 6-1, 6-3 to set up a second round against top seed Sanya Singh. Khan 6-4, 6-2; Jaishvin Sidana bt Shubham Saini 6-4, 6-3; Divesh Gahlot bt Asish Sinha 6-3, 6-4; Vaibhav Singh Bisht bt Abhay Mohan 6-0, 6-1; Udit Gogoi bt Sushant Dabas 0-6, 6-2, 6-3; Aditya Balsekar bt Divyansh Agrahari 6-4, 6-4; Krish Patel bt Vansh Bhagtani 6-3, 6-1; Neel Garud bt Ashish Bawra 6-0, 6-0; Bhupender Dahiya bt Aaryan Pandit 5-7, 7-5, 6-3; Dev Javia bt Rishi Jalota 6-0, 6-0. Under-14 girls: LIkhitha Kalava bt Sanjana Sirimalla 6-1, 6-3; Adithi Venkatakrishna bt Kalyanie Singh 6-1, 6-3; Ameek Kiran Batth bt Damini Hoon 6-3, 7-6(1); Renne Singla bt Mehdavi Singh 7-6(3), 6-2; Aditi Narayan bt Yana Dhamija 5-7, 6-2, 7-5; Hrudaya Shah bt Ananya Reddy 6-2, 6-0; Naisha Srivastav bt Divya Bhardwaj 6-3, 4-6, 6-1; Ishita Singh bt Chandrika Joshi 7-6(2), 6-4; Vineetha Mummadi bt Reshma Maruri 6-2, 6-3; Archita Mahalwal bt Jagmeet Kaur 6-3, 6-3; Simran Pritam bt Srishti Dhir 6-1, 6-2; Smriti Bhasin bt Kanika Sivaraman 7-6(14), 6-3; Priyanshi Bhandari bt Avi Shah 6-1, 6-2; Poorvi Bhatt bt Sanjaya Rayarala 6-1, 6-1; Rayarala Srujana bt Priyanshi harma 7-5, 6-4; Asmita Kaur bt Sanya Yadhav 6-4, 6-1.

Source: The Hindu October 10, 2016 14:15 UTC