Adhiraj, Aleena winAITA tennis c’ship

Lucknow: Adhiraj Thakur of

Madhya Pradesh

defeated

Dhananjay Tibrewal

(Rajasthan) 6-3, 6-2 while

Aleena Farid

of West Bengal outplayed

Sasa Katiyar

of Uttar Pradesh 6-3, 6-4 to win the AITA (boys & girls) tennis championship series finals in the under-16 category.In the under-14 age group (boys), Dhananjay Tibrewal defeated Abhishek Subramanian (Karnataka) 6-2, 6-2, while top seed Aleena Farid (WB) beat Vaishnavi Chauhan (Maharashtra) in the girls’ category.In Under-16 doubles matches, Satyam Prakash (Bihar) and Saptapurna Jena (Odisha) defeated Mukul Lodhi and Hruhaan Soni of Uttar Pradesh 6-3, 6-0 in boys category, while Aleena Farid (WB) and Shagun Kumari of UP emerged victorious by defeating UP pair of Sasa Katiyar and Aairah 6-2, 6-1, in the girls’ category.