NAGPUR: The first day of the five-day CBSE Tennis National Championship was dominated by the outstation teams. Around 250 students from six zones are participating in the tournament, which got underway at the Jain International School, Katol Road.
Rajya Sabha MP Ajay Sancheti, Air Marshal Jagjeet Singh, VSM, ADC, Pushkar Vohra, Joint Director, CBSE Sports and former international cricketer Prashant Vaidya inaugurated the tourney.
The U-14 and U-19 matches (boys and girls) were played at the JIS, Officers Club and Gondwana Club. The director of the school, Anuj Badjate, Principal Anmol Badjatia and CCE in-charge Kiran Joshi promised to make the tourney a great success.
RESULTS
U-14 boys: DPS Bangalore bt DPS Chandigarh 2-1 (Ashwin Bhat lost to Pranav Chopra 6-7; Vishal Pagadala bt Uddayvir Singh (DPS Chandigarh) 7-5; Ashwin Bhat-Vishal Pagadala bt Pranav Chopra/Uddayvir Singh 7-3); Pragyan School, Noida bt Oakbridge International School, Hyderabad 2-1 (Tekram Kushan bt Prateek Botlaguduru 7-2; Hitesh Balmiki lost to Pranav Ikkurthy 2-7; Tekram Kushan/Hitesh Balmiki bt Prateek Botlaguduru/Pranav Ikkurthy 7-2); Lotus Valley International School, Noida bt Jain International School, Nagpur 2-0 (Siddhant Bakshi bt Harsh Pimpalwar 7-0; Anant Gupta (LVIS) bt Abhinav Kochar 7-0); The Indian HS, Dubai bt Indian School, Muscat Oman 2-0 (Anurag Reddy bt Sanskar Dubey 7-1; Sanjay Lograjan bt Shlok Ail 7-5); Delhi PS, Doha bt Our Own HS, Dubai 2-1 (Sacchit Mittal lost to Pranav Chandrashekhar 4-7; Aman Gupta bt Soham Jadeesh 7-4; Sacchit Mittal/Aman Gupta bt Pranav Chandrashekhar/Soham Jadeesh 7-4); The Bhavan Prominent, Indore bt Sehwag International School, Haryana 2-1 (Jobin Johnson lost to Prashant Kumar 4-7; Neel Garud bt Akshay Sheoran 7-0; Jobin Johnson/Neel Garud bt Prashant Kumar/Akshay Sheoran 7-2).
U-14 girls: Balbharati Public School, Pitampura bt Symbiosis School, Pune 2-1 (Kushi Sachdeva bt Anushka Joshi 7-3; Diza Gahlaut lost to Neksha Ahire 5-7; Kushi Sachdeva/Diza Gahlaut bt Asawari Deori/Neksha Ahire 7-4); Billabong School, Noida bt Abu Dhabi Indian School, Abu Dhabi 2-0 (Tia Singh bt Kristine Macwan 7-0; Hanah Nagpal bt Samiksha Dorairaj 7-0); Mount Carmel, Dwarka Delhi bt SBOA Jr College, Chennai 2-1 (Damini Hoon bt SR Anaya 7-1; Kavya Khairwar lost to V Deepa Lakshmi 5-7; Damini Hoon/Kavya Khairwar bt V Deepa Lakshmi/SR Anaya 7-3); Little Flower Sr Sec, Betul bt Indian School, Muscat Oman 2-1 (Manya Barange bt Shreya Malhotra 7-1; Samridhi Bhatt lost to SR Madhu Mitra 5-7; Manya Barange/SR Madhu Mitra bt Shreya Malhotra/Samridhi Bhatt 7-2). U-19 girls: Little Angels Sr Sec School, Sonepat bt DPS, Chandigarh 2-1 (Nisha Rani bt Tanya Batra 7-5; Muskan Parjapat lost to Saumya Saxena 2-7; Nisha Rani/Ayushi bt Saumya Saxena/Khusheen Kaur 7-5); The Global Edge HS, Hyderabad bt Cambridge International School, Jalandhar 2-0 (Vidisha Reddy bt Twinkle Sharma 7-5; Maanya Viswanath bt Mehar Kohli 7-0).
U-19 boys: Modern School, Barakhamba, Delhi bt Little Angels Sr Sec, Sonepat 2-0 (Parth Agrawal bt Himanshu Mor 7-3; Kushan Nath bt Ishaque Iqbal 8-6); Padma Sheshdri Bala Bhavan, Chennai bt Indian HS, Dubai 2-1 (Sansidh Komraju bt Sushant Satish 7-1; NA Harish lost to Pranay Sadhwani 1-7; Sansid Komaraju/Krishna Teja bt Karan Manghnani/Sushant 7-1); Little Angels Sr Sec HS, Sonepat bt DPS, Bhopal 2-0 (Ishaque Iqbal bt Aryamaan Agrawal 7-0; Himanshu Mor bt Rishab Dubey 7-2); Delhi Pvt School, Dubai bt Jain International School, Nagpur 2-0 (Jayesh Kaushik (DPS) bt Suryansh Jain 7-0; Karan Wadhwani bt Vedant Anand 7-0); The Indian HS, Dubai bt DPS, Kuwait 2-0 (Karan bt Amey Singhal 7-1; Sushant bt Anirudha Kurma 7-1); Modern School, Barakhamba Delhi bt The Vellammal International School,Thiruvallar 2-0 (Kushant Nath bt RS Mohit 7-3; Parth Agrawal bt Arnold Inigoantony 7-1).