Third seeded Akanksha Nitture from Navi Mumbai Sports Association (Vashi) cut giant- killer Kushi Desai to size to bag the girls title with 6-2, 6-0 win in the final of the Yonex Sunrise-All India Tennis Championship Series U-16 tournament for boys and girls under the auspices Of AITA and MSLTA, played at Chembur Gymkhana courts here today. Earlier, in the morning Akanksha thrashed Omeshwari Chavan (9-1), who had upset the second seed Kkushi Kinger with ease, to make the title round.
Champions Akanksha Nitture and Krish Waghani flanked by Messrs Ashish Aggarwal (Tournament secretary) and Samir Mehta, the Yonex Sunrise-All India Tennis Championship Series U-16 tournament co-ordinator.
Kushi played well, but the power and speed of Akanksha’s strokes rattled her no ends. All that she could get from Akanksha was just two games in the first set while Akanksha blanked her in the second..
The boys singles final between top seeded VedantMestri and Krish Waghani started on a bright note till 4-all. But after Krish took the closely fought first set (6-4) and was led 1-0 in the second, Vedant , going for backhand, got cramps in the right leg and had to concede the tie.
Results :Girls U-16 (Semifinals): (3) Akanksha Nutture bt Omeshwari Chavan 9-1; Kushi Desai bt Joanne Fernandes 9-5. (Final): (3) Akanksha Nutture bt Kushi Desai 6-2, 6-0.
Boys’ singles (Quarterfinals): (1) Vedant Mestri bt Ayush Hindlekar 9-3; Anargha Ganguly bt Arjun Shirgaokar 9-5;
Krish Waghani bt Ved Kulkarni 9-2; Arjun Chatterjee bt (2) Leston Vaz 8-4.
(Semifinakls): (1) Vedant Mestri bt Anargha Ganguly 9-5; Krish Waghani bt Arjun Chatterjee 9-6. (Final): Krish Waghani bt (1) Vedant Mestri 6-4. 1-0 (Conceded).