Adidas-MCC Junior Tennis Championship - Aug 07

8/19/2007

Fourth seed Sriram Balaji of Tamil Nadu beat second seed Abhijeet Tiwari 6-1, 6-4, to win the boys under-18 title of the Adidas-MCC junior tennis championship at MCC, on Saturday.

Ninth seed Prerna Bhambri of Delhi defeated 14th seed Sonia Dayal 6-2, 6-3, to win the girls under-18 title.

Top-seed Rishika Sunkara beat seventh seed Ankita Raina 6-1, 6-0 in the girls under-14 final. Second seed Ronit Bisht won the boys under-14 final, defeating eighth seed Rakshay Thakkar 6-1, 6-2

Tamil Nadu Tennis Association President V. Narayanan and MCC President Premkumar Karra gave away the prizes. The results:

Boys: Under-18: 4-Sriram Balaji (TN) beat 2-Abhijeet Tiwari (Chg) 6-1, 6-4. Doubles: Sriram Balaji & Vijayant Malik bt Sumeet Shinde & Jugal Marfatia 6-3, 3-1 (conceded). Under-14: 2-Ronit Bisht (Del) beat 8-Rakshay Thakkar (Mah) 6-1, 6-2.

Girls: Under-18: 9-Prerna Bhambri (Del) beat 14- Sonia Dayal (Mah) 6-2, 6-3. Under-14: 1-Rishika Sunkara (Del) beat 7-Ankita Raina (Guj) 6-1, 6-0.

Promising Player Awards: Boys: Under-18: Gugan Varma (TN). Under-14: R. Ramkumar (TN). Girls: Under-18: Prachi Nadkarni (Mah). Under-14: Ankita Raina (Guj).