Suhitha, Pranav emerge champions
Suhitha Maruri and Pranav Karthik emerged singles champions at the ITF J4 event that was played on two surfaces across five venues in Chennai, recently.
While the tournament was originally supposed to be held only on the clay courts at the SDAT Stadium in Egmore, matches were also played on the clay courts at Madras Gymkhana Club and Anna University as well. Some fixtures, including the two singles and one doubles final, were moved to the hard courts at the Gandhi Nagar Club and the Powerpak Tennis Academy due to rain.
Top seed Suhitha Maruri defeated second seed Madhurima Sawant 6-0, 3-6, 6-4 in a closely-contested summit clash.
Seventh seed Pranav Karthik won his maiden singles title on the ITF junior level with a convincing 6-4, 6-3 victory over sixth seed Rethin Pranav.
Both Suhitha and Pranav won 60 ITF points while runners-up Madhurima and Rethin earned 36 points.
In the girls’ doubles final, Asmi Adkar and her American partner Saina Deshpande defeated Rishitha Basireddy and Sohini Mohanty 6-4, 6-3. The boys’ doubles title was won by Deep Munim and Dhananjay Athreya. The doubles winners got 45 points each, while losing finalists got 27 points.