
Lucky loser Aishwarya Aggarwal scored an upset win over top seed Nupur Paul 6-0, 6-0 in the women's singles first round match of the AITA Ranking Tennis Tournament being hosted by the Chandigarh Lawn Tennis Association on Monday.
Aggarwal claimed the first frame easily with a margin of 6-0 before claiming the second frame with an identical margin. In another match in the same category, Padmapriya of Karnataka ended the challenge of Monica Sangani of Gujarat with a 6-1, 6-0 win. Padmapriya claimed the first set easily with a margin of 6-1 before claiming the second set with a margin of 6-0. In another match, Likhita Shetty ended the challenge of eighth seed tanvi Gupta of Delhi with a 6-2, 6-0 win. Shetty claimed the first set easily with a margin of 6-2 before claiming the second set with a margin of 6-0.
In another match of the same category, Jeni Patel of Gujarat scored a narrow 6-4, 6-3 win over Jannesh Kaur. Patel claimed the first set with a margin of 6-4 before claiming the second set with a margin of 6-3.It was easy going for qualifier Sowjanya Bavisetti as she ended the challenge of UP qualifier Amreen Chaudhary with a 6-0, 6-2 win.
Results :
Women's singles : First round: Aishwarya Aggarwal (MP) (LL) bt Nupur Kaul (1) (MAH) 6-0, 6-0, Padmapriya A.K (KAR) bt Monica Sangani (GUJ) (LL) 6-1, 6-0, Likhita Sheety (Q) (DLI) bt Tanvi Gupta (8) (DLI) 6-2, 6-0, Jeni Patel (GUJ) bt Jaanesh Kaur (WC) (CHD) 6-4, 6-3, Sowjanya Bavisetti (Q) bt Amreen Chaudhary (UP) (Q) 6-0, 6-2, Arantxa Andrady (DLI) (LL) bt Dipti Srivastava (5) (WB) 7-5, 6-4, Sayali Bhilare (6) (MAH) bt Mohana Sarker (WB) 6-3, 6-4, Anushree Thamanna (3) (KAR) bt Renuka Keswani (DLI) 6-3, 6-1, Lavanya Nath (LL) (DLI) bt Noor Paul (CHD) 4-0, Concd., Natasha Palha (Q) (MAH) bt Baljinder Kaur (HAR) 6-4, 6-1, Bhuvana K. (Q) (AP) bt Abhilasha Ahuja (4) (HAR) 6-4, 6-1, Ravnoor Kaur (CHD) (WC) bt Shradha Dali (MAH) 7-5, 6-4, Parminder Kaur (Q) (CHD) bt Deepshikha Gupta (RAJ) 6-4, 6-0, Rani Smita Jain (IAF) (2) bt Harnoor Kaur (CHD) (WC) 6-1, 6-2, Garima Vatwani (DLI) (Q) bt Taruka Srivastava (LL) (UP)6-0, 6-1, Mehak Singh (Q) (CHD) bt Arushi Sharma (7) (LL) 3-6, 6-4, 6-1; Men : First round: Chandril Sood (1) (UP) bt John Carino (TN) 6-3, 7-6 (2), Vignesh Veerbhadran (3) (TN) bt Lakshit Sood (UP) 6-2, 6-3, Javed Hazari (PB) bt Bharat Bhardwaj (HAR) 6-4, 6-4, Rubal Shandilya (DLI) bt Kunal Anand (DLI) 6-2, 6-2, Shahbaaz Khan (MAH) bt Yogesh Phogat (4) (HAR) 6-3, 6-0, Prateek Bhambri (DLI) (2) bt Armaan Chaudhary (CHD) 6-4, 6-1, Vedant Kapoor (DLI) (Q) bt Ajay Yadav (HAR) (CLTA) (WC) 6-0, 3-6, 6-3, Sidharath Rawat (Q8) (UP) bt Hari Chidambaram (IAF) 6-0, 6-0, Deepinder S. Bains (6) (CHD) bt Chandom Shaolin (Q) (CHD) 6-2, 6-3, Manoj Sewa (5) (WB) bt Mandeep S. Gill (CHD) (WC) 3-6, 6-2, 6-1, Saurav Panja (7) (WB) bt Robin Das (WB) 6-3, 6-2, Harshvardhan Thirani (WB) bt Dhurb Kumar (Q) (WB) 7-6 (6), 6-2, Preetham R. Moras (Q) (KAR) bt Digvijay S. Mehta (HP) (CLTA) (WC) 6-3, 6-3, Gurinder Singh (Q) (CHD) bt Bhishma Desai (8) (GUJ) 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, Himanshu Mali (MAH) (WC) (MAH) bt Arvind Singh (Q) (RAJ) 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, Monal Chillar (Q) (HAR) bt Saaneesh Mani Mishra (UP) (LL1) 6-2, 6-4.