Pune’s Anaya Thorat eased into the second round of the Asian Under-14 Series

In the opening match, top seeded Heman came back from being 1-4 down and then 4-5 (15-40) to rally back and edge out qualifier Thribhuvan Reddy 6-4 1-6 7-6 (7-5) to enter the second round in the boys event.

Following are the results: First round:Girls: Vipasha Mehra bt Avyakta Thorat 6-2 6-1; Anaya Thorat bt Sayuri Garud 6-3 6-2; Ratuja Jadhav bt Meghna Mallath 6-1 6-0; Naheed Khan bt Payal Nagare 7-6 (7-5) 6-2; Tejasvi Kate bt Salsa Aher 6-1 1-6 6-2; Ishwari Mathere bt Yarlagadda Khushi 6-0 6-0; Panya Bhalla bt Neha Mokashi 2-6 6-3 6-3.

Boys: Heman Nama bt Thribhuvan Reddy 6-4 1-6 7-6 (7-5); Neel Garud bt Siddharth Sable 6-2 7-6(11-9); Harshal Rukhiyar bt Arvind Kalyana 6-2 6-2; Poojan Desai bt Prasanna Bagade 6-2 6-0; Varun Vaiko bt Kyle Cummings 6-1 6-2; Tushar Sharma bt Sundar Arvind 6-3 6-3; Aman Patel bt S Saran Selvan 6-0 6-3; Amit Beniwal bt Siddharth Thakran 6-4 3-6 6-1; Vikrant Mehta bt Atharva Sharma 6-0 7-6 (7-2).