CHANDIGARH: Shanker Heisnam and Shubh Negi moved into final qualifying round in men’s singles of the CLTA-AITA National Ranking Tennis Championship for Men’s (Rs.2.5 lakhs prize money) at he Sector 10 Tennis Tournament here today.
Shanker upset 13th seed Arnav Harsh 9-5. Shanker played solid match to beat Arnav Harsh from Uttrakhand. Shanker used his experience to upset Arnav Harsh without getting much pressure. Fourth seed seed Shubh Negi won from Rituraj Singh Patwal 9-4. Another CLTA player Joy Das also upset 8th seed Raghav Singh 9-3. Other player who moved into final Qualifying round are Digvijay Singh Mehta, Parmeet Singh Deol, Ajay Kundu, Anand Gupta and Dhananjay Singh.
Results:
Men’s singles qualifying 2nd round: Ajay Kundu (HR) [1] bt. Prag Sheoran (HR) 9-1, Shorya Jistu (CH) bt. Adarsh Vir Singh (PB) 9-5, Y. Singh (DL) [2] bt. Sumukh Marya (PB) 9-1, Anant Gupta (PB) bt. Ankit Yadav (DL) 9-6, Dhananjay Singh (HP) [3] bt. Keshav Dangi (CH) 9-6, Arjun Rathi (HR) [10] bt. Arnav Bishnoi (CH) 9-5, Shubh Negi (CH) [4] bt. Rituraj Singh Patwal (UK) 9-4, Aadith K A (TN) bt. S Singh Jai (CH) [14] 9-3, Rohan Mittal (HR) [3] bt. Tarun Sharma (PB) 9-2, Shanker Heisnam (MN) bt. Arnav Harsh (UK) [13] 9-5, M Singh Ahuja (UK) [6] bt. Anmol Goal (CH) 9-0, Rahul Yadav (PB) [12] bt. Aarya Vaibhav Nigam (CH) 9-2, Parmeet Singh Deol (CH) bt. Aryan Aggarwal (PB) [7] 9-4, Naman Saini (RJ) [9] bt. Manav Mailk (HR) 9-1, Joy Das (UP) bt. Raghav Singh (HP) [8] 9-3, Digvijay Singh Mehta (HP) [11] bt. Gursimran Singh Bhullar (CH) 9-2.