ITF Juniors: Akshat Agarwal brushes top seeded Mohammed Iftikhar Sheikh
Making a dominant presence from the very beginning, Agarwal from Bengal took every opportunity to raise the pressure on the top seeded Sheikh. The opening set was stretched to a tie-breaker, where Agarwal proved to be little lucky as he pocketed the breaker by a close 7-4.
The second set too went tight till 5-5, where Agarwal held serve to move a step closer, making the scoreboard show 6-5. Sheikh, here made 2 errors from the ground strokes and eventually lost by a nail-biting 5-7.
Top 3 seeds in the Girls Singles qualifying draw, Shivani Manjanna, Lasya Patnaik and Humera Begum Shaik respectively enters the main whereas 4th seeded Sonashe Bhatnagar falters as she goes down, fighting against 5th seeded Kiran Kalkal by a close 6-7(6),5-7.
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