Debasis recovered from being down 2-5 within the opening set to race away with the match.
| Photograph Credit score: Kamesh Srinivasan
Debasis Sahoo performed more and more higher because the match progressed to beat fifth seed Parth Aggarwal within the males’s first spherical of the Fenesta Nationwide tennis championship on the DLTA Advanced on Monday.
It was a outstanding turnaround as Debasis, who trains with coach Todd Clark on the KIIT College in Bhubaneswar, recovered from being down 2-5 within the opening set to race away with the match.
Within the pre-quarterfinals, Debasis will problem former nationwide champion Manish Sureshkumar who eased previous Amrutjay Mohanty for the lack of 4 video games.
Atharva Sharma fought his well past former finalist Suraj Prabodh within the third set tie-break.
Within the ladies’s part, prime seed Vaishnavi Adkar warmed up for the more durable matches forward with a straight-set victory over Mirudhula Palanivel.
Jeetesh Kumari stayed robust after dropping the primary set to quell the problem from Chevika Reddy who retired halfway by the decider.
Left-hander Aditi Rawat needed to play at her greatest to get previous Chandana Potugari in three units.
The outcomes (first spherical): Males: Manish Sureshkumar bt Amrutjay Mohanty 6-3, 6-1; Debasis Sahoo bt Parth Aggarwal 7-5, 6-0; A. Deepak bt Maan Kesharwani 7-6(4) (retd.); Atharva Sharma bt Suraj Prabodh 6-3, 2-6, 7-6(3); Prajwal Dev bt Sarthak Suden 6-2, 6-1.
Girls: Vaishnavi Adkar bt Mirudhula Palanivel 6-2, 6-4; Jeetesh Kumari bt Chevika Reddy 5-7, 6-2, 3-0 (retd.); Sahira Singh bt Sonicka Jadeesh 6-4, 6-0; Aditi Rawat bt Chandana Potugari 6-0, 4-6, 6-2; Harshini Nagaraj bt Lakshmi Prabha 6-2, 6-1.
Printed – September 29, 2025 07:19 pm IST