Vaidehee Chaudhari, Shruti Ahlawat set up women’s singles final

Nitin Kumar Sinha stunned top seed Manish Sureshkumar in the men’s singles semifinals at the Fenesta Open National Tennis Championship before partnering him to win the men’s doubles title. Vaidehee Chaudhari and Shruti Ahlawat will contest the women’s singles final

Hyderabad: Third seed Nitin Kumar Sinha stunned top seed Manish Sureshkumar 6-7 (6), 6-3, 6-1 in the semifinals of the 31st Fenesta Open National Tennis Championship on Friday.

Sureshkumar and Sinha returned to the court later in the evening and teamed up to win the men’s doubles title, defeating Rohith Gobinath and Srikar Doni 6-3, 6-2.

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Sinha will face sixth seed Maan Kesharwani in Saturday’s singles final. Kesharwani secured his place in the title clash with a 6-3, 7-5 victory over unseeded Suraj Prabodh in the other semifinal.

In the women’s singles event, two-time former champion and top seed Vaidehee Chaudhari will take on second seed Shruti Ahlawat in the final after both players registered straight-set victories in their respective semifinals.

Vaidehee needed 69 minutes to defeat fourth seed Sonal Patil 6-3, 6-1, while Ahlawat spent 61 minutes on court to beat Soha Sadiq 6-0, 6-1.

Lakshmi Arunkumar and Samhitha Chamarthi won the women’s doubles title with a 5-7, 6-1, 10-5 victory over Aishwarya Jadhav and Aakruti Sonkusare.

The longest match of the day came in the boys’ under-18 singles event, where fourth seed Om Ramesh Patel battled for three hours and 16 minutes to overcome 15th seed Yashwin Dahiya 6-7 (3), 6-1, 7-5.

Patel will face 10th seed Ribhav Saroha in Saturday’s final. Saroha defeated Srikar Doni 6-3, 6-2 in the other semifinal.

In the boys’ under-18 doubles final, top seeds Praneel Sharma and Aditya Mor clinched the title with a 6-2, 6-1 victory over third seeds Raghav Sarode and Om Ramesh Patel.

Third seeds Sanmitha Harini and Savitha Bhuvaneswaran won the girls’ under-18 doubles title, defeating fourth seeds Sree Syleswari Velmanikandan and Riddhi Shinde 6-4, 7-5.