Saumil, Sneha in main draw

MUMBAI: Saumil Singh and Sneha Ranade registered hard-fought tie-breaker wins to book their berths in the main draw of the Maharashtra State & All India Talent Series Junior Tennis Tournament, at the Khar Gymkhana on Sunday.
Singh beat Angat Kapoor 6-5 (10-8) in the boys under-10, while Ranade overcame Sharon D'Souza 7-6 (7-5) in the girls under-12 final qualifying rounds.Singh was joined by Amman Khan who also won via the tie-breaker.
Nihar Patel and Vishrut Mittal also scraped through via the tie-breaker to enter the boys' under-12 main draw.
The main draw commences from Monday where Meghbhargav Patel of Gujarat is the boys' under-12 top seed and Aryaan Bhatia of Khar Gymkhana is the boys' under-10 top seed.
Maharashtra girls Shrishti Ray and Sharannya Gaware are seeded No. 1 in under-12 and under-10, respectively.
Results (Final qualifying round): Boys U-12: Nihar Patel bt Ayush Shah 7-6 (7-5); Param Sabnani bt Aryan Sharma 7-4; Ahaan Melmane bt Sahith Shetty 7-4; Aman Shetty bt Shrijit Sen 7-3; Anmol Kothari bt Revand Singal 7-2; Rahul Verma bt Vir Makim 7-2; Vishrut Mittal bt Sanskar Kesarwani 7-6 (7-4); Vedant Khandelwal bt Vishant Daswani 7-4.
Boys U-10: Aditya Balsekar bt Kyros Miranda 6-2; Krish Walghani bt Dev Alimchandani 6-1; Akash Subramaniam bt Daiv Dalal 6-1; Sahil Singh bt Renad Pandey 6-3; Amman Khan bt Raghav Jagbahadi 6-5 (7-2); Mohit Sawant bt Adit Shah 6-2; Saumil Singh bt Angat Kapoor 6-5 (10-8); Saiz Mohd. Bt Aditya Iyer 6-0.
Girls U-12: Arya Dharmadhakari bt Maitri Patel 7-1; Jiya Lodha bt Malvika Shukla 7-2; Ila Dadhe bt Ruhi Gupta 7-1; Sneha Ranade bt Sharon D'Souza 7-6 (7-5); Naishi Shah bt Arushi Mathur 7-0.
Girls U-10: Kavya Lalwani bt Lena Bayary w/o; Sneha Ranade bt Maitri Patel 6-0; Avani Krishisagar bt Ruhi Gupta 6-4; Vaidehi Shah bt Aishwarya Kailaje 6-1; Meenakshi Singh bt Chelsea Lewis 6-1; Arushi Narayanan bt Kashish Bote 6-1; Sanjana Nair bt Vyoma Bhaskar 6-4; Dia Chhabria bt Zahabiya Sakarwalla 6-2.