[1]The winners with their awards in Lucknow on Saturday.
Punjab girl Sonashee Bhatnagar won two finals on Saturday to complete a title double at the Aita talent series tennis championship in Lucknow.
Sonashee came out on top in the girls’ Under-12 and Under-14 singles category and in both the matches, Delhi girl Kiran Kalkar had to be content with a runners-up finish.
In the boys’ category, Uttarakhand’s Drona Walia won the Under-12 title, while Danish Ahmad of Delhi claimed the U-14 title at the La Martiniere facility.
Sonashee outplayed Kiran 6-1, 6-2 in the U-14 final before getting better of her again in the U-12 category by a similar margin.
The boys’ final was more keenly fought with as Ashutosh Tiwari stretched the match to three sets but failed to stop Walia from clinching the U-12 title 6-4, 7-5, 6-4. In the boys’ U-14 final, Ahmad defeated statemate and fourth seed Mohit Seherawat 6-2, 6-2.
Results: Boys’ U-14 singles: Danish Ahmad (Delhi) bt Mohit Seherawat (Delhi) 6-2, 6-4; U-12 singles: Drona Walia (Uttarakhand) bt Ashutosh Tiwari (UP) 6-4, 7-5, 6-4.
Girls’ U-14 singles: Sonashee Bhatnagar (Punjab) bt Kiran Kalkar (Delhi) 6-1, 6-2; U-12 singles: Sonashee Bhatnagar bt Kiran Kalkar 6-1, 6-2
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[1] http://archive.asianage.com/winners-their-awards-lucknow-saturday-169