Avneet wins under 14 title

Avneet Singh from India swept away his Bahraini opponent Faisal Yousef in just under 50 minutes with a comfortable 6-0, 6-1 straight sets victory to clinch the Boys 14 years and under singles title yesterday at the RJ Investment Holding Juniors Open Tennis Championship organised by the Bahrain Tennis Club at its premises in Juffair.

Avneet after holding the opening then broke his opponent in the second as he used his height and stronger serve to his advantage.

Faisal though in the third game had a chance to break his opponent but couldn’t press home the advantage chance and it was a similar story in the fourth with Avneet holding advantage on three occasions to Faisal’s one and winning a second break.

The set was soon wrapped by Avneet who easily won the final two games for a 6-0 win.

In the second set, Avneet effected an early break and held a 3-0 lead, though Faisal did manage to hold the next game, before his opponent won three more unanswered games for the title.

In the boys 12 years and under singles semi-finals, second seed Jaber Abdul A’al had to work hard to defeat Ken Belt 7-6(3), 6-4 and Sparsh Parmer continued his impressive run with a 7-5, 6-0 defeat of Abdulla Nass with the final set for tomorrow.

The girls 18 years and under singles got underway in the quarter final stage with wins for Kalpaka Pradeep 6-4, 6-4 against Sairama Balakrishnan, Alex Aleina beat Jennifer Abastillas 6-0, 6-0 and Nader Nazly got the better of Bhayya Sabbineni 6-2, 6-0.

Action resumes today with the semi-finals including top seed Areej Fareh playing.

Meanwhile, more than 60 Under 8 and 10 year old players will play in an all-day mini tournament using special balls as approved by the International Tennis Federation on mini courts from 9am today with the finals in the late afternoon.

The tournament runs until National Day next Wednesday and also features boys 18 years and under singles from tomorrow.

More than 100 players have entered the championship playing in six categories.

All category winners will receive a free subscription at the health club of Al Areen Palace and Spa and free entry tickets to the Lost Paradise of Dilmun Water Park and many other prizes.

Other results: 

 Boys singles under-12 (quarter finals): Jaber Abdul A’al bt Sai Raghav Balakrishnan 4-6, 6-3, 10-4, Sparsh Parmar bt Mohammed Al Khan 6-2, 6-4, Ken Belt bt Mohammed Al Shehabi 6-1, 6-2, Abdulla Nass bt A Sonawane 6-4, 6-4.