Bhubaneswar: Rabi Narayan Sahoo of Odisha stunned third seed Vayam Krishna of West Bengal 6-2, 6-1 to clinch the U-14 boys’ singles title at the Gurukul AITA-OTA Talent Series tennis tournament here, Friday.
The tournament has been amazing for unseeded Rabi as en route to the final had stunned fancied and seeded rivals. He continued in the same vein Friday too never gave his adversary any chance in the match winning both sets comfortably.
En route to the summit clash, Rabi defeated compatriots fourth seed Steven Ankit Ekka in pre-quarterfinals, seventh seed Debabrata Pradhan in quarterfinals and top seed Debasis Sahoo in the semifinals.
Ameek bags crown
Odisha girl Ameek Kiran Batth stunned top seed Harleen Kaur of Chandigarh 6-2, 6-7(4-7), 6-4 in the final to emerge U-18 girls’ singles champion in the AITA championship CS 7 Series tennis tournament at Chandigarh Lawn Tennis association courts, Friday.
Ameek won the first set easily but Harleen came back strongly in the second set to make the scores level. However, Ameek utilised all her experience to win the deciding set to clinch the title.