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Sunday, Sep 12, 2004

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Janani, Vignesh emerge under-18 champions

COIMBATORE, SEPT. 11. Tamil Nadu's V. Vignesh and Janani Suresh walked away with the under-18 boys' and girls' titles respectively at the Indian Oil AITA talent series junior tennis tournament at the Sastri Maidan courts here on Saturday.

Vignesh trounced Sudanwa Sitaram 6-1, 6-0 while Janani Suresh had to fight hard to beat Chennai's Kelcy Sundaram 5-7, 6-3, 6-4.

In the first set Janani was up 5-3 and seemed to be in control. But Kelcy fought back bravely to take the set 7-5. In the second set, Janani looked to keep a lot more balls in. That really unsettled Kelcy, who surrendered the set 3-6. In the third set, Janani once again held a 4-0 advantage but allowed Kelcy to claw back to 4-3. However, Janani rallied well from the baseline to wrap up the set 6-4 and with it the match.

The results (all finals): Boys: Under-18: Singles: V. Vignesh bt Sudanwa Sitaram 6-1, 6-0. Doubles: Srikanth Narayan/Dhirtihiman bt R. Anand/S.L. Arun 6-1, 6-1. Under-14: Singles: Naveen Sai bt R. Vigneswaran 6-0, 6-3. Doubles: Deepak Swaminathan/Eswar Prasad bt M. Niaz/S. Prasanth 7-6(3), 7-6(9).

Girls: Under-18: Singles: Janani Suresh bt Kelcy Sundaram 5-7, 6-3, 6-4. Under-14 singles: J. Kesika bt T. Ilakkiya 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.

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