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Double delight for Divija

KOLKATA: It was a grand double for Divija Mandava of Andhra Pradesh. She won both the girls' under-16 and 14 titles in the Sunfeast junior tennis super series at the Calcutta South Club courts here on Saturday.

Samip Mehta of Gujarat too won two titles, under-14 singles and doubles partnering statemate Vaidik Munshaw.

In the under-16 final, fifth seed Divija defeated wild card entrant Danielle Jones of Kolkata 6-3, 6-1. Seeded third in the under-14 category, Divija defeated top seed and statemate V. Archana 6-1, 7-5, with the latter offering stiff resistance in the second set before going down.

Parul Verma, second seed from Chandigarh, won the boys' under-16 singles crown ending N. Sai Karthik's dream run with 6-3, 6-2 victory.

In the boys' under-14 singles, top seed Samip dominated from the start and crushed unseeded J. Mohit Mayur of Tamil Nadu 6-2, 6-2.

Other important results:

Doubles: Boys: U-16: Dhruv Gurwara (Del)/Anmol Singh Ladhar (Chd) bt Soumit Dey & Bibaswan Deb (Ben) 6-2, 6-4.

U-14: Samip Mehta/Viadik Munshaw (Guj) bt Partha Sarathi Hansdah (Ori)/Chetan Pandit (AP) 6-4, 6-1.

Girls: U-16: Arushi Sharma/Nova Patel (Guj) bt V. Archana (AP)/Likitha Devraj (Kar) 6-3, 7-5. — Special Correspondent

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